The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-10-19

PreSlucnt Wilson made puDllc NJ
Long Branch, N. j., the names OF seven
men whom he has appointed members;
of an advisory commission to be asSo-
ciated with the "cOuncil Of national de-
Tense" created at the last session or
| congress. The names Of the men are
as follows: Daniel Willard Samuel
GOmpers. DR.. Franklin III. Martin OF
Chicago, Howard II. Coffin of Detroit,
Mich, Bernard Baruch of New York,
Dr.. Hollis Godfrey Of Philadelphia,
julius Rosenwuld Of Chicago.
When the train bearing the women
! who are touring the West in their cam
paign for votes for Charles e. Hughes
| arrived at Butte, Mont, Mrs. William
SEVERN, president Of the Illinois Fed
Grafton of Women, announced that she
would return home ut once. "The train
was too nonpartisan and not enough
Republican," she said.
Results of an Investigation of case
| line measuring pumps in Illinois made
| by the United States bureau of stand
ards under the direction Of Secretary
of State Lewis G. Stevenson Of Illinois
| were made public at Chicago. The gov
eminent inspectors found 50 per cent
of the Chicago pumps and SO per cent
Of those outside Chicago are mac
cturate. The average shortage was 80
cubic inches per gallon.
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AS result Of the conference between
President Wilson and Secretary Lam
| sing at Long Branch, n. j., it was
stated authoritatively that no evil
| dcnce of the breaking of German
promises to the United States had
been discovered so far in connection
| with the submarine activities off the
American coast.
While in attendance on Il Session of
the house OF bishops of the Protestant
| Episcopal church at ST. Louis Bishop
David H. Greer Of New York was
stricken with Il severe attack of neu-
ritis.
DR.. Valeria Hopkins Parker, noted
! suffragist and social hygiene exponent
of Greenwich, filed suit for divorce at
Hartford, Conn.,, from DR.. Edward 0.
Parker. She charges intolerable cruelty.
Six strikers and three policemen
We're wounded in riots in the Standard
! Oil company workers. strike at
Bayonnc, N. J. The strikers and po-
lice engaged in revolver battle.
After lodging through the seas on
Il strange course to elude German sub
marines, the Anchor liner Cameronia
and the French liner Espagne arrived
at New York. The Cameronia carried
G3O passengers and all the way down
the coast she Rugged the three-milc
neutral zone. Among the passengers
on the Espagne were Sarah Bernhardt,
Nine. Cavalieri and Nine. Maria Mon.
tessor, the educator.
| Frederick f. Weyerhaeuser, son Of
the late Frederick Weyerhaeuser null
timilionaire lumberman, was elected
a director of the Great Northern Rail-
way company at st. Paul, MINI.
The passengers and crew of the
Ward line steamer Antilla, bound from
Guantanamo for New York, and which
reported by wireless that it was afire
120 miles off the Virginia capes, were
saved and brought into Hampton
Roads on the United States coast
guard cutter Onondaga, says a dis
patch from Washington.
Unprecedented prosperity of the ul-
innate consumer was asserted at the
annual convention of the National
Poultry, Butter and Egg association, in
convention at Chicago. The consumer
has pay high prices for eggs now,
but he will pay rather than deny him
self, said a New York broker.
The passengers and crew of the
Ward line steamer Antilla, bound from
Guantanamo for New York, and which
reported by wireless that it was afire
12O miles off the Virginia capes, were
| saved and brought into Hampton
Roads on the United States coast
guard cutter Onondaga, says a dis
patch from Washington.
Lying off Nantucket light, where
| every liner bound to and from New
York must get it's bearings, the Ger
| man submarine U-53 torpedoed and
| sunk six ships. Four Of them were
British, one passenger carrier. The
Other two were neutrals-One Dutch
and the other Norwegian. An American
| steamship was held up, but was al
lowed to proceed.
Washington