The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-04
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throughout the United States Will
raise fund for the relief OF Arme.
mans and Syrlans,
As a coal conservation measure, all
lights except those necessary for
safety will be extingllhshed In New
York six nights a week.
Fire destroyed eight acres OF the
Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending
company's munitions plant at Harris
burg, Pa, with q loss OF more than
$3.50 900.
No more silver coins are being used
in Italy. Il was discovered local and
foreign spectators we're melting
them up and reselling the metal at u
good profit.
Fire which followed q violent explo-
sion destroyed the $2.5O0.0O0 plant Of
private corporation on Staten Is.
land which has q contract for the re.
duction of all garbage from the city
OF New York.
Mexican congress adjourned until
Sept. I.
A small American patrol boat was
sunk off the Atlantic coast, the navy
department announced. The crew was
rescued.
With railways IN government
hands, 1t is said boat lines will be
utilized as adjuncts OF railroad traffic,
instead Of stifed as competitors.
Fire, believed to have been of In,
cendiary origin, partly destroyed a
branch plant of the American Pro-
peller and Manufacturing company at
Baltimore. The concern is engaged
in making airplanes for the govern
ment.
For the first time in the history
of Methodism, the average salary OF
the Methodist preacher is more than
$1,000, according to Rev. Joseph B.
Hingeley, corresponding secretary,
board Of conference claimants, Meth
odist Episcopal church.
Alaska is now bone dry. The ban
on liquor closed saloons which have
been operated since 1898 during the
gold rush.
Snow fell at Miami, Florida, the
first ever seen in that section.
Argentine trading snip Pimento is
aground in aedificult spot off the
Atlantic coast. The crew has been
taken of.
Thirty-one murders were committed
in Franklin county, o., during 1917.
according to- the annual report OF
Coroner Herskowitz. Suicides total.
ed 90
With the temperature at 16 below,
three inmates of Sing Sing prison,
whose terms expired, pleaded to be
allowed to remain another day. Their
request was granted
Edward B. Mclean of Washington
and Cincinnati purchased supply
of coal and in his Washington news
paper he announced a plan to give 1t
all away in bushel lot to the poor.
General Anson George McCook, a
veteran of the civil war and a prom.
inent Republican politician, died in
New York of pneumonia He was 81
years old. He was horn In Steuben-
vile, o.
Women telephone operators are be-
ing sent abroad for service at the
Offices Of the American forces In
France. They have the same priv.
ileges and allowances as army nurses.
Two men we're killed and a third 10
expected to die as the result Of an ex-
plosion which occurred at the Bac-
chus plant Of the Hercules Powder
Powder company, 18 miles from Salt
Lake City.
With the arrest at Bristol, Pa, of
Joseph Tausan on charge Of arson.
Fire Marshal Brophy Of New York
city announced that he believed a
long step had been taken in clearing
up several mysterious water front
fires.
Credits to the allies passed the
$4,000, 100000 mark when Secretary
McAdoo authorized additional loans
of $1S5,000,000 to Great Britain for
January purchases from the United
States; $165,O0O,OOO to France;
$7,500,000 to Belgium, and $1,000, 900
to Serbia.
New York school children have
thus far invested nearly $4,000 in
war savings stamps.
Earthquake shocks have forced peo-
pie out OF their homes In Guatemala
City.
DR.. Maurice F. Egan, American
minister to Denmark, has arrived in
the United States on his way to
Washington.
President Wilson celebrated HE
61st birthday anniversary by putting
in his usual days work. He received
many messages of felicitation.
DR.. Charles w. Mitchell, SO, noted
specialist IN cnildren's diseases, and
a member OF the faculty of the Uni
versity Of Maryland, died of pneu
monia.
Lieutenant Archibald B. Roosevelt,
son of Theodore Roosevelt and who
is in France, is proposed for a cap
taincy Of infantry.
Three hundred American railway
engineers, who have been in Russia,
have arrived in Japan. Work on the
Ttrans-Siberian railroad mas been
temporarily abandoned.
DIR. James Brock, deputy warden
of the Atlanta federal prison, was
instantly killed by Demeter Popof,
an AustroHungar1an prisoner, who
was sent to the institution from To-
ledo, O., last May for counterfeiting.
Engagement of Miss Virginia B. LO-
ney, heiress survivor Of the Lusi-
tania, to Robert Howard Gamble,
naval corps aviator Of Jacksonville,
Fla. was announced at New York.