The Washington herald., 1916-10-01

London. Sept. 3o-The entire air corps
of the Greek army, with its twenty Off
GERS, has deserted to the revolutioniets,
according to a General News dispatch
from Athens today.
Chicago, Sept. So-Thomas Picara,
wealthy importer, was slipped out of the
Chicago jail early today and started East
in the custody of detectives to prevent
court action enjoining his extradition to
New York in connection with a murder
plot, said to involve half dozen Italian
members Of Tammany Hall.
Paris. Sept so-sofa, capital of Bull
garia, has been bombed by a French avia-
tor in retaliation for air attacks on
Bucharest, according to a war office COM
munique today.
London, Sept. ao-A terrific revolt has
broken out in Bohemia, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Rome.
Great shortage Of food is said to be the
chief cause.
New York. Sept. SO-HeaIth department
officials of New York and New Jersey
are today making strenuous efforts to find
a tramp who. they believe, is a paralysis
carrier" Nineteen new cases and four
deaths from the epidemic were reported
today.
Albany, Sept. So.-Gov.. whitman will 20
to New York Sunday morning and pre-
sent the colors of the regiment to the
Fifteenth New YORK Infantry, New York
States new negro National Guard or
gdnization.
New London. Sept. sO-The missing
South Waterford hearse purchased some
years ago by public subscription has
/ found IA N
body of the vehicle had been dismounted
and iG being used as a chicken coop.
Albany. N. Y, Sept 3.-A threatened
general strike on the United Traction
lines in I'VE cities has been averted by
the employees agreeing to arbitrate the
difference, which grew out OF the dis
charge Of 4 motorman.
Middletown. n. Y. Sept 30.-At the
age of 8. the police say. Walter Everson.
now years old, began a life Of crime,
which has resulted in his commitment TO
the Randalrs Island Reformatory.
Terre Haute. Ind. Sept oO-Paul
Hoppingarner, II years old, was shot and
killed by his 13-year-old playmate. Ray
mond Abbott. Abbott told the police he
was playing cowboy and did not know
the gun was loaded.
Chicago, Sept 3O-A machine which
records every motion of the heart was
exhibited before the convention Of the
American X-ray Society. 1t is called an
electrocardiograph BY its use, 1t was
explained, physicians may obtain exact
records for diagnosis of heart disease
Houston. Texas. Sept 3O-Ths Southern
Pacific system has announced that
freight eastbound or northbound through
Galveston or Now Orleans, via the
Morgan line will not be received after
midnight Saturday. Shipments in transit
will be accepted
Rockland, Me. Sept SO.-Bad weather
prevented the completion of the stand
ardization trials Of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Wilkes. She received her an
chor tests and had a four-hour fuel econ
omy run at sixteen knots These trials.
according to officials on board, were sat
isfactory.
Los Angeles, Sept. 3O-Mrs. Georgia A
Robinson. just appointed to the office CT
policewoman by Chief Of Police Snively.
Is the first negro woman in the United
States to hold such a position. Mrs. Rob
inson speaks French huently and is
studying Spanish.
Isleboro. Me, Sept So-Aboard the
,
the body Of James E. Hall. keeper of
Grindeu's Point light. has been taken to
Matinicus for burial. He was killed by
a rock which few from a ledge he was
dynamiting.
Boston, Mass. Sept &C. O'Connell
Calvin, for twenty-seven years a news
paper man in New York, Boston and
Worcester is dead from Bright's disease
at the age of So years. He was born in
Cork. ireland, and before coming to
America wrote for the Cork Examiner,
the Liverpool Mercury and the London
Telegraph.
Seattle, Wash, Sept 30.-Suspension of
work by all coal miners in Washington
belonging to the United Mine Workers
of America has been ordered by the dis
trict convention to permit referendum
vote on the counter proposition submit
ted by the operators to the miners de-
mand for a per cent fiat wage increase.
Paris. Sept SO,-Dr. A. Magnan. one of
of the foremost alenists in France, is
dead. DR.. Magnan was chief Of the Paris
Insane Bureau and director of the French
School of Advanced Research.
Troy. N Y. Sept. 3olThe Washington
County grand jury at Salem reported to
Justice Borst that it had failed to find
indictments in the matter Of alleged con-
,spiracy against Thomas Mott Osborne.
London, Sept 30 - The American
schooner Matchless, which was taken into
Lerwick from the fishing grounds off Ice
land, has been released on the Nor
wegian consignees of her cargo of her
rings giving a bond that the fish will not
reach the central powers. The schooner
Maryland still Is being held.
Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 3O.-At place which
can be designated only as somewhere in
Egypt" the British forces are establish
ling what will be one Of the largest and
most completely equipped aviation schools
in the world.