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GUARDS FIRE ON
] SHOT
Two of the Wounded Said to Be
Women.
UNION CLAIMS 284,000 OUT
Company Men Say Strike Is Failure,
That Many of the Larger Mills Are
Running—7s,ooo Quit in
Chicago District.
Pittsburgh, Sept. 23.—William 7.
Foster, secretary fit the national com
mittee for organizing Iron ami steel
workers, today gave out the following
figures as indicating the number of
men on strike:
Chicago district 00,000
Cleveland 30,(XX)
Youngstown proper 15,000
Youngstown district, Includ
ing Sharon, Farrell, New
Castle, Strowthers, Butler
Canton and Massillon 50,000
Buffalo 12,01 X)
Homestead D.(XX)
Bruddock 5,000
Bank in 3,(XX)
Clairton 4,(XX)
Monessen and Donora 12.000
Wheeling 15.000
Steubenville 6,000
Pueblo 6,000
McKeesport and Duquesne 12,000
Pittsburgh city 15,000
Vandergrift 4,000
Leechhurg 2,000
Brackenrldge 5,000
Johnstown 15,000
Coatesville 4,(XX)
Total 284,000.
Pittsburgh, Pu„ Sept. 23.—The great
steel strike, less than twenty-four
nours old, saw its first tragedy wncn
guards at mills at the Carnegie Steel
company in New Castle engaged in a
shooting duel with strikers and their
sympathizers.
Seven persons were struck by bul
lets, two of (hem women. Six of the
injured were seriously hurt. All were
removed to the New Castle hospital.
The shooting, preceded by the
throwing of bricks and other heavy
missiles during the afternoon, lasted
half an hour. According to eye wit
nesses, more than one hundred shots
were fired.
Strikers Facing Deputies.
The strikers had taken a stand on
Moravia street, opposite the plant
buildings. Deputy sheriffs and mill
guards were stationed Just in front of
the property of the Pittsburgh & Lake
Erie railroad.
The first shot came while the strik
ers were “booing" the mill guards.
Suddenly an automatic pistol sonnd
ed. Hint guns leaped to the shoulders
of deputies and mill guards and fired
Into the crowd. The strikers returned
the fire from automatic pistols and re
volvers which Jumped from scores of
pockets and waist lines.
One of the women was struck in the
neck and leg and seriously hurt.
Strike Apparent Failure.
Indications are that the strike so far
has failed to cause any serious trou
ble to most of the big plants in Pitts
burgh proper and its Immediate en
virons.
In Homestead, Rraddock, Duquesne,
and on the south side of this city,
where the largest corporation and In
dependent mills are located, a very
small prop, rtion of men have joined
the ranks of the strikers.
At the big Homestead plant of the
Carnegie Steel company it 1$ said
about 20 per cent of the workers re
fused to report for work.
The management of the Edgar
Thomson works In Brad dock stated
that less than 300 men were out there,
and at the Duquesne plant it was stat
ed that they wre operating in full.
Less than 100 men are reported to
have struck at the big plants of the
Jones & Laughlin company, which line
both sides of the Monongahela river
for miles.
75,000 Out at Chicago.
Chicago, Sept. 23. —The lenders of
the strike claim that from 75,000 to
80,000 men had quit work in the Chica
go district: that all plants in Gary,
Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Joliet,
South Chicago, Evanston, Milwaukee,
Waukegan, Dekalb, and Sterling we"°
shut down. In Gary, they said, !7 per
cent of the men were out. The em
ployers reduced ‘he figures of the |
strike bosses but admitted Inability |
to operate.
There was no violence. The men
walked off when the night shift was
dom, carrying their emptied dinner
pails, and the day shift did not enter
the plants.
And some of the union men claimed
that the miners and the railroad men,
and the seamen on the ore boats might
strike in sympathy.
In some plants n minority of em
ployees came to work as usual. But
the strikers say these were mainly men
•over fifty-five years old. who are near- I
lug the time when they can retire on
a pension.
Still Building Zeppelins.
Berne, Sept. 23.—A dispatch received
here from Romnnschorn, near Constnce,
says the Germans are continuing
to build Zeppelin airships. The
latest airship completed has made
a (light from Lake Constance to Ber
lin in four hours. It carried 38 pos
ters and their baggage.
Jack Scores.
The whims of will-rankers tire nanny
nuil curious, hut for the pure sarcasm
comment! us to the British snllor who
requested his executors to pay his wife
one shilling, wherewith to buy hazel
nuts, a*; she had always preferred
cracking nuts to mending his stock
ings-
Silk Once More Valuable.
At one time silk was so valuable
that it was sold for Its own weight In
gold, literally.
NOT WILSON’S FAULT
FIUME SETTLEMENT NOT HELD
UP BY PRESIDENT.
Hi* Instructions to American Peace
Delegate* Give Them Great Lati
tude in Negotiations.
Paris, Sept. 23. —President Wilson
has cabled Instructions to (he Ameri
can pence delegation here which give
them the greatest latitude in the ne
gotiations concerning the settlement of
the Adriatic problem, Including the dis
position of Flume. This announce
ment at American pence headquarters
was accompanied by the reservation,
however, that Mr. Wilson Insists upon
the Internationalization of the port of
Flume.
American plenipotentiaries took oc
casion to deny all reports that “oh
stinancy" on the part of the presi
dent was holding up the Flume settle
ment. The way to placing the city of
Flume under Italian sovereignty now
appears open, provided Italy agrees to
the Internationalization of the port.
All British proposals concerning Fl
ume are said to give Flume to Italy,
hut all have certain strings attached
to them.
American peace delegates were anx
ious to make it plain that President
Wilson’s latest Instructions do not In
volve a backdown on his part. They
asserted he will In no circumstances
permit a compromise unless the port
is internationalized.
It was also denied at American head
quarters that Premier Lloyd George
and Clemencean have lately switched
around to the Italian position and im
patiently awaiting for Mr. Wilson's “O.
K.” of Foreign Minister Tittonl’s new
plan. Asa matter of fact, it was add
ed, both premiers are determined not
to yield to any plan that Joes not In
ternationalize the port.
On the other hand, it was suggested
that for political reasons, it was In the
Interest of France and Britain official
ly to leave the onus for the delay rest
with President Wilson, and this, it was
hinted, may be responsible for the
many columns of press propaganda re
cently in which the American execu
tive Is blamed for the whole awkward
situation.
BELGIANS HATE THE GERMANS
• T
King Albert Says Feeling Must Con.
tinue for Years—Boches Shot
600 Civilians.
London. Sept. 23. —“Belgian hatred
of the Germans must continue for
years. I do not doubt that commer
cial relations will he resumed; that Is
natural, hut you can Imagine that the
hate will live for a long time,” said
King Albert of the Belgians.
“The worst thing the Bodies did
was after violating our neutrality to
shoot 6(H) civilians. Then there was
the wanton destruction of factories
and the deportation of civilians, which
took the Germans hack to the pre
mediaeval times. These things will
never be forgotten and forgiven.”
GOMPERS NAMES LABOR MEN
A. F. and L. President Nominates 15
Representatives to Participate in
Conference to Be Held Oct. 6.
Washington, Sept. 23.—President
Samuel Qompers of the American
Federation of Labor announced the
names of the 15 representatives of
labor to be submitted to President
Wilson for nomination ns participants
In the capital and labor conference to
he held here October 6. They are ns
follows: Samuel Gompers, Joseph F.
Valentine, Frank Duffey, W. D. Ma
hon, T. A. Ulckert, Jacob Fischer,
Matthew Woll, Frank Morrison, Dan
iel .1. Tobin. John L. Lewis, Sara A.
Conboy, William H. Johnston, Paul
Schnrrenberg, John Donlln and M. F.
Tlghe.
TEAR UP STEEL CAR TRACKS
Rioters Attack 'Camden (N. J.) Trol
ley System—Feed Wires Torn
Down and Destroyed.
Camden, N. J„ Sept. 23.—Attacks on
the Camden trolley system were re
sumed with one of the most destruc
tive outbreaks which has occurred
since the zone fare system became op
erative. Tracks were ripped up for a
considerable distance at Somerdale,
near Magnolia, N. J., and the feed wire
was torn down and burned.
WILSON NOT TO INTERFERE
President Say* He Did Everything In
His Power to Prevent Steel
Strike.
Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 23.—Presi
dent Wilson announced that he would
not for the present interfere in the
steel strike and that he had done
everything possible to prevent the
walkout. All that could be done now,
he said, was to maintain law and or
der. He said he was without official
advices concerning the strike.
To Escape Prohibition.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 23. —Wil-
liam 11. Frank, millionaire brewer and
former mayor here, announced his In
tention of going to Switzerland to es
cape prohibition.
Thompson Is Reappointed.
Washington, Sept. 23. Houston
Thompson of Colorado was reappoint
ed by President Wilson ns a member
of the federal trade commission.
New Oil Substitute.
A factory has been started in
Sweden for extracting oil from schist,
thus adding one more to Ihe number
of substitutes already on the market.
Large quantities of alum schist are
found In the district, yielding benzine
and crude oils.
Money-Mad Folks.
“He way some folks will tussel nn’
scrap fob money,” said Uncle Eben,
“is 'most enough to make a sliver dol
lar look like a medal fob bravery.”
CANDIDATES WATCH
PRESIDENTS TOUR
DEMOCRATIC ASPIRANTS HOPING
HE MAY IN SOME WAY HELP
THEIR AMBITIONS.
GOSSIP CENTERS ON PALMER
Attorney General Just Now Occupies
a Strategic Position—Old Politi
cians Wonder if Bryan Intends to
Seek the Nomination Again.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington.—Washington is await
ing with interest the political effects
of President Wilson’s tour through the
country. Ills first speech was deliv
ered in Columbus, O. Opinion in Its
rebound from that state Is being
caught by the politicians, for Ohio
holds within her borders two candi
dates for the presidency—Warren G.
Harding, Republican, and James M.
Cox, Democrat.
Politicians here, and especially
those of them who have presidential
ambitions, are wondering Just how the
winds of league favor or disfavor are
to blow from the people after the
president has completed his trip. The
lyonder Is if some of the politically
ambitions are to trim their sails so
as to go smoothly with the wind or,
because they think the atmospheric
conditions have set the breezes blow
ing wrong, will attempt to beat “up
wind."
At least four or five Democratic
candidates known to he In receptive
mood are hanging on the president’s
utterances day by day as he goes
through the country, hoping that
somewhere a cheering word for their
Individual ambitions may be let fall.
To these gentlemen the president’s ut
terances on the league will he mat
ters of secondary Importance because
all of tlecrn have espoused his views
on the matter. The thing of prime
Importance to them will be some pos
sible word from the chief executive
which will indicate that he Is strong
ly In favor of some specific national
doctrine for which one or the other of
them may have taken a stand.
Gossip Turns to Palmer.
One still hoars more from the poli
ticians in Washington, so far ns the
Democratic nomination Is concerned,
of the aspirations or supposed aspira
tions of Champ Clark and William Q.
McAdoo than of those of other promi
nent Democrats. Today, however, the
trend of the talk in the cloakrooms
and elsewhere is turning to some ex
tent to Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer ns a possible candidate for
the Democratic nomination. Mr. Pal
mer today is in something of a strate
gic position, for his work is inti
mately connected with the attempts
to bring down the high cost of living,
a subject which is pretty close to the
hearts of all people who do not happen
to be millionaires.
The Democrats also have taken
cognizance of a recent pronouncement
of William Jennings Bryan. Some of
the old politicians are wondering if
Mr. Bryan will try' it again. He al
ways has managed to hold on to the
affections of a strong following.
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, said something a little bit cryp
tic the other day. The interpreters
of his utterance think that possibly
it means Mr. Daniels is in a receptive
mood.'
Some of the Republican senators
seem to have approved, temporarily at
least, the ambitions of one of their
number who, it is known, would like
much to he president of the United
States. There are some rather cold
political analyzers of conditions who
say the Republican senators’ attitude
in this matter is assumed for present
purposes only, and Unit later they will
part company one with another to
take positions behind what Is called
the heart candidate of each one of
them. Tills may lie or may not ho
true, but such a condition is not at
all unprecedented, for tills kind of
thing has been recognized for years
as being a part of (lie political game.
First to Parade in Washington.
Congress in Joint session is about
to honod Gen. John .1. Pershing. Al
ready tlie Dill making him a general
for life has been signed hy the presi
dent. He has been nominated, and lias
been confirmed by the senate. If is
probable that congress will give him
Its thanks, and present him with a
sword as a further evidence of its
recognition of his services.
There is to lx* in a few davs a pa
rade of (lie First division of the A. 10.
F. in tlds city. It will lie headed hy
General Pershing, 'Do. while not the
direct commander ot the division, com
manded i tie army of which it formed
a part. Washington haw had no great
parade of troops like unto Mint of May,
when the armies of Grant, Sher
man and Sheridan marched up the
broad avenue in review before the
president and the commanding gen
erals. and took two days to complete
•he march.
There have been several small pa
rades recently of returned soldiers In
the town. The one In which the First
division will appear will be greater
than any of its predecessors. Wash
ington was made so war-weary that It
never lias responded enthusiastically
to soldiers’ homecomings. The war-torn
veterans have marched through streets
lined with apathetic crowds. It is
hoped that the parade about to take
place will reverse the rule of former
Happiness In Appreciation.
Happiness comes not from the power
of possession, but from the power of
appreciation Above most other things
It Is wise at cultivate th * powers of
appreciation. The greater the number
of stops on an organ the greater Its
possibilities as an instrument of music.
—II. W. Sylvester.
There are said to be 2.500 estab
lishments manufacturing various kinds
of beverages in Japan. Of this num
ber 500 are located la Tokyo.
THE MANITOWOC PILOT
occasions. The press and the mana
gers of the parade have done all that
they could to arouse the citizens to a
sense of their “cheering duty."
Fine Record of the First.
There is a reason for specially hon
oring the First division. It was the
first large contingent of American
troops to be dispatched to France,
where It went in June. 1917, under the
command of MnJ. Gen. William L.
Slhert, who trained the division for
six months in France, prepared it for
the front line offensive and took it
Into its first fight. I.nler General Sl
hert was recalled to the United States
to become the chief of the chemical
warfare service.
Other major generals who at vari
ous times either commanded or served
with the First division are: Robert L.
Bullard. W. S. McNair, K. E. Ely, F.
W. Coe, J. W. M(-Andrews. Charles P.
Summernll, Frank Parker and E. F.
McGlachlln. All of these major gen
erals will have part In the parade.
It was a part of the First division
which engaged In the first warfare on
behalf of America, as an American
fighting unit under American com
mand. The first American blood of the
war was spilled at Selchprey, and It
came from the veins of soldiers of the
First division. Selchprey always will
he a name and a place memorable In
American history.
The First division fought all through
the war, and If occupies a place In the
hearts of the French people from
which It never can be dislodged. The
sentiment of the French for the First
regulars is felt not only because It was
the first American fighting anil to ar
rive in France, but because also of Its
sterling fighting qualities displayed on
many fields.
Mental Unrest In America.
Members of the administration, and
members of congress with them, evi
dently are disturbed over the mental
unrest of large numbers of the Amer
ican people, an unrest which they de
clare is hurtful and which they also
declare is the result of wartime con
ditions. Business and labor stability,
some of'these cabinet officials and leg
islators think, cannot he secured until
mental stability has been restored.
From the viewpoint <>f men here,
there are two or three sharp manifes
tations of this unrest. One of them
shows Itself In the inability at present
Of a great many of the returned sol
diers to “stay put.” As it has been
put by somebody, many of these sol
diers want to be “where they ain't.” It
Is the restlessness which has grown
out of their life in France; a life of
constant excitement and movement, of
black nights under air-raid conditions
and of the dally expectation of being
ordered here, there or elsewhere —a
condition of change which unsettled
men ordinarily stable.
Another manifestation seems to be
the desire among men and women, who
are not soldiers, to let up In their work
and to be temporarily, at least, un
willing to work as concentrntedly and
as long as they did prior to the break
ing out of the war. This condition Is
noticeable among the hitherto steady
workers of the land, and it probably
will take some time, so men here seem
to think, to change this condition.
In part, tills sort of thing is held
here to be the result of the hard, driv
ing work during the war, when nearly
everybody was on his mettle. Washing
ton, however, looks with something
like concern on the evident disposition
of a part of the American world of
workers to look for a life of semi
ease. It is recognized that only a com
paratively small part of the men and
women of the country are affected In
this way, but,-as the legislators and
others view It, the part Is large enough
to give concern.
Affected by Unrest in £urope.
This latter condition of things Is at
tributed by many to the unrest in cer
tain parts of Europe, where bolshevism
seems to have affected the minds of
the people and to have made them be
lieve that happiness comes from doing
the least amount of work possible, and
this naturally leads, so It is said, to
that further condition or state of mind
which makes shirkers of men and
women.
It Is recognized by the men here who
have given consideration to this condi
tion of things that when worlti matters
finally settle down Into something like
normal there may be a readjustment
of mental conditions and a change in
tlie viewpoint of those who seem to
think just now that work, as work. Is
not worth while.
There are men in different parts of
the United States who are engaged In
preaching a doctrine of “do nothing,”
or, at least, “do very little,” and telling
their hearers that true happiness lies
In ease. It lias been said recently by
one studious member of congress that
It is natural for the average man to
want to work, that loafing loses Its at
tractiveness after It lias been indulged
In for a short time. Tills, some others
say, is perfectly true unless loafing is
curried such a length of time that the
man loses all his former predilections
for labor and forgets the delights
which accompany accomplishment.
So far as the returned soldiers are
concerned, It is believed In Washing
ton that the spirit of restlessness with
which they seem to he a (Tee ted soon
will wear off. Not a hit of unwilling
ness to work has been noted on their
part. The only difficulty has been
that after they have worked Industri
ously for two or three weeks some of
them seem to desire u change to an
other field.
States With Spanish Names.
The following state names are of
Spanish derivation: California—hot
furnace; .'ohirado — color red; Florida
- feast (a tlowers; Nevada—snow cov
en and ; Oregon—wild marjoram.
With Her "Brood."
Mn heard her aunt apeak of the lit
tle* Chickens that were following a hen
as a brood. Anew neighbor moved
next door to Ida with live children.
Ida an\v them following their mother
about the* bade yard, nod she said to
her mother: ‘See the lady with her
brood of children following her."
Big Yield of Bone.
The largest yield of hone from a sin
gle whale was taken In Bn d
amounted to 3.U0 pounds.
WHIN NEWS
Important Event* of the Week
Around the Badger State.
Paving operations will be inaugura
ted in Green Bay to construct nearly
three miles of asphalt pavements on
six streets.
Wausau woodsmen, who have re
cently returned from northern sec
tions of the slate, report that decl
are not plentiful and that hunting will
be the moat unsatisfactory in yours.
Four boys of Antigo, their ages
ranging from 11 to 17 years, have con
fessed a series of robberies to the po
lice. All have been bound over to
the upper branch of the Municipal
court.
During the two months in which 11
has been in operation, the Sheboygan
public milk dispensary, conducted by
the Red Cross for children, has served
20,365 little tots with pure milk at 1
cent per half pint.
To combat the high cost of living
the Holt Lumber company of Oconto
is considering the establishment of a
general store for the benefit of the
employees of the company. Goods
■would be sold at cost.
The annual hunters’ reunion of
western Wisconsin will be held at
Galesville, Oct. 16-19. Fox hunting by
day and coon hunting at night will
feature the gathering . One day will
be devoted to special events, in which
dogs will run for prizes.
Presbyterian clergymen and lay
men from all parts ot northern Wis
consin and upper Michigan were in
sessim in Florence for a few days at
their Lake Superior presbytery. The
mortgage on the Florence church was
burned during one of the meetings.
Chief of Police E. M. O'Connell of
Plymouth is in receipt of a letter from
Colin Thompson, acting British vice
consul in Chicago, which may lead to
a solution of the mystery surrounding
the death ot the man who was found
with a bullet hole through his head
near the Rudolph Slnmer farm in
Plymouth two months ago.
To protect Wisconsin against tin
sanitary conditions in the fish busi
ness at and near Green Bay, where
3,000,000 pounds of fish are stored an
nually for consumption in the state, a
new inspector has been decided upon
by dairy and Food Commissioner
George J. Weigle. G. A. Servis, now
in the chemical department, has been
appointed to the post.
President H. A. Brown of the Osh
kosh Normal school was at Madison
in the interests of the two year col
lege course at the local Normal, which
will be resumed after having been
withdrawn from the curriculum last
year. Two year college courses will be
available in commerce, Journalism, en
gincoring, letters and science, pre
medical. law and agriculture.
The Oshkosh Musical club has been
completed by the election of Clarence
E. Shepard, president; Mrs. W. P.
Wheeler, vice-president; F. M. Kar
nes, secretary, and P. A. Labudde,
treasurer. The club will sign con
tracts bringing to Oshkosh John Mc-
Cormack and his company on Oct. 28,
Miss May Peterson on Nov. 18 and
Lazzarl and Ganz in December.
The Chamber of Commerce of Wau
sau has sent out questionnaires to
residents to learn the number of peo
ple in need of homes, of ihose who in
tend to build, or buy. and of the num
her of vacant lots tor sale. When
the. results are known, it Is probable
a company will be formed with sufll
dent capital to buy lots, erect homes
and sell them on installment basis.
A gasoline launch from Chicago with
a caigo of eighty-one cases of Mllwau
kee made beer, drifted ashore at Zion
City when the engine became dis
abled. The Zion police force at once
confiscated the cargo and arrested the
crew of two men who manned the
boat, which hailed from Kenosha and
was said to bo en route to Chicago. A
dance hall operator of Chicago is said
to be the owner of the launch.
Thomas Urom, In years of age, and
tils brother, Frank, 8, sons of Michael
Brora, of Dousman, were drowned in
Dutch lake when they became panic
stricken when the two small rafts
from which they were fishing drifted
out Into deep water. Both boys, be
coming frightened when they found
they could not touch the bottom of tin*
lake with their fish poles, threw them
selves into the water.
A petition, containing M 97 names,
has been tiled with the Green Buy
city commission demanding that a
date be set lor it special election on
the question ol abandonin ' the com
mission form of government and going
back to the old aldermanlc rule.
There are sulllclcnt names attached
to Uie petition to comply with the law,
and it is practically certain that the
question will be submitted to the
voters within sixtj days. An active
campaign will be inaugurated by both
sides.
The Hist shipment of sheep to
leave Iron county for the Chicago
market left last week. Nine carloads
comprised the special train with 1,200
sheep. The sheep will be unloaded
south of Milwaukee where they will
be fed and kept until plated Upon the
Chicago market.
The Maspnlc fraternity of Clinton
villo has decided to purchase the old
home of Ur. Miller which was offered
on very liberal terms and remodel
and enlarge it for lodge hall and club
rooms. Flans for remodeling are now
being considered and work on the
structure will begin at once.
Following orders by Mayor T. E.
Mctiillaii of Menasha, the police made
arrests of parties suspected of gam
bling or permitting illicit games on
tbeir premises. Menasha will clamp
the lid down tight on all forms of
gambling. Mayor McOillnn states.
The Elks of Stevens Point are be
bind the Salvation army in Its cam
paign for $13,0ti0,000 for broadening
the scope of the organization’s home
service work. All Elks are going to
give |5 apiece to the fund and ask
the general public of Portage county
to donate an amount sufficient to
meet the county allotment of $3,000.
Police arrested twenty men and
women, and confiscated a quantity of
gambling paraphernalia and liquor in
two resorts.
More than a hundred applications
for citizenship papers at Sheboygan
are ez-soldiers and sailors who are be
ing granted their full naturalization
privileges upon presentation of honor
able discharges.
Classes In home nursing, being con
ducted In Harlington and at points
throughout Lafayette county under
auspices of the Red Cross, are being
largely attended and unusual interest
taken in the work.
The first hunting casualty of the
season occurred when John Schaefer,
Menasha, river foreman, was shot in
the neck when a hunter shot over the
top of the rice in the local swamp,
Mr. Schaefer will recover.
New one-man cars will he run in
Beloit after Oct. 1, according to T. M.
Ellis, Beloit Traction Cos. A seven
minute service schedule will also be
inaugurated on both loops. Carmen
will get a raise from 45 to 60 cents an
hour.
Lawrence college at Appleton open
ed with a record-breaking attendance
in sight. There are 150 male students
who cannot get rooms in the dormito
ries or fraternity houses. Five mem
bers have been added to the conserva
tory faculty.
Fifty Greeks of the Sheboygan col
ony are planning to depart for their
former home# in Greece. Three have
already left and the others expect to
follow soon. Most of the Greeks who
will return to their families in the old
country w ill bring them to America.
At the institution of a Knights of
Columbus Council in Rhinelander,
fifty new members were initialed by
the degree teams of Wausau and An
ligo councils. Twenty-eight old mem
bers were transferred into the local
council from lodges of other cities.
G. M. Householder, stale superin
tendent of county agents for northern
Wisconsin, who was engaged as agent
of Oneida county to succeed W. D.
Juday notified the county board
that he will not accept. Mr. House
holder has been appointed on the
state Immigration commission in Mad
ison.
Robert Rieben was killed in a cavein
at the pit of the Waupaca Sand &
Gravel Cos., at Anihurst. Another
workman was buried, but was rescued.
The first cavein carried the men into
the pit and a second followed, covet
ing Mr. Rieben to such a depth that i'
took an hour and a halt to recover hi
body.
F. F. Kress and George M. Dauke,
both of Neunah, pleaded guilty a>
Oshkosh to Hie charge of adulterating
butter. Each paid a fine of $25 and
costs . It was charged that they mixed
with the butter “an inferior and
cheaper substance, namely, water, so
as to lower and depreciate and Injun
ously affect ils strength, quality and
purity from 82.5 per cent of butterfat
to 75.36 per cent of butterfat, so that
it tends to deceive and mislead the
purchaser and consumer.”
The strike situation at Two Rivers
has resulted in the Issuing of a call
for a special session of the Manitowoc
County Board to lake action witty re
gard to deputies for the sheriff, it is
reported that the factory owners are
clamoring for a reopening of their
plants owing to the large exodus ot
working men from the city of Two
Rivers. The latest reports place the
figure as high as 500 that have ulreadj
secured jobs in other cities, Racine.
Kenosha, Milwaukee, Janesville ana
Hartford, with some few going to
Cllntonvllle.
The declaration of Intention on the
part of Anton Leonard Hanson, alias
Anton H. Bergdalen, and Ole John
Bygsiad, both of Eau Claire, to be
come citizens of the United States
were cancelled and an order entered
by Judge James Wickham in the cir
cuit court there forever debarring
them from becoming citizens of the
United States on the ground that thej
claimed exemption from the draft be
cause ot being aliens of a neutral
country, thereby proving their un
worthiness, ihelr utter disregard ot
the duties of those contemplating clt
izensiilp. Thirteen, including five sol
dlers, were granted citizenship.
Approximately 20,750 carloads of po
tatoes will lit shipped from Wisconsin
this year, according to an estimate
made by the Wisconsin co-operative
crop reporting service, based upon
(lie condition of the potato crop on
September 1. ('allots are estimated
at 700 bushels each. The commercial
potato acreage is estimated to be 95
per cent of normal, and the prosper
live yield, based on September I con
dition, 69 per cent of normal. Las;
year 25,510 cars were shipped from
stations within the slate. Shipments
in a year of full normal production
are estimated at 31,300 cars. The po
lalo crop In Wisconsin .uffered a
slight decline In August Weathei
conditions in general were more fav
oruble than during July, hut consider
able damage was caused by insects,
particularly the leaf-hopper and blight
is also reported in a number of sec
tions.
The Oshkosh Fraternal Order of
Fugles made a contribution of SSOO for
relief of storm sufferers at Corpus
Christl, Texas. The grand worthy
president, Klbert 1) .Weed, Oshkosh,
ordered that the sum be paid to the
lied Cross.
Watertown acquired a second strike
when electrical workers employed by
the Wisconsin (las and Electric com
pany struck, after registering demands
for an 8-hour day and higher wages,
similar to demands granted by the
Kaclne (las and Electric company.
Uox makers striking at the 11 1!
Lewis company plant are still out.
At a special meeting of the sto A
holders of the Langlade National
Bank at Antigo, It was voted to In
crease the capital stock ol the bank
from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. It Is also
planned to increase the surplus of th*
bank from $25,000 to $50,000.
H. I). Halverson. Civil war veteran
[Old-time river pilot and pioneer resi
dent of Stevens Po'.at, lied at his
homo at loiu. Ills health had been
poor for years. He was formerly en
gaged in the dry goods business at
Stevens Point, and served for many
years as a director ot the Wisconsin
Stave bank there.
WILSON RUNS INTO
SIZZLING WEATHER
Blistering Sun Out on Run Front
Sacramento to Reno.
GREAT WELCOME IN NEVADA
Dense Crowds Greet the President at
All Cities and Towns—Sees Orien
tals Working in Fields—Makes
Hit With Children.
Reno, Nev., Sept. 23. —A blistering
suu sizzled President Wilson over I lie
California boundary line into this city
late last night. It made the all-steel
ears of the "White House Special” re
semble bake ovens, but with all its
heat it did not exceed in temperature
tlie warmth of the welcomes given the
president at every little town, cross
roads and village through which the
train passed.
The president had only one set
speech for the day. It was given to
a large and enthusiastic audience
here. Shortly after noon, however,
when the train pulled into Sacremen
to, the president appeared on the ob
servation platform of the Mayflower
and a crowd of S.tHHt per
sons. His speech did not exceed .VM>
words. He touched briefly on the
Shantung matter, and closed with
these words; “The heart of America
is right and her purpose is irresist
ible.”
People Out En Masse.
It took the president's train nearly
one-half hour to go through Sacra
mento and Hie California capital was
out en masse to see him. Thousands
of school children and grown folk, too,
lined the tracks and cheered him as
the (rain went slowly. The same
outpouring of people occurred, more
over, at Stockton, Lodi and other
towns and cities in the San Joaquin
and Sacramento valleys. Roth these
portions of California presented large
numbers of Japanese men and women,
and hordes of Japanese children to the
view of tile president, and many of
the most fertile farms of both val
leys were being worked hy Oriental
laborers, who stared in silence at the
special as It sped along.
Tin' president made a great hit with
the children of Sacramento. In com
mon with the children of every other
city that he lias visited tin* Sacra
mento youngsters started on a mad
dash after the “Mayflower" once they
spied the president, hut here their
elders started running also. Some
small boys In the foreground of the
pursuers grasped hands to restrain
the crowds from pushing forward too
rapidly. Then the president stepped
to the railing of the car.
President Drills Children.
“I'm going to drill you," lie culled
out to the boys. “Shoot,” was the re
ply lie received.
Thereupon the president, in unmis
takable schoolmaster fashion, raised
Ids hand and began this chum : "four,
four, four feet buck. Four, four, four
feet hack."
The children caught the words in
stantly. took up the tune, and there
after the crowd was always "four feet
hack” from the "Mayflower," and there
was no danger of anyone being In
jured.
It was a comparatively restful day
for the president, hut he was keenly
concerned with all developments lu
the steel strike. The president be
lieves that lu sending the telegram to
Samuel (Jumpers last week, wherein
he expressed the hope of a postpone
ment of the strike until the Industrial
conference had met In Washington anti
finished its work, he did all that was
possible for him to do at the time. He
Is keeping in close touch with the situ
ation, however, through Secretary of
Labor Wilson.
The president. It was learned, will
probably lie in New York on October
3 to meet the king and queen of Bel
glnni. who are expected to arrive in
this country October 4. He will re
turn to Washington immediately, how
ever, to open tlie sessions of the In
dustrial conference October ti.
Itinerary for Week.
The presidential train left Reno
Immediately after the address. On
Tuesday there will tie n brief stop at
Ogden, Utah, hut no address is on the
official schedule. He will speak Tues
day night In th* tabernacle at Salt
Lake City and Wednesday afternoon
at Cheyenne, Wyo.
Paring the remainder of the week
there will lie two stops a day. the
president speaking at Dtnver Thurs
day morning, at I’uel.lo, Colo., Thurs
day afternoon; at Wichita, Kan., Fri
day morning; Oklahoma City, Friday
night; Little Rock, Ark.. Saturday af
ternoon, and Memphis, Team, Satur
day night. 1
‘TO HELL WITH KINGS'—HOAN
Mayor of Milwaukee Refuses to Invito
Albert of Belgium to Visit
City.
Milwaukee. Sept. 23.—"1 stand for
the man who works. To hell with the
kings
This quotation close# a letter to A.
T. Van Scoy, president of the Milwau
kee Association of Commer e from
Mayor Horan, In which the latter re
fuses to Invite King Alher,. and Queen
Elizabeth of Belgium to visit Milwau
kee. The mayor offers, however, to
forward such an Invitation presented
by any group of citizens.
Chiumatic Scales.
There are two forms of chromatic
scale. The harmonic chromatic and
Hie melodic form ns well. The difteN
cnee is purely theoretical. They are
both played lu the same way. M la a
question of notation. One calls a note
U tint and the other C sharp.
Proving n Al.bl.
“VV’hut Lawyu Attuckt say 'bout
lent chickens you stole?”
"He say Ahtu Hide to go to jail
ess’u Ah git somebuddy to prove %