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GREEN FOREST, CARROLL
COUSTY, ARKANSAS, MARCH
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SEVERAL PROJECTS FAVORED 3Y
STATE HIGHWAY COMMIS
SION IN SESSION.
$160,000 IS APPROPRIATED
Jackson District No. 4 and Jefferson
District No. 5 Lead With $20,000
Each—Craighead County Will Get
$15,000 of the Amount.
Little Rock.—
Appropriations for state and feder
al aid to Arkansas roads totaling
$167,798 were recommended by the
State Advisory Board and approved
’by the State Highway Commission.
•Fourteen road districts will share in
this apportionment, as follows: For
Road District No. 3, Randolph coun
ity, $13,439; Road District No. 1, Boone
■county, $17,500; Road District No. 6,
Lawrence county, $7,200; Road Dis
trict. No. 1, Jackson county, $20,000;
Road District No. 5, Jackson county,
$20,000; Road District No. 2, Lafay
ette county, $12,205; Road District
•No. 1, Columbia county, $8,046: Road
iDistrict No. 2, Columbia county, $8.
046; Road District. No. 1, (Jreeno
county, $14,000; Road District No. 1,
iBenton county, (additional), $3,00n;
Road District No. 1, Clark comity,
(additional), $6,S62; Jonesboro and
Nettleton road, Craighead, $15,000; re
constructing dollarway, Jefferson
county, $7,500.
STATE HAPPENINGS.
Eiuuui w in Runs ui uie jvionrop
County Citizen at Brinkley thinks
sheep would be more valuable to his
county than cur dogs, and he has said
as much in the paper several times.
The other day Mr. Williams came to
(his office and found six dogs in tho
yard that surround it. He threw a
brick at the dogs, whereupon one vi
cious cur rushed at him and attacked
him. He kicked it off, went into his
office, grabbed a shotgun and took a
(shot at the pack, whereupon the dogs
dispersed. Now the question is
whether the dogs were getting even
ifor Mr. Williams’ advocacy of sheep.
W. F. Hines, who has an Elberta
peach orchard of 1,000 trees near De
catur, Benton county, is cutting down
all the trees, according to the Benton
County Record, because he has had
(hut two crops in 10 years. The space
occupied by the orchard will be added
to his farm.
John Goodwin of Shelbvville, Sharp
county, received a letter recently
from New Mexico, containing a check
for f 10 drawn by J. W. Taylor. Mr.
Taylor wrote that the money was to
pay for a coffin made 40 years ago
for a member of his father's family
hy Mr. Goodwin.
Eigthv-seven miles of gravel roads
will be built in Clark county at a cost
of approximately $348,000, if the road
enthusiasts and the country property
owners get together and follow out
the plans that have been laid.
The state’s appeal on demurrer in
the case of Dr. H. M. Blumenthal, who
was charged with burning the house
of Mrs. Sallie Hancock in Wynne on
(September 21, 1916, was filed in the
Supreme Court.
Plans for two steel bridges across
(Cache river near Augusta -were sent
out by the State Highway Depart
ment. The bridges are of steel con
struction and the estimated cost is
$20,000 each.
As the result of sticking a knife in
to his right eye nearly a year ago,
(Maurice Reid, S-year-old son of Mr.
land Mrs. L. W. Reid of Pine Bluff
•was operated on and the eyeball was
removed.
The Missouri and North Arkansas
.railroad has hung a service flag on
Its building at Hammond which con
tains 52 Btars. representing former
employes now serving their country.
John M. Davis, state bank commis
sioner, returned from Stuttgart,
"Where he approved the sale of the
«ssets of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank to the Bank of Stuttgart on cr
uder of the Chancery Court.
Several Fords stolen from Joplin,
[Mo., and vicinity have been sold re
cently in and around Fayetteville.
The banks of Rentonville have tak
*n $61,000 of the certificates of indebt
edness for the third Liberty loan.
J. A. Rountree, secretary of the
fOnited States Good Roads Associa
tion and also the Bankhead Highway
Association, reached Little Rock to
oomplete arrangements for the an
nual convention April 15-19.
A class of 12 women has been or
tanlzed at Rogers to learn making
mrgical dressings.
Preparations for receiving 6,000
^rhlte men at Camp Pike are being
pnade by division officers.
Governor Brough returned after a
trip to Chicago and Milwaukee, -where
he delivered four speeches, two at
Chicago, one at Milwaukee and one
at Bloomington, 111. Governor Brough
said that on his trip to Milwaukee he
was pleased to observe that senti
ment was crystallizing against Sena
tor R. M. LaFollette on account of the
senator’s fight against war prepara
tion and service.
State Treasurer R. G. McDaniel re
ceived $12,000 in annual tax from tho
insurance firms doing business in the
state. The money was turned over
by Insurance Commissioner Bruce T.
Bullion.
The managers of the water and
light, plant at Hope are investigating
crude oil as fuel, owing to the high
price of wood during the past winter
and the uncertainty of the gas sup
ply.
The Grand Jury of the Northern
District of Woodruff county has adopt
ed a resolution urging Governor
Brough to call a special session of tho
legislature to amend the bono dry
law.
A petition is being circulated in
Batesville by local members of tho
W. C. T. U. to petition the governor
to call an extra session of the Legis
lature to amend the bone dry law.
Work on the plans for the road
district to complete the gap in the
Bankhead Highway through Logan
county is moving necely and there
seems to be little opposition.
The Woman’s Club of Stuttgart
held at rummage sale recently, the
proceeds went to the Belgium orphan
fund. The club lias resolved to assist
the war saving campaign.
Between February 11 and February
19, inclusive, 3.77X barrels and 840
boxes, or 12,255 bushels, of apples
were shipped from the Rogers cold
storage plant.
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The Wilmans Mercantile Company
of Newport is laying the foundation
for a new' feed mill at Diaz. They
expect to begin grinding feed within
a few W'eeks.
The Ozark Red Cross Chapter has
made and shipped during December,
January and February, 18,624 hospital
garments, besides over 3,000 band
ages
C. T. Jennings, one of the best in
formed men on strawberry growing
around Omaha, says that indications
are good for a bumper crop this year.
The sale of war saving thrift
stamps, which lias been in progress
at Nashville for the past two weeks,
has been meeting with good success.
J. M. Gilbert of Guion was at Mel
bourne recently and completed plans
for a roller and grist mill and cotton
gin there. Work will begin at once.
Dr. R. L. Jackson of Eureka
Springs has tapped live maple trees
for sap and has caught, more than two
gallons. He expects to get more.
Omer Frazier killed a large eagle
near Eveneing Shade recently. The
eagle was battling with a crow and
Mr. Frazier killed it with a stone.
The Board of Education elected J.
W. Torreyson, president of the State
Normal at Conway, as superintendent
of the Fort Smith public schools.
Miss Vivian Cazort, daughter of
ex-Senator G. T. Cazort, wdll plant 500
pecan trees on her father’s plantation
at Palarm in Faulkner county.
J. W .Sanders has moved to the
Hollingsworth farm near Bearden,
and in partnership with B. F. Gray
will engage in stock raising.
J. R. Born has 75 head of fine
blooded cattle near Clarksville. He
is putting in a stock farm and will
breed fine blooded cattle.
There are four cases of smallpox
reported at Delight, but they are quar
antined and it is not believed that
the disease will spread.
Thirty-four women registered at
Coal Hill. The Red Cross has about
200 members there, a gain of 110
members in a week.
Berry growers of White county de
cided at a meeting held at Judsonta
recently to advance the wages for ber
ry pickers this season. The pickers
will be paid 2 1-2 cents a quart, a
half cent more than they have been
paid heretofore.
There was a terrific explosion in
the woods near Arkinda recently dur
ing a small forest fire. It is believed
that nitroglycerin, hidden in a log by
safeblowers several years ago, ex
ploded when the fire reached it.
The McCrory Swatika Club has
adopted a French orphan. It is the
plan of this club to continue to add
orphans to its list.
Fire completely wiped out the en
tire west part of the business section
of Higden, causing a lo68 of from
$20,000 to $25,000.
Several classes In the high school
at Harrison have organized Wax Sav
ings Societies. They have bought |la
887 worth
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ther, speaker of the house of commons.
Lowther was recently mentioned ns n
possible successor to Premier Lloyd
George when newspapers recently as
sailed Lloyd George for his part in
General Robertson’s demotion.
VIENNA AND BERLIN
ARE NEAR A BREAK
STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN
TWO GOVERNMENTS TENSE
WILL NOT FIGHT RUSSIA.
Washington. — Further evidence of
the growing strain in relations be
tween Germany and Austria over the
refusal of the later to participate in
the renewed attack upon Russia is
given in an oificial dispatch received
here from France. It quotes the Aus
trian premier as formally reiterating
on February 22 that Austria-Hungary
will take no part in military action
against Russia or Houmania and will
not send her troops into Ukrania.
The dispatch refers to the meeting
between Emperors Charles and Wil
liam February 22, and says there
seems little doubt that a serious con
flict has arisen between the two na
tions, which German is determined to
settle by violent measures if neces
sary.
The dispatch follows:
“'Charles I paid a visit to William
II the 22d of February. Lundendorff
was present at the interview. If we
are to judge from the tone of the In
terview, it must have been lacking in
cordiality. There seems to be little
doubt but what a serious conflict has
broken out during the week between
the courts of Vienna and Berlin, and
which German is determined to set
tle if need be by violent measures.
"The international situation of the
dual monarchy is such that the Vien
na government in order to avoid a ca
tastrophe has been obliged to distin
guish by means of public declarations
its own policy from that of Germany.
The report that at the conferences of
February 14. Hertling and Luden
dorff had decided to pay no attention
to the Russian demobilization and to
prepare to begin ■’gain tne conflict on
the east front caused a great stir
throughout Austria.
“It was not simply the dissenting
nationalities of Czechs, the Slovenes
or the Poles, who do not desire to
fight any more, but it is the mass of
the population of German origin who
refuse to sacrifice themselves any
longer to assure the triumph of Prus
sian imperalism.
Czechs To Ai l France.
New York.—The statement that the
array of Czechs and Slovaks now
training in France to fight with the al
lies now numbers 120,000 was made
at the closing session here of the
convention of the Slovak League of
America in connection with the adop
tion of a resolution to cable the con
vention’s greetings to the Slovak ai
mies in France.
Aerial Photographing.
Washington. — Plans have been
completed for photographing the Ger
man trenches and keeping up to the
last minute the large, composite pic
ture of the whole German front. Fu
ture facilities will be three times
those existing and will be in opera
tion in three weeks.
Seed Bill Is Beaten.
Washington. — Efforts to have Con- 1
gress appropriate $50,000,000 to
finance farmers in the purchase of
seed practically failed when the
House Agriculture Committee agreed i
by a majority of one not to report tL.
bill to the House. 1
Cocchi Going Insane.
An Atlantic Port.—Alfredo Cocchi,
murderer of Ruth Cruger, New Y’ork I
schoolgirl, is losing his reason in an 1
Italian “solitary cell,” according to '
George North, who arrived here on an 1
Italian ship.
succeeds oenator Hughes.
Trenton, N. Y.—David Biard, a Re
publican of Camden, was appointed
by Governor Edge United States sen- i
ator to succeed the late Senator Wil
liam Hughes of Patterson. ]
U SIS PEACE
PACE WITH GERMANY
BERLIN ANNOUNCES THAT MILI- I
TARY MOVEMENT INTO RUS
SIA WILL STOP.
DEMANDS WERE INCREASED
Treaty Was Signed in Order To
Avoid More Onerous Conditions—
Germany Secures Karaband, Kars
and Batoum By Treaty.
Berlin.—-“By reason of the signing
of the peace treaty with Russia,”
says the official communication from
headquarters, “military movements in
great Russia have ceased."
Petrograd.—In the fear that argu
ment would result in even more oner
ous terms, the Russian delegation at
Brest-Litovsk has accepted all the
German peace conditions and is about
to sign an agreement, according to a
telegram from the deleagtes received
at the Sntolny Institute. The de
mands already have been increased,
they reported.
The message, which was addressed
o Premier Benine and Foreign Minis
ter Trotzky, follows:
“As we anticipated, deliberations
on a treaty of peace are absoltely use
less, and could only make things
ivorse in comparison with the ultima
tum of February 21. They might
?vei» assume the character of leading
to the presentation of another ulti
matum.
“In view of this fact and in conse
quence of the Gercans’ refusal to
cease military action until peace is
signed, we have resolved to sign the
sreaty without discussing its contents
tnd leave after we have attached our
signatures. We, therefore, have re
quested a train, expecting to sign to
lay and leave afterwards.
“The most serious feature of the
new demands, compared with those
of February 21, is the following:
“To detach the regions of Kara
band, Kars and Batoum from Russian
territory, on the pretext of the right
nf peoples to self-determination.”
The new territorial claims upon
Russia are apparently advanced In
the interest of Turkey. Batoum, a
strongly fortified seaport on the
Black Sea coast, in Trans-Caucasia,
ibout 20 miles north of the border of
Turkish Armenia, was one of the
cities ceded by Turkey to Russia af
ter the Russo-Turkish war of 1877
LS78. Kars, also in Trans-Caucasia,
105 miles northeast of Erzerum, in
Tukish Armenia, has been in dispute
JCL 111C JL Ul IYO ami LIIU iiucoiaun
Cor nearly a century, and finally was
;eded to Russia at the same time as
was Batoum. The other region nten
ioned probably is that of Karabagh,
Trans-Caucasia, lying to the east of
he Kars region and north of the Per
sian border.
Malady Disappearing.
Peoria, 111.—The strange malady
which has affected thousands of Peo
'ians during the past few days seem
?d to be disappearing. Prof. W. II.
Packard of the Bradley Polytechnic
institute, who had been making an
nalysis of the water refused to give
tut any report.
Nitrate Plant Located,
Washington. — President Wilson
signed an order authorizing the con
struction of a waterpower dam at
Muscle Shoals, Ala., as part of the
f50,000,000 project for a government
plant there for the fixation of atmos
pheric nitrogen for use In the manu
facture of munitions and fertilizer.
U. S. Refused Booth
Chicago. — Vernon Booth, reported
in dispatches from Paris as having
brought down a German airplane was
refused admission to the American
army because he was underweight.
Coast Artillery Open.
Des Moines, Iowa.—Men of draft
tge not in the present quota may be
nducted into the Coast Artillery ser
vice, according to orders received by
General Bogan from General Crowder.
Ishii New Ambassador.
Washington. — Viscount Kikujiso
shii has been appointed ambassador
"or Japan to the United States, and
vill soon reach Washington. He suc
:eeds Ambassador Sato, who takes a
ilace on the unassigned roll of diplo
natic representatives in Tokio.
Soldiers Have Kits.
Washington. —■ Every American
ioldier who enters the trendies car
ies an American Red Cross comfort
tit packed by an American woman.
Housing Bill Approved.
Washington. — Final action was
aken on the bill authorizing expendi
ure of $50,000,000 by the Shipping
3oard for housing facilities at ship
milding yards wdien the Senate adopt
?d the conference report approved
ast week by the House.
10,000 Dead in Quake.
Peking, China.—Nearly 10,000 per
sons lost their lives as a result of
lie recent earthquake in the Amoy
i interland.
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ally known statistician who has been
working as a special agent for the la
bor department, has been appointed
head of the newly created industrial
relations division of the committee on
public Information.
AMERICAN TROOPS
REPULSE GERMANS
THREE GERMAN PRISONERS RE
MAINED IN AMERICAN HANDS—
RAID A COMPLETE FAILURE.
With the American Army in France.
—American troops repulsed a strong
German attack in the salient north of
Toul. There were many American
casualties. One of the killed was a
captain who was graduated from West
Point in 1917.
The raid was a complete failure.
Three German prisoners remained in
American hands. The ground in
front of the trenches was strewn with
German dead.
A driving, wet snow was falling
when the Germans opened fire on the
American salient with every weapon
at their command. Seventy-sevens,
heavy shells and gas shells fell in a
whirlwind on the American trenches
for a half hour. At the same time
other enemy shells in great numbers
were dropping on the American bat
tery positions.
The Germans, evidently thinking
tliat the Americans in this sector
having had one taste of gas a few
days ago would fear it now', let loose
great quanlities of poisonous gas, hut
the men put on their masks and only
a few were affected. So intense was
the tire that the woods back of tlio
salient were shot to pieces.
At (> o’clock the barrage fire lifted
on the trenches to the right of the
salient and 240 Germans came sweep
ing forward under the protection of
their fire. They apparently intended
to make a big haul and jumped into
what was left of the trenches, but
there they found the Americans all
ready for battle. Fierce hand-to-hand
fighting began.
An American captain rallied men
with rifles and machine guns and
went through the American entangle
ment into No Man s Land and there
waited for the enemy, whom he ex
pected to be driven out by his com
rades in the trenches. He was right,
for soon groups of the enemy started
back through the wire entanglements.
The Americans poured in a deadly
fire. The captain was killed during
the fight. He is the first member of
the 1217 class at West Point to be
killed.
While the Americans were in front
of the wire entanglements and in
shell holes still fighting desperately,
the American barrage fire began
again sweeping No Man’s Land, catch
ing many running Prussians, who
had had enough of American methods.
The barrage swept back and forth,
making sure of doing all possible dam
age to the foe.
American Vessel Sunk.
Philadelphia.—The tank steamer
Santa Maria has been torpedoed and
sunk oif the Irish coast. The crew
was saved.
Will Intern Germans.
Washington. — Preparations are
being made by the Department of Jus
tice for interment of several hundred
Germans who failed to register at the
census of German enemy aliens three
weeks ago.
Turks Enter Trebizond.
Amsterdam. — A dispatch received
hero from Constantinople says that
Turkish troops have entered Trebi
zond, on the Black sea coast of Asia
Minor, and cleared it of "bands.”
New Orleans Gets Meet.
Memphis, Tenn. — Announcement
was made that the Executive Commit
tee of the Interstate Cottonseed
Crushers’ Association had decided
upon New Orleans as the 1918 con
vention city of the organization. The
convehtion will be in session May
13-15.
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$5,000,000 U. S. Securities.
Austin, Tex.—The state of Texas
will shortly purchase $5,000,000 worth
of United States short-time securities.
NEWS OF WEEK
Told Herewith ir> Tabloid
Form
Condensed Items of Interest
for Every Member of
the Household
MISCELLANEOUS.
Judge John Stelk of Chicago de
clares that many women are engaged
in social service work through morbid
curiosity.
The New Jersey legislature, in a
consideration of the new dry amend
ment to the constitution, has decided
to submit the question to a refer
endum.
The Vatican expresses its satisfac
tion with Chancellor von Hertling’s
speech and says peace is now a possi
bility.
Carranza desires to enter into a
trade pact with the United States,
but the plans are being revised in
Washington.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, our only
woman congressman, has announces,
she will run for the senate In 1918.
Thu naval tug Cherokee went dowr
in a gale off the Delaware Capes and
80 of her crew' of 40 perished.
The bronze statue of Germania sur
mounting the Germania building at St,
Paul, Minn., is to come down and the
building’s name is to he changed.
Minnesota Socialists nominated J,
G. Bentall for governor and passed
resolutions endorsing the Russian
Bolshevik!.
It has come to light that 80 high
grade French women, for failure to fol
low German rules, were locked in dun
geons w'ith only enough food to sus
tain life for a protracted period.
The greatest aviation camp in the
world Is under construction at the
Great Lakes training camp. It will
tost $1,500,000.
Ben Reitmann, once an anarchist
ind associate of Emma Goldman, has
reformed and is working for Uncle
Barn’s success In the war. At present
he Is practicing medicine in Chicago.
Hoover had ordered all bakers in
the country to use the substitutes
for wheat flour selected by the food
board. “The list Is wide," he said.
Four soldiers are under arrest at
Camp Lewis, Tacoma, charged with
plotting to kill their officers and go
over to Germany.
NECROLOGICAL.
Curtis Read, Yale, 1918, an ensign ot
the naval aviation corps, mte his death
In France on Feb. 27.
Mrs. Albert S. Cummins, wife of the
senior senator from Iowa, is dead at
her home in Washington.
Vs n I m I in M L..
Lillian Wllmouth, 17, was sentenced
at Paducah, Ky., to seven years in the
penitentiary for killing her father.
J. W. Cook was found guilty of
blackmailing the mayor of Atlanta
Ga., and was sentenced to one year in
prison.
Two prisoners killed a gnard at the
Missouri state prison, liberated one
»f their fellows and made their es
'■ape.
Prank Beadier, 26, a coal man, was
assassinated at Clay, Ky., last Mon
day night.
Donald Valentine, 23, an alleged
crook, shot and killed Detective James
Shea, who was arresting him. Valen
tine was killed immediately after by
another detective.
ACCIDENTS.
Twelve persons were killed and 13
severely injured in a rear-end collision
of trains on the Southern railway near
Columbia, S. C.
DOMESTIC.
The Texas house and senate have
ratified the “dry" amendment, making
the eighth state to fall in line.
The national chamber of commerce
has sent a warning to Germany that
economic war will follow the close ol
hostilities unless disarmament is t
part of the new German policy.
The shipping board has cancelei
contracts for 24 ships held by nav^
yards in various parts of the countr:
because of slowness in getting t<
work.
Over the protest of Secretary Lan
ting, congress has passed a bill or
dering the deportation of all alter
•lackers.
Secretary Baker is opposed to th«
death penalty for desertion, notwith
standing its time-honored acceptance
and Its endorsement by high officials.
Secretary McAdoo announces that
no building for “mere comfort" should
be started during a continuance of the
war.
Naval officials are appealing to the
public generally for field glasses, tele
scopes and sextants, and already mors
than 20,000 of these articles have beei
donated.
federal officials have a plan where"
by the 120,000 convicts at the various
state prisons will be used daily in the
manufacture of war supplies.
▲ minimum wage of $2 per day for
every person employed on publics
works is contemplated in a bill now
pending in congress.
Effective March 16, the weights al
lowable for parcel post packages will
be Increased from 50 to 70 pounds.
The department of labor announce*
that food pricee are 26 per cent high®
pa an average than one {ear ages
United Statps officials have taken
ove r a plan to teach neutral countries
the vain of conservation. If they
don’t learn they don’t eat.
WAR BREVITIES.
England has sent 817 invalid Ger
j man prisoners back home, under an
| agreement of like treatment by the
! Teutons.
The German emperor In an address
i says peace is fast approaching, and
tliat German swords are responsible.
When asked to cease poison gas at
tacks in return for like action on the
part of the allies, the Germans re
fused.
U-boat losses for the last week have
been the largest of any similar period
for the year.
The British air ministry announces
that aviators have brought down 120
German planes in the past three
weeks.
British casualties for last week were
the lightest since the beginning of the
war, being only 3,751.
U. S. marines are taking a vow that
no German woman will ever wear any
marine corps emblem as a token of
victory.
The identification system in use oa
the allied front is new said to be per
fect, and no man will fill an unnamed
grave.
PERSONAL.
Dr. Marion Hull, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Mt. Vernon, 111., has
accepted a call to Mattoon, 111., effec
tive April 1.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
President Wilson, will tour and sing
at all the soldier camps in the east.
Frank P. Walsh of Kansas City, a
well-known attorney and friend of la
bor, has been chosen by the workers
as their representative on the federal
industrial relations commission.
Gov. Whitman of New York deliv
ered a patriotic address at Peoria, 111.,
on Washington’s birthday.
LABOR.
Miss Pauline Goldmark, sistcr-ia
lawr of Judge Brandeis, complains to
the federal railroad board of the hard
work mapped out by the lines for new
women employes.
Colorado miners have quit the na
tional organization and formed a new
body to be known as Independent
Union of Mine Workers.
All the idle miners in the Binning,
ham, Ala,, district have returned to
work pending a settlement of ike
Questions involved.
The Hebrew Trades Association
of New York must withdraw from the
A. F. L. or else must make their pa
triotism so apparent that no one can
accuse them of being Bolsheviks.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Six politicians and office holders of
Tlary, Ind., charged with conspiracy,
were discharged in the federal court.
Mrs. Katie Ahlers was sentenced at
Dallas, Tex., to 10 years in prison for
the murder of Phil E. Tucker and
Miss Myrtle Cunningham.
GENERAL.
All manufacturers of tin cans havs
been forbidden to sell any stock, but
must bold their product for the use
of the United States.
A Jewish battalion has been organ
ized in New York and will leave fo*
the Holy Hand in the near future.
State troops are helping the police
stamp out a wave of banditry that 1*
sweeping over Michigan.
Good road movements all over th*
nation are being planned to give r*.
turning soldiers plenty of work.
Socialist aldermen of Greater New
York were denounced for opposing
methods used to sell thrift stamps.
Bishop Quayle says the kaiser is th»
mad dog of the world and the German
people are as bad as the kaiser.
Five men have declared themselve*
as candidates for the United State*
senate from Wisconsin. This Include*
La Follette.
Colorado sugar beet growers are pre
paring for the biggest year in their
history, with an increase of 25 p#r
cent in past acreages.
Special war courses have been add
ed to the curriculum of the Northwest
ern university, and other institution*
are urged to a similar course.
High explosives have been found in
[ many of tue camps in this country in
which alien enemies have been in
’ turned.
i Otficial information comes of a rev.
olution in progress in Costa Rica, but
no details are given out, as We are not
on friendly terms with the little re
public.
At elections held in Spain Sunday
it was feared the pro-German element
would carry many districts, but ail
candidates favoring the central pow
ers were defeated.
FOREIGN.
A conspiracy has been discovered in
China which includes a plan to as
sassinate Tuan Chi-Jui, former pre
mler.
Dispatches from Venice indicats
that German aviators have paid a re
cent and disastrous visit to the "bride
of the sea."
Roumania has decided that “peace
at any price" is not the goal she seeks.
Dr. Cohn, a Socialist member of the
reichatag, predicts that ail Germany
will be torn with revolt in the near
future.
Lloyd George, sorely pressed by
international problems, has decided
to take a short rest, the first since the
war started.
Unuer e railroad order no more
high yoaiuuna are to be &Ued by tb«
line* without the conaent hud adrkit
<* the rail board,