The Washington herald., 1916-10-15


Springfield. Mass, Oct, A.-One man wa.
killed, another is dying and two more
were seriously injured as the result OF
a wave OF crime which swept the Syrian
colony here today and extended to Chi
copee Falls. Two Syrians are being held
by the police, one charged with murder,
the other with attempted murder.
Baltimore, Md. Oct. Ito relieve the
street car strike situation in New York,
E. A, Maher, vice president OF the Third
Avenue Railway system Of that CITY to-
day opened an office here to enroll strike
breakers.
Berlin, Oct. H-Dr. Karl Liebknecht, So
lctalist member OF the Riechstag. recently
sentenced to four years and four months
lot military treason, today scored a point
"hen the Reichstag committee refused to
sanction the new court martial proceed
ings at Thorn.
Ellsworth. Maine, Oct. 14-Guy Small
today pleaded guilty to the murder of
Mrs. Emma TurnbulI and was sentenced
10 life Imprisonment. the most severe pun
ishment allowable
London, Oct. 14.-Dispatches from
Athens today said that the French have
taken over control OF the port of Piraeus.
the seaport of the Greek capital.
Chicago, Oct. 4-Fred Mccoy. 49, a fur
dealer Of Philadelphia, dropped dead to-
day while leaving the home of Mrs, ],
johnson, whom he was visiting. Heart
disease or appoplexy was the cause.
! Berlin (via Cayvine wireless), Oct IA
Germans and Hungarian civilians in
Pennsylvania were driven into the Ait
River by Roumanian soldiers with knouts
thet Austro-Hungarian government
charges in a statement made public bv
the Overseas News Agency today.
Pittsburgh. Pa, Oct. 14-Directors of
Public Works Robert Swan, 81. died sud
denly of heart disease today at his East
| End home.
Alliance. Ohio, Oct. H-Fire early to-
| day gutted three business blocks on East
Main street, routing from their beds a
| score of tenants in apartments upstairs.
The loss may reach $4,000.
Chicago, Oct. lL-Marion Lambert, the
Lake Forest school girl for whose death
| William ]. Orpet was tried on a charge
| OF murder, is to be replaced in the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lam
bert, by a little baby girl. Lambert
announced today a child will be adopted
Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct 14-Believing a
milk strike on Monday morning Is newt
able, Pittsburgh dealers today were en-
deavoring to make arrangements to Sc
cure supply from other sources than the
Northern Ohio Milk Producers Associa-
ton, which furnishes about IS per cent
of the milk used in the city.
Paris. Oct 14-Norman Prince, an
American member of the aviation CORPS
has had both of his legs broken in an
aeroplane accident It was announced
today that he was progressing favorably
Prince Is from Boston.
Berlin via sayvIlle), Oct. IA spirited
denial was made by the semi-official
, Overseas News Agency today of the re-
port received here Thursday from the
Poldhu wireless agency, a British or
ganfZation, that German seaplanes in at
lacking the Roumanian seaport Con-
stanZa, dropped poisoned sweets and
victuals and bombs infected by cholera
bacilli.
Paris, Oct. 14-'Once Roumania is de-
feated the road to peace will be wide
open" said NJ. Radoslavoff, premier of
Bulgaria, in an interview that was tel
egraphed here today.
London, Oct. 1.-THE allied military au-
thorities have issued a decree prohibiting
Greek citizens from carrying arms, saws
news agency dispatch from Athens to-
day.
| Paris, Oct. 4.-william Chester Silbert-
mann, who claims to be an American
citizen, was today sentenced to six
I
trading with the enemy. He was the
agent for a German rubber house.
| Paris, Oct. 4.-French newspapers con-
tinue to criticise President Wilson very
bitterly because Of the refusal to bar
German submarines from United States
waters.
| New York. Oct. 14.-The milk strike
came to an end today. The farmers and
small dairymen who were fighting with
them have won. The four big distribut-
ing companies in Greater New York have
agreed to give the farmers an Increase
of about . per cent over the former
price paid for the commodity.
Minneapolis, MINI, Oct 14-The estate
| OF the late Thomas L. Shevlin. wealthy
lumberman and formerly a Yale football
/ star. is valued at $2,1S9,675, according to
a report of the executors, who acted as
appraisers of the estate.
! Binghamton, N. Y, Oct. H-Endicott
! johnson & Company, one of the largest
] shoe manufa cturing concerns in the coun-
| try employing 100 persons, have an
I nounced a voluntary reduction of work.
ing time from sixty to forty-eight hours
week without reduction in pay.
| Los Angeles, Oct. 1L-"Daddy" Frank
A. Luce, so, the unluckiest man in Los
Angeles" met his death by falling a
few feet down stairs at No. aosh South
Spring street. Mr.. Luce had survived
many accidents. A trolley car had brush
ed him aside; once he fell from the Macy
Street Bridge, about forty feet.
Boston. Mass, Oct. 4.-Four men res
cued from an open dory after they had
abandoned the schooner Helen Has
brouck, dismasted in a gale fifty miles
eoutn OF Seal Island, Me-, on Sunday,
have been brought into this port on board
the British steamship Saxon Monarch,
from Glasgow.
| Sunday Outing to Frederick, sl.OO.
| Ha gerstown, Sl.z5. Baltimore and Ohio.
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