Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-13

Colonel Roosevelt warned a Boy
Scout audience in New York that there
was poison gas in America just as
well as abroad" and declared He'd
be glad to see the two senators re-
sponsible for most of it on this side
La Toilette and Stone-sent to Ger
many"
Eight deaths have resulted in Dav-
export, Ia, from infanti1e paralysis in
the last two weeks. DIR. E. c. Rosene-
now, head of the research department
of the University of Minnesota, and
his staff have been asked to aid local
physicians.
Charging with fixed bayonets, Com
panies F and G, Ninth Illinois Infan-
try, dispersed a mob of more than one
thousand street car strike sympa-
thizers, at Springfield, ILL.,. who, half
an hour before, had wrecked four
street cars and were then attacking
the headquarters of the railway COM
pany, intent on wrecking and ransack-
ing the building.
What is believed to be an attempt
to kill twenty sleeping miners oc-
Cured recently at Butte, Mont, when
several sticks of dynamite, placed I'M
der a rooming house, shook the neigh
borhood and broke window glass. No
body was injured.
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Sixteen manufacturers of motor car
accessories and William NJ Webster,
commissioner, and nearly a score of
other individuals have been indicted
in New York under the Sherman law
by the federal grand jury, charged
with conspiracy to restrain trade.
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Federal Judge Boyd of the Western
district of North Carolina has held the
Heating child labor law uncon-
stitutional and enjoined the United
States district attorney, William c.
Hammer, and his successors, assist
ants, deputies and agents" from en-
forcing in the district the provisions
of the act which became effective on
September 1.
Five hundred and seventy-five
plumbers at Camp Sherman, where
Ohio and Pennsylvania conscript
troops will receive training, struck
recently for rs cents an hour instead
of the present 621s cents.
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Seven men were killed and two bad
ly injured at Pennsylvania railroad
crossing near Aberdeen, Md. The
dead men were tomato pickers riding
to work in a wagon which was run
down by train.
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Southwest.
E. A Cubberly, engineer, and
Thomas Allen, fireman, both of Mar
shall, Tex, are dead of injuries re-
ceived when a Missouri Pacific en-
CINE, drawing a northbound passenger
train, was derailed and overturned in
the yards at Texarkana, Ark. None
of the coaches left the rails.
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Thomas T. Tygart, contractor, As
years old, was killed and three other
persons seriously injured in a motor
car collision near San Antonio, Texas.
The driver of Tygart's car suddenly
swerved to avoid another machine. i.
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Corn in Oklahoma promises to yield
30 per cent oI d Iull crop, according
to the monthly report of the state
board of agriculture just issued. Fail
ure of the crop in western counties is
given as the cause of the low yield.
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A committee to- work out plans for
the establishment of a national school
of matchmaking to assist wounded sol
diers to acquire a vocational training
was named at the session of the Ma
tional Retail jewelers. Association in
St. Louis.
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Foreign.
1t is announced in Buenos Aires that
the Argentina government will not ask
| for a renewal of the IL million dollar
| American loan which will expire Sep