Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-03

lvation and curing, ETC., and are tryine
Ito get the, farmers to go In for the
raising of a million pounds of tobacco
50 they can at once have a home mar.
ket They used a page, advertisement
in the Pee Dee Advocate not long age
lin the promotion of their propaganda
and they are neglecting no opportunity
Ito push the york directly with indi.
viduals. by means OF argument and
persuasion.
oENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Jntsrest Gathered From Al
the World. !
Rev. Dr. Wilbur Chapman. the ,famous evan
gelist, died ct his home In New York city or
Christmas day. -
1 Henry Mitchell Mccracken, aged rs, chancel
i lor emeritus of New York university, died De
csmber "a at Orlando, Fla.
Five large business houses at Bristol, va
/ Tenn, were destroyed by fire Monday morning
The loss totaled $1,boo.ooo.
Al runsor to the effect that Colonel Roosevelt
would visit the peace conference In February
has been emphatically denied
A boom has been started In Germany tr
make General Hindenburg the first president o.
the proposed German republic.
Prince Cdnrsd von HohenIohe-SchilIynes-
furst, ex-prmier Of Austria, died suddenly or
December "a. whils hunting.
The census department Ii working out plan,
for the taking Of the census in 1920. The
work win require 10000 enumerators
The food administration recently bought a..
p9Hns e essns sSaea 1oI%eEy 70 ssea ussa
General Pershins on December % conferred
the United States distinguished service medal
ON fourteen Of the leading Allied generals
| simon Sobelman of st. Louis. Mo-, will In
The American Sugar Refining company Of
New York, gave It's 10000 employees Christfnal
lpresents Of insurancs policies Of $500 and
$1,000 each { !. <: y &
-Four bsndits held up the offices of two Chi.
ssSsa WITH snsss sad sssisy "a sslSea s
100000 or more. ~
Four persons were killed nd.twenty or more
seriously injured. several fatally, by an ex-
plosion at shell loading plant at WAtertown,
Y, December "a.
The Krupp Gum Works at Essen. Germany,
after paying large dividends for several years
past, has decided TO pass up its dividend for
the present fiscal year.
for the statement that the Bolshevik govern.
ment has appealed TO President Wilson to- Be-
cure peace for Russia.
A bill Is to be introduced In the coming ses-
sion of the Pennsylvania legislature, to make
military training compulsory In grammar and
high schools of that state.
II IL reported at Tangiers that British and
French representatives at Madrid. have de
manded that the Spanish government expel the
Germans from Morocco.
/ All restrictions governing the actions of enc
my aliens, 30 far as their movements are OF
la peaceable nature, were lifted throughout the
country on Christmas day.
The board Of health of Boston has passed
an order requiring BARRIERS, doctors. nurses and
others waiting on influenza victims. TO wear
masks while 30 engaged. :. .
The Frankfort Nachrichten says that the
seizure Of the property owned by the Prussian
royal family would at once produce 100000 ,00o
marks, (nominally $226,o0o.oo0). 1,
monument to Wilbur Wright inventor oi
the airplane, is to be erected at LeMans
France. Paul Ladowsh. q sergeant of engi'
neers In the French army, is the sculptor.
Ignace Jan Paderewsh, the famous Polish
pianist, has arrived in Poland to attempt the
founding of q new Polish government. Ht
represents- the Polish societies Of America
j President Wilson has eommuted the death
sentences Of Privates Ernest F. X. Leof OF
Iowa, and J. o. Jacobs Of Mississippi. to TWEEN
Ity years in prison and dishonorable discharge
A Paris report has II that Germany has moi
fully complied With the agreement to surrender
all its U-boats. there being one OF the larges,
of the German U-boats at Trondhlen. NORWAY
Prof. John MacNeil of Dublin university, hai
ibeen Overwhelmingly elected as the university
representative to the British parliament, oyel
Prof. Conway. nationalist candidate. MacNei
| Is Sim Feiner.
President Wilson Is understood TO have beer
Rendered the presidency of the University Of
North Carolina after his term Of office expires
II is said that the offer carries with It saia'
i ry Of $4,000 a-year.
j Walter Hines Page, late ambassador OF ths
i United States to England. was buried In Be
Itheseda cemetery. near Aberdeen. N. C., De
cember "a. Messages of condolences were re.
ceived from King George, Queen Mary Foreign
i Secretary Balfour and President Wilson.
Dominick Costarella, aged rs. was arrested
at Lancaster, Pa, December "a, charged with
being one of the anarchists who bombed ths
Milwaukee, Wis, central police station on No
Il yenaber I'd, 1917, in which thirteen persons
were killed. He was betrayed by his wife.
A terrific blizzard swept over the middle
west December "a and 25. A roaring gale
swept Chicago from Lake Michigan, at times
reaching so miles an hour. Illinois, Kansas
Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan and other states
i suffered most, The snowfall was quite heavy
| The city of Coblenz, occupied by American
troops has been put under strict military rule
Inv General Pershing The rules are not dras-
tic or rataliatory, but simply strict enough 70
let the German people OF the city know that
they are a conquered people and subject to
L v.;iitar,, diarinlne ~
The war industries board and the war trade
board virtually went out Of existence on Jan.
uary 1, with the designations Of B. M. Barucf
and Vance Mccormick. respective chairman
becoming effective Both of these men, on sum
mons from President Wilson. sailed for Eu'
rope on December 81.
Ernesto Madero, formerly minister Of finance
i In the cabinet of Francisco Madero Of Mexico
pleaded guilty to grand larceny In New Yorl
i on December gath. He and two partners mac
swindied New York bank out OF 10000 on
| fraudulent warehouse receipts of which Made
TO was president.
Christian Donhauser, aged 20, German
iarnny aviator, says he Is the flyer who shot
down Quentin Roosevelt on July H. east o.
Fere en- Tardenois, France; he did not know Know
who his victim was at the time. Donhause,
SAYS that he is going to visit America and tina,
Inc hopes to become citizen OF the United
States.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that Count vor
Brockdorff- -Rantzau. German minister TO Den
mark, has been appointed German foreign
minister to succeed DR.. Sof. 1t is oaid tha
the new minister has declared that his earnest
aim would be to achieve peace based on Pres-
| ident Wilson's fourteen points and thereby SO
cure league Of nations.
A letter from the Island Of Tahiti, under
/ date of December q, tells Of the terrible deatf
/ rate on the island due to Influenza. Fully one
i seventh of the population Of Papeete. the chic
| town. are dead, the bodies being burned In az
/ iTnrnenssf funeral pyre because Of Inability Y
bury the dead There were sick in alrnost ev.
lery native home. There were no medicines
and but little food.
1t is reported In Washington that Speaker
i Champ Clark will be q candidate for the Dem
/ ocratic presidential nomination In 1920 and y
| is also rumored that he will have the support
of William. Jennings Bryan, the rurnor matinf
lit that H. Clsfk and Mr.. Bryay have RECON
ciicd their differeno1s growing out OF the b0
fillmore convention when Mr.. Wilson swas nrs'
tnominated