The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-07-20
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
U.S.-Teut0nic War News

U.S.-TeutOnic War News
War appropriations of about S3,0OO,-
100000 in addition to the enormous
sums already appropriated or sought,
will be asked of congress at Washing
ton is estimates which administration
officials have given notice will be sub
mitted next week.
Formal announcement was made by
the war department at Washington
that 6S7 900 men will be selected from
those registered on June for the first
national war army, and to fill vacan-
cies In the National Guard and the
regular army.
Secretary Baker announced at Wash
ington that in the drawing to select
men for draft into the war army num-
bers will be drawn representing every
one of the nearly 100000 registered,
so that each man may know the order
In which he is liable to be called for
service.
Rudolph Haecht, cousin of Otto III.
Kahn, the banker and prominent In So
ciety, was taken into custody at New
York by federal secret service men and
will be informed on Ellis island for the
balance of the war.
Dispatches to Washington announc-
Ing the destruction of the Kansan by a
German submarine, said that four
members of the crew were missing, but
all the armed naval guard was safe.
The vessel was valued at $3,OOO,OOO.
Peace without annexation is not ac-
ceptable to Germany. Germany can
win IL she holds out. Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg so declared in a
speech before the main committee OF
the reichstag at Berlin, according TO
the Lokal Anzeiger. 81 consider 1t my
duty to remain as chancellor for the
protection of the fatherland. / cannot
give Germany's peace terms now" he
said.
While becalmed, the American bark
entine Hildegard, 622 tons, was sunk
by submarine The crew was landed.
Domestic
A child was killed. number Of peo-
pie injured and thousands of dollars
worth Of damage was done at Fair
mont, H., by storm which attained
cyclonic violence. The three-year-old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pritchard
lost her life and the mother suffered
a broken arm.
Thirty men were injured, several
probably fatally, in rioting between
Americans and foreigners employed in
the lead mines at Flat River, Mo. Sew
eral hundred men formed an unofficial
posse and have undertaken to drive
from the town every foreign laborer
known to sympathize with /. w. w.
agitators or with German agents be-
lieved to have been active In the dis
trict. =. IT, -. e 90 y.
-
More than LOO alleged Industrial
Workers of the World, deported from
Bisbee, Ariz., were put aboard "a cat
tie cars and sent to New Mexico. The
men were driven from the city by
deputy sheriffs and about 1000 armed
men, members Of an organization
known as the Citizens Protective
league" Two men were killed.
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reign Of terror" has struck north
ern Idaho. Industrial Workers of the
World are spreading all over the state.
Two thousand troops are needed in
northern Idaho to cope with the gi-
gantic fight being put up by the /. w.
w. to prevent the United States from
getting 2,OOO,OOO,0O0 feet of lumber
necessary to carry on its war program.
This was the gist of the recommends
ton made by the state defense coun-
Gil In its report to the secretary Of
war. =
The Nebraska council of defense is
Sucu SLdLemeHl Ut LluCOlD, tIluIklhS
"certain professors of the University
of Nebraska" and 1.-THE conspicuous
representatives of the Lutheran
church" in the state with "disloyal ac-
tivity and passivity that has tended to
give aid and comfort to Germany as
an enemy"
Names for four of the cantonment
camps at which the national army will
be trained were designated by the war
department at Washington as follows:
Second division, Yaphank, L. l., Camp
Long Island; Third division, Wrights-
town, N. j., Camp Wrightstown !;
Fourth division, Annapolis Junction,
Md, Camp Admiral; Fifth division,
Petersburg, Va, Camp Virginia.
The United States government has
decided to take out of the I. w. w. or
:ganization that part of 1t which is
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