Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-04-13
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making AHlstory
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
INTER- MOUNTAIN

arm being pulled from his shoulder.
He bled to death.
The Seattle office of the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha, a Japanese steamship
company, announced April A it had re-
ceived a cable from Toxic saying the
Japanese government had cOmman-
deered nine of the company's steam
ers, to be turned over to the United
States government.
w. NJ Nelson, former secretary of
the Industrial Workers of the World
local at st. Maries, Idaho, was SEN
fenced to serve not less than two nor
more than ten years in the penitentiary
in the district court at Occur dAlene,
having been convicted of criminal syn
dicalism.
Joseph w. Hawkins, q brakeman on
Union Pacific train, was dangerously
stabbed during an alteration with III.
Christman. sleeping car porter, at
Laramie, Wyo.
The Rev. DR.. Evander McNair, civil
war chaplain and intimate associate OF
General "Stonewall" Jackson, died at
Denver after an illness of many
months. He was 50 years old.
DOMESTIC
INVESTIGATION by the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers has revealed
many industrial opportunities open to
American soldiers disabled in the war,
f. w. Keough, member of the asso-
citation, declared in an address at New
York before the State Charities Aid as
ISOLATION.
John A. Frye, former stenographer
of the Prescott State bank of Prescott,
Ariz., shot and killed himself at Provi-
dence. r. l., when detectives sought to
arrest him on charge of victimizing
three New York banks for $4,000.
]. H. Conrad, wholesale dealer in
grain and mill seeds at Omaha, and
the Omaha Alfalfa Milling company,
both charged before the federal food
administration for nebraska of profit
seering, Friday voluntarily went out of
the mill feed business temporarily
rather than have their licenses re-
voked.
The war industries board has had a |
priority order issued prohibiting all
shipments of lumber except those |
needed for ships, aircraft and the
army and navy.
Student Aviator Thomas W. Eden
of Wilmington, Del, was killed and
Student j. j. Mitchell, Jr., was seri-
ously injured in collision at Key
West, Fla, of airplanes, which they
were plotting. The machines were
flying 100 feet from the ground.
Lieutenants r. F. Ives of Chicago,
Carl e. Ekstrand of Brooklyn, N. Y,
and Russell H. Dwiggins of Wayne
town, Ind, were killed in aviation ac-
cidents at Houston, Texas, Thursday.
Robert P. Praeger, said to be of Ger
man parentage, was hanged to a tree
at Collinsville, ILL.,, by a mob of 800
persons, which dragged him from the
basement of the city hall, where he
had been in hiding. Praeger was ac-
cused of making disloyal remarks in
a recent address to miners at Marys-
vile, III.
Richard Mansfield, 20 years OF age,
son of the late Richard Mansfield, IA
nous American actor, who enlisted in
the aviation section of the signal
corps at New Haven, died at a camp
in San Antonio, Texas, April A.
Joseph w. Austin, after being dis
charged from the regular army be-
cause Of minor physical defect,
dressed himself in his army uniform
and hanged himself at Springfield. Ill.
He was subject to draft.
AS an aid to future military pre-
paredness, 1t was announced Thurs
day, Chicago park commissioners will
provide instructors to drill small boys
in city parks this summer.
John w. Rynders, grocer of
Athens, ILL.,, is wearing about his neck
big American flag tied there last
Thursday by 'loyalists," who forced
him to kiss the emblem and to swear
allegiance to the American cause.
Count Won Bernstorff, former Ger
man ambassador to the United States,
was involved in the producing of the
film, Spirit of '76," which is alleged
to have been made to show the British
in an untrue light, according to the
prosecution in the investigation at Los
Angeles of the picture.
Miss Mary Hallam, so years old, and
known as the dean Of the saleswomen
of the United States, is dead at Chi
cage. She was employed by one Chi
cago department store for forty-hve
years, and numbered among her Gus
toners Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and Mrs
Ulysses S. Grant.
On the face of newspaper returns
Congressman Irvine L. Lenroot, Repub
lican, was elected to the United States
senate from Wisconsin by a plurality
of from 5000 to 1900 over Joseph F.
Davies, Democrat. and choice Of Presi'