Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-21

president and the war, Newark ma
chinists have reversed their original
decision and will refuse to participate
in any sympathetic strike. More than
5000 machinists there are employed
on government work
M. Ossenbriggen rancher of Butte
county, Cal, Is the first human being
to contract anthrax during the expert
ments among cattle of Butte and
Glenn counties. OssenbrIggen con-
tracted the disease while skinning
COW that died from anthrax.
Department Of justice. national pro-
tective league and police officers raid
ed meeting of socialists at the
House of Masses at Detroit, Sunday,
interrupting an address by Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes, recently convicted of
violation of the espionage law.
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson has sent cable
| gram of congratulations to General
Pershing on the achievement of the
| Mihiel salient.
The administration measure de-
signed to stimulate the sale of Liberty
bonds by making larger amount Of
| them held by individuals and corpora
tons free from federal taxation, was
passed Friday by the house without
| "a dissenting vote.
The war department has taken over
| the Smith 4 Wesson company Of
| Springfield, Mass. and will operate
| the plant and business to secure con-
tinuous production and prevent indus
trial disturbance.
President Wilson has signed tho
| joint resolution passed by congress.
| empowering him to establish prohibit
ton zones around shipyards, mum
tons factories and other war indus
| tries.
Joseph C. S. Blackburn, former SEN
ator from Kentucky, and in recent
years resident commissioner of the
| Lincoln memorial commission, died
September u at his home in Wash
! lngton.
FOREIGN.
In extending an invitation to all the
belligerent governments to enter into
non-binding discussions at some neu-
trail meeting place, the Austro-Hun-
garian government states that the OBJ
| ject of the conference would be to
secure an exchange of views which
would show whether those prerequi-
sites exist which would make the
speedy Inauguration of peace negotia-
| lions appear promising"
/ When the st. Mihiel operations be-
gan there were from 10000 to 100000
Germans inside the salient. They es-
capped at the rate of 1000 hourly, but
the pincher closed and trapped hith
erto unknown number. An entir
German regiment, with its commander
and all the staff, were captured.
II Is learned that Germany has
made a peace offer to Belgium, in
which Belgium is to be become chat
tie of Germany, no admission being
made that Germany has wronged Bel
GUM, and no promise of indemnity or
PREPARATION being made.
The British steamer Galway Castle
of 1888 tons gross was torpedoed and
sunk Thursday morning. The miss
ing number $50, including 120 passen.
gers.
From the top of the city hall in
Paris the Stars and Stripes fluttered
all day Sunday, having been hoisted
by special order of the municipal coun'
ell in celebration of the American ST
Mihiel victory.
An official dispatch from France
says 1t is reported that Prince Henry
Charles of Hesse has accepted the
crown of Finland.
Substantial wage increases, an
eight-hour day and time and half pay
for overtime labor were granted the
operators of the Canadian Pacific Tele-
graph company by the labor commit
tee of the Canadian Pacific railway
war board. About 800 men are af-
! fected.
Germany's latest peace feeler, ad-
vanced through Austria, it was Off
cially stated at Washington, best finds
it's answer in President Wilson's Bal
timore speech delivered last April.
Force, force to the utmost. force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world, and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
Twenty-one important German
towns have been bombed by the Brit
ish independent air force during the
month of August, according to infor-
nation from an authoritative source.
| Reiterating that Germany, las the
innocent and attacked party" In the
war, had right to demand indemni-
fication, Friedrich Won Payer, the Ger
man imperial vice chancellor, in his
speech at Stuttgart, said that 1--WE
| prefer, on calm reflection and even