The Pulaskian., 1915-08-20
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l The German ship Steinbeck, which has been loading lumber at Belling- ham and which is interned at Eagle Harbor, has been sold to American l shippers.
 An eight-hour day with the same | wages heretofore paid for 12 hours work will be granted to all employees Of the Gulf Refining Co. at the Port Arthur and Fort Worth refineries.
 The bonus proposition recently made by the Locomobile Go of Amer ica to it's employees was rejected at a meeting of 800 employees. l Wargrave Church, which was de- stroyed by fire by militant suffragists June l, 1914, is being rebuilt In restoring the tower the discovery has been made that the present casing of red brick covers the original Norman | tower.
 King George sanctioned the estab- | lishment of medal to be known as the naval general service medal. This will be awarded for service in minor naval warlike operations. l Gov. Walsh of Massachusetts an i nounced that he would be candi- date for renomination for a third term.
 Alexander Schroeder, portrait painter of New York City, is dead as result of eating toadstools which he had mistaken for mushrooms. The Atlantic fleet is again to be put to the test of protecting the eastern l seaboard from invasion by supposed foreign fleet
 Hiram Maxim is credited with hav- ing invented a simple and inexpensive contrivance to protect soldiers from in battle
 The Kaiser has been challenged to | AA6ht O AuCA. 1lAO WOulQ-US OppOucuL lS Lord Northbourne, 70 years old. Clarence Terry, 30 years old, is dead and three other men are wounded as the result of a shooting affray at Cherry Valley, Mo, iron mines.
 The Rockford & Interurban Co of fered its capital stock to the city council.
 Capt. Percy Archer Give member of parliament for Herefordshire, has been seriously wounded in Flanders.
 The American consul at Cork re- ports that the body of M W. Harvey, Lusitania passenger, washed ashore on small island off the Irish coast
 
 The Guggenheims American Smelt- ing and Refining Company returned to the federal government $112,766.8S in money and returned to government entry 3,476 acres of valuable coal land the company had operated under false entry.
 Three convicts have escaped from the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan.
 Hugo Kempff, 60. founder of the re- ligious sect knows as Government by God,' killed himself by inhaling illu- minating gas at his home on Garden street, Haywood, N. ].
 Villas forces in Durango have suf- fered severe defeat and are retiring toward Torreon.
 C. G. Stafford, former cashier of a state bank in Kansas City, Kan. was arrested in connection with the em- bezzlement from the bank of s27 7,000
 Actual work of raising the Eastland has begun. The hulk of the ship has been pumped dry and divers went un- derneath the vessel to attach chains and hawsers.
 Roumania continues her prepara- tions for war, having already called to the colors three more classes of reserves than were summoned for the Balkan mobilization of 1913.
 American farmers are harvesting the greatest wheat crop ever grown in any one country. It may reach 1000, ,000,000 bushels.
 
 German losses to date total 2,17S,- 6S3. The casualty lists gives the total of Prussian losses at 1,641, ,569, and for the Bavarian, Saon and Wurtem- burg troops 537,114. Gen. Goethals announced that he had sent his resignation as governor of the Canal zone to Washington to