Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Record Of Current Happenings Col
Iected from Various Sources.


iected from Various Sources.
Iowa is the first state to fill its
quota Of the third Liberty loan in the
seventh Federal reserve district. II
was officially announced Friday.
Four thousand striking employees
Of the Savage Arms Company ht
Utica, y. Y. have agreed to return 10
work for one week to try out new
wage scale. Tho Savage Company is
making Lewis machine guns.
The National German Alliance at
its convention in Philadelphia, LIST
Thursday with thirteen states repre-
sentcd, voted to disband the organi-
zation. The delegates also voted 10
donate 100000 of tho alliance funds
to the American Red Cross.
Grover Cleveland Alexander. pitcher
OF the Chicago National league base
ball team. has been selected by the
draft board OF Howard county, Ncb.,
as one of 12 Of the county's quota OF
drafted men to go to Camp Funston,
during the five days beginning
April &c.
Thirty inches of snow covered the
tracks of the Norfolk & Western rail-
road ut points in the Shenandoah val
ley of Virginia. Friday. Traffic was
considerably impeded. The snowfall
ranged from ID to 80 inches thick, ac-
cording to messages received at the
railroad headquarters at Roanoke.
British aviators Friday dropped
moro than n ton of bombs on the
enemy station at Luxemberg. In re-
porting on aviation activities on the
battle front Wednesday. the official
statement on aerial operations says
that eight enemy airplanes were ac-
counted for and that seven British
machines are missing.
The sinking of British merchant
men by mines or submarines reported
last week reached the next lowest
level Of any week since Germany be-
gan her intensive submarine cam
paign early in 1917. Four vessels OF
more than 1900 tons. two of less than
600 tons and two fishing boats were
sent to the bottom.
The Order of the British Empire
has been conferred upon Mrs. NJ. y.
FELTON,, the wife Of Il sheep farmer In
the Falkland Islands. 1t was due to
her vigilance as a coast watcher that
the German Admiral Won Specs
squadron was sighted and the news
communicated to Admiral Sturdee in
time for him to give battle to and
sink the German warships.
Because certain employees Of the
Hotel Astor plugged the keyhole of a
room he had engaged 80 that his key
would not unlock the door, former AS
semblyman Louis Cohen has brought
suit against the hotel for 100000.
Mr.. Cohen declares his reputation suf-
fercd to that extent inasmuch as sev-l
initiation.
One hundred and thirty men, ar
rested last Thursday in a raid that
covered various sections Of New York
city, pleaded guilty Friday before
Judge Hand in the United States dis
trict court to selling liquor to SOL
Giers and sailors in uniform. They
were sentenced to from one day to|
eight months in the prison.
Ten modern American-bullt locomo-
tivcs, built for the Russian govern
ment, are running on the Frisco rail-
road on the southern division, between
Memphis and Birmingham. The Rus
sian locomotives are powerful freight
crs of $1,000 pounds tractive efforts
The locomotives were not delivered tol
Russia on account of the Bolshevik
uprising.
Cubas sugar crop, now more than
half harvested, will be the largest
single crop in the history Of any
country, according to a statement
made by Claus a. Spreckles, presi-
dent of the Federal Sugar Refining
Company. Thus far 1,s23,000 tons
have been brought in," said he, (which
is 12l.00O more than at this time last
Year. The Cuban government Is sue
oessfully combating enemy alien plots
TO destroy the sugar crop by burning
up the cane
Six North Carolina flour mills will
suffer for failure to observe food ad-
ministration rules and regulations, 1t
WAS announced last Friday. Charges
brought out at hearing before the
North Carolina Federal food admins
traitor in Raleigh, were that the mills
cxactcd excessive prices for mill feeds,
that some of them failed to extract
Hour at rate which would give l96
pounds for every 164 pounds Of wheat,
and that some of them had failed to-
submit monthly reports to the food
administration.
\ shell fired by the German long
range cannon Thursday struck a.
founding asylum in the Rue de La
Greche, in the Mont Rouge district on
the southern outskirts Of Paris. and
three persons there were killed and
eleven wounded. Within the hospital
there were thirty women with new
born babies. One nurse. one patient
and one baby were killed, while two
probationers, six women patients and
three infants were injured. Another
shell struck an open air bowling alley