The Washington herald., 1916-10-06

the Russian government has put q maxi
mum price OF S12 on all footgear. Many
stores have been closed in protest.
London, Oct 5-Ten thousand Ger
mans, from Ghent, Belgium, are being
sent to their homes. says a Central
News dispatch from Amsterdam today.
New York. Oct 5-Oficials of the
Italian Line denied today that there were
munitions on board the steamship MI
lazzo, which has put into port at Fayal
the Azore, with fire in her hold. The
Milazzo, which sailed for Genoa on
September "a, carried 1000 tons of Steel
silk and sugar.
Three Rivers, Mich. Oct 5.-Ftre early
today wiped out the business section
lof Mendon, fifteen miles northeast of
this city, with loss estimated at SO, 900
New York, Oct. 6.-Twelve "tanks'' or
land monitors which the English have
used with success and good results on
the Somme front were among the cargo
Of the White Star Line steamer Baltic
which sailed for Liverpool today. The
Baltic carried 1900 tons OF war sup
plies.
London. Oct. b.-The Press Bureau an
nounces that President Runcirnan, of the
Board of Trade, has satisfactorily ar
ranged with coal owners the question of
supplying coal to Italy.
Harrisburg. Pa. Oct. 5.-scores Of resi-
dents OF Duncannon and surrounding
country are searching for three chill |
dren of G. D. Peterson, OF Ducannon.
who mysteriously disappeared Sunday
night. The children range from to l2I
years.
Millville N J.. Oct. 5.-Deer hunting
season will open next Wednesday and
the hunters expect a good season Far
Iners east of Millville complain that the
deer are so numerous that they have
ruined much of>their produce.
! Williamsport, Pa. Oct. 5.-Samuel
Michael. civil war veteran, today cele-
brated his S1st birthday anniversary by
moving into a five-room bungalow which |
he built by himself this summer.
Charlotte. n. C., Oct 5.-The American
Cotton Manufacturers' Association will
hold its annual convention in Washing
ton, beginning May % next. This was
decided upon by the associations execu-
tive committee here yesterday.
Pittsburgh. Oct 5.-The Pittsburgh and
Allegheny Telephone Company has grant
led Its central office operating forces a |
wage increase of 45 per cent, according to
an announcement made here Nearly 90
persons are affected.
Chicago. Oct. 6-Isaac r. Shade, s.
years old, Of Harris Station, Ohio. and
Alma Elliott, 62 years old, Of Chicago.
were sweethearts thirty years ago She
heard the call of the city; he remained
on the farm. But she found she loved
him after all. and they were married to- |
Iday.
Pittsburgh, Oct 5-Mother Mary |
Emerentiana. of the Vincentian Sisters
| of Charity, an Austro- Hungarian teach |
ing order with a large membership in |
| this country, renounced her allegiance to |
| Emperor Francis Joseph and applied for |
| citizenship in the Federal courts here |
1t was said that thirty Sisters of the |
order would make similar applications
this week.
| Chicago. Oct. 5.-James V. Nash, a 1916 |
graduate Of the University of Chica 20. |
instead Of waiting until wealthy to re-
| member his alma mater. has given the /
university the first $1,000 he saved, it |
was announced today. Nash, a Chi
cagoan, worked his way through COL
| llege.
| Harrisburg, Oct 5.-Compensation has
been allowed to the widow of an en-
ploye of the Carnegie Steel Company
killed by lightning while at work in one
of the plants Of the company In the
Pittsburgh district. The opinion was filed
today by Chairman Mackey.
Amsterdam Cvia London), Oct. 5.-The
Frankfurter Zeitung says that an order
has been issued reducing by one-half the |
quantity of paper supplied to the Ger
| man newspapers.
Buenos Aires, Oct. 6-The Argentine
Foreign Minister, Senior Don Jose Luis
Marature and the French Minister, Mr..
Jullemier, have ratified the treaty of
arbitration between France and Argen-
| tina.
Panama, Oct. Sin a fight between
American soldiers and citizens one Pan
aman was killed. Three Americans are
under arrest for alleged participation !
in the disorder
Newton. N. J., Oct 5-A bee alteht-
ed on 15-year-old John Patterson
while he was cunning near Sparrow
Push. AS he slapped at the bee Pat
terson dropped his gun. The charge
exploded and almost tore off the leg
of Loren Kent. IL He will die.
winsted, Conn, Oct. 5.-HearinR a !
crash in the lower part of her home |
and believing that burglars had en-
tered, Mrs. William Robinson, of Nor
folk, seized rife and investigated |
She discovered that a full grown par
fridge had flown through a window
glass. The bird was uninjured.
Berlin (by wireless to Sayville. L.
l., Oct. 5.-A new play. "Chitra," by
SIR Rabindranath Tagore, British In
dian poet, who was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1918, was pro-
duced at the Munich Theater for thu
first time, says the Overseas News
Agency, and was we'll received by the
literary critics.
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