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DIED.

PRVGUIERE Josephine Frances Sather,
%daughter % the late peder Sather. We
Of the late Emile A, Bruguiers. Lost q
sea on the Arabic August 10, 1915.
Funeral in Grace church Tuesday. DC.
tober ~. II A. NJ Interment In san
Francisco. san Francisco papers please
copy. Kindly omit rowers.
CRAWFORD-On October 10. 1915, at his
late residence. 2Gy New York avenue.
brooklyn. Gilbert Holmes Crawford,
eldest son Of the late Rev. Morris d
camp and Charlotte Holmes era " ford.
Member OF class '6s. College OF CITY Of
New York member OF New York Bar.
Veteran OF Second COMPANY. Seventh
Regiment, y. q y. V: member Of
Rockland Lodge. F.. and a, NJ, aged 90.
Funeral services from his late residence.
saturday. October i6, 1915. at II A. VI.
1nternicnt Woodlawn Cemetery. II IL
requested that no flowers he sent,
EDGAR Daniel. son OF the late Daniel ".
and Julia lorillari Edgar, AT Green
port, l.. l., on October II
No.ice OF funeral hereafter.
FowLER,-Thomas Powell Fowler. after
a brlef illness a. his summer residence.
"Bciair." warwlck y. Y, on Mondav.
october II, in the sixty-fourth year
OF his age
Services will he held at st. James
fnNrNl MihlSNN avenue anu seventy -
rrst street, SATURDAY.. october ls. at
IL noon. Interment a. convenience
OF family.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. -, 1919, at his resi-
dence. ?o7s Firth avenue. Or. Thomas
Hunter. president emeritus Of Hunter
College. IN his eighty. fourth year.
Funeral notice later.
RussELL-Fred j, aged 40 Years. THE
FUNERAL CHURCH" "u West
Twenty-rhird street drank u Camp
bell Building, saturday,, II o'clock.
Auspices Actors Fund
Sullivan Rev Francis j. pastor Of 81
Aloysius church, @l9 West l3?d street.
chaplain New York Police Depart
msnt, stat" Chaplain knights Of roium,
bus. Chaplain Of -. Joseph 'ouncj.
member OF ROYAL Arcsnun. departed
this life. October l.
Divine ONCE, Friday evening, s.. mass
SATURDAY morning, 10 20. lntrrrnent
Calvary.
| WEED Roberta L.. h, owed wife NJ En-
ward y. weed, GA THURSDAY. october
~, 49,. after a brief illness
Friends are invited 20 attend the funeral
services on SATURDAY.. oct der Ia, az
2NP. NJ, at her lave residence. Granf
avenue, Newburgn. y, Y Train leaves
Grand Central Ternino at mao A ".
Please omit flowers.
wHITE-At his re,itenoe, 2s5 stay
vesant avenue, Brook'yn, on THURSDAY
October II, l'i5 Edward - white, n
his ninety fourth yesr
Funeral service, a. Grnr" Presbyterian
church. StuyNesant and Jefferson a,r-
nues. BROOKLYN. SATURDAY. October Is,
at 5 T.. NJ, Society Of Old Brock
lynites and ST, Nicholas society tn
Nited TO attend
M IN tAH no al .
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Edward ID. white

Edward ID. White died YESTERDAY
morning at his home. 2GJ Stuy vesant
avenue Brooklyn. He VAS born IN the
old city OF Brooklyn ninety-four years
ago, Last January he severed his con-
nections with the Brooklyn City Rail-
road Company, of which he had been
vice-president for nineteen years. a
member of the executive committee for
twenty-siN years and Il director FOR
twenty-seven years. Mr., White was "A
member Of the ST. Nicholas Society and
a charter member Of the Society Of Old
Brooklynites. lie Is survived by three
daughters. The funeral will be held
Sunday at Grace Presbyterian Church,
Of which he had been "A COMMUNICATE
for "a years.
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PusIneIIi-RO

The wedding OF Miss Helen Harriet
Roll. daughter of Frederick II, Roll. to
Frederick Pusinelli of this city took
place yesterday in the Ntz-Carlton.
Only relatives and II few intimate
friends We're present. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev, George T.. Glover
Of the Cathedral of ST. JOIN the Divine.
The bride. who was given, in marriage
by her father, wore a gown of whit"
satin charmeuse and n veil of tulle and
she carried "A bouquet of lilies of the
valley and white orchids. After the
there was a small reception.
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In New York To-day.

New York Railroad Club. meeting. 20
West Thirt y-ninth street. = =. ".
Woman's Forum. meeting, Hotel Bit
more,
Anglo French loan. Terrace Garden, 8 l.. NJ.
National safety Council. meeting. Chem
lists Club. $3.50 T.. NJ.
New York Microscopical Society, meet
ing, American Museum OF Natural History,
S.,5 y, NJ,
New Workers. meeting. Hotel Astor. 10
4. N.
The Theatre Assembly, social day.
4. NJ.
Probation Society. meeting, Hotel Astss.
8 p. NJ.
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THE SEAGOERS.

Arrivals yesterday by the American linsr
Norman II bacon Carroll LIVINGSTON
NJ. and Mrs. j. Cliff Mrs. N airy X. Livin0o
ford Brooke ton
;drs NJ r Cruik shank Mrs. Henry Morgan.
Mrs. Mary Reid Cory -thau ~
Cyril Griffths Kuigiro Okazah
Miss Anna Held j. W. Palmer
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Z Mrs. Regina a. Paa'
Higginbotham ton
W ". Rutherford Mrs. talbot STANLEY
Philip A. Livingston
By the French liner Chicago. from Bos.
Mr.. and Mrs Berkeley Lorenzo Dow Berh.
Smith with
Gordon Edwards Nine. Charies Le W.
Lawrence Grant -ricr
Mrs. Atrial Lambert 7. Yates smith
Carlton Russell
Sailing by the Scandlnavi an American Hell.
Liz Olav. for Christiansand:
pr. Gerhard Bartram pr. Casi,nir Caspar
Miss Ray Beveridge Miss Helen c. Crano
BY the Ward liner Mexico. for Havana:
Miss Elizabeth Foster c. $. Ray
Sir and Lady John Z. NJ. Sheehan
Brown Mr.. and Mrs. r., D.
Mr.. and Mrs W, G. Shepherd
Townsend
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Lorenzo Vllo, a noted admiralty law
yer, a student of international law and
treasurer of the board OF managers Of
the Catholic Protectory. died OF a COM
plication OF diseases Yesterday at Lis
home. lO46 Eighty-,hird street. Brook
Ign. lie was born IN Malta seventy.four
years ago ana received his education in
the Jesuit College there. His wife, three
daughters and our sons survive him.
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DAWSON HUNTS BIG GAME.
Reaches Summit Of Canadian
Rockies With II. &. HilI.

w1NHIPEG. Oct. I'LL. =. Dawson
Of j. i. Morgan & Co. and r, c. Hin.
also OF New York, arrived to-day at
Reyelstoke on "A big game hunt.
They we're taken by motor car to the
summit of the Rockies. Joining a stan OF
Guides with n pack train. The party
thshn started for the hea waters Of the
Kootenay River. where bears and other
game abound,
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Urndeu-De IuuImcris.

Announcements have been received
here of the marriage In Santiago. Chile
on September IL last OF Miss Maria
Solar de Humeris to Spru'lle Braden
son of William Braden of this city. The
bride is a descendant Of an old Spanish
family and is IA niece of two Ministers
In the Cabinet ri Chile, Mr.. Braden
who was graduated from Yale in 1914
will live in Chile, where he 10 engaged
in mining.
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Los ANGELES. oct. IA Mrs. Robert
]. Wynne of Washington, wife OF the
former PSstmaster-ieneral and Consul
General IN London, died here to-day of
heart disease. Mr.. and Mrs, Wynne
were Ell route to the exposition ut san
Diego. She was stricken while on the
street with her husband, The body
will be taken to Washington for inter-
ment.
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T. STEWART WHITE.
Father Of stewart Edward white.
NOHellsl, lend.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, Oct. li--General
debility, aggravated by AN attack OF
pneumonia. caused the death to-day OF
7. Stewart White, a we'll known Miclli-
gan lumberman.
He il survived 10y "A widow and three
sons. Gilbert White. n New York artist 4:
Stewart Edward White. novelist, and
Roderick White. a violinist.
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DENVER. Oct. l4,-Thomas y. CosErir,
president of the Hamilton National Bank
Of Denver, founder, officer and stock
holder OF more than twenty hanks in
Colorado. Utah, Wyoming and Idaho,
died here to-day from typhoid fever,
He was the largest individual sheep
owner In the West. His wealth is esti-
mated at sl5. O00, 600, He came West
in 1877 from his birthplace, Burling-
ton. VI,
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Mrs. Lillian ID. BrinkerhOf.

RUTHERFORD. y. j., Oct. i4.-Mrs,
Lillian Daniel Brinkerhoff. wife Of
George Z. Brinkerhoif and membe OF
one Of the oldest families in Bergen
county, died last night at her home, %
Donaldson avenue, of apopleXy. She
was As years old.
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WASHINGTON, oct. 1f--Col, II, NJ.
House carne to Washington to-day AS n
guest OF President Wilson at the White
House. He vas host to the President NJ
a dinner and theatre party In New York
last week.
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Craig RiddIe R-"t. CUttsG.

Craig Biddle has rented Nethercliff,
Charles ". Shields's cottage. on Rug
giles avenue, Newport, II. l., for the sea-
son of 1916 through DE Blois & Eldridge.
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Oliver Morosco Is to make his secont
effort as a producer in New York witt
sadie Love-" a comedy by Avery Hop
wood. which has met with great success
In Los Angeles. The play will be givel
at h Gaiety next week II will brinl
back to New York Marjorie Rambeau
who made such n favorable impression
as the heroine Of so Much for $
Much"
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Twenty Thousand
 Fishing in Alaska
Redfeld's Report Shows Valae of AL aska Salmon for Year Over
 Twenty Millions.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. - The year ending June 2 was the most prosperous in the history of the fish ing industry in Alaska, according to the report just issued by Secretary Redfeld of the department of com merce. The total value of the fish caught in that year was twenty-one million two hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred dollars, or million more than in the year preced- ing. The number of salmon caught was fifty-four million six hundred and fifty thousand and the number of cases was four million and thirty-six thousand. The salmon alone was valued at eighteen million nine hun dred and twenty thousand. Eighty one canneries were in operation and employed twenty-one thousand two hundred persons, four thousand be- ing natives. Thirty-seven million dol lars is the sum invested in the Alaska salmon industry of which the vastly greater proportion is invested in the salmon industry.
 (Note: One mistake was discovered in the cable message telling of the fishing industry and another might have crept in here as it is difficult to have figures come over the lines cor rectly.)
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LANE PRESENTS
 ALASKA REPORT
WANTS COORDINATE COMMIS- SION AND DISLIKES COM
 PLETE LOCAL CONTROL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-Secre- tary Franklin K. Lane has presented his report. In it he states that he desires the formation of coordinate commission for the administration of Alaska affairs. This commission, he says, would be primarily in the hands of Alaskans but would be always in touch with, and responsive to, the wish of cnogress and the president through one of the departments" He expresses the belief that it would be unwise to grant complete local con- trol on account of the temptation to grant away later water fronts, pow CT sites and other exceptional re- sources in return for improvements and the expenditure of large sums of money" It is evident to Alaskans here from the report of the secretary that he adheres more strongly than ever to the idea of establishing the Commission or Development Board.
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STONE MADE AGENT FOR
 WALLA WALLA CONVICT

J. H. Roberts, Number 7101, con- vict in Walla Walla penitentiary, has sent cane made out of copies of the Seattle Times which he asks B. M. Stone of the Gateway to sell or raffle to aid poor Roberts to help himself when he leaves the prison. The con vict, who is doing term of five to ten years says he saw Mir. Stones name in the Seattle Times and that, knowing Alaskans we'll, he believes they would aid by taking tickets on the stick, which he made himself, It is wonderful piece of work. Roberts says he wants chiefly to take a cor respondence course after leaving the pen so that he might lead decent life. It would be a worthy cause.
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ALAMEDA COMES

The Alameda arrived yesterday afternoon at 4:45 with 149 tons of freight for this place, 100 tons of which will go west on the Dora. The following passengers arrived on her. For Seward: J. F. Shell, A. L. Shell, A. W. Brown, Harry Markwell, Mrs. F. W. Small, Walter D. Peters, Judge Whittlesey, Miss Rose Cahalan, Mrs. Jones and G. M. Woods. For the Dora bound westward: Miss E. L. Code, Mrs. L. c. Straghan, c. Mad sen, George Albert, J. H. Nelson, A. M. Hanson, E. Williamson, and one steerage.
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VIENNA GOVERNMENT
 GIVEN LAST CHANCE
Reply to U. s. Note Evasive and Washington Demands lm- mediate and UnequivOcal
 Compliance.
U. S. REPEATS ULTNlATUM

WASINGTON, Dec. 18.-Lansing has made public the reply of the Austrian government to the United States m connection with the sinking of the Ancona but 1t IS found to be just as stated in the synopsis days ago. Lan
 sing finished the American reply last night and cabed it to Vienna today He gives copies of the correspondence between the United States and Germany in the Lustania affair to show Austria if it did not know before the con- tentons of this country with respect to submarine war on neutral vessels Lansing also demands an immediate and unequivocal compliance with the demands made Tn the former note and the situation has now therefore reach
 ed crisis The official opinion is that Austria must at once accept the humiliation of accedng to the demands or diplomatic relations will be severed The mere severa- ance of relations is believed though to be the limit to which this nation will gO War is hardly believed possible
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THOMPSON WILL CLEAN
 UP THE CHICAGO POLICE
Declares Policemen Are Grafters, In- efficient and Are Shelter
 ing Law Breakers.

CHICAGO, Dec. IS. - Mayor Thompson issued a statement today declaring that he is about to open a campaign to clean up the city police department which he describes as horribly corrupt. "The Chicago police department stinks," he said, "and l am going to clean it up if it costs me my life" In some respects he enters into details concerning conditions in the department. He declares the policemen are grafters, inefficient in every way and are shielding criminals.
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{. @ < < 4 < < < % * q {
 < FIVE MEN WORK { < NOW ON TRAIL {

Anton Eide, superintendent of Road Commission work, has returned after having put five men to work improv- ing the trail between Anchorage and Seward, in the part complained of by both cities and mushers. MT. Eide says the five men can do all the work possible this winter. He also express ed the opinion that the trail is not at all in such bad condition as it was represented to be.
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Delegate Thinks
 Money Will Come
Wires Cook Inlet Pioneer Emergency Appropriation May be Got
 After Holidays.

ANCHORAGE, Dec. 1S.--In a cable message to the Cook Inlet Pioneer Delegate Wickersham says that indi- cations point to the likelihood that an emergency appropriation will be ask ed after the holidays for the continu- ation of the work on the Matanuska branch of the government railroad this winter, and that if the emergency appropriation is asked it will be granted. No mention is made as to the amount to be asked and nothing more is said by the Delegate than that indications point as he says.
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St. Car Falls into
 the Spokane River
Seven Drowned and Twelve Injured by Accident in City This
 Morning.

SPOKANE, Dec. 1S.-Seven people were drowned and twelve lie in the hospitals injured as the result of a car crashing through a weakened bridge on North Division Street early this morning. The occurrence took place in the darkness and as the car fell into the Spokane river the task of saving the victims was very diff cult. Another car which was follow ing closely became suspended in the wreckage but was held up in time. The names of the drowned were not known at the time this message was sent nor is the cause of the collapse exactly known. Most of the people in the car were laborers and working people of all kinds. Several were girls but the girls are all believed to have been rescued.
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Six Killed in a
 Battle at St. Paul
Holdups Show Fight When Detectives Attempt to Arrest Them
 In Saloon.

ST. PAUL, Dec. 1S.-Two detect ives and three bandits were killed and a fourth bandit was fatally wounded in a battle which took place in this city last night when the detectives attempt to arrest robbers who were holding up saloon. The demand for surrender was answered by thebandits with shots and the detectives at once drew and blazed away. The fusilade was a fierce one. The bandits ran but kept up firing until they dropped one by one. When the crowd hur- ried to the scene the six bodies were lying on the ground.
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III TIMATlM TO AUSTRIA IS REPEATED BY LANSING
Charged with Plot
 to Destroy Canal
Former Head of Hamburg-American Steamship Line Detectives
 Arrested.

NEW YORK, Dec. Is. - Paul Koenig, formerly head of the Ham burg American Steamship Line de- tectives, has been arrested with an alleged accomplice on the charge of conspiring to blow up the Welland canal The name of alleged accomp- lice has not been published but he is regarded as only a subordinate part of the supposed conspiracy. Koenig denies guilt but the authorities de- clare that they have strong evidence against him.
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WHAT ARE TEUTONs DOING

BUCHAREST, Dec. 18-The Bulgarian government has instituted an absolute censorship over all news and the border between Bulgaria and this country has had It's guards doubled with the evident intention of preventing any leakage of news or the going coming of spies These precautions have aroused the belief that big events are being prepared for to the south but their nature can only be conectured This government has closed the Danube where it touches Roumanian territory to the Teutonc allies as well as to the Russians but vast quan
 ties of supplies are being carried by rail constantly to- wards Constantnople from the SerbAuSrian frontier
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R. R. Commission
 to Fix the Trail
Secretary Lane Instructs Mears to Do
 the Work Immediately.

ANCHORAGE, Dec. 18.-A wire has been received by the chamber of commerce of this city from Delegate Wickersham stating lat Secretary Lane has instructed Commissioner Mears to put the trail between An chorage and Seward in repair im- mediately. The Delegate states in his cable that he saw Secretary Lane and recommended that the work be done according to the wishes of the people of this city and Seward.
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BUYS LOT

L. V. Ray has purchased lot 30 in block 8 from the Bank of Seward. When asked as to his plans MT. Ray stated that he had not fully decided as yet what he would do as he has several plans in view. The lot is op- posite the Hotel Seward and some people say it is the lot chosen for building which has been hinted at be- fore.
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ALAMEDA SAILS

The Alameda sailed for Seattle this morning a little after midnight and took the following passengers For Seattle: B. H. Bearss, Judge Me- Ginty, Mir. and Mrs. G. D. Grant, 1 J. Crabtree, A. H. Mcdonald and three steerage. L. L. Stickler for Valdez and s. Wolf for Cordova,
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MARRIED 8:3O ?. M., TODAY

will be spent as it is evidently the in- tention of the happy couple to avoid crowds and demonstrations of all kinds. There is nothing new to tell about the marriage. It will be quiet affair with only the relatives present.
 Continued on page 2)
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Nor man Galt will be married this even- ing at eight-thirty o'clock. This an nouncement has been made officially but nothing further has been said as to the place where the honeymoon
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GATHER IN SERBS AND OTHERS

BERLIN, Dec 18-Thirteen thousand five hundred Serbian and MOnenegrn soldiers have been captured by the Austrans in the last five days during the operations in Montenegro. The Austro-Hungarans now rolling through the country steadily and surely although the mountain passes are covered with The snow alone causes any delay Some of the papers here express the belief that after having marched through Montenegro the Austrians will continue through Albanian territory and attack the Italians at Avlona and Durazzo.
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WHY THEY TRIED TO
 DESTROY WELLAND CANAL

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-The Vel land ship canal, on the charge of at tempting to blow up which arrests have been made, connects Lake Erie and Ontario and is the channel by which great grain cargoes are ship ped for the allied nations.
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Photos hy Amerlcan Press AssoclatIon.

The map shows tho important points in Russia where the German advance has halted. According to one report the Germans ordered tho evacuation of Mi. tau, an important point and their for ward base. Tho German objective In this campaign has been tho capture of Riga. Winter sets in early in those parts and already there are reports Of tho freezing of the ground 10 such depth that the digging of trenches b impos
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FINED $50

A fine of fifty dollars was inflicted by Commissioner Conroy today on a man who was charged with being drunk and disorderly. The defendant was an Anchorage man. (Another proof of Stewards meaness). The ar rest was made by Deputy Marshal Evans.
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SMASHING GORIZIA FORTS

PARIS Dec. 18-The most horrible artillery battl ing thus far in the war is proceeding at Gorzia where the Italians are using every available gun to bech been going on for the past two days and the inner forts are crumbng before the terrific fire that the fall of the position is looked for pretty soon.
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KING PETER IN ROME

ROME, Dec. 18-Kng Peter of Serbia has establish ed his headquarters temporarily in ROme All deputies not killed or captured will be addressed by him this even ing if the condition of his health permits The aged king looks broken and crushed by the calamity which has be- fallen his kingdom and his people. He was compelled to adopt most unpleasant subteruges to escape from the enemy on his flight from Serbia through Albania.
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WoMAN's CLUB MEET

The woman's Club of Seward will meet Monday afternoon at the Pioneer Hall. All members are re- quested to be present.
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Mrs. L. N. Hettel expects to leave on the next steamer for 8 vacation of a few weeks outside.
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MANY ITALIANS KILLED

VIENNA, Dec. 18.-Seventy thousand Italians have been killed or wounded during the attack Gorizia cordng to the official announcement today It is admitted that the civilian residents of the city have been hard h but the military damage inflicted by the Italian guns is described as of no importance.
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SEATTLE MOTHER AND
 TWO DAUGHTERS DIE

SEATTLE, Dec. 1S.-A mother and her two daughters died in this city of pneumonia during the past nine days.
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Q . 2 . . 2 c . . . . : DIR. HAZARD IS | l. OUT ON PAROLE <

WALLA WALLA, Dec. 1S.-Dr. Linda Hazard, the Seattle starvation specialist, was released from the penitentiary last evening on parole.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-The gas schooner Manmette blew up yesterday and ten people were drowned. Four were rescued.
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AMSTERDAM, Dee.

AMSTERDAM, Dec 18.-Seventeen hundred and eghty-six German noblemen were killed in the war up to October and the number is believed to be more than two thousand Nearly all the famous families in the empire are mourning one or more member
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WAEILNHiON, DeC' 4o-DUy,,IU aIIu cOI @P0IT the attaches of the German embassy have notified the bassador that they will sail for Germany in the latter part of this month Both have refused to make any state ment