Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Record of Current Happenings Col
Ieeted from Various Sources.

Ieeted from Various Sources.
At foyce, La, April 3, German
restaurant waiter was given one hum
dred lashes and a coating Of tar and
feathers for making pro-German re-
marks. He was forced to shout TO
hell with the kaiser" and "Hurrah
for Wilson.
A big gas plant at Wilmington. Del.
WAS nut out of business Thursday by
an explosion in the turbine room OF
the plant. For the first time in sixty
years Wilmington was partly without
gas. The explosion Is believed to have
been the work OF German spies.
Fire destroyed a large section Of the
wholesale district of Kansas City. Mo-,
Thursday and did damage estimated at
S2.500,O00 or more. There Is sus-
picion that the fire was Of incendiary
origin, but the fact has not been sat-
isfactorily established.
High naval officials in Washington
believe that Germany plans a specta-
cular naval raid at an early date. The
German admiralty, it is said. regards
such a move as imperative in justi-
fication OF large naval budget about
TO be asked OF the reichstag.
The United States government has
recently arranged to take over the
whole production Of the popular brand
of smoking tobacco. Bull Durham.
made By the American Tobacco Com
pany, for the boys "over there" The
tobacco will total about s4,000,000 per
year.
United States Senator-e elect Irvine L.
Lenroot, Republican. in a statement
issued Friday. said that he would sup
port President Wilson's war policies,
as he did in the house. and expressed
the hope that Republicans and Demo-
Gratis would work together for the sue
cess OF the third Liberty bond issue.
Earl Moore. u negro. of Llano, Tex,
swore out a warrant last week for the
arrest of Paul Vogt, German. after
Vogt had made remarks to him de-
rogatory to President Wilson and the
United States. Nogt confessed to
travelling all over the United States in
the interest of Germany.
Harry Thomas has been arrested by
the police Of Pittsburg. Pa, for mas
uuerading as Il woman under the name
OF May Smarco." 1t is said that
Thomas is wanted by the police of
half u dozen cities for thefts His
discovery came about through a de-
tective noticing that beard was sprout-
ing on Mays" face.
Eighteen Paris dealers in diamonds
are being prosecuted for trading with
the enemy. Germans are said to he
buying large quantities oil diamonds
because this kind OF wealth is easily
hidden and concealed from taxation.
The Germans are doing large part
of their diamond buying from Paris
dealers.
K. +. Pettigrew. former United
States senator from South Dakota, is
under indictment at Sioux Falls. =.
D., for alleged violation of the es-
poinage act. He was indicted on the
strength Of an interview given out
last October in which he is quoted
as saying: There is no excuse for
the war. We should back right out
Of It,"
shoot the traitors" exclaimed
Bishop Theodore s. Henderson Of
Detroit, Mich, at the opening session
of the annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Balti-
more, last week. He said that he
would suggest tarring and feathering
Prof. Scott Nearing. recently arrested
for alleged violation Of the espionage
act, only that "tar Is too white and
feathers too expensive"
Last weeks issue Of Stars and
Stripes, the American soldiers weekly
published on the French front, con-
tained the following message from
President Wilson: please convey to
the officers and men Of our expedi-
tionary forces my warmest greetings
on this the anniversary Of the en-
trance of the United States into this
great war for liberty and say to them
that we all not only have greatly ad-
mired and have been very proud OF
the way they have so far accounted
for themselves. but that We have the
utmost confidence that In every sense
they will prove to be Of the finest
metal of freemen"