Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-12
Domestic

Domestic
Receipt of orders from Washington
to intern DR.. Karl Oscar Bertling as
an enemy alien was announced by Of
f1cials at Boston. Doctor Bertling, who
was sent to this country by the Ger
mar government in August, 1914, as a
p~ropagandiSt, vas arrested at LeXing-
ton. He was sent to Fort O%glethorpe,
Ga.
Count Won Bernstorff, former Ger
man ambassador to the United States,
was involved in producing the film
spirit of '76," alleged to have been
made to show the British in an I'M
true light, according to the prosecu-
ton at Los Angeles, Cal, in investiga-
ton of the picture.
Unfair trade practices were charged
in complaints issued by the federal
trade commission against the Cutler
Mail Chute company of Rochester, N.
Y, and the American Mailing Device
corporation of New York.
The United States government ship
building program for March sur
passed the goal set in launchings by
1900 tons. the shipping board an
nounced, but fell short in deliveries be-
cause of shortage of steel plates.
Thirty hulls of 232,786 tons were put
into the water and 20 vessels Of 10000
tons were completed.
Alessandro Vallero, owner of a
Brooklyn coffee house and alleged lead
er of a gang of blackmailers and gun
men who, it is charged, committed %
murders, was sentenced to die in the
electric chair the week of May 5.
The curtain arose upon the first act
of the greatest Jurisprudence drama
staged in this country since the Unit
ed States entered the war, when ia
members of the Industrial Workers of
the World were placed on trial before
Federal Judge Lands at Chicago on
charges Of sedition and conspiracy
against the government to hamper the
war.
James Cowgirl (Dem.) was elected
mayor of Kansas City, Mo-, according
to late returns, which showed his plu-
rality nearly 5000 over Cyrus Crane,
the Republican candidate.
The vault of the Bank of Conception
at Clyde, Mo-, was blown open and
$1,SOO in cash was taken.
With an overwhelming outpouring of
loyalist votes in Tuesdays aldermanic
elections, Chicago shot Socialism into
oblivion. Not a single Socialist sur
vived the deadly concentration of lib
erty ballots" Mayor Thompson's can
didates were also beaten in every in
stance where there was a contest.
Five hundred and seven German
prisoners arrived in Atlanta, Ga, from
Fort Douglas, Ariz., and were sent to
the internment camp at Fort McPher-
son, to be kept for the remainder OF
the war. Their arrival increased the
number of war prisoners at the local
camp to 1878.
Twelve hundred foundrymen en-
ployed by the American Car and Foun'
dry company at Chicago went on strike
for an increase in wages and an eight.
hour day.
Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist
running on an antiwar platform, was
reelected mayor of Milwaukee.
Bloomington, Ill, voted by a ma
jority of 2,13S to close its saloons.
When Ut Gary, Ind, saloons CLOSED
at midnight 200 storerooms became va
cant and 1000 persons were compelled
to seek new employment.
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Government war work in the Hamp
ton Roads district was interrupted b,
a strike of several thousand carpen
tiers and other workers. The carpen
tiers inaugurated the strike for an in
crease in pay.
The wet and dry question was set
tied in Madison, Wis, by a majority O.
"a votes in favor of the drys.
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Rock Island, ILL.,, voted dry on Tues
day. The Al saloons which were lef
after the federal government had pu
81 out of business will have to close.
Two hundred and sixty-four Michi
gan firms working on war contract
are to be investigated by Herbert Cole
department Of justice agent, for al
legged violations Of government over
time regulations, says a dispatch from
Bay City, Mich.
The Indiana statewide prohibition
law. said to be the most drastic in tn
country, went into effect at midnigh
Tuesday. Arguments on the constitr
!, tionality of the act were made in tn
: supreme court and an early decision i
expected.
Chairman Hurley of the shippin
) board announced that the request G
{ the Atlantic and Pacific Steamshi
company for permission to place COZ
t tracts with %shipyards In Oregon fo
3 $50 motor-driven wooden ships of 3
900 tons each had been granted unde
certain restrictions.
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: The Monitor flour mills at Scribne
n Neb., was ordered closed for 80 day
s by the Nebraska food administratc
for violation of the rules requiring tt
shipment of substitutes with each shil
lment Of wheat -four.