Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

| posse of citizens near aanghanl, La,
| across tho Mississippi River from here
tonight. after he had killed one white
man and wounded six others. Tho
negro fought until his ammunition gave
| out. then surrendered.
| WASHINGTON. June lS.--Ciovcrn-
ment farm loans decreased in May
amounting to $S.530.oOO to $500 farm
| ers as compared with past monthly
| averages OF about $l2,00O.Oo0 the Fed
eral farm loan board reported to-day.
| Other banks loans follow: st. Louis.
| sl.2oe.660: Columbia. $4,000: New
| Orleans. $753.500; Louisville, S560,u0O:
Baltimore. $50S,6oo.
| GENEVA. June IS.-The Tribune saws
IL learns from Il reliable source that
! F1eld Marshal Won HindenburG is suf-
| tcrinS fr-m an acute nervous disease
| tnat ms mental capacity is much ar
! lcctcd and that he is confined in a
private sanitarium. The newspaper
ADDS that Hindenburg took no respon-
I siole part in the recent offensive on the
western front. the work being chiefly
done by General Ludendorf.
WASHINGTON, June lS.-The Senate
woman suffrage Committee will meet
tomorrow to discuss the time for a
vote on the proposed equal suffrage
amendment to the Constitution. Most
/ CT the committee members will urge
tnat the resolution, which was adopted
by the House six months ago, be
brought before the Senate for final ac-
ton next week.
WASHINGTON. June lS.-To facili-
tate the greater use OF South Atlantic
and gulf ports for transatlantic ship
ping. the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to-day was authorized 10 make
| m Nm, la
10 these ports. This will tend to elm
| mate discrimination.
GENEVA. June lS-Sews from tho
Eastern Swiss frontier indicates that
the tro-TIungarians are SURPRISED
and disconnected at the sudden check
or their great offensive against Italy.
"here much greater gains OF territory
and booty were expected.
LONDON. Juno lS-A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph from copenharen
says that several thousand workpon
and women held demonstration Tues
nay in the streets OF Copenhagen. de-
rnnndinG bread and butter.
hEGHoRN. June ls.-The splendid
resistance OF the Italian troops in the
lace OF the Austrian offensive was cell
ebrated here to-day by the inaugural
ZION OF permanent monument to tho
United states in the form of model
school building and recreation park for
by the war.
81. FACL. MINI. June 1S-At mid
night tonight Governor j. A. A. Burn
duist had increased his primary elcc
tion majority for denomination to more
IMAM 10000 over his Republican OPP
ponent, Charles \. Lindbergh.
RALEIGH. n. c., juno 1s-After a
conference between Governor T. w.
Beckett and Mayor James l. Johnson.
OF Raleigh. II was announced to-day
that work will start Immediately for
the erection Of shower hats for the use
OF troop trains passing through the
city.
NEW YORK, June 1s.-Taking Of
testimony was finished to-day in the
case Of Joseph +. Rutherford, successor
OF Pastor Russell, as head Of the In
ternatonal Bible Students Association.
and six associates. who have been on
trial in the Federal Court in Brooklyn.
WASHINGTON. June 1S.--All knitting
hereafter must he done for and under
the supervision of the Red Cross. This
is the mandate of the government. an
nounccd to-day. The new policy was
adopted Al a conference of the represen-
tatives Of the wool commodities sec
ton of the War Industries Board and
the American Red Cross.
RALEIGH. N c., June 1s.-No soft
drinks and candy will be made in North
Carolina after July /. Food Admins
traitor Henry A. Page to-day Informed
100 or more county and city food ad-
ministrators In conference here.
WASHINGTON. June l8.-Congress is
to be asked by the War Department
for an appropriation to provide train
ing facilities in this country for forces
other than American troops. The nat
ural assumption is that any troops TO
be trained here would come from some
one of the nations in the Western