Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-23
ed by cable.

The United States supply ship
Westover was torpedoed in European
waters on July IL. Eighty-two men,
bers Of the crew are reported rescued
and ten as missing.
The torpedoing by a German u
boat of a Spanish ship with the
Spanish minister to Berlin on board.
is reported from Athens. Greece. The
minister and his family were rescued.
Because an apartment house owner
OF Philadelphia boosted the rents OF
his tenants, the fuel administrator has
!! forbidden the delivery of any coal to
the house during the coming winter.
Thirteen enemy airplanes were ac-
counted for by American airmcn in the
fighting in France last Tuesday. ac-
cording to reports Of French obscr-
vers.
The Eddystone plant Of the Midvale
Steel and Ordnance company of Penn
sylvania. turned out 10000 rifles dur
expects to turn out 100000 rifles by
January 1.
Chancellor Won Hertling is quoted
as saying that Germany is ready to
Immediately evacuate Belgium on the
consideration that Germany Is to have
her colonies back and the ways lead
ing to those colonies to be re-opened.
The bell in the city hall tower of
New York was ordered rung by May
or Hylan for fifteen minutes last
Thursday afternoon in celebration Of
the victorious American advance on
the French front.
a German airplane appeared over
the Isle of Thanet, on the northeast
extremity OF Kent county. England.
last Thursday. An official announce
mcnt says that anti-aircraft guns
fired on the machine which turned to
westward and proceeded out to sea.
Ed MckinnOn, q negro, who cscap-
ed from Patterson's convict camp ut
Charlotte several months ago. was
captured last Thursday in belmont.
y. c., by Detectives Z. f. Earnhlrdt.
J. +. Owens and K. Z. Mcknight Of
the Charlotte police force. He was
returned to the camp last Friday.
Flying so low that their plane COL
lidcd with Il tree, Second Lieut.. Cary
l.. NAPLES Of Hyde Park, Mass, and
first Lieut.. r. II. Iiighlcy figured in
an unusual accident ten miles from
Kelly Field, San Antonio. Texas. last
| Thursday. NAPLES was killed instant =
ly. while Highley was injured. The
airplane caught fire after the COL
lision.
The sinking Of the British transport
Carpathia by German U-bOat has
been reported. The vessel was on its
way to America from a British port.
No lives were lost. The Carpathia
was the vessel that answered the :.
.. =. call OF the Titanic when that
vessel sunk on her maiden voyage in
| April, 1912. The Carpathia rescued
| S66 survivors from the Titanic.
After killing or capturing the crew
OF four wachine guns and raking the
Boche nlScd trench with his automatic
rifle until the survivors surrendered,
Sergeant J. J. Brown walked into
American hcadquart,r rs late last Wed
nesday with 159 prisoners. IL am
sorry, sir, that | was unable to bring
in all l had" he said IN reporting,
but four of the wounded dided on
me-"
J. The American government has
agreed to n loan to China by Amcri-
can bankers. provided China cancels
all outstanding loans and that loans
be shared by the bankers of the
United States. Great Britain, France
and Japan. Details of the loan have
not been completed. but $50.O00.0OO is
the approximate figure under consid-
Grafton to he advanced from this
country.
Herbert Crawford OF Cynthiana,
n.y., a draftec, on his way to Camp
Meade. Md, leaped from an cast
bound Chesapeake & Ohio train last
Thursday near Millboro. Va. AS the
| fall did not prove fatal, Crawford
ripped barbcd wire from a fence near
the railway track, threw one end
over the limb of n tree and by the
time the train was stopped and back
ed to the scene, he had succeeded in