The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-11
GENERAL NEWS
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PROMINENT MAN SHOT.

PROMINENT MAN SHOT.
 NEW YORK, Sept I Dwight Dll- worth the son of prominent law yer was shot during the night while riding Iu Van Cortland park The sury story o. the affair is that told hy Miss Mary NcNu -teuo-ra- pn,r who Wa~ the companion Of Mr Dlworth at tse time that he was shot She Is being held .u con uectiun with the murder but II - Het known get whether or not thr police expect to charge her with the murder
 TT IS mMORTALIzEO.
 uODGENVILLE. Ky. Sept. i The log cabin in which Abraham Lin lo!u wa~ born together with the farm of l1U acres about which he played in his boyhood days today became the property of the Amerj can people. as gift from the Lin coln Farm Association Standing be fore the tabin President Wilson accepted the gilt on behalf of the United States.
 CONFEssEs MURDER
 CHICAGO. Sept 4-Pettit con fessed 10 the police today that he had killed his bride because he wanted ro save her purity
 FOR VENIzELOS
 SEATTLE Sept 4-The Greeks of this city ale jubilant over the prospects of NenizeIos becoming the ruler of Greece, and nightly some publication is being held in ceIebra- ion of the outlook
 RIOT IN FL PAsO.
 FL FAS0, Sept. 4 Street riots in which ~ympathizerS in the strike in which the railway trainmen par tIcipated followed the Lator Day parade n this city today Several cars operated by non-uuion men and conductors were pulled from the rails and wrecked and their treWs attacked. Policemen Were powerless against the mobs that furd the down town streets and so applied to the infantry for aid
 ESTATE DIVIDED.
 SEATTLE Sept 5-Another $1 100000 melon part of the estate of Thomas Bell who was supposed ta have died a bankrupt here in 1S92 Was distributed to his heirs today Two million dollars have already been distributed, and another million ro- mains to be distributed All the cash in the vaults of the Union Trust company -weled enormously after the owners death through the discovery of oil in the Kern country lands which were believed tO be worthless when he died
 QUICK WORK.
 SEATTLE Sept 5- Four hours after he was released from jail af ter serving six months for stabbin4 SiV men over war ar2umont Georga Gukich Serbian armed with a piece of gas pipe knocked out three members of the original crowd
 BACK HOME
 WASHINGTON. D. C.. Sept 5- President Wilson returned to Wash ngton today after having been most cora ally received in Kentucky West Virginia and Virginia
 THEY LOST MONEY.
 NEW YORK. Sept 5.-Food deal ers who gambled here on the expect ed rise in prices as a result of the isolation of New York from the source of supplies as a result of tho threatened strike, were overwhelmed by their own plot when the market collapsed today.
 CROOKED WORK.
 SPOKANE. Sept 5.-OHn C Fow Ter formerly general manager of the Olympic Trading company, of Seattle was indicted by the federal grand jury for the fraudulent use of the mails. He surrendered 10 the authorities immediately
 DIDN'T LIKE IT.
 SEATTLE Sept 5.-D. F. Thomp son of Nebraska a millionaire. for merly United States ambassador to Mexico. caused the arrest of Mana ger Frank C. Richards of the Cres- cent Sanitarium on a charge of at tempting to extract $25,OOO
 WILSON TO TALK.
 ATLANTIC CITY. Sept 5.-It was announced here today that Presi- dent Wilson would address the Ma tional Woman Suffrage association which is in convention in this city now, on Friday. President Wilson has gladly accepted the invitation
 GAVE LIFE TO WORK.
 PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 5.-Dr Earlie Peck, who has attended hun dreds of children afflicted with the dread disease. died in this city today a victim of infantle paralysis.
 BACK FROM BORDER
 AMERICAN LAKE, Sept. 5-The first section of Washington militia to return from the border reached here this afternoon.
 AUTO TURNED OVER
 SEATTLE, Sept civilian F Wilkes sales manager for the West ern Dry Goods company, was killed this morning when his automobile turned turtle in rounding a sharp corner He did not die immediately but succumbed later to the internal injuries which he sustained.
 AT HOME WAITING.
 NEW YORK, Sept 5.-From Fort Scott, Kas. where Dilworth was raised, the wife of the man who was killed in the park Sunday night wired that she would not go East but would await the shipment of his remains to Kansas
 The theory of the police is that he was killed by blackmailer af- ter failing to get money out of him.
 ZEPPELIN MAIL SERVICE
 CHICAGO, Sept. 6-Morris Ep- stein, president of the German-Am- erican Alliance, is the authority for the statement that it is the plan of the German government to main tain regular mail service between the United States and Germany by nCinp Iarra1ipc he