Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-07

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of six-months' sentence in the War
rensville, Ohio, workhouse for spread
ing birth control propaganda.
Invention of concrete freight car
as a means of solving steel conserva-
ton and troop and supply transpo.ta-
ton problems, is announced at San
Francisco by A. G. Greenvank, drafts
man employed by the state harbor com
mission.
The crew of the tug Triton, which
reached an Atlantic port Friday re-
ported having been fired upon by ar
enemy submarine in fog off Boone Is
land The tug changed its course and
raced here for safety.
WASHINGTON.
Plans for President Wilson'S speech
making for the Fourth Liberty loan
are taking hope and it is said his cam
paign may carry him to the Pacific
coast.
UsurpatiOn of power, inefficiency and
unjust abuse of business interests are
among charges made against the fed
eral trade commission and laid before
President Wilson by the chamber of
commerce of the United States.
Pledging anew to the world the con-
secration of every strength of arm and
brain in America to the winning of the
war, President Wilson IN his Labor
day proclamation, issued September
1, ranked the army of labor working
at home with the army abroad.
Director General McAdoo has or
| dered all railroad men, officials and
employees alike, to keep out of politics.
One-thrd of all the gasoline pro
duced in the midcontinent fields in the
next three mouths is to be turned over
to the government for war purposes,
according to an agreement reached at
conference between government Of
ficials and western refiners and job
bers.
A treaty providing for the drafting
for military service of Greek citizens
in America and American citizens In
Greece, similar in general terms 10
conventions between the United States
and other co-belligerents, was signed
at the state department Friday by Sec
rotary Lansing and Minister Roussos
FOREIGN.
The japanese government is plan"
ming the organization of commission
composed of officials, bankers, business
men and scientists to study the ques-
ton growing out of the recent food
disturbances, including labor and So
cial problems.
Yaqui Indians have revolted at Ortiz,
Sonora and Culiacan, in the Mexican
state of Sinaloa.
The Telegraf says it learns new
sickness, probably cholera, has broken
out in Belgium. Thirty young persons
died last week in a village near Diest
seventeen miles northeast of Louvain.
For the first time American troops
fought on Belgian soil September l.
They captured VoormeZeele and wero
engaged in the operations elsewhere
in the same locality.
Representatives of eleven Rim.
towns are holding a meeting at Saar
brueck, according to German advices.
discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of urging
an agreement by both groups of bel
ligerents not to attack open towns or
of increasing the antl-alrcraft de-
lenses.
Hang Hui Lung, minister of educa-
ton for China, brother of Admiral
Ting Fiji All Ming of the war depart
ment, Pekin, was assasSinated at Vic
toria, b. c., by a local Chinese barber,
who then committed suicide.
The Spanish government has decided
to take over all the German steam
ships interned in Spain, in accordance
with SPANS recent note to Berlin, be
| cause of the torpedoing of Spanish yes
sells by German submarines.
Mount Vesuvius is in violent erup-
ton for the first time since November
% last year.
Serious strikes involving 100000
workmen have broken out at Bochum
in Westphalia, according 10 dispatches
| Friday from Munich. Three thousand
strikers have been sent to the from,
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| under escort.
Thousands of anonymous revolution
airy pamphlets are beginning to inaKe
| their appearance in many parts of Ger
many, according to an official dispatch
from France.
Twelve hundred German mutineers
] have joined forces with an armed peas
ant body and attacked the German
forces in the region of Dymera, "a
miles from Kiev, according to Rus
sian wireless dispatch received from
Moscow
II. Herman Harjes of the banking
firm of Morgan, Harjes & Co., and
formerly high commissioner of the
American Red Cross society for France
and Belgium, was seriously injured in
an automobile accident near Yer
SALES.
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