, 1919-09-25

robber who bound and gagged II mail
clerk OF an eastbOund Northern Pa
cific passenger train between Seattle
Kanasket, Wash.
Twelve horses were killed outright
and fifteen others mutIlated ut Mllfay,
Okla. when the third section of the
Ringing Bros. and Barnum-Bailey cir
Gus train was piled up when 1t ran
through an open switch.
A petition by the California Grape
Protective Association asking that gov
inner officers he enjoined from en-
forcing the wartime prohibition act
WAS denied by United States District
Judge William C. Vanfleet at San
Francisco.
Rapid growth of the death list re-
sulting from the hurricane and todal
wave that swept Corpus Christi and
nearby points caused the belief among
the relief workers and local officials
that the total lead would approximate
o persons.
Parents who permit their children
under 16 years of age on the streets
after 10 o'clock are subject to Il fine
of 500 in Concordia, Kan. That is the
new ordinance just passed by the City
Council as q means of preventing juve-
nile waywardness.
Several persons are believed to have
drowned at Corpus Christi as the re-
suit of the hurricane there. 1t was said
the water had reached II second
story of some buildings in the bust
ness section and the downtown sec
ton was reported under martial law.
II. A. Carnes, United States customs
inspector, war badly beaten and left
for dead by a Mexican who crossed the
Rio Grande at Yeleta, Texas. The in
jured man was removed to Ell Paso.
There We're four Mexicans, and they
are supposed to have been smuggling.
Reprieves granted by Gov. Samuel r.
McKelvie extend to next Jan. 9 the
date for the electrocution of Alison b.
Cole and Allen v. Grammer, both of
whom had been under sentence to die
for the death of Grammer's mother-in-
law. Mrs. Lulu G. Vogt of neal Elba,
who was shot and killed in 1917. Cole
has an appeal pending in Supreme
Court.
Bishop Francis ]. Mcconnell of Den
yer, In an address before the New Mex
leo Methodist conference. declared this
government should withdraw its pro-
lection of citizenship from any Amer
lean who Engages in the saloon bust
ness below the border in Mexico, or
who engages in a business in any 9th
er country that Is outIawed in this
country.
WASHINGTON
Fire destroyed warehouse No. 4 Of
the ]. G. White Engineering Corpora
ton at Muscle Shoals, the government
nitrate plant, the loss being estimated
at So 0.000. The major portion of
the loss was on electrical equipment.
The former North German Lloyd
steamer, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm,
recently used as an American naval
transport, has been allotted TO the
White Star line for service on its
New York, Cherbourg & Southampton
route.
Great Britain has withdrawn the pro-
hibition on the re-exportation of Amer
lean cotton from her domains. This
has been reported by the American
consul general in London.
Condition of the late commercial po-
tato crop September LIST, indicated a
yield of 123,51S carloads, a decrease
of more than $1,000 carloads from the
estimate on the same date last year,
according to a report by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Twenty-four hundred sleeping and
parlor car conductors on federal CON
t-nIIal rolrnaIo hoN rAraEx-AH N SLIGHT
Increase in wages, retroactive to May
1, under an order issued by Director
General Hines for the purpose of rec
%tifying an error OF a previous award.
Consumption of sugar In the United
States for the first seven months Of
this year was 100000 tons more than
during the corresponding period last
year, according to statistics compiled
by the United States Sugar Equaliza-
ton Board and made public by the
American Sugar Refining Company.
This amount represents an increased
per capita consumption of one pound
per month
Ben +. Allen of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, member Of President Wilson's
party, and James II. Patterson of Port
land, Oregon, were killed and two 9TH
err newspaper men injured in an auto
mobile collision on the Columbia high
way while the presidential party was
returning to Portland from a tour over
the highway.
Seventeen alien enemy prisoners es-
capped from the war prison barracks at
Fort Douglas, near Salt Lake City. Els
cape was made through a tunne
which 1t had evidently taken months to
construct.