Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-05-31
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stockman, at Salt Lake, on January B.
Two Seattle residents, Louis Cook
and Miss Frances Hayward, were kill
ed and seven injured, two seriously,
when two big automobiles, which vic
tins said, were racing each other
crashed together few miles north OF
Seattle.
Rejection of proposals for an organ
lied union of evangelical churches, ac-
ceptance of the Interchurch World
movement, and the gift of $2,0OO,O00
by John ID. Rockefeller for mission
work were the outstanding features of
Saturdays session of the northern Bap-
fist convention at Denver.
The Northern Baptist convention at
Denver unanimously adopted the re-
port of the national committee of lay
men providing for the creation of a
general planning board to coordinate
activities of the church under one
governing body consisting of 40 men,
herS.
Frederick Hansen, former first mate
of the schooner Edward r. West, was
indicted at Seattle by a federal grand
jury on a charge of murder The in
dictment charged Hansen threw
Charles Hannah, second mater, over
board during a storm off Cape Horn,
May 81, 1918.
"Day labor wages for Baptist cler-
gymen is a blot on the denomination
more than half the nations Baptist
ministers receive less than $500 a
year" This declaration was made to
the Baptist convention at Denver.
George and Tom Bosko, arrested in
Utah last week, charged with the muir
der of w. T. Hunter and E. G. Parks,
a few miles west of Pueblo, April IL,
have made a complete confession.
DOMESTIC.
Missing for six days and virtually
given up for lost, Harry G. Hawker
and his navigator, Lieut.. Commander
Mackenzie Grieve, British airmen, who
essayed a flight across the Atlantic
ocean without protection against dis
aster save what their frail airplane
afforded, have been picked up at sea
by Danish steamer. They were in
the water an hour and half before
being rescued.
Hundreds of persons saw Frank Nc
Cusker of New York, pilot of mail
airplane, leap 200 feet to his death
from burning machine at Cleveland.
Fifteen minutes before he had an
nOunced that he would attempt to
establish record on his flight to
Chicago.
Union workers of Calgary, Alberta,
have called strike in sympathy with
the Winnipeg walkout. The vote to
strike was carried four to one, and
practically all unions affiliated with
the trades and council are affected.
One man dead, two others reported
drowned, scores of persons injured
and property loss of more than a mil
lion dollars at the Goose Greek oil field
is the toll of a storm which swept
about fifty miles northwest of HOus-
ton, Texas, on Saturday.
Coroner James f. Hare of Mclean
by the government for horse of his
which was killed in the civil war in
a battle at Oklona, La. He had his
claim in since 1864
Several of the 1876 passengers on the
Old Bay Line steamer Virginia burned
in Chesapeake bay, off the mouth of
the Potomac river. were injured but
none lost their lives.
Uninterrupted production of war
beer in New York until the courts
have passed upon the claim of the
United States Brewers association
that the beverage, containing 2A per
cent alcohol, is Notwithstanding, was
assured when Federal Judge Mayer
granted an injunction restraining gov
eminent interference with its manu-
facture.
On July 4, Black Hills pioneers will
honor the memory of the late Cononel
Roosevelt by naming the highest peak
of the hills Mount Theodore Roosevelt
Leslie Nunamaker, catcher with the
Cleveland Americans, was awarded q
verdict of $500 in circuit court at st
Louis against motor car company fol
personal injuries suffered in an auto
mobile accident December 10, last
Nunamaker sued for $4,000.
A score of persons We're killed and
a hundred injured by an explosion at
the Douglas Starch Works at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. OF the $50 men and boys
who had just gone to work in the
night shift, few escaped injury OF
death.
Ebert ii. Gary of the United States
Steel corporation, declared in IA speech
at New York that there was reason to
assume that the peace terms will be
agreed to and subscribed by at least
a majority of governments, and 8
league of nations for the continued
preservation of peace will be estab
1ished
EmDIovment of an airplane as q