Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-09
MERE ENTION

Mahammcd w.. sultan of Turkey.
died last Wednesday night, and the
story is that he was murdered."-"The
United States transport Henderson had
Il fire at sea last week; but made port
in safety. The Czecho-Slovak forces
Bolsheviki........A strike Of textile work.
ers at Lowell, Mass, has been ended
by award Of per cent increase in
wages............In aerial fighting between
Germans and British one day last week
the British destroyed eleven German
planes and drove down three others
under control. The Germans got four
British planeS.......The allies got 5,0OO
German prisoners during the week
ending last Friday. Burglars broke
the show window glass Of leading
Philadelphia jewlery firm in the Belle
vuc- Stratford hotel. Thursday night.
and got away with $3,535 worth OF
jcwelry. ............The United States trans
port Covington, formerly a German
liner. the Cincinnati, WAS torpcdocd by
Il u-boat on the night Of July /. The
coyington was returning to America
from France under convoy after hav-
ing landed troops. Six lives were lost.
.........General Crowder, provost mar
shal, last week discouraged Il proposal
that he be made lieutenant general.
OH the ground that he was unwilling to
accept promotion because he believed
other persons deserved rs much credit
for the successful working Of the draft
us himself. Lenine, the head of
the Soviet government of Russia, and
Fri N
Germany, has made an appeal to the
American government for assistance
for Russia. airplane battles on
the French front on July 4, in one OF
which four Americans were pitted
against six Huns and In the other eight
Americans against fifteen Germans,
the Americans were victorious.
THE first built Capronl
battleplane, equipped with three Lab
erty motors. was given test at Nine
ola, L. l., last Friday and performed
perfectly. Fn' more than an hour, car
rying four persons, Ii maintained q
Ispeed Of 12Q- miles an hoYr...Thnout>s=
gro soldiers, convicted by courtmar-
tial OF attacking young white girl on
May "a, were hanged at Camp Dodge,
Ia, Friday. Three negro soldiers and
| one white soldier tainted when the
men dropped to death. The execution
was in the presence of virtually the
| entire Two more keels
| were laid at the Hog Island shipyard
last week, making n total of thirty
| three vessels now under way at the
government yard near Philadelphia.
Prohibition workers i'm Washington are
now proposing an amendment to the
emergency agricultural appropriation
bill. which provides for the prohibition
of liquor. beer and wine sales after six
months. Seventeen United States
war vessels were launched OH July 4,
and the keels for eight destroyers were
laid in the various American ship
yards. Three men were killed by
IN explosion of INT at powder fac
tory at Kenvil, y. j.. Friday. Several
were injurcd.............The trial Of libel
case in which DR.. Won Kuelhmann the
German foreign secretary, Is suing two
Berlin editors for damages, is to be
tried in secret in Berlin, the president
of the trial court fearing that publicity
might endanger the safety Of the state.
1.-The house by vote Of 221 to 4,
has passed Il resolution authorizing the
president to take charge of all the tele-
graph and telephone lines of the coun-
try.