, 1918-09-12
FOREIGN

In the month of August.
Reports Of the killing of Sassanoff,
former Russian foreign minister at
Simbirsk. were confirmed.
Hsu Shin Chang. former president
of the privy council, has been elected
President of the Chinese republic by a
large majority.
Residents of the Seward peninsula
Of Alaska. one Of the far northwest.
ern parts of the United States, assert
they have contributed an average of
s81 each to war work.
Dora Kaplan. who attempted to
asassinate Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshe-
vik premier, is in a critical condition
at a hospital in Moscow as the result
of rough handling by a mob after the
attack. says a dispatch from MOSCOW.
The Dutch minister at Berlin has
been instructed to protest against the
destruction by German submarines of
vessels within what is designated as
the barred one and against the sink
ing of seven Dutch fishing vessels on
Aug. "a.
Belated dispatches reaching the
State Department from Irkutsk, ST.
IBERIA. via Picking, said the Bolshevist
army east of Lake Baikel has been
destroyed by the Czecho-Slovaks: that
Cossacks are cooperating with the
Czechs, and that all Americans in ST.
IBERIA are safe.
A Czecho-Slovak officer has arrived
at Archangel with word that $4,000
loyal Russians are cooperating with
the 10000 Czecho-Slovak forces NOV
ing westward along the Transsiberian
railroad from Ekaterinburg. The
news reached the State Department in
a message from Ambassador Francis
dated Aug. 26.
Enactment of a law in Germany to
prevent widows from remarrying so
as to leave a few available men for
single women is urged in a letter to
the Tag by a Munich doctor, Hans Won
Hertig. He points out that the wild
ows, through remarrying after the
war, would have a detrimental effect
on the birth rate. ION Dec. 1, 1870"
he writes, there were in Germany
about 100000 widows between the
ages of Is 45. At a very modest
estimate there are now 100000"
SPORT
Penn State will open it's football
season Sept. %, with Muhlenberg.
Boston won the first and Chicago
the second game of the worlds series.
Sonny Slope, a 3-year-old colt by AS
tronomer-Neva w, was sold at Bel
mont Park, N. Y, by William Martin,
who owned and trained him, to the
Beech stable. While the price was
not announced, it was said t o be in
excess of $25, 900.
War made its hand felt in the at
tendance and receipts of the first
game of the world series. The figures
on the opening game at Chicago and
a year ago.: 191S-Attendance, 1924;
receipts, $S0.34S; players share, $751;
SS7.92; each clubs share, $5,462.64;
national commission share, S3,O34.S0.
1917-Attendance, $4,000; receipts,
$73.152; players share, $39, 500. 06; n a
tional commission share, $7,315.20.
GENERAL
New York turned back to the horse
drawn age in its observance of the
first Sunday ban OF gasoline.
The destruction of the machinery
on several German steamships in
termed in Chilean ports by their crews
is being investigated by the Chilean
government.
The Navy Department was informed
that the American steamer Lake
Owens had been sunk by a submarine.
Five members Of the civilian crew
are reported lost.
The governments capital issues
committee announces it will not ap-
prove the sale of any securities dur
ing the fourth Liberty Loan campaign,
between Sept. % and Oct. 10, except
refunding issues to AXE care of ma
turtles within that period.
The assertion that Count Won Bern
storff in his efforts to spread Ger
man propaganda in the United States
actually purchased and controlled
Fair Play, a New York publication.
enlisting the services Of a native-
born American to conceal his hand.
was made in a statement issued in
New York by Alfred L. Becker, dep
uty attorney general.
Arrival of Maj. Gen. William s.
Graves and his staff at V~ladivostok
to take command of all American
forces fighting on the new eastern
front was announced in Washington
by General March. General Graves
took with him from the United States
forty-three officers and 1888 men who
will join the regiments from the Phil
ippines already on the ground.
Gov. Charles s. Whitman Of New
York was renominated for a third
term in the Republican primaries by
"a majority over Attorney General
Merlin E. Lewis of approximately
1900 In the Democratic primaries,