The Pulaskian., 1915-08-27
NEWS IF THE WEEK
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HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
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Searching parties who have worked indefatigably have no clew to the whereabouts of Ray Knoblauch, 12 years old, who disappeared from Ot- tawa.
 The British steamship West Wales, laden with approximately 235,000 bushels of wheat, cleared from Gal weston for Rio de Janeiro. This is the first cargo of wheat to be sent to Brazil this season.
 The Russian council of ministers has approved the project for the utili- zation of prisoners of war and for eign laborers for the manufacture of war supplies.
 c. c. Stafford, accused with F. R. Henderson of embedding $2S,O00 from the Minnesota Avenue State bank, Kansas City, Kan, has sur rendered to the authorities.
 Asiatic cholera has appeared at Cannstatt, Wuertemberg. An official notice says that only one case has developed
 Theresa Wezcavich, II, of Law renee, Kan, was severely burned when some boys ignited her dress with burning sulphur and allowed her to run home, her clothing afire.
 Between 1,6Oo and 1,8O0 employees of the Warner Bros. company, Bridge port, Conn, makers of corsets, are on strike.
 The French government will issue national bonds of denomination of 20 francs ($5) and five francs ($1) bear ing interest at 5 per cent.
 Eugene V. Debs, national leader of the Socialist party, announces that national labor college. to be known as the Peoples college, will be estab- lished at Fort Scott, Kan.
 A pile of ties was found on the tracks of the Missouri Pacific railway near Wichita, Kan, by a harvest hand giving his name as Ernest Kidwell. Kidwell reported to the police that he was held up and robbed by six men, armed with rifles.
 Becaused 10 men were reduced in wages, 106 employees of the John A. Roebling Sons Go. plant at Roebling, N. J., went on strike.
 Four automobile bandits held up the cashier of the Leonard Seed com pany, Chicago, and robbed him of $500 and escaped.
 Machinists employed by Potter & Johnson at Providence, R. l., struck for an increase of cents an hour, an eight-hour day and time and half for overtime.
 Political importance is attached to the announcement that Emperor Will liam has bestowed the iron cross of the first class on Albert Sudekum, Socialist leader, for bravery in battle.
 President Wilson appointed Samuel Alschuler of Illinois judge of the United States Seventh circuit court.
 
 A device invented by the Italian en- gineer Quarini makes it possible to drive torpedoes out of their course and explode them.
 Thousands of bushels of fine FL berta peaches are rotting in the or chards in Grady county, Ok.
 Wireless reports from the Isle of Pines state that a cyclone there has caused damage estimated at several hundred thousand dollars to the fruit crops.
 A statement justifying the sinking of the Lusitania made by the General Electric Co.'S wizard" Charles P. Steinmetz, will cost him his place on Secretary Daniels naval expert board.
 
 Haitian tribesmen have massed on the northern coast of Haiti and are threatening to cause trouble,
 A school of journalism that will rank with leading institutions of it's kind throughout the country is planned by members of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois.
 Miss Ruth Perry and George Perry of Lively Grove, H., told officers that their father, George Perry, Sr., had not been heard from since he depart ed for Nashville with s400
 The Portuguese cruiser Republics, which ran aground near Peniche, south of .isbon ia mt ho1iayed to ho