Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-06-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Record Of Current Happenings COL
lected from Various Sources.

4 parcel post mail service has been
opened in Palestine.
4 proposal to name one of the prin-
Gipal streets OF Paris for President
Wilson is to come before the coun-
Ill of that city at an early sitting.
Sonia Lcrch. woman Socialist,
awaiting trial at Munich, Germany.
Tor treason. hanged herself in her
cell.
NJ. Volodarsky, a prominent Bolshe-
vik, commissioner for press affairs.
was shot to death on the streets OF
ictrograd. Friday.
A German official statement claims
The destruction by U-boats during
May OF 614,OOO tons of Allied and
neutral shipping.
Senator Ollie James OF Kentucky,
who Is n patient in q Baltimore hos
pital, will he opposed for reelection
10y William Preston Kimball Of Lex
ington.
\ grand jury investigating vice
conditions Of Richmond, Va, has re-
commended the removal of Chief of
Police Sherry and says Mayor Ainslie
is not fitted to be the head of the
police department.
The municipal authorities Of Nam
cy. France. have decided to have n
cal american Fourth of July cele-
ration at that place. The city hall
IND public buildings will be decorat-
d with United States flags.
Advices received at the Hague arc
to the effect that food conditions in
Germany are quite as bad as in Aus
tria. In Cologne and Mullheim II is
reported that 10000 munition workers
struck because OF the food conditions.
Forty thousand rounds of ammu-
milton were seized in the Smithfeld
Market. Dublin, Ireland. Monday. It
Is alleged to be an incident OF the
Sim Feincrs attempting to- \smukgle
large quantities of ammultttdR 1ptp
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4 big glass factory, engaged in
manufacturing searchlight lenses for
the French government, Ut Martins
Ferry. Ohio, was destroyed by fire
early Monday morning. 1t Is believed
the fire was Of incendiary origin.
The epidemic of smallpox among
the employees of the Krupp gun works
at Essen, Germany, Is said to be on
the rapid increase. In one hospital
there are over 200 Dutchmen who are
victims of the disease.
The hotel population of New York
is said to be the largest In the city's
history just at this time. One hotel
recently registered 1.2O6 arrivals in a
single day. Large numbers OF South
Americans are in the city. who ordi-
narily would be in Europe but for the
war.
Rev. Walter bankers of Worcester,
Mass, chaplain of the 1O4th infantry.
died last Tuesday from shell wound
He was the first chaplain to lose his
life as a result Of the fighting in
France.
a Rcd Cross wine sale closed in
London last Saturday with total sales
of $2S0.000. A dozen bottles of yell
low chartrcusc. the gift of Lord
Northcliffe. sold for $3.50 n bottle.
Seven cases of French olive oil sold
for $3.50 a pint. &.
1t is proposed that law being en-
acted In Germany requiring heirs Of
dead persons to turn over the clothes
Of all deceased persons to the govern
ment after July Is, it will be illegal
for hotels and public eating houses to
serve meals on table cloths.
A strike of the $1,000 employees Of
the General Electric company at
Schenectady. N. Y. has been averted
by an agreement between the COM
pany and employees to submit their
differences to an arbitration board
composed of Former President Taft
and Frank p. Walsh. joint chairnen
of the National War Labor board.
The decision Of the arbitrators Is
binding upon both sides.