Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-09-06
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Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
!. S.-Teuto,1ic War News
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Enlisted men of the National army
National Guard and regular army vii
besgiven every opportunity to fit them
selves for commissions, it was learned
ut Washington.
The possibility that Austria ant
perhaps other allies of Germany may
soon declare war against the United
States because of the financial aid
given to Italy is recognized by admin
istration officials ut Washington.
The first death of an American
naval flyer In France was announced
ut Washington in official dispatches tc
the navy department. He was George
Herbert Mnnley, and was killed In an
nirplane accident.
Capt. Cyrus w. Crooks, master of
the American bark Christiune, which
was sunk by German submarine Au-
gust Z near the Azores, says he was
loIA thS WI kAAo
he "huted to sink American ships"
A catalogue compiled by the Har-
ward Alumni bulletin ut Cambridge.
shows about $500 Harvard graduates
and undergraduates engaged in war
work. Nearly every page bears the
nsterisk that designates death in ac-
ton.
UnpatriOtic utterances, especially by
men of prominence, are more likely to
he due to wrong attitude of heart
than I'M error Of the mind, according to
IN Interview with William Jennings
Bryan in Chicago.
by direction of President Wilson at
Washington practically every married
man upon whom his wife Is actually
dependent or who has children will be
exempted from the draft act. Only 5
per cent Of the men drawn for the new
September S. instead of 80 per cent,
us previously ordered.
The officers reserve camp ut which
are to be trained leaders for the Sec
ond lot of 100000 trained soldiers of
the National army opened at Fort
Sheridan. Ill.
Domestic
Thomas p. Flynn of Chicago was
elected president of the American
Federation of Catholic societies in the
annual convention Of that organiZa-
ton.
Andrew Lupe. fruit dealer, his wife
and three daughters, were burned to
denth in their apartments over Lupe's
store at Bad Axe, Mich.
Two men were shot and killed at
Chicago by payroll bandits who de-
mantled a satchel of money belonging
to the Winslow Bros. company. The
bandits escaped with 5000.
One thousand miners, on strike at
Wilkesbarre. Pa, for five days, refused
to obey their leaders and return to
work.
A battalion Of the Twenty-fourth
United States infantry arrived at Co
lumbus, N. NJ, under guard of two
companies Of the Nineteenth. The men
charged with Implication in Houston
riots were placed in stockade.
DIR. e. ]. Duncan, physician of
Olive Branch, Ill.,. was shot and killed
ut Cairo. III. Will Wilbourne admitted
that he fired the shot. Wilbourne said
Doctor Duncan had attacked and
choked his sister.
The police raided the Hamilton De-
tective agency In New York and ar
rested the head and the two employees
on charges of holding as prisoners
American sailors in order to claim $50
reward offered in each case of de-
serter delivered to his ship.
A contract for 1.O74.OOO gas masks
to equip the army has been awarded
to manufacturing company of Phila-
delphia. The contract calls for an ex-
penditure of $1,5O2,OOO. The govern
ment will furnish the material.
Herbert G. Hoover, federal food ad-
ministrator, told the farmers of the
nation the part they are asked to play
in helping the United States and its
allies win the war. He outlined the
agricultural features of the admins.
tration's policy. Hoover made his
statement in Chicago, where he spoke
before representatives, Of 1875 farm
journals.
Capt. Joseph w. Mates of Battery
A, Second Illinois Field artillery, who
died for the Stars and Stripes in the
Houston riot, was buried at Chicago