The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

LOndon-The toll of ships sunk by
U-boats grows less every week.
Washington-Th total enlisted
strength of the navy is now 10000
men.
New York-The government is
contemplating steps to stop the eX-
portation of gold.
London-Lord Northcliffe says
England is maintaining 2,2OO,O 900
men on the French front.
New York-Lumber freight rates,
by water, on the Atlantic seaboard
have advanced 400 per cent.
Washington-The census bureau
estimated the population of the Unit
ed States to be 105,36.056 on July l.
Chicago-President Earling of the
Milwaukee says there is no truth in
the report that he is about to resign
Chicago-Forty head of beef cattle
were sold in Chicago recently at $14
per hundred, the worlds record price.
New YOrk-The General Electric
company expects to employ 10000
women to take the places of men who
may be called to war.
London - The Krupps, German
cannon manufacturers, are buying up
German papers with the idea Of start
ing a campaign for annexation.
Washington-Prop to poi
son the minds of South Americans
against the United States is being
conducted by German agents in the
United States.
New York-Cotton is to be placed
under export license ban Germany
! OH fciy,
ties of American cotton through neu
trail countries.
Washington-Milita information
is being sent from the United States
to Germany in the guise of press dis
patches addressed to insignificant
newspapers in Switzerland.
London-The German grain crop
will yield less than 1915, which was
the year of the great drought in Ger
many. The fruit and vegetable har-
vest is far below the average.
Detroit - Henry Ford's tractor
plant, now building at Cork, Ireland,
will be completed in the early spring.
1t will employ 1000 men ana will
turn out 1000 tractors annually.
Montreal-Canadian bankers say
that unless Canada is enabled to ne
gotate a credit in this country, re-
Gently refused, purchases to the val
ue of $72,O0O,000 month will have
to be cut.
Westinghouse patent has been
issued for new engine which utillz-
es free energy 1t is claimed the ma
chine can propel an airplane from
Washington to Europe and back
without replenishing its fuel.
Washington President Wilson
and Herbert C. Hoover are planning
the organization of great govern
ment corporation, with $1,000, 0,0O0,-
600 capital to regulate and handle
the wheat supply of the nation.
Detroit-Henry Ford has brought
suit against Louis Enright to recov-
er the loss of an automobile loaned
to him last year to demonstrate his
motor fuel which he claimed he could
produce for two cents per gallon.
London-It is admitted in the
reichstag that the war is costing
Germany at the rate of 1900, 10000 300
year. War taxes have reached $12O
per capita per year. Gold in the form
of jewelry is being Communicated by
} the government.
!. WashinStOn-Herber Hoover says
the government has no immediate in
tention of taking over packing plants
and grain elevators, but that ma
: tional contingency might arise during
5 the next five years which would make
such action necessary.
Washington-Italy has nearly L.
: 100000 reserve soldiers, trained
| equipped and ready to fight on any
l front except the Austro-Italian
where there is no place for them
They have rendered to the allies and
| may be moved to Flanders.
New York-John d. Rockefeller
! who was 78 years old few days ago
said: II am disciple of Theodore
Roosevelt I let my deeds speak for
: me and not my words" This state
ment was made in answer to a ques-
7 tion as to what he thought about the
, war.
Washington-The state depart
. ment has received cablegram advices
to the effect that the inner political
storm which is sweeping through
, Germany seems every hour more Sc
: we're. Danish newspapers are apenly
, discussing the possibility of a Ger
! man revolution.
, Washington-Elihu Root of the
Russian mission says: 1--WE have &C
complished what we went to Russia