Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-09-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
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GATHERED OVER THE GLOBE
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.
Colonel Roosevelt was in Louisiana
Monday and Tuesday making speeches
The Ohio coal mine scale was not fix
cd at recent conference and $1,000
men are still on strike.
George w. Webb, former state treas
urer of Oregon, celebrated his nine
tieth anniversary at Pendleton Sept. 5.
There are $4,000 Austrian and Hun
garian reservists registered at the
Austro- Hungarian consulate in New
York.
The German cruiser Karlsruhe re-
GENTLY engaged and badly disabled the
British cruiser Bristol off the coast of
Haiti.
The Germans have changed the Bel
GUM clocks, altering them one hour
to synchronize them with the German
clocks
Reports from Ostend quotes reser-
visits from Lille as saying that a war
levy of $40. 100000 has been imposed
ON that district by the Germans.
Confidence of the Parisians in the
ability of the allied armies to prevent
Germans entering or even investing
the city increases daily at Paris.
In the Belgian district occupied by
German officials post and telegraph
service will soon be opened under the
supervision of the general postoffice
ct Berlin.
The total strength of the Russian
army now holding the ground between
Lublin and Lemberg is 100000. Lem
berg is described as evacuated by the
Austrians.
Colonel James c. Bulger, convicted
Of the murder Of Lloyd F. Nicodemus,
q hotel proprietor of Denver, has been
sentenced to be executed during the
week beginning December %.
Frank Williams, an ex-pugilist, char
ged with the murder of A. C. MCLEOD.
. rancher. has confessed at klamath
Falls. Oregon. that he shot MCLEOD,
but insists that he shot In self-defence.
Aliens in Canada have been forbid
den the possession of arms or explo-
sives. Natives of countries at war
with England who have arms or ex-
plosives must surrender them to the
authorities within ten days.
1t is said that the inhabitants of Blu
kowina. in which district Czernowitz
Is located, joined with the Russians.
This. the correspondent says, Is re-
garded as the first sign of dissolution
OF the Austro-H Hungarian empire.
Washington. President Wilson an
nounced Sunday he will not make q
speaking tour during the coming cam
paign. He declared his intention of
staying on the job" because Of the
unlocked for international situation"
The senate of Argentine approved
the nomination of DR.. Romulo Naon
to be ambassador of the Argentine re-
public to the United States. DR.. Naon
b now minister at Washington and
will be Argentina's first ambassador
ct Washington.
It is related in Rome that in CONVEX
sation before his election Pope Bene-
dict XIV. repeatedly expressed his be-
lief In the necessity that the pontiff
should intervene with an appeal for
peace. not in purely evangelical form,
but In precise diplomatic action.
The town hall of Louvain, Belgium
Is safe. standing alone. with all the
houses around 1t destroyed. The dis
patch serves to confirm earlier reports
that the historic Hotel de Vile, which
Is a beautiful example of late Gothic
architecture. was spared by the Ger
mans when they burned the town.
Two passengers on Grand Trunk |
passenger train inbound to Detroit
from Toronto Saturday night were
shot and probably fatally wounded by
two masked robbers. who boarded the
train soon after 1t entered the city. |
After securing money and valuables |
from the rest Of the passengers in the
coach the bandits disappeared.
homeless eeigians in London.
London.-Homeless Belgians are ar.
1iYing in London by the thnusands