The Bolivar County Democrat., 1916-07-08
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
& OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation of Weeks News Re-
viewed Without Comment-A1
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct

Four Villista raiders of the band in
yading Columbus on March s We're
hanged in pairs from a double scat
fold at Deming, y. VI.
A resolution urging President VIII
son to ask the British government TO
stay the execution Of Sir Riger Case
ment was introduced into the senate
by Senator MARITIME OF New Jersey.
An earthquake Of unusual intensity
was recorded on the Georgetown seis-
mograph at Washington.
A strike of street car men was
averted when the Cincinnati Traction
Co. employees accepted the companys
proposition for three years contract.
An official war bulletin says that on
Tuesday evening, near the Thiaumont
farm, Boelke brought down his nine
teenth. enemy aeroplane.
Paul Koenig pleaded guilty in spe-
cial sessions court to charge of Civ
ing Fred Schneidel, an employe of the
National City bank, s25 to steal let
ters and kilograms from the bank re-
ferring to war supplies.
Orders from Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood,
commander of the department of the
east, disbanded the southern military
training camp because of lack of Of
ficers.
Eight hundred strikers at the mines
Of the American Beauxite Co., at Lit
tie Rock, have decided to return to
work. Wages have been increased
from s1.75 to 81 per day.
n The famed Arrieta brothers arrived
aat Chihuahua from Durango with $500
men, according to reports. They are
to join Trevino.
The 5000 900 Notifications bill, in
cluding a $750,O0O item for the pur-
chase Of John Hays Hammond, Jrs,
device to control torpedoes, was
passed by the senate and transmitted
to the president.
The senate passed the urgent def
cheney bill carrying approximately
$25,5000 900, most of it to meet mill
tary expenses of the Mexican crisis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Deer, their two
children and Peter Howe, all of Oar
lington, Wis, were killed and A. D.
Chappeie of Warren, H., was fatally
injured when their automobile was
struck by an Illinois Central passen-
ger train near Warren, Ill.
United States Senator P. ]. Nc
Cumber has defeated Gov. L. B. Han
ma for the nomination as senator from
North Dakota. John Burke is leading
F. o. Hellstrom on the Democratic
ticket
After having been out % hours,
three times reporting a disagreement,
a New York jury in the case of Rae
Tanner, charged with perjury in con-
nection with her breach of promise
suit against James W. Osborne, was
discharged.
Fire starting in an open court de-
stroyed the Commercial hotel building
at Phoenix, Ariz. Damage to the hotel
and to 10 business concerns in the
building was estimated at $4,000.
Fire within the stockade of the
Franklin (Ky) penitentiary burned
for several hours before it was extin-
srh
$4,000.
Judson R. West, chief engineer Of
the port of Seattle, since Jan. !, 1914,
has resigned to accept the position of
professor of engineering at the Uni
yersity of Psi Yang, Tientsin, China
The conference under the auspices
of the American Union Against Mill
tarism, which was to have been held
at Albuquerque, n. NJ, and which it is
hoped will aid in averting war with
Mexico, will be held in Washington
this week.
The province Of Yukon in Western
Canada will take vote on the pro-
hibition question.
The name of the town of Berlin,
Ont, has been changed to the more
patriotic one of Kitchener.
Protestant denominations have
raised s20,OO0,0 900 to pension preach
ers, according to an announcement
from DR.. Joseph B. Hingeley.
The Rev. DR.. Aked, president Of the
Ford peace conference, has just re-
turned from visit to Berlin He says
decided wish fer peace is growing
among the population of Berlin.
Shortening the five-year naval build
ing program to three years, without a
reduction in tonnage, has been decid-
ed upon.
A monument was unveiled at Car
isle, Pa, in memory OF Molly Pitcher
whose heroic deeds at the battle of
Monmouth, 1873 years ago. gave her a
place in American history.
Rioting occurred in the city of Pan
anna ON the occasion of the elections
and Is persons were wounded.