Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-18
News at a Glance

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BIRMINoHAM. Ala, sept. is.---shortsse
Of unslxllled labor In the Birmingham dis
trict is threatened because Of the exodus OF
between 1000 and 5000 negroes drawn from
this section by prospects on the Pennsyl,
vania Railroad, West Virginia mines ana
the coal nelds OF Kentucky and Pennsyi-
vania
INDIANAPOLIS, sept. is.--CharIes w.
Fairbanks, Republican nominee Tor vice
President. has arrived home. His physical
condition. which has been such that he had
TO cancel speaking engagements after ap-
pearing at Atchison, Kan was improved
and after a few days rest he expects TO be
able 20 resume campaigning.
i TOLEDO, o., sept. is.-The owens not
, To Machine Company. OF Toledo, has de-
icared cash dividend amounting TO Si,13l,-
e222.25 to stockholders of record on sep
tennber %. The regular quarterly DIVIDENDS
OF ~ per cent on preferred and per cent
on common were declared and also an extra
dividend Of per cent on common. Surplus
after payment Of the present dividend
amounts 20 S2,59e,s35.0b, II was announced.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. Is. - According Go
the Frankfurter Zeitung. the commander or
the Fourteenth Germany Army Corps, Lieu
tenant General Won Haenisch, has been
placed on the retired list.
PARIS, Sept. Is.--oniclsI notice has been
given that the price OF issue OF the new
war loan will be Ss francs, 75 centimes
NEW YORK, sept. Is.-The schooner
George Churchman. with a cargo Of coal
from South Amboy. N. j.. for Augusta,
Me-, sprang n leak near City Island and
NH In fan foCY nfx unit
MEXICO CITY. sept. 1s.-Generai Car
rama has issued decree regulating banks
and the issue of bank notes The decree
provides banks shall increase their reserves
until they are sufficient to cover all paper
money already issued. General Carranza
will appoint bank examiners, and IL banks
do not comply with the decree they mus
liuuidate and dissolve. The decree also
takes away the monopoly of Issuing bank
bills from banks, as the @ Dvernment Is pre-
pairing to open bank for the issuance Of
this form Of money.
DENVER, sept. 1s.-Five ampuIes Of
"cyancuprol," the new preparation for the
treatment of tuberculosis discovered by
Doctor KoRa, of Japan, the first shipment TO
America, are in the possession OF DIR.
Nobuya Kunitoma, a Japanese physician OF
Denver and a member of the American
Medical Association. Each ampule contains
six cubic centimeters of the koga solution.
The contents of a sixth ampule have been
injected into Nick Captain young Greek
patient of Doctor Kunitoma.
CHICAGO. Sept. 1s.-Russians and Poles
of the West Side foreign quarter fought
their way yesterday into a State bank and
started a run. The bank was that OF
Schiff & Co.. which has $2,500,000 in de-
posits and is considered solvent. Failures
of another private bank have caused panic
conditions. More than S50,000 mostly In
savings accounts. had been withdrawn
when the bank closed yesterday afternoon.
West Side foreign banks are open for a few
hours on Sunday.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1s.-Plans for one OF
the largest railway passenger terminals I'm
the world have been proposed to the City
Council by President Markham, of the Illl-
nois Central Railway, The station 1t Is
proposed. will be granite and steel struc-
ture, 400 by 700 feet with facade Of mas
sive scuptured columns. Trainsheds 400
feet long and covering forty tracks in two
decks" are provided.
PHOENIX, ArI, Sept. 1s.-Hundreds of
delegates to the meeting of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers began today
a weeks tour Of the mineral centers of this
State and New Mexico. They are travelling
by train and automobile and will hold dis
cussonss OF their work at different points.
The principal places to be visited are Santa
Rita and Hurley, n. NJ, and Douglas, Bis
bee Globe and Phoenix, Ari The party will
inspect the. great Roosevelt dam.
BATON ROUGE, La, Sept. 1B.-Accord-
ing TO official figures, former Governor ]. Y.
Sanders was nominated in Tuesdays Dem
ocratic primary to succeed Representative
Lewis L. Morgan from the Sixth District
by a majority of 324 over Amos L. Ponder.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-statistics in the
infantile paralysis epidemic for the last
two days show further reductions. Fiji
teen deaths are reported for the last forty
eight hours and thirty-four new cases.
NEW YORK, Sept Is.-yance c. Me-
Cormick, Democratic national chairman.
was to- return TO headquarters today from
his western trip, which included Indian
apolis and Chicago, but 1t will be several
days before the chairman can announce
definite plans for the remainder of the
Democratic campaign. q
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Seven thousand
chandelier makers went on strike today for
a forty-eght- week and an increase
in pay.
CAWDEN