Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15

reached a complete agreement in re-
lation to China and at the same time
have arrived at a clear understanding
as to military, naval and economic co
operation in the war against Germany.
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| In a pistol fight between Edward L.
knowles, negro robber, and three
policemen in Chicago, the negro was
killed and Policeman Michael Meehan
shot through one lung. Property
stolen by Knowles an hour before was
found.
The interior parish house of st. Ag-
mes German Catholic church of ST.
Paul was wrecked recently by bomb
hurled through a window by an uniden-
titled person. The five occupants of
the house escaped injury. The police
have no clew to the bomb thrower, but
every detective in the city is working
on the case
Private Wood of the Sixteenth Field
Artillery, stationed at the officers
training camp at Plattsburg, N ", is
in the guardhouse under suspicion of
being implicated in the killing of
twenty army horses in the last few
weeks.
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Federal agents at Detroit are IN
vestigating an alleged plot to abduct
or kill Henry Ford II, infant son of
Edsel Ford and grandson of the multi
millionaire manufacturer A letter de-
handing $4,000 from Edsel Ford, as
the price for the baby's safety, was
turned over to the postoffice inspec-
tors several DAVIS ago
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Southwest.
Prohibition headquarters claim that
New Mexico had joined the prohibit
ton ranks by majority of 10000.
Semi-officia1 returns were available
from only fifty-seven of 63S precincts
in the state.
A delegate convention of the coal
miners of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
and Arkansas in Kansas City Novem-
Der IL will decide whether the forty
thousand mine workers of the South
western district will go on a general
strike in protest against the demand
of Fuel Administrator Garfield that
the automatic penalty clause be in
serted in the new wage contract.
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Bill Tidwel1, a notorious bank rob-
Der, charged with murder, pleaded
guilty in the district court and re-
ceived a sentence of sixty-seven years
in the Oklahoma penitentiary at Nc
Alester.
American sentries fired upon a band
of six men crossing the river early the
other morning from Ell Paso to Juarez.
They were called upon to halt but
continued to the Mexican side of the
river when they returned the fire.
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Foreign.
Cable reports from Switzerland say
Germany has reached the crisis so far
as her man power is concerned For
three years, according to those dis
patches, Germany has lost on an av
erage of 100000 men annually and
this number will be at least eQuaIed
in 1918,
Commenting on the Austro-German
advance toward Venice, the semi-of
fetal Berlin News Agency prepares
the public for an attack on the famous
art center. 1t contends that Venice
has developed into an important cen
ter of war industries.
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A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph from Amsterdam says that, &C
cording to a frontier correspondent
the German authorities in Belgium
have imposed a fine of 10000, 0OO
francs on the province of East Elan.
ders because it failed to place 10000
laborers at the disposal of the Ger
Germans by November 1.
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According to the correspondent at
Gorilla of the Budapest newspaper
Pesti-Hirlap, the Austrians made their
attack upon Gorilla with a new pois.
onous gas, the invention of Viennese
professor.
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Twenty Mexican bandits were killed
recently near Queretero, Mexico, when
a car of dynamite in the freight sec
ton of a mixed train they had held 4
up and were escaping with exploded.
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A German uprising is in progress
in Southern Brazil, completely para,
lying railway traffic. according to prf
waite reports received in railway cir
cles- The strikes inaugurated in this
district are said to be spreading tc
other narfS of RraziJ