Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-01-02

U. a.. Strause, Banker who shot and
killed Berne Mead, hank cashier of tile
State Trust aud Savings bank at Poo,
ria, Ill, was held for murder. without
bail, BY cor0ner's jury.
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Eleven Italians, including one wOm-
an, We're sentenced to % years Inn
pr1sonment by Municipal Judge Back
us Of Milwaukee for participation in
the Bay View riots of September 9.
U. Te4t0r1ic War News.
That a number of American aviators
are the first American fighting unit to
reach Italian soil was revealed by ca
bles to the Italian embassy at Wash
ington. These men were given most
enthusiastic reception when they
marched through the Italian capital on
their way to the training camp.
Among Al officers Of the expedition
airy forces recommended for promotion
by General Pershing in a list made
public by the war department at Wash
ingtOn, is Second Lieut.. Archibald B.
Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt,
who is proposed for captaincy of in
fantry. <.....s s.
One hundred American soldiers witt,
the American army in France received
promotions for their Christmas pres
ents. Included in the lucky list were
two engineering officers whose cool
ness at Cambria helped the British
check the Boches' counter-attack.
German atrocities against American
soldiers are officially reported in dis
patches from France. An American
sentry has been found with his throat
cut, and, it is officially declared, che
must have been so killed after cap
ture."
Two commissioned officers and two
sergeants were seriously injured near
field headquarters Of the American
army in France, when an automobile
belonging to the aviation section
plunged Is feet down an -embankment
and overturned. 49,
Foreign
John F. Stevens, chief American
railway commissioner to Russia, ar
rived at Nagasaki, Japan, from Vladi-
vostok. In statement, Mr.. Stevens
said he fully expected soon to return
to Russia to prosecute the proposed
work of assisting in the reorganization
Of Russian rail communications.
Soldiers acting under the orders OF
! Finance Commissioner Menshinsky
surrounded and seized all private
banks in Petrograd, including the
branch of the National City bank of
New York. The manager, B. R. Ste.
vens, was arrested and detained for q
short time.
The advance guard of the German
peace delegation has arrived in Petro
grad, says dispatch from the capital
It consisted Of Baron Admiral Keyser.
lingk. who was formerly naval attache
to the German embassy in Petrograd
Captain Herman and Lieutenant Vierle
also naval officers.
achievement of the purposes fol
which the allies are fighting is essen
tial to the future freedom and peace
Of mankind" says Premier Lloyd
George in letter which he sent to the
labor congress in London. The pre-
mier's statement Is regarded as the
British reply to the German peace of
fer. -. =. :" :sa.-
France will not accept peace
based on conditions before the war
Foreign Minister Pichon declared IL
replying in the chamber of deputies a
Paris to the German proposals. HI
said Germany was seeking to protrac
the negotiations with the Russians ant
to re-establirh commercial relations
believing that in this way the bolshe
wiki might be checkmated.
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An earthquake, general throughou
Guatemala, caused loss of from ter
!, to forty lives and extensive propert!
damage in Guatemala City, the STATE
department. at Washington was ad
vised in a cable dispatch from thu
American charge there. ..@
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Nicholas Bololavetesky, Russian con
sui at Seattle, Wash, announced tina
| he had received cable telling of TIL
establishment of q new Russian gov
eminent at Veronezh, the capital of ,
province of the same name between
Moscow and Rostov-on-Don. This Il
the ninth portion of the old Russian