The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-07
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ESTS MADE.

ARRESTS MADE.
 NEW YORK July q Warrants were issued today for Edmund l.. MCkenzle. the president Of the stor- age warehouse concern in which the explosives which nearly wrecked this c..! w":e de-trny"I uu sunday by an explosion The men who have been arrested by the police in connection with the explosion are Albert NJ. DiCkman. agent of the Black Tom pier of the Lehigh Valley railroad {: and Alexander Davidson, superintend- ent of the warehouse of the National Storage company. All of these men are charged with illegally permitting explosives 10 be stored there with out taking the necessary precautions to protect the lives of people work ing in and near there
 SUPPLIES FORBIDDEN.
 WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 31- The note which the state depart ment received from the British for eien office today states emphatically that the British government forbds the Red Cross supplies from America a permit to enter any territory oc- cupied by the German or Austrian forces.
 KILLED BY EXPLOSION. ST. HELENS, Ore. July 31-A premature explosion of dynamite which was being used in road con struction near Deer island blew Geo. Hammer, Joseph Kellan. Guy Lewis John Lewis and Herman E. Williams to atoms this afternoon. The men were working on the road when they were killed
 REBELLION IN CHINA.
 SAN FRANCISCO. July 31.-The Dollar Steamship line is in receipt i a t"t"gI3o, iron China tell Ing ui a rebellion that is threatening that country. A large district of the city of Hankow has been burned by the rebels, who are footing and killing. The pillage and crime was not stopped until the foreigners yolun. teered to stop it and did so by at tacking the force of insurrectos. BOTH CHANGE MANAGEMENT
 SEATTLE, July 31.-The Admiral | line has chartered the fast ocean boats, 1he Yale and the Harvard fol 1 five years. The management of the steamship company announces that the flyers will be kept on the San 1 DiegOSan Francisco run for the i present at any rate.
 MUST HAVE PERMITS.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31- Beginning tomorrow morning. all persons entering or leaving Ger | ,;, l from the German government. which will be much more rigid in their requirements than are the ordinary 1 passports.
 EXPLOSIONS RESULTS. NEW YORK Aug. l-What prac | tiCally amounts to restricting the war orders to such an extent as to make it impossible to ship any more orders from the harbor of New York, the city commissioners of Jersey City today ordered the re moVal and the exclusion of all freight cars that are laden with explosives In formal statement issued al the same time as the order, the commissioners explained that in jus tice to the property owners they could no longer permit the shippers l to bring high explosives to Jersey City to be shipped across the ocean Representative John J. Egan anC James Hamil announced today after a consultation with both the county and state officials that they would introduce a bill in congress to pre- vent the munition shipments from l being transferred to Europe
 The bill will place an embargo or the shipment of munitions from al parts on the Atlantic coast. The | representatives believe that more serious accidents will take place now, and state that in their opini on the United States should take son before it's eyes.
 After careful investigation o the explosions and listening to al sides of the question as to who and what was the cause of the acci dent the federal officers have de cided that there was nothing crmi nal in the accident. Those arrested have been released
 UNION HELPS POLICE.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Ed ward Nolan, of the Machinists' Uni on, today delivered Warren Billings charged with murder in the first degree, to the authorities in Sar | Francisco. Billings is wanted bS the police in connection with the bomb plots and the explosion oi the bomb on the day of the pre- paredness parade in this city The man charged with murder will be held without bail for time while the police are working on his case
 AN ANONYMOUS LETTER. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-Chiel of Police White is in receipt of ar anonymous letter stating that Thom as Mooney, a well known labor agi tator of this city, offered the writer $200 to deposit the fatal grip in g spot where it would surely result in the death of many people.
 Mooney is now under arrest or charges in connection with the plot and the fights that resulted there from, and he, too may have tC answer the charge of murder.
 DEUTSCHLAND SAILS.
 BALTIMORE, Aug 1-The Nortt German Lloyd merchant submarine Deutschland sailed from this port at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. As the giant underseas craft pulled out