The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-09-13
News Flashes From
Near And Far

,c,isy according 10 !.loyds' ship
ping Agency. A Spanish, Dutch
and Norwegian.
The Italians are still gaining on
the .AustrianS in the Trentino front
and in the upper Posina valley.
Now Spain is to decide in favor
Of one or the other Of the belliger
entS without abandoning her neu-
trality.
Texas rangers were fired on yes
terday by Mexicans near Fabens,
Texas.
The city Of Brussels in Belgium
was compelled to pay fine Of
$25O,0O0 to the Germans because
the population showed sympathy to
Cardinal MERCER on his departure
to Rome.
A French scientist successfully
combatted locusts in Argentina by
inocculating number Of the insects
with a parasite disease and leaving
them to infect others of their kind.
Miss Paul, chairman Of the Con-
gressional Union for woman stuff
rage warns President Wilson to call
a special session of Congress to pass
a suffrage bill or take defeat at the
polls in November.
French again smashed the Ger
man line north Of the Sommc in
France and seized first line and
other trenches. With their British
allies the French gained on the
Struma, Macedonian front, and fore
ed the Bulgariass to evacuate ka
vala on the Aegean sea. Russian re-
pulses in East Galicia were report
ed by Vienna and Berlin.
In the general Encouragement of
commands following the appoint
ment of Won Hindenburg as chief of
staff, it was announced that Crown
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria had
assumed command Of the German
. armies on the Somme.
By an overwhelming vote the tar
payers Of Calcasieu parish yester
day. voted 100000 for an issue of
bonds for the further extension Of
the present highway system. This
makes total Of $2,1O0,0OO au-
thorized in three years for roads in
that parish. The vote was 6 to 1.
President Wilson received the
Mexican commissioners on board the
naval yacht Mayflower and returned
! the visit promptly, expressing his
sympathy with the aims of the re-
! volution in Mexico.
President Wilson was forbidden
) by physicians to again see his Sis
| ter, Mrs. Anna E. Howe, who is
i dying in New London.
i Charles E. Hughes closed his first
] presidential campaign trip in Platts-
burg, N. Y, and said the result in
Maine proved that the Republican
e party was reunited.
Japan's assurances that Ameri-
can rights in China are respected
in it's demands on Pekin were con-
sidered secondary in Washington to
the real purposes of the demands
which have not developed.
; Take HERBINE for all dis
: turbances in the bowels. It
purifies the bowel channels.
promotes regular movements
and makes you feel bright. Wig
orOus and cheerful. Price SOC.
Sold by Belanger Drug Co.
Theodore P. Shonts, president Of
the Interborough, rejected the pro-
posal Of Mayor Mitchell and the pub
lie service commission to call off the
street car strike and arbitratc the
differences
Returns from Tuesdays congress
sional Democratic primary indicated
the nomination of former Governor
Sanders in the sixth district and
Representative Lazaro in the Sew
enth.
The largest vote in the history of
the state Of Maine was cast in the |
election Monday, the Republicans
being returned winners by plural !
ity Of about 1890
DR.. Purley A. Baker. General Su- /
perintendent Of the anti-Saloon lea
que of America will speak at the
Cify Hol1 in Mor.rap Civ pn~+ t.,