Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-09-27

| steamer Valbanera, which carried 400
passengers and crew of 50.
The railroad shopmen have reached
an agreement with United States Rail-
| road Administrator Walker u. Hines,
| ii was reported at New York. Six in
| ternationaI unions, representing Co.,
600 slopmen, have agreed to accept
| wage increases ranging as high as 20
! cents AN hour and an eight-hour work
day.
Shooting and killing one man who
attempted TO give warning, automobile
! bandits held lip;a branch of the Grand
| Rapids, (Mich) Savings bank and
escaped with several thousand dollars.
| WASHINGTON.
! The government is ready to proceed
with all antitrust cases pending in the
| supreme court. They will he argued
during the term beginning October 6,
unless some of the defendants obtain
Il conta inuance.
| Prices of food increased per cent
in August as compared with July and
reached the highest point in the ma
tons history despite the governments
campaign to reduce the cost of living.
AT a joint session of the senate and
house on Thursday, General Pershing
received the thanks of a grateful ma.
ton for his leadership during the
world war.
No wage increases will te granted
at this time TO navy yard employees
or workmen in shipwards engaged on
government work. representatives of
the Emergency Fleet corporation and
the navy department have decided at
IL conference held at the navy depart
ment.
! Opposition of several members, pri-
vately expressed, caused house lead
ers to abandon the proposed appropri-
alton of $4,000 for the gift of sword
to General Pershing.
The house has passed and sent to
the senate bill making transpOrta-
ton of stolen automobile from one
state to another subject to five years
| Imprisonment and $4,000 fine.
| FOREIGN.
| Great Britain's treaty with Persia
does not constitute a protectOrate o.
the latter country in any way, the only
object of the agreement being to in
sure Persia an opportunity to work
out her destiny as an independent
country, says Earl CurZOn.
The five leading Sim Feiner organs
| and troncnnrt unrE ORG nawSuanarS of
Dublin, as well as several provincial
weeklies, were suppressed Saturday by
the police because they had published
advertisements for the so-called Irish
Republican loan.
General Buratoff. the representative
in Georgia of General Denekine, the
anti-Bolshevik !eaGer in South Russia,
was severely injured and the Georgian
general Odesledize injured by the ex-
plOsion of bomb thrown into Gen
eral BuratOffs automobile.
The peace negotiations which had
been in progress between the Bolshe-
Wiki and the Esthonians and Poles
have been broken off, according to u
wireless dispatch to the Esthonian
press bureau at Copenhagen.
An official wireless dispatch from
Berlin, dated Saturday, says that the
Belgian ambassador at The Hague
having been withdrawn, and the Dutch
ambassador at Brussels also has been
| withdrawn.
Premier Clemenceau'S intervention
| in the debate on the electoral law,
which threatened to be prolonged in
definitely, settled the discussion in
few minutes, the government taking
the stand that the elections should be
held according to the law of July last,
providing for proportional represen-
tation.
Germany will comply with the de-
mand Of the allied supreme cOuncll 10
declare null and void the Objectionable
paragraph in the German constitution
looking to Austrias union with Ger
many and providing for Austrian rep
resentation in the German reichstdat
or council of the realm, which may be
compared to our senate.
| The Polish forces In RUSSIA nave
driven the Bolsheviki to the northern
bank of the Dvina river as far as Dis
IA and have occupied Korohtenehtop.
On the Ukranian front, the BOlshevlki
have forced General Petlura out or
Radomysl. but apparently are not at
tempting vet to recapture kiev itself.
The assertion is made by the Vor-
wacrts correspondent that the German
military movement in the Baltic prov
inces is rapidly growing and that Off
GERS and men are arriving there daily
from Germany. Posters displayed at
Courland, says the correspondent,
rcad. "Fight for the kaiser and the
empire against democracy"
i An important conference has peen
in session at Riga considering not only