Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-11-08


Conferences on the furtherance of
cooperation between Protestant
churches of all denominations are to
be held in every state in the union be-
tween December l and 10, 1t is an
nouneed by officials of the lnterchurch
world movement.
The Association of Men Teachers
and Principals of the city of New York
at special meeting on Saturday voted
to petition the board of education for
permission to volunteer for service in
the coal mines during the strike.
WASHINGTON.
A volunteer force of officers and
men who served in the great war, so
organized as to preserve wartime des-
ignations of units, was proposed to
the military committees of congress by
General PerShing rs the basis for
permanent reserve to be maintained
in future by universal service.
Declaring that the conditions facing
the country are far more serious than
during the war, the advisory board
of the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineels has issued a statement urg-
ing the immediate assembling in Wash
ington of an industrial commission TO
remedy existing turbulent conditions.
President Wilson by executive order
has fixed maximum prices of soft
coal.
Dissenting in many important re-
spects from the program recommended
by the war department and the gen-
eral staff, General Pershing told the
military committees of congress that
100000 men, raised entirely by volun-
tary enlistment, should be the outside
figure considered for standing army.
King Albert and President Wilson
clasped hands on Thursday. The meet
ing at the presidents bedside, brief
as it was, proved the climax of the
American visit of the Belgian mon
arch, who left for home Immediately
after visiting the president.
With only the French capital dele
gate opposing the action, the interna-
decided to admit representatives of
Germany and Austria, Immediately
upon their arrival here, to full men,
bership in the world labor organiza-
ton.
FOREIGN.
Returns from the national railways
of Mexico for August and September
this year exceeded last years figures
by $727, $50, according to statement
issued by Pauline Fontes, general
manager.
Thirty-five pounds of melanite, set
off by detonator, was the method EN-
ployed by Adrien Thumerel and his
fiancee to end their lives at Chateau
Thierry.
A decree has been issued at Rome
granting a constitution to Cyrenaica,
which is under the government of Italy.
Cyrenaica will have its own parla-
ment.
Petrograd has been without bread
for the last two weeks, thousands of
persons dying daily, according to in
formation brought to Helsingfors by a
Finn who escaped from prison camp
at Moscow.
A new influenza epidemic has made
its appearance in Paris. The doctors
call it Italian grip" and say it is en-
tirely different from what is known as
the Spanish flu" though not quite as
dangerous.
Forty-one persons We're killed and a
large numbered injured in a collision
between an express train and another
train Saturday night at Vigersley,
Denmark.
President Wilson intends to decline
the presidency of the league of nations,
the Geneva correspondent of the Daily
News telegraphs lac learns ON good au-
thority.
Hugo tIadSe, who was recently shot
by would-be assassin, is in critical
condition at Berlin. Physicians have
virtually given M hope for the recoy-
cry Of the radical leader.
The American system of train dis
patching has just been adopted ON the
paris-Lyons- mediterranean line, the
longest French railway.
Before we 60, we shall close the
gate behind us and make the whole
world tremble," Mccall Lenine, the
Bolshevist premier, is quoted in Re
val dispatch rs saying in discussing
the danger of Petrograd being cap
tured.
Heavy pressure is being brought 10
bear by Syndicalist leaders on railway
men in France to endeavor to. induce
them to join the movement for rev
dictionary general strike November !.
The ravages of the hook worm
among the gold miners in Colombia
are seriously interfering with the pro-
duction of the precious metal, accord
ing to DR.. o. T. Brosius, mine ply
stefan.
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