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Reeves, 25 years old.
In a tank" fight on the Somme
front Canadian casualties were 400
killed, 1000 wounded and 300 missing.
This brings Canadian casualties to
about 10000.
Admiral Mayo reported that r.
inch gun on the battleship Michigan
had exploded during firing tests.
Farmers in Oklahoma are having
difficulty getting cotton pickers.
though they are offering So and 81
day.
William ]. Bryan started on his sec
ond tour Of Wyoming in support OF
President Wilson and the Democratic
ticket, with program calling for a
number of speeches.
Small towns are "churched to
death" John c, Adams, a publisher of
Peotone, ILL.,, told convention of sub.
urban publishers.
Railroad and telegraphic commune
cation between Ell Paso and Chihua.
hua City has been resumed.
Harry Rowland of Los Angeles, a
newspaper reporter, wrote the story OF
his proposed suicide and then carried
out the plan.
NJ. G. Roberts of Rupert, VT. was
killed at Shawnee, Ok, in a fall of
1900 feet in an aeroplane.
King Haakon of Norway declared
in speech that the Scandinavian ma
tons were united in their desire to
remain neutral.
Illinois has two Frank Lowdens.
Georgios Kavalageopolous, a Greek,
asked the court TO give him new
name. Judge Heard suggested Frank
Lowden," and the Greek assented.
A son was born to DR.. and Mrs.
Paul Samuel Reinsch at Pekin, China.
DR.. Reinsch Is United States minis
ter Mrs. Reinsch, before her mar
riage, was Miss Alma Moser of Wis
consin.
Billy Sunday, the evangelist,
stopped his meeting at Detroit when
the mother refused to remove a small
child which was playing about the
aisle.
The United States cruiser Memphis,
on the rocks at Santo Domingo, will
be total loss and naval officials are
combining their efforts to salvaging
her guns, engines and other gear.
The minimum wage principle as de-
Tended and attacked by speakers be-
fore the national conference of Cath
olic charities in session at Washing
tcn.
Mr. and Mrs G. c. Brewer, IA and
Is years old, respectively returned to
Waynesburg, Pa, and started house
keeping with the distinction of being
the youngest married couple in Penn
sylvania.
Anti-aircraft guns on several dread
naughts in the American navy de-
stroyed half dozen box kites during
the maneuvers off the Virginia capes.
Answering his wife's charges that
he was mean and abusive" Thomas
Tawley of New York declared she
often used dollar bills to light the
gas.
A total of $21, 100000 has been re-
covered by the internal revenue bu-
reau of the treasury department by
the discovery Of frauds. evasions and
errors.
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Frank Beals, who live IA miles north
west of Nation, H., is dead from in
fantile paralysis.
Twelve hundred thousand cases OF
Dutch flower bulbs have arrived at
New York on the Dutch freighter Peel
dyk. from Rotterdam.
A man with a revolver forced his
way into the rooms of Mrs. Gerden V.
Ballard. witness in the Dilworth-Van
Courtlandt Park New York murder
case and forced her to sign a state
ment retracting the information she
had given the police.
Secretary Baker ordered Gen. Fun
ston to return as many militiamen
from the border as he receives In the
new contingents en- route there or un-
der orders TO go.
Francis B. Sayre. President Wilson's
who has visited the Ameri-
can troops along the Mexican border
in the interest Of the Y. NJ. C. A. in
Massachusetts,. is back home.
The strike OF the Mesaba iron range
workers has been declared off By the
Industrial Workers of the World.
Lieut. Raymond Asquith, son of the
English premier, was killed in action