White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-01-14
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUsYREADERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

Are OF Legitimate IntSiSos
to All the People.
The New. Zealand government has
prohibited the export of wool to neu-
trail countries.
The Susan B. Anthony amendment
providing for woman suffrage was re-
ported favorably Saturday to the SEN
ate by the suffrage committee.
The house roads committee of con-
gress reported favorably Shackleford
bill to appropriate $25,0O0,000 annual
ly to aid states in road building.
Two hundred Montenegro recruits
from America lost their lives Saturday
by the sinking of an Italian steamship
which struck mine in the Adriatic.
Six persons have been killed and 10
others wounded at Nancy, France, dur
ing the last three days in the bonn
bardment of the city by German 15-in.
guns.
The two battleships to be built at
the Mare island and New York navy
yards and designated at Nos. 43 and
"A, will be equipped with electric pro-
polling machinery.
German newspapers are demanding
the immediate recall of Edward Hig-
gins, American consul at Stuttgart, on
the ground that he has shown anti
German sentiments.
Emperor William has conferred the
iron cross on Frau Swolik of Gleiwitz
for disclosing bomb plot, the work OF
a spy. This is the first time that a
woman has received the iron cross
President Wilson has decided upon
suggestion of Representative SABBATH
of Illinois, to designate by proclama-
ton January 81 as the date for col
lecting funds for the relief of suffer-
ing Jews in Europe.
One hundred and ninety-five thou
sand horses have been bought at the
National stock yards at st. Louis by
the entente allies, at cost of 1884,
100000. The French, Italian and Bel
gian officers are buying about 300 a
day.
The German, Austrian and Turkish
consuls at Mytilene have been arrest
ed by the allied military authorities.
The arrests were made on the same
grounds as the recent arrests at Sa-
loniki of the consuls of the central
powers. The Greek government is ex-
pected to protest.
Mrs. Samuel Hokenson, wife of a
railroad man at Minneapolis, during
an attack of insanity Saturday, seized
a butcher knife, drove nurse from
the house, snatched her own week-old
daughter from crib and carved off
the child's head. She then plunged the
knife into her own throat.
Judge Charles q. Wolverton, in the
federal district court at Portland, has
upheld the Oregon Sunday closing
law as constitutional and in effect.
He declined petition Of the Bruins
ick-Balke-Collender company that an
injunction be issued restraining dis
trict attorneys in several Oregon
counties from prosecuting violations
of the law.
Wool production in the United
States during 1915 has been estimat-
ed by the department of agriculture
at 2sS,777,O0o pounds, with a value
of $65,573,s14, or $14,ooo,oo0 more
than last year. Production was l.
415,Ooo pounds less than last year
and 7,39s,0OO pounds less than in
1919. The price of unwashed wool
paid to producers has averaged 23.4
cents per pound, compared with 1874
cents last year and 1871 cents In
1913. Montana led in production with
29,O40,0OO pounds. Wyoming was a
close second with 2s,6S2,00O. Other
states producing more than 10000
900 pounds each were: New Mexico,
1851, 900; Oregon, 15,6O0,o00; Ohio.
14,35o,ooo; Utah, 13,32o,Ooo, and Cali
fornia, 11,590,00O.