Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-16
News at a Glance

la SALE, Ill, Aug. t6.-Fire today
| destroyed the storehouse and spring build
| Ing OF the German American Portland Ce-
meut Company, with si25.o00 loss. The
| police charge that striking workmen at
tempted to prevent fremen from reaching
| the plant
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.--Edward N. Hurley,
! chairman Of the Federal Trade Commits
| sion, who has been here in connection with
| an investigation Of rises In flour and wheat
prices from the Industrial standpoint, plans
| to leave for washington tomorrow. He
| will lay what facts he has obtained before
| Government officials. II is not believed
| his presentation will recommend legal ac-
| tion by the Government
NEW YORK. Aug. t6.-Flfteen members
| Of the Progressive party will take the stump
| In Maine for the Democratic ticket The
| Democrats are preparing to send women
| speakers into Maine. Democratic National
Chairman Mccormick plans to leave for
Chicago next week He returned from
Washington today and will leave again
tonight for the capital with the Progressive
advisory national committeeman.
AUGUSTA, Mo. Aug. t6.-ChnrIcs w.
Fairbanks and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
will throw their oratorical force into the
Maine campaign. Mr.. Fairbanks will
speak on September 5. Dates for the
Colonel have not been announced. The vice
presidential candidate will also speak in
Pittsburgh, Fs5, ON Labor Day
SHARON, Pa. Aug. 16.--Jamcs a.
stevens, of Osgood, was shot and killed to-
day by burglars who escaped with $500.
NEW YORK, Aug. Is-Amid the cheers
Of hundreds on the piers aud bridges over
the East River, the battleships Kentucky,
New Jersey and Maine today left tho
Brooklyn Navy Yards, having on board $50
citizen-sallors who will be put through a
months hard training at Fort Pond Bay
near the upper end of Long Island.
CHICAGO. Aug. t6.--Music hns been said
to affect the sight and hearing, but the
latest was sprung today by Robert w
Stevens, music professor at Chicago Unit
versty. who says particular instruments
and particular compositions have their dis
tinctive tastes.
PROVIDENCE, II. T.. Aug. 1s.-Thlrty
persons were injured, two seriously in a
collision of runaway street car today.
KINGSTON, Jamnicn, Aug. 16.-Great
damage has been done to banana plan
tations on the island by a storm which |
has been raging since midnight Monday |
The full force Of the disturbance is ex- |
pected to strike the island today
NEw YORK. Aug Preparations for
the removal Of Ralph Albert Blalielock, the |
artist, who has been an inmate of the Mid |
detown state Hospital for the Insane for
16 years, are almost completed and he viii |
be taken 10 Lynwood Lodge. New Jersey. |
early next week.
VANCOUVER. Aug. 1G.--The theft Of
$i0,S00 i'm currency and negotiable bonds |
from the city Treasurer's office Of North |
Vancouver was discovered when the treas
urer opened the vaults today. The vault
ia within five yards Of the North Van
couver Police Station and in plain view
Of passers-by
CAIRO. Aug. 16.--Thc mother Of Hussein
Kemal. Sultan of Egypt, is dead at Alex
andria.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The fall Of
the Persian Ministry has been announced in
a brief State Department dispatch. which
says that former Foreign Minister Wos-
souEh-el-dau-lch has been ordered To or
ganiGe new ministry officials and diplo-
matiSts have no explanation for the devel-
opmcnt. ms II was thought the recent An
agreement as to Persia had re-
moved the main causes of friction
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-NIinistep Egan
at Copenhagen has been instructed to re-
lues. permission Of the German authorities
for The passage of Colonel John c. White.
retired, through that country TO Rumania.
where he is to buy provisions for the Amer
can Relief Commission In Serbia Colonel
White has been held up because of his
English birth.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.--The Senate For ,
aign Relations Committee today took up /
tho Danish treaty providing for paying Of l
I25,OOOOOO to Denmark for its West Indies 5
possession. Although some opposition is | ?
expected the treaty probably will be recon- /
nended for ratification without delay and {
vote may be taken in the Senate within /
week 6