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- urtoLk. Va, December ?.--owing
"a &c, acute recurrence OF the Spanish in
Hn,' IN IT'S most serious epidemic
FORM the health board Tonight issued
an order closing ali places Of amuse-
! thr order is effective at once.
NoRFo1;k. VA, December ?.--Thc
OF the United States Shipping Boards,
cmcrscncX fleet. with several hundred
student oihcers aboard. sailed for Bos-
toh To-Day. Ihe young men. who have
been on board training ships for some
time. will enter tho Shipping Roard's
centrai training school at Boston.
w ASiilNGTON. December 9.--For-
can government of the purpose or IN,
serbs. croats and Slovcncs formerly
held by the Austro.1iungarian gov
rrnment TO unite with the Kingdom
OF Serbia in a single Jugo- Slavic State.
ana to insist upon the evacuation OF
JuEo STAY territory now occupied by
Italy.
WASHINGTON. December a.--Ncgo-
t,'atin&, Tor tonnage to bring home the
Amsr,.Nl troops from France are
Hurley, OF the Shipping Board. said i'm
!, cablesram received to-day by the
-, CHICAGO, I'LL. December 9.--Mayor
thompson to-day allowed the ordinances
recently passed by the City Council
in Chicago to become a law without
his signature.
NEW YORK. December "a mode
rate reduction in the scale OF max i.num
prices Tor steel. beginning on January
l. is favored by the general commit
iNs on steel and STEEL products OF the
which meets with the War Industries
Board on Wednesday.
AMSTERDAM. December 9.--pol:Sh-
american divisions. according toa Well
informed source, says the Warsaw cor
respondent Of the Wcser Zeitung. fave
embarked at HaVre for Dan2ie in West
Il,
pyinS the Provinces OF posen and ST.
GArETowN, December via Brit
ish Wireless Servicc>.-Mass meetings
hcld to-day in Johannesburg. Durham
and Mosscll Bay adopted resolutions
opposing the return TO Germany oc her
former African colonies and insisting
upon the repatriation OF All German
citiZems now in This territory.
Judge Knox to-day discharged the Fed
cral grand jury. which. for ten wecks
had been Investigating the primary
ator-iGlect Truman H. Newbcrry, OF
Mirhigan who is commander in the
navy, No Indictment was returned by
NEW YORK. December a-The pres
"nt high wage scale is equitable. ac-
night by Judge Gary at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel before members of the
iron and Steel institute.
ne $4,000 campaign fund OF the Ma
iional Woman's party by New York
members.
NEW YORK. December "A league
OF nationsN supported not only by the
governmental. but also by tho moral
forces OF the world. was favored as a
means OF sustaining permanent peace
in an address here to-day by Monsiguor
Sigourncy Fay. domestic prclate TO the
Pope. He declared that the greatest
influence welded by any individual in
tho coming international conclavc
would be exercised by prcsidcn; Will
son.
PRINCETON. y. J.. December o
More than 100 Princeton graduates and
undergraduates made the suprcm -
sacrifice serving under tho America n
or allied flags during the war. It was
disclosed to-day. while the college fur
nished over 10000 men for the various
branches of war services. For con-
spicuous bravery. Sevcnty-two Prince
ton men were decorated
BEAUFORT. y. G., December 9.-Thc
steamship Donstanta ran aground on
Cape Lookout shoals at 1870 o'clock this
morning. but the vessel was noa,ed
three hours later and proceeded south
with apparently no damage.
tbpENIiAGf:N, December 9-John
II. Won llcGermann 1.indencronc. former
Danish minister to Paris and Berlin, is
dead