, 1919-10-16

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GENERAL
Henry Mills Alden, editor of Harp
er's Magazine since 1869, died at his
home in New York after II long illness.
He was 81 years old.
Serbia has ~enfranchised its women,
according to cable adviceS by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of the
National Woman Suffrage Association.
Suit to test the constitutionality of
the war time prohibition law was filed
in federal District Court at Louisville,
Ky, by Attorneys Levey Mayer of Chi
cage and Marshall Bullitt of Louisville.
An attempt was made to wreck the
plant of the American Sheet and Tin
plate Company at McKeespOrt, when a
missile believed to have been Il bomb
was thrown on the shipping depart
ment building. 1t exploded, tearing Il
large hole in the ROOF of the structure.
Six men We're reported killed and
five are said by the police to be dying
as the result of n boiler explosion on
the oil steamer Chestnut Hill ut Phila-
delphia. The killed and injured were
members of the crew. Several others
We're badly burned. The vessel was
getting up steam to depart for Mexico
when the accident occurred.
Heavily increased use of sugar in
candy, soft drinks, ice cream and other
luXuries in the United States during
the first nine months of 1919, it was
announced in New York, by the Unit
oil StntnS Smear EnIn1izotinn nnnr1
means that such owe indulgence in
sweets must now be curtailed in some
sections of the East for the next three
months
The spring wheat crop was forecast
at BOB, 10000 bushels by the crop esti-
mate bureau of the Agriculture Depart
ment, as compared with u harvest of
35S,651 900 bushels in 1918. This indi-
Gates n decrease of 4,S79,000 bushels
since the forecast of Sept. Is. The to-
tai forecast of all wheat was given as
91S,417, 900. Other crop forecasts were:
Cotton, 1O,S96,0O0 bales corn, $780,
000,0 900 bushels, and oats, 1,219,521,000
bushels.
The Aero Club of America INT the
@hNii hNb6hC Va VI ~" navy ah
nounced the appointment of a commits
sion to arrange for the aerial derby
around the world to be held in 1920.
The commission which is to arrange
the air race is composed of Commo-
dore Louis b. Beaumont, president;
Maj. Charles, j. Gliddcn, executive sec
rotary, and Benjamine Hillman. The
members will leave New York Oct. 10th
for a-trip around the world to arrange
for the race, and will sail from San
Francisco Nov. Bird.
Two men lost their lives and another
narrowly escaped death when he was
cut off from land at the END of n
burning pier, II property worth ST.
100000 was destroyed in a fire hat
swept the plant of the Standard Guano
Company at Curtis bay, Md. The
bodies of the dead men, both negro EN-
ployes, are buried in the debris. The
man caught on the end of the pier was
taken off by n tug, the master of
which risked destruction of his craft
by coming alongside the blazing pier.
Several small schooners We're damaged.
A series of explosions shattered win
dows in houses several miles from the
plant.
AT the request of the Youngstown
Aviation Club, the city council has or
dered the solicitor to prepare an ordin-
ance regulating air traffic over
Youngstown, Ohio. The Aviation
Club asks that all flying at less han
1900 feet be prohibited and that stunt
fliers be required to stay at 5000 feet.
Gustav Noske, German minister of
defense, has decided to court-martial