The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-11-09
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BY a majority Of 1,547 San Jose
Cal, voted to oust its 7S saloons Jan
i, 1918.
Twenty minutes after he had been
informed that he had been elected al
derman, Harry Haines, Petersburg
Ind. dropped dead.
A Chinese general with his staff
has arrived at Pacific port en- route
TO the front in France. 1t is expecte,'
that contigent Of Chinese troops vii
follow shortly.
Secret service agents have beguT
investigating the explosion which de
stroyed the Hope Gasoline plant, sait
to be the largest in the world, neaJ
Fairmont, w. Va
Irving T. Bush, recently appointed
director of the New York port wa
board by Secretary of War Baker, has
assumed his duties and taken oveI
virtual control of the harbor's ship
ping facilities as a war measure.
Orlando Lippert, 81, painter, fell
from the top of building at Colum
bus and was instantly killed.
Dick Carter, suspect in the Keet
kidnapping case at Springfield, Mo-.
and who turned states evidence dur
ing the trial of Claude j. Piersol, has
been freed and is now working on q
farm near Pana, Ill.
Villa followers dynamited a passen.
ger train on the Mexican Central rail-
road at Armendariz station, SO miles
south of Chihuahua. Sixty federal
train guards were killed. The bandits
looted the express cars.
President Wilson made flying trip
to Princeton, N. j., to vote at the
state election.
The gasoline producing plant of the
Hope Natural Gas company, which
supplies Pittsburgh, burned with q
loss Of $1,000,0O0. The fire started
when the head was blown off of an
absorber.
Bertha Thalheimer, the Socialist,
has been sentenced at Leipsig to two
years at nard labor for the distribu-
tion of literature.
Body Of young woman, one eye
blackened and her lips bruised, was
found in the dead embers of camp
fire near Calvary cemetery, Cleveland
Five thousand New York butchers
are considering a strike based on
union recognition, a minimum weekly
wage of $22 and 631a hour work week.
Hog cholera killed enough animals
last year to have fed 100000 soldiers
a meat ration for five and a half
months, the department of agriculture
announced.
In pistol fight between Edward L.
Knowles, a negro robber, and three
policemen at Chicago, the negro was
killed and Policeman Michael Meehan
shot and probably fatally injured.
Wallace r. Campbell, secretary
treasurer and vice president Of the
Ford Motor company Of Canada, was
shot and seriously wounded in a fight
with burglar in his home at Walkers
vile, Ont.
Fire in the forgings plapt of the
Cliff Ammunition company, Toronto
did 100000 damage.
Fire caused by a defective gas
heater damaged the Opera block In
Cleveland to the extent of $4,000.
A monument commemorative of the
battle of the Marne and built by funds |
by Americans, is to be pre-.
sented to France at the close of the |
war.
AS result Of the coal shortage a
large number of industrial concerns
at Kansas City dependent upon elec.
tricity for operations were compelled |
to shut down.
Frank Lamonte, Evansville Qnd.),
lawyer and Socialist candidate for
mayor, was disbarred from practice
by the Warrick County circuit court
for statements disloyal to America.
DR.. w. Godfrey Hunter. minister tn
during the administration
Of President Mckinley, and notabls
figure a decade ago in Kentucky Ro-
publican politics, died at his home In
Louisville after brief illness.
The surplus of Canadian freight
cars in the hands Of American rail
ways is 10000 more than the number
Of American freight cars in Canada at
present.
Four young women were slashed
On Broadway with a potato knife by
Antoni Karasincki, Pole, who Is be-
Iieved to be demented, The girls are
not seriously injured.
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