Taiban Valley news., 1917-10-12
FOREIGN

Great Britain placed embargo Oh
supplies to Holland and Scandinavia.
Berlin dedicated Oct, 3rd to the eel
ebration of the SEVENTEEN birthday of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg.
According to the Cologne Gazette it
was Flight Lieutenant Wissemann,
who himself since has been killed, who
shot down Capt Guynemer, the French
aviator.
A Shanghai dispatch says that as
the result of typhoon which swept
over Toxic 100000 persons are home
less and that 1873 are dead and PIT
missing.
TIN American schooner Annie F.
Conlon was attacked by gunfire by
German submarine off the Scilly is
lands. The crew of eight was landed
safely.
1t was officially announced at Pet
rograd by the provisional government
that the revolt which broke out at
Tambov, 800 miles southeast of Mos
COW, has been suppressed.
The weekly report of losses to
French shipping by submarines and
mines shows that five vessels of more
than 1000 tons each and five of less
than that size were destroyed
Italian shipping losses by mines or
submarines for the week ending Sept.
Both in all seas were two sailing ves-
sells of more than ten tons and three
sailing vessels of less than 100 tons.
Japan has offered the United States
use Of cargo vessels totalling 100000
tons in return for a modification of
the American export embargo on steel
the newspaper Nichi Nichi declared.
Lieut.. Douglas Malcolm, who recent
ly was acquitted at London of the
murder of Anton Baumberg, a pseudo
count, has been reappointed to his po-
sition on headquarters staff in France.
According to the Standard a reconcil-
iation between Malcolm and his wife
has been effected.
Louis Barthou, member of the In
ner War Council of the present French
cabinet, and former premier, at the
luncheon of the American Club at
Paris, declared that the French gov
ernment and the French people were
absolutely and unshakably resolved to
reunite Alsace-Lorraine to France.
State Department officials admitted
they have evidence that Count Won
Bernstorff, former German ambassa-
dor at Washington, directed the expen-
diture of the funds paid to Bolo Pasha
but declined to reveal their evidence,
although they may do so after the
French government finishes with Bo
los case.
SPORTING NEWS
Clarence De Mar of Boston won the
annual Brockton Marathon at Brock
ton, Mass.
The athletic committee of ST. Louis
University finally decided to retain its
football schedule for 1917.
From Glenrock, Wyo., to Denver, a
distance Of $50 miles, in nine hours
and thirty-two minutes, in an automo-
bile, is the record established by Fay
Williford of Glenrock.
GENERAL
New York states oldest resident,
John Sweeney, died at Cortland. He
was born in Ireland 105 years ago.
The new political party was christ
ened the National Party" at the Chi.
cago Conference of the five groups
which are seeking amalgamation.
Subscriptions to the second Liberty
loan in the New York federal reserve
district have gone far beyond the
$100,000,000 mark, the campaign com.
mittee announced.
The candidacy of William M. Ben
nett for mayor on the Republican tick.
ct was repudiated by the Republican
County Committee of New York Coun-
ty, by a vote of S43 to 223.
Rube Munson, alleged ring leader
of the Working Class Union and in.
stigator of central Oklahoma draft re-
bellion pleaded not guilty to charges
of conspiracy when arraigned at Mus
kogee.
Although nearly one-half of the pop
ulation of Glenwood, Wis, is of Ger
man descent, the city council unani-
mously adopted resolutions demanding
the expulsion of Robert M La Toilette
from the United States Senate.
His health broken through the
strain of special work in England dur
ing three years of war, Ripley Wilson.
United States consul at London, died
at Hartford, Conn, at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Lucius Rossiter.
At the point of a revolver Miss
Maud Yancy and her escort, L. Hale,
at st. Louis, were marched to an
abandoned shed by an armed negro.
The negro bound and gagged Hale,
forced Miss Yancy to disrobe and at
tackled her.
Secretary McAdoo, en- route to the
Pacific coast on Liberty Loan speak
ing tour, telegraphed Vice President