, 1916-09-06

IN the House, but 1t was DeiieVoQ by congress
sional leaders that. this would be insufficient
to prevent the passage OF the Bill. Both
the House and Senate Bills provide for the
payment of pro rata wages for the time over
the eight hours aud both have the inyestigat-
ing Commission of three members appointed
by the President to report it's
tions in from six to nine months after the
law becomes effective. This date is set at
December LIST by the House Bill, and January
LIST by the Senate. The Senate measure also
would exempt railways less than 100 miles
long aud electric street and interufban lines.
Chicago, Sept. LIST. While railway offc ais
of the country generally agree to-day that
by Congress of the proposed eight hour Bill
would avert the strike set by the four broth
erhoods of trainmen for next Monday, many
were of the opinion that the railways would
decline to accept the law without a contest
in the United States Supreme Court. Should
the measure be enacted it will be studied by
the railway Lawyers and if they deem it
advisable they will make q case in the Courts
to test it's constitutionallty.
Bucharest, Aug. 31st.--Rumanian troops
invading Pennsylvania have occupied the
important industrial centre Petroseny and
the Terlunge valley near Kronstadt, says the
announcement of the Rumanian War Office,
their losses were very slight. On the south
ern front Hungarian monitors bombafded
Turnumagurele and Zimnitza. Petroseny is
the centre of a rich coal field near the south
ern frontier of Pennsylvania, lying Just north
of the Vulcan pass. through the Transylva-
nian Alps. The occupation of Tarlunge
Valley indicates the Rumanians are extend
ing their invasion of the extreme eastern
portion of Transy lvania. Turnumagurele and
Zimnitza are Rumanian frontier towns on
the Danube river. q
Lisbon, Sept. 1st.-Several persons were
wounded in conflicts between civilians and
troops last night near the House of
Parliament. These clashes followed a ses-
sion of the Parliament which adopt
ed several military measures recommended
by the Minister of War and q resolution of
confidence in the Government.
Petrograd, Sept. 1st-In the course Of
battles yesterday on the western (Russlan)
front, says the official statement of to-day.
we captured 289 officers and Is, Sol men,
Of this number 2,4OO were Germans. We
also captured six guns, 55 machine-guns
and seven bomb-throwers One OF our
a~viators with an observer attacked an enemy
machine, which having side-slipped turned
it's nose d~ownwards and fell steeply to the
earth. In the direction OF Hallcz, III the
region of the river Horoyank0, fierce fight
ing Is raging. Ia the CHrpatnlhHS, III VIC
region of the Tomnatic mountain, our troops
captured a whole series of heights. In the
region of Dornavaca on the Rumanian bord-
er, we made a slight gain to the Westward.
Petrograd, Sept. 1st-The official slate
ment issued by the Wal department to-day
says, Caucasus front. To the west of the
regions of Cusku, Gumushkhane and Elzin-
gan the Turks resumed the offensive, but
everywhere were repufsed. An enemy attack
west of the Ognott region also was repulsed.
in the course of this attack four Turkish
regiments broke through the front line of
one of our Turkestan regiments and through
our artillery position. Our gallant Turke-
stan regiments by an Immediate b~ayonet
attack drove the enemy toward the west
and again occupied the whole of the lost
positions and also regained its artillery
which at once reopened fire upon the Turks.
The enemy suffered severe losses. In the
region of Ognott we captured prisoners and
three machine-guus. North of the river
Euphrates our d~etachments captured the
village Of Tchorouz and then launched an
attack on the height situated southwest of
the village. Here the Turks were driven
into a ravine as the result of a bayonet fight
and fed in wild disorder.
Athens, Sept. 1st-An Entente Allied