Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-20
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
0rief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.

Colonel Oscar Benavides. provisional
president of Peru, resigned at meet
6ng of congress Monday.
Lawrence Lyon, age "a, of Ithaca,
an aviator, was drowned at Conesus
gake recently when the aerOplane
turned over and fell into the water.
A dispatch to the London Daily News
from Athens says French and British
saeroplanes have flown over Constan-
stinople. They threw bombs on Galata,
scausing heavy casualties"
Eugene v. Debs, national leader OF
THE socialist party, announces that
national labor college, to be known as
nhe Peoples college, would be estab-
Aished at Fort Scott, Kan. The an
nouncement stated that Debs had been
elected president
Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam, hon.
Orary curator of the Peabody museum
mt Harvard and a noted anthropologist
and zoologist died Saturday in his 77th
wear. He had edited all of the publica-
aions of the Peabody museum since
lS73.
The torpedoboat destroyer Ericsson
was delivered to Acting Commandant
Price of the Philadelphia navy yard
Saturday by the New York Shipbuild-
dng company She was accepted and a
crew of rs men under Lieutenant Com
mander Pryor was put aboard.
activity such as Sharon, Pa, has not
known in several years is shown by
blast furnace interests, due to the in
60 mic Tho
statement was made Saturday tina
furnaces which have long been idle
would be placed in operation before
October /.
The coronation of Archduke Charles
stephen of Austria as King of Poland
will take place in the Warsaw cathed-
raj according to the Times Petrograd
correspondent, who adds that proc
Aamation naming the new king on the
authority of Germany and Austria is
expected to be issued shortly.
Authority has been granted Major
General Murray, commanding the west
arn department of the army, to hold
y business mems military camp at
American Lake. Wash, from August
% to September IL, similar to one al
Cd0y dutAOAAACu Al SaAiAoh lilo e1Au Inv
<one now on at Plattsburg, N. Y.
Proposed increased rates of 2 cents
per 100 pounds for transportation of
cattle and sheep in carloads from Col
orado, South Dakota and other west
arm states to Chicago and points on
the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
were disapproved last week by the in
Nerstate commerce commission.
Gas meters in New York hereafter
will be read by photograph in order to
Insure absolute accuracy. Meter read
ears will be equipped with camera,
which fits over the indicator of the
gas meter. BY pressing a button light
DIS thrown ON the dial and exposure
made showing the amount of gas used.
Attorney General Gregory practic-
ally has decided that the 5000 prison
ers in the three federal penitentiaries
shall be put to work making articles
which can be bought by government
departments, including the army and
navy. At present they are at work
<enlarging their living quarters. which
will not be completed for year.
No bodies were found in the hold of
the Eastland Saturday, at Chicago, and
the keeper of the city morgue said
he doubted whether any would be
found there. Three bushels of jewelry,
purses and other small pieces of per-
Sonal property which belonged to vic
Gims were found on the upper decks,
which were the first available to
search.
John Hildebrand, aged 5S, retired
business man, was found murdered in
his apartment in Upper Fifth avenue,
New York, by his daughter Sophie
when she returned from a call. Hill
s1ebrand had been beaten about the
head and body. although bullet in
the heart had caused death The fur
niture was overturned. showing that
he had struggled with his assailants.
The Italian infantrymen protect
themselves against shrapnel while ad-
waacing on trenches by crawling on
All tours with bags of earth on their
backs. These afford sufficient pro-
lection against ordinary shrapnel bull
lets and shell fragments. On hating,
the men construct temporary parapets
with their bags. 1t was by this meth
s0d that the Italians carried five miles
OF Austrian entertainments on the Car
SO recently.
The Atlantic battleship fleet, or part
of 1t, will be reviewed by the COVER
nors of the country during their an
nual conference here August "a to 81,
Governor Walsh stated recently His
statement was made upon the receipt
C5f q telegram from Secretary Daniels
saying that q warshfp would be de-
tailed on August 25 to take the gov
xaruors to Glaucester. and that other