Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-13

A heavy run of sockeye salmon, promising big wages, even at the re- duced prices offered by the canneries, caused the strike of 5000 fishermen at the mouth of the Fraser river to collapse.
 Representative Robert Y. Thomas of Kentucky stabbed David Goodleet of Alabama. house doorkeeper. during an altercation in the new Varnum ho- tel, Washington. No arrests were made and the wound is not regarded as serious
 Great increases in membership were announced in reports read be- fore the opening sessions of the an- nual convention of the Amalgamated Alliance, which convened at Atlanta, Ga.
 Secretary of Labor Wilson detailed Walter B. Palmer of the bureau of labor statistics to go at once to the Michigan copper mining region and lend his aid in effecting a settlement of the miners strike around Calumet.
 Sweeping reductions in express rates on parcels all over the country were ordered by the interstate cSm- merce commission. The new reduced rates become effective October 15 The reductions range from about 1C to 50 per cent.
 Sentences were imposed on five members of the West Virginia legis- lsture, convicted of bribery in connec- tion with the election of United States senator early in the year, by Judge O'BTien in the superior court at Webster Springs.
 A national organization of Catholic women to oppose the suffrage move ment has been launched by leaders in the German Catholic Central Verein, while in convention in Buffalo. 'You are the lowest and most con- temptible cur I have seen in my three years of service in this court" That was Judge Burney's pleasant greet ing to Arthur Spudlock, charged with keeping Mona Franke, IT years old, two weeks against her will in room ing house
 With six companies of militia camped in the school grounds and the hop pickers encampment on the Durst Bros ranch reduced to a few hundred persons, there was little indi- cation at Wheatland, Cal, of the riot ing which brought death to four men.
 The navy department announced that the gunboat Des Moines was be- ing held at Brunswick, Ga, in an ticipation of request from the state department that a war vessel be sent to Ve,cc=u,aa.
 Nearly S1,0O0,O00 is left to Mill!ken University by Mrs. Anna B. Milliken, widow of James Milliken, founder of the institution, whose will has just been made public.
 The Russian government had de- cided not to take part in the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco in 1915. No official explanation of the refusal has been given.
 Twenty-Five to fifty million dollars of government funds will be deposit ed in the national banks of the South and West at once by Secretary Mo Adoo to facilitate the movement of clops. Federal, state and municipal bonds and prime commercial paper will be accepted as security for the money, upon which the banks will pay per cent interest.
 A eugenic baby show will be the chief feature of the grange fair to be held at Wakefield, Mass, in Septem- bcr, it is announced. The entry list is said to be small up to date.
 Judge Kersten sentenced Robert Webb, leader of the gang of youthful automobile bandits in Chicago, to life imprisonment sn the Joliet reniten- tiary. Webb was convicted of the murder of Detective Peter Hart.
 
 Victor H. Olmstead, former chief of the statistic bureau of the depart ment of agriculture, was denoted and assigned to field service as result of an investigation into charges of all laged laxHy of administration com pleted by Secretary Houston Four clerks in the statistician's office were furloughed.
 William Green of Coshocton, O., as sumed the duties of international secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America MT. Green succeeds Edwin Perry of Oska- loosa, la, who resigned recently.
 Five companies of militia are at Wheatland, Cai where four men, in- cluding the district attorney of Tuba county, were killed in revolver bat