Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
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several thousand men to storm the city
hall and lynch negro accused of
shooting j. E. Childress and Sheriff
Flynt and attacking Mrs. Childress.
/ Minnesota will remain wet complete
official returns announced by the
proposed dry amendment to the state
constitution failed by 1856 votes at the
general election November 5.
American copper industry through a
committee of producers and refiners
| have agreed with the war industries
board to maintain the present rate of
production and preserve existing levels
of prices and wages.
WASHINGTON.
| Movement of American troops across
the Atlantic has stopped entirely and
rehabilitation of troops in canton
/ way.
Provost General Crowder has or
dered the discontnuance of all phys
| ical examinations of draft registrants
and of all work by district draft
boards on the classification of regis
| trantS.
The suffragists still need one vote
| to pass the Susan Il. Anthony amend
ment through the senate. They have
| 100 days left in which to secure this
vote before the present congress ends
If favorable action is not secured by
March 4, the measure will have to be
put through the house again
Arrangements for bringing home the
troops in France are being worked out
rapidly from shippiNg point of view,
the shipping board announced Satur-
day, in issuing call for 500 volunteers
to man the ships that will be used for
that purpose.
Downward revision of the war reve-
Due bill to about the six billion dollar
total recommended by Secretary Nc
Adoo appears to be assured.
Regardless of the ending of hostil
tiles Director General McAdoo intends
to continue to unity railroad operations
and poe facilities throughout the per-
iod of government control, which under
the law will end twenty-one months
after peace is formally declared.
FOREIGN.
King Ferdinand III of SaXony, who
held out to the last against the ma
tion-wiGe clamor in Germany for the
elimination of all kings and princes,
has abdicated, it is officially an
nounced from Berlin. This makes the
fourth of the German "kingdoms king
less" Prussia, Bavaria and Wurttem-
burg having been proclaimed repub-
lies in the early phase of the revolu-
ton.
Emperor Charles has specifically re-
linquished the throne of Hungary, ac-
cording to a dispatch received from
Budapest.
Two hundred cadets and 103 other
sailors on the German training ship
Schlesien were drowned when she was
sunk by two German battleships fly
ing the red flag.
Count Wilhelm Hohenzollern is now
nearly broke except for considerable
property in the United States and
Canada, held in another persons name,
the Daily Express is informed by Its
Amsterdam correspondent.
The British government is prrang-
ing for the departure 10 the United
States of a number Of German vessels
for the purpose of bringing to Ger
many fo0dstuffs which the allies VIII
permit Germany to receive.
1t is learned upon the best author
ity that former Crown Prince Fred
erick William of Germany and twelve
officers have been granted safe resi-
dence by the governor of Limburg at
Maastrict, Holland.
DIR. Matthias Erzberger, who was
the civilian head of the German arm
istice commission, will be Germanys
representative in the preliminary
peace negotiations, in conjunction with
DR.. w. S. Solf, the foreign minister.
Holland is our Elba," said Ger
man in the encourage of the kaiser in
conversation with Dutch official, ac-
cording to the Amsterdam correspon-
dent of the Express.
Fearing the wrath of the German
people, Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz,
, former German minister of marine,
fled from Germany just before the
revolution, presumably on advance
notification. The F'rankfurter Eel
tung saws he Is now in Switzerland.
Developments in Europe, not only
military but in international politics,
and the tendency of the revolutionary
spirit manifested by the demoraliZed
civilian population of the central EN-
pires to spread to neighboring states,
have influenced the allied and Ameri-
can governments to arrange for the
meeting at an early date of the great
peace congress
The armistice terms imposed upon
the Turkish war forces in MesopOtamia
as officially announced comprises
Evacuation of the Musel Villayet. Sur
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