Taiban Valley news., 1917-11-16
FOREIGN

LlluOklam is CRITICAL. Ihere is little
hope of her recovery, her physicians
said at Honolulu.
The British cabinet has passed ia
vorably on the proposed plan for the
establishment of Palestine as a ma
tional home for the Jewish people.
The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin
says that Budapest newspapers an
nounce that the Austro- Hungarian
Augleich will be renewed provisional
ly for two years.
Italy will continue to fight until the
end despite the efforts of German
propaganda and the disaster on the
lsonzo 'front.' in the opinion of official
circles at Rome.
The first three American soldiers
killed in the trenches in France are
sleeping in French soil, honored by
the American army and the people
and army of France.
Premier Kerensky has been over
thrown; the Bolsheviki-or immediate
peace advocates-have assumed pos
session of Petsograd and issued a
proclamation favoring Russias max
ing peace.
Finland's position is desperate and
her outlook hopeless, according to an
appeal sent President Wilson by
Professor Wendt. The whole nation,
he declared, approaches the winter in
a state of famine
That the Russian coup d'etat was
engineered and subsidized by Ger
many for the purpose of eliminating
Russia from among her enemies is
the virtually unanimous opinion ex-
pressed in a newspaper editorial COM
ment at London.
AT Santa Ana de Livramento, Bra
zil, officials believe the settlement of
the strike, which has greatly interfer-
ed with the shipment of foodstuffs
and other supplies to the ente allies,
is only temporary and that the Ger
mans are fomenting new walkout
In the battle for the possession of
Petrograd the Women's battalion of
death, charged by the old government
with defense of the winter palace held
out to the last and only surrendered
when literally overwhelmed by the
Bolsheviki troops and menaced by
enough guns to blow up the whole
palace.
SPORTING NEWS
Gunboat Smith and, Fred Fulton
heavyweights, will meet at Minneapo-
lis, Nov. 20 in a ten-round no-decision
boxing contest.
Proceeds of the liberty golf tourna-
ment conducted by the United States
Golf Association during the summer
for the benefit OF the Red Cross, was
$72,375, it was announced in New
York.
The Western League of Baseball
Clubs will fight any movement for a !
third major league which provides for
the American association taking over
any Western league territory, accord
ing to E. w. Dickerson, president of |
the Western league.
GENERAL
Woman suffrage carried in New
York by about 100000 majority, add
ing 100000 voters to the Empire
state.
A complete wireless receiving out
fit has been discovered near Norwich,
Conn, by federal agents and confis-
Gated by the government.
The news from Petrograd telling of
the overthrow of the Russian provis-
ional government precipitated a fresh
slump in the stock market in New
York.
DR.. Harry Lorenzo Chaplin, physi-
clan, author and traveller, was mur-
dered by an unidentified assailant In
a room at downtown hotel at. Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Julia Smith, II years old, daughter
Of John Smith, a miner of Dawson, N.
NJ, walked into the office of Mayor
Speer of Denver and asked him to
with her father and tell
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her back home.
At Mineola, L. l., Mrs. Blanca De
Saulles is fighting to keep her son,
Tack, 5, from being delivered to the
custody of Charles A. De Saulles, her
lead husbands brother. Mrs. De
5aulles killed her husband in a quar-
ell over the boy. She goes to trial
or murder Nov. 49,
Charles c. Parsons of Hollywood,
Jal., formerly of Denver for twenty
i've years, died at his residence, aged
2 years. In the days when Leadville
vas at the height of its boom Mr..
Parsons had a law office there with
)harles S. Thomas, now United States
enator from Colorado.
A corn crop, larger by more than
100000 bushels than ever grown in
he history of American agriculture,
S the production of the farmers Of
he United States this year. The de-
artment of agriculture in it's prelim-
nary estimate of the crop, placed the
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