The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-09-07
PUNCHED PARAGRAPHS


ance company and secretary OF the
board Of trustees Of Trinity college
is dead.
French minister OF provisions has
announced that beginning on Sept l5
he will assume control over tae
prices Of all potatoes and beans srown
in France.
More than seven times the popula
tion OF the United States was carried
on the elevated and subway lines III
Greater New York during the yea"
ending June 30.
The largest nerd Of buffalo In the
United States, consisting of more than
800 animals, Is menaced by a fire
which has ragged on Antelope island.
in the Great Salt Lake.
William r. Hearst, who has been
under the care OF physicians for sew
eral weeks, is greatly improved. Mr..
Hearst is at his California ranch. His
ailment was said to be a nervous
breakdown.
Mrs. Helen Swift Morris, widow Of
the late Edward Morris, Chicago
packer, was married at her home In
Chicago to Francis Nelson, former
Liberal member of the British house
OF commons.
Andrew Klinkert, fifty, East Colum'
bus, died at Chillicothe as a result OF
being run over by a motor truck while
at work at Camp Sherman.
There will be one negro regiment
at every national army cantonmenr
where there is sufficient personnel,
Adjutant General McClain announced.
Three hundred houses were report
ed destroyed, with an unknown mum
Der Of casualties, as the result OF
severe earthquake at Bogota, Co.
lombia.
Legislature Of Guanajuato, Mexico,
has granted woman suffrage with the
restrictions that voters must be able
to read and write and must be self.
supporting.
Minnesota towns of Brainerd, Crew
Wing, Little Falls and Long Prairie
reported distinct earth shocks Of from
to 20 seconds duration. Houses
were shaken and dishes broken.
Price Of bread, which one large
bakery at Cleveland has been selling
for cents, was reduced to cents.
James Lynn, twenty-six, Younss,
town (O) saw mill warker, was found
dead in a COW pasture with a bullet
through his head.
One man killed and four women
and children slightly injured was the
score of the latest German air raid
over the English coast.
Harold .Withcombe, thirty-eight.
part owner Of the Federal Screen
company, Cleveland, committed sui.
eide because Of Ill health.
At Toledo Louis T. Harms, forty
eight, shot and fatally wounded his di
vorced wife and then committed sui
eide.
Severe earthquakes occurred in Co
lombia. No serious damages has beer
reported.
A gift of $50O,Ooo from the ForG
Motor company to the Red Cross was
announced by the war council.
President Wilson has invested $10,-
600 in farm loan bonds. The president
recently took $4,000 Ct the first issue
of liberty bonds.
Five hundred passengers were res
cued from the French steamer Natal,
which was sunk in a collision with
another steamer five miles from Mar
seilles, France.
TIpIuare{fy of Fbioo rro ryofaaaoY.o ra
ceived 10 per cent bonus granted
all married members Of the faculty
who have been receiving $2,S00 Or
less each year.
Major Henry A. Roberts, Fourth
United States engineers, was found
dead in his quarters at the canton
ment at Vancouver, Wash, with a
gunshot wound in his head. A board
Of inquiry found that the wound was
seif-inhicted.
Pennsylvania railroad will build
new freight yard ard terminal az
Cleveland.
William r. Hearst announces he
will not be a candidate for mayor CT
New York at the coming election.
Deepest oil well in the world, locat
ed at Candor Pa, will be abandoned
Well mas been drilled to a depth Of
7,245 feet.
Federal Judge James E. Boyd, in
decision at Greensboro, S. c., declar
ed the Heating Owen child labor law
unconstitutional.
Forest fires have been checked in
every district in western Montana, &C.
cording to forestry officials who said
the situation was better than it had
been for the last two week.
A message Of felicitation In the
name Of the American people upon
the anniversary of her birth was sent
to Queen Wilhelmina of the Neither
lands by President Wilson. Queen
Wilhelmina was born in 1880.
San Francisco was chosen as the
next meeting place Of the American
Federation Of Catholic Societies.
Charles H. Conklin, a Wabash rail-.
road conductor at Decatur, ILL.,, com
pleted playing 100000 games of soil.
taire. He has been playing an intr-
cate game for the past twenty years
and kept a record.
Government operatives are scour-
ing the middle west for thieves who
stole a mail sack containing $4,000
in bank drafts from the depot at Hills
dale, Mich. One Of the thieves cash.
Cd one Of the drafts on Toledo bank
for $4,000.
Legal contest over the will of the
late John R. Mclean, millionaire
newspaper publisher Of Washington