The Washington herald., 1916-09-06

were injured in an explosion this morn
ing at small explosives factory in South
London, It was officially announced to-
night. Small damage was done by the
explosion.
London, Sept. Smoothing is known
here officially Of the reported death of
Vernon Castle, the New York dancer,
Monday it was reported that Vernon
Castle, who is now a member of the
English flying corps, had been killed at
the front
New York Sept. 5.-Cotton seed oil
prices were 20 to 20 points higher. There
were new high records and a continuance
OF the outside demand despite the COM
paratively high prices.
San Salvador, Sept. 5.-Complaint bav-
ing been made by American merchants
that ten pounds Of coffee were missing
from many bags shipped from here, an
investigation showed that employees Of a
commercial agency here had stolen coffee
worth 10000 pesos. The men accused of
the theft escaped.
Geneva. Sept. 5.-British government
officials have informed the italian prime
minister OF their belief that the war
win last at least another eighteen
months, according to Rome advices to-
day.
London. Sept 5-The authorities are
Systematically raiding moving picture
theaters. prize lights, railways and else
where for men of military age without
exemption certificates.
/ Paris, Sept 5-Edmond Genet. Of
Osstning. n. Y. brevetted aviator in the
foreign legion. has been wounded in
Champagne.
Panama, Sept. 5.-Appeals have been
made to Governor-General GoethaIs to
| intervene because of threatened trouble
between political factions in the Panama
National Assembly. Gen. GoethaIs has
declined to act
New York. Sept. S-Capt. Benjamin
Martin, of the High Point N. j. Life
Saving Station. committed suicide yester-
day by stabbing himself twenty-one times
with penknife. He was a patient in the
United States Marine Hospital at Staple
ton, S. I.
San Francisco. Sept. 5.-Great Britain
has purchased the entire supply Of syn
thetic nitrate in Norway. thereby pre-
venting expectation Of this requisite in
the manufacture OF ammunition by Ger
many according to a statement made
here today by J. NJ Humphreys, mana
ger Of largo British nitrate corporation.
Philadelphia, Sept. 5-A blow with a
hammer on a bottle of beer, which had
been lying in the sun for a fortnight
caused an explosion this morning which
blinded the right eye of 7-year-old Har-
riet Felix. Of Shawtown. Del.
Lancaster Pa. Sept 5.-Today prison
inspectors began the experiment Of work
Ing prisoners on the public roads: twelve
who volunteered, were placed on a Man
helm township road under two guards
Under the law they could not be worked
in prison garb, so they wore overalls.
New York, Sept 6-Uncle Sans sub
marine hunters are going into action to-
day. The navy's protectors against un-
derwater warcraft, consisting mainly Of
motorboats of great speed, manned by
volunteer seamen who own the boats, will
have their first real test since the or
ganization. when they are put through
their PAGES under the eyes Of govern
ment officers
Pleasant Plains. Ill. Sept. 5.-Hundreds
of persons in this section of Illinois to-
day made a pilgrimage to the grave OF
wilderness who in pre-civil war days
taught religious duties to the people of
the central part of Illinois.
IAnghorr". Pa, Sept. 5-Prof H. G.
Walters, Of Langhorne, has presented the
only Tasmanian eucalyptus tree ever
raised from seed in Pennsylvania to-
Prof Arthur E. Bye, Instructor in art at
Vassar College.
Brigantine. n. J., Sept 5.-Casting for
weakfish with fine linen line and steel
rod, j. P Fenton, a Philadelphia man
ufacturer, caught a fve-foot shark five
shark for almost an hour.
Carlisle, Pa, Sept 6-Fourteen-year-
old John Kerns, playing around the
John Sheaffer mill at Greason, hid in a
1000 -bushel bin Of corn, which while the
lad was hidden was drawn into the mass
Of grain, and ultimately his dying strug-
giles attracted the attention of the mill
hands. Rescuers were compelled to tear
away the lower part of the bin to find
Kerns' body.
Colon, Sept. 5.-The canal has been
closed to navigation for the last six
days. Each day the hope has been ex-
pressed that traffic could be resumed,
but further movement of the material on
the site Of the slide precludes any at
tempt to resume navigation. Eleven YES
sells are now awaiting transit
Seward. Alaska, Sept SIT is Just an
nounced that the United States govern
ment will place on sale at public auc-
ton 800 lots in the town of Seward, on
September II. This property was
acquired when the government took over
the plant Of the abandoned Alaska
Northern Railroad.
Princeton, N. J., Sept. 5.-Between
IS 900 and $4,000 Is being spent by the
Princeton board of health in the exter-
nination Of mosquitoes In the marsh
lands near Lake Carnegie, in a general
cleanup movement
San Antonia. Texas, Sept. 6-The First
and Second Regiments OF Kansas In
fantry, now stationed at Eagle Pass.
Texas, will be brought to San Antonio TO
replace the two Illinois regiments ordered
home: 1t was announced By MAJ Gen.
Funston today.