Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

In an address at the war conference
In Downing street Premier Lloyd
| George said the collapse OF Russia
and the reverses to Italy made It
even more imperative than before that
| the United States send as many troops
as possible across the Atlantic as
early as possible.
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Hurting red pepper into the eyes of
| the factory superintendent guarding
| the payroll, three armed bandits held
up two pay clerks at the Van Dorm
Iron Works Company in Cleveland,
| o., and escaped in a motor car with
between $4,000 and 10000.
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Chemicals used for fumigating are
| believed to have caused a fire on a
United States transport at an Atlantic
| port recently. The vessel had been
| sealed for fumigation and no one was
| on board when the blaze started.
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Union labor put it's stamp of ap-
proval on the attitude of Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
| GRAFTON of Labor, in working hand in
| hand with President Wilson and plac-
| ing the needs of the Nation above all
| other considerations in questions in
volving the workingman's part in a
vigorous prosecution of the war
against Germany.
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The war fund of 35 million dollars,
with which the Young Mems Chris
tian Association will provide care and
comfort for the soldiers and sailors of
America and her allies, has been
raised, it was announced in New York
by George w. Perkins, chairman of
the finance committee.
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P. D. Armour, third grandson of the
founder of the Armour packing indus
try, has enlisted in the United States
aviation corps. and was given COM
mission as first lieutenant. Lieuten-
ant Armour is 81 years old.
With all the pomp and ceremony of
the ancient Hawaiian funeral ritual,
befitting the departure of the last
monarch of the islands who had held
tenaciously to the traditions of her
former domain, Queen Liliuokalani
Honolulu recently.
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A bomb made of gas pipe and pow
der was picked up on the main floor of
| the Auditorium theater when the
| opera, ''Dinorah," was being sung, af-
| ter an incipient panic which followed
| an unexplained burst of flame had
been stilled by Director Campanini
swinging the orchestra into THE Star
| Spangled Banner"
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The One Hundred and Seventeenth
Ammunition Train of the Rainbow Di-
vision has arrived in France. That
| news, the first, was received at Kan
sas City in a cablegram from mem
| Der of the train Letters received in
dictate the signal battalion from Kan
sas City is in France also.
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| Southwest.
All Mexican federal soldiers, their
| families and horses will be sent to
Juarez soon, it became known att the
| internment camp at Maria, Tex The
! Mexicans who evacuated Ojinaga, OPP
| posite Preside, Tex, will go on a spe-
cial train to Ell Paso and from there
| to Juarez.
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The short wheat crop throughout
| the section tributary to Kansas City
| will necessitate the shipment of con-
| siderable amount of spring wheat tc
| local mills if they are to be kept run
ming continuously, E. d. Bigelow, Sec
rotary of the Kansas City board of
| trade, predicted recently.
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Chihuahua City, garrisoned by less
| than a thousand troops, was panic
stricken recently, expecting an attack
| from bandit forces led by Pancho Villa
reported advancing on the city from
| Ojiniga, according to Americans ar
irving at FL Paso. The attack on
| Juarez apparently has been deferred
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Sheriff A. L. Gregg of Elida, N. NJ,
| attempted to. arrest Charles Glover on
a charge of evading the draft The
sheriff was shot through the stomach
and Glover three times in the body
| Both will die.
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| Foreign.
The missing boat from the Ameri-
can steamship Rochester which was
| sent to the bottom by a German sub
| marine November has just landed at
| a port in Ireland, the British admir-
atty announces. The boat contained
| five men, the only survivors from the
| original boats crew of twelve.