Semi-weekly herald., 1916-01-13
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| YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. TO-
The strikers viii decide this after
noon whether they will accept the %
cents offered by the companies and
settle the strike. The organizers
have advised the men to accept the
raise and return to work.
Authorities have declared that the
reports are unfounded that two Aus
trians from Yonkers instigated the
strike in order to stop the manufac-
ture of war supplies.
Both of the Austrians are being
held for rioting.
The authorities will begin sending
the troops home at once is the quiet
continues.
FARRELL, Pa, Jan. 1O.-Employ-
es of the Carnegie coke works struck
for higher wages today. So far the
men are quiet. but a repetition of the
Youngstown disaster is feared.
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 10
Three men We're blown to atoms while
glazing smokeless powder with
graphite in machine house of the
Dupont works at Cainey's point
when the powder exploded shortly
after midnight.
Scores of others had narrow es-
capes.
The shock of the explosion was
felt in the nearby towns.
The officers have denied that spies
have been arrested.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 10
President Wilson is taking personal
charge of the battle for prepared
ness and will appeal for the moral
support of the country.
The White house has stated that
the president expects the interna-
tional situation to clear rapidly. As
soon as this is out of the way he viii
concentrate his efforts on national
preparedness. The president has invi
tations from the business men of Bal
timore and New York for addresses
on January 27. No matter which one
Of the invitations he accepts, pre-
paredness will be the subject.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 10
PRESIDENT Wilson has refused to ap-
point negro recorder of deeds here.
The southern Democrats gave no
Lice that they would not confirm the
appointment.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 10.-Colum
bus has basket ball team that can
literally shoot baskets with its eyes
shut. Fans who have seen the boys
in action say they are wonders. The
little squad of sightless lads wear
the colors of the Ohio State school
for the blind
There is Joe Arndt, of Lima, o.,
whirlwind forward, Joe's left eve has
only 3-t00 normal vision and his right
eye 5000 normal vision. Yet Joe,
in the three games he has played
this season, has averaged Is 1-2 bas-
kets a game. B. Mcqueen. captain
and center, has cataract on his eve
and his left eye is 1-25 normal But
he has a wierd, uncanny sense of
where the basket is and sticks 'em in
the pan, one, two, three.
There isn't man on the squad
who can read even poster print.
Totally blind students are the teams
hackers. They can tell when a bas-
ket is made and their roofing would
shame a college bunch. Are they
winners? The squad has secured EOS
points thus far this season to its op
ponents' 6S.
CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-Preliminary
steps in outlining the Progressive
campaign for 1916 on national, not
state issues, were taken today when
the national committee of the Pro-
gressive party met here.
State, not national issues, were the
basis for the fight last election, Pro-
gressiyes cited. The Progressive
party was founded on national issues
and its strength Is there, party lead
ers asserted.
Ni'iSabO' DtiiFeF ana cleveland were
bidders for the Bull Moose national
convention in June. Predictions were
that the convention will be held June
u, one week after the Democratic
national convention in st. Louis.
Forty-seven national committeeman
were in attendance at the meeting to-
day. A task for the committeeman
was to decide how many delegates
from each state would be seated al the
national convention, based upon the
ratio of Rooseyelt's vote in each stare
in 1912.
A difference between the commit
tee meeting today and the impromptu
conference that led to the bolt of the
t. r. faction from the Republican
party four years ago, was the prob
able absence of Roosevelt himself. He
was not seen about anywhere early
in the day. Victor l.. Murdoch Of
Kansas, George W. Perkins of New
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