The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28

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 BRIEF NEWS NOTES The Diamond and Bell mines of | the Anaconda company resumed op- erations. Baron Rothermere, newspaper 1 cliffe, was made Minister of the Aiy Board.
 District Attorney Swann announc- | ed that Investigations for the swim | dlers at the many benefit funds were 1 under way.
 | Gaston B. Means will be put on trial 1 at Concord, N. C., for the death of 1 Mrs. King, of New York, the wealthy | widow.
 A bill is being drafted to give Sec- l r>tary Daniels power to promote na- | U,l officers for the period of war on | acts of gallantry.
 Gen. Sir Herbert Hummer, who has been in the thick of the fighting at | Tyres, will be sent to command the I British forces in Italy. | Three New York women, sentenced 1 to jail for picketing the White House,
 were paroled on ground that jail
 would imperil their health. l Three Germans violating the Presi- I dents proclamation to stay away from 1 the waterfront were arrested and in- termed on Ellis Island.
 Colonel House declared to newspa- l per men of Britain. France and Amer l lea that his mission was purely for the prosecution of the war.
 Major H. F. Lincoln and Paul Wright, an aviator at Langley Field, l Newport News, Va, fell 2,500 feet in- 1 to a pond and escaped injuries. An artillery salute of 19 guns will be fired in honor of T. Roosevelt upon his arrival in Toronto to speak in be-
 half of the Victory Loan. I pLy
 says Jews arriving from Jerusalem re- | port some of the people being iogged | to death by the Turks. To prevent the wasting of corn, ow- | ing to the shortage of labor, husk- | ing bee will ta,1e place at the farms | of wealthy residents of Newport, R. T. nf hn TNa1 11riY 7cr Machine Co. of Camden, N J., who
 receive less than $50 weekly were granted a 10 per cent. wage increase. Another appeal to the women of the country to keep on knitting for | the soldiers and sailors has been
 made by Secretaries Daniels and Ba-' ker. ,- 1 H. G. Turner, St. Louis organizer
 for the United Shoe Workers, has
 been abducted. Several men in an
 automobile kidnapped him from Mo- l berly, Mo.
 optimistic with regard to the situa-
 tion. The president of a large con-
 cern says there is no need fearing that any one will freeze. l Admiral Walter Cleveland Cowles,
 U s. N, died suddenly in Redlands, | Cal He was the only man, with the exception of Dewey, to have attained
 the rank since 1891.
 Major General Treat. who arrived
 commander of the New York troops
 at Spartanburg, returned from Eu-
 rope and will proceed to his head
 quarters in South Carolina. ] Prof. Franklin Matthews, teacher of journalism in the Columbia Uni
 versity, dropped dead on the Long Island railroad platform of the Penn IsyIyania station in New York.
 Because he fell short of weight by seven pounds, Ernest Porter of New
 York, a descendant of Admiral Por-
 ter and Farragut, was denied entrance
 to the navy He weighed only 1O3 pounds.
 President Wilson made an appeal to negro farmers of the South to do all they can to help win the war by
 producing foodstuffs for their own
 needs and cultivating a normal cotton
 acreage.
 1 Russian Ambassadors in Paris, Lon
 don and Rome will follow the lead | of Am bassador Bakhmetieff in Wash tngton of refusing to take orders from the Bolsheviki government at
 the same time retaining their places. | Major General Treat, who arrived on a French vessel at an Alta nttc port, declared that the worst foes of
 the United States and the Allies were Amud, rain and cold.