The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-09-20
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings Of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic.

julius H. Barnes, president of the
food grain corporation, New York, and
James F. Bell, general chairman OF
the milling division of the food ad-
ministration, located in the same city,
says there is absolutely not scintilla
of truth in reports Of the possibility
Of -four famine in the eastern states.
A troop train on the Pennsylvania
railroad was fired upon near Mingo
Junction, Ohio. Four soldiers were
wounded, one seriously. The wound
ed men remained on the train till it
reached Pittsburg. The train was fred
on while going at a rapid rate. In
formation is withheld by the authori-
ties as to the identity of the troops.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Elihu Root, ex-secretary of state, de-
livered stirring patriotic addresses in
Chicago.
Announcement is made that the
trial by courtmartial of the negro SOL
diers Of the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry charged with having
been involved in recent rioting at
Houston, Texas, will begin at Fort
Bliss within a week. Col. John A.
Hull and Maj. Dudley Sutphin have
been named as judge advocates of the !
court
Drafting OF ali aliens in the United |
States, except Germans, and others !
exempt by treaty, and those of coun-
tries allied with Germany who have
resided in this country one year, is
proposed in a joint resolution passed |
by the United States senate and sent |
to the house.
Negro soldiers Of the Twenty-fourth
United States infantry had planned
riot of bloodshed among the white
residents of Houston two days before
the deadly outbreak, which cost the
lives of fifteen Houston, Texas, citi-
zens August %, according to the re-
port Of the civilian board of inquiry,
which, it is stated, is concurred III by
General Chamberlain. |,
Supply Sergeant James M. Thomas,
SS years old, of Greenburg, Pa, and {
Private Jesse Hocknell, Of Atlanta, Y
Ca, "a years old, members of the i
Fifth company coast artillery of the 2
Chesapeake Bay district, stationed at I
fort Monroe, Va, are dead as the re- S
suit Of drinking grain alcohol. The f
army authorities are making a search
ing investigation Of the cases. e
In raid on the Philadelphia Tage- r
Olatt' long-established German Ian {
guage morning newspaper, which is t
charged with having been attacking t
government war policies for several S
months past, federal agents arrested a
Inc editor and business manager and c
conhscated large quantities of CORE
Spondence, files and documents. o
Equal suffrage for Maine women E
was defeated two to one at the spe- =
,lal election, September 10, according =
% newspaper returns from two-thirds
If the state.
Fifty-six alleged members of the -
'armers and Laborers' Protective as =
oclatlon were placed on trial in fed -
raj court at Abiline, Texas, charged =,
Win activities in opposition to the Sc 4
ectlve draft law which, in some in
tances, is alleged to have amounted p,
treason. The government will prob -
bly, ask that the death penalty be ~
one Italian was killed and another =,
atally wounded when an ATTEMPT was ~
1ade to break up patriotic open-air ~
1eet1ng in the Italian section of Mil -.
Taukee. Two police officers were -,
lightly injured p'