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Charles b. Eggleston, 20 years old,
tor twenty-five years a member OF the
Chicago board of trade and at one time
eeputed to be the biggest cash grain
dealer I'm the middle West, died at his
home I'm Pasadena, Calf.
DIR. &. A. Brewster, of Beaver City,
using an aeroplane he recently pur-
chased for making long professional
calls. flew sixty miles to McCOok, Neb.,
TO perform two surgical operations.
The trip was made in fifty minutes.
The Rev. J. Cronenberger, pastor OF
the First Christian church at Corvai-
lis. Ore, was drowned while attempt
ing to swim across the willamette river
I'm celebration of his forty-fifth BIRTH
day. The body has been recovered.
American and Mexican army Off
GERS met on the polo field for the first
time at military festival staged by
the Eighth Cavalry, Col. G. T. Lang
horne, commanding, at Preside, Tex
as, east of Ell Paso, Texas. The score
was to 4.
The Iowa Federation of Labor con-
yention selected Fort Dodge for the
convention city in 1920, and reelected
Fred A. Caulfield of Cedar Rapids
president. Charles B. Cain of Dubuque
was reelected vice president, and Earl
G.. Wiley of Sioux City, secretary
treasurer.
On his first visit to his sweetheart
to whom he became engaged while in
France, and on his first day home af-
fer seventeen months of service with
the ARMY, Carol Sergeant was killed at
Hochatown, Okla Bethel Kincaid,
said to be a rejected suitor, is in jail
on the charge of murder.
James Tyren, former employe of the
Sacramento city street department,
was hanged at Folsom state peniten-
tiary for the murder at the capital
MAY 10, 1918, of his two children, Hol-
land. II years old, and Alice, years
old. Before execution he asked to be
buried beside his two children.
A resolution condemning Oregon as
one Of the worst states in the union
with. regard to the divorce evil and
providing for the appointment of a
committee to investigate conditions
and instigate legislation to mitigate
the growing tendency to divorce, was
adopted at Portland by the thirty-first
diocesan convention of the Episcopal
Church.
Thfrty-seven days from the time her
keel was laid and twenty-seven days
since being launched, the steel steam
er City of Eureka, $500 tons, built at
Portland by the Columbia River Ship
building Corporation, left on her build
ers' trial trip. The builders claim
worlds records both for the elapsed
time between the laying of the keel
and the launching and between the
launching and the completion of the
vessels equipment.
WASHINGTON
A national seight-hOur working day
beginning January 1, 1921, was pro-
posed in a bill introduced by Senator
Moses, Republican of New Hampshire.
EtsWaS explained that the application
of the measure would be similar to
that Of the Adamson law to the rail-
roads.
Declaring that unregulated vivisec-
fion meant it's extensive practice mere
Iy to satisfy "wanton and idle curios-
ends, Senator Myers of Montana an
nounced that he intended to soon to in
froduce a bill in the Senate narrowly
restricting it's practice in the District
OF Columbia.
The decision Of the Supreme Court
of the state of Washington that the
vote Of State Legislature in ratify-
ing proposed amendment to the fed
eral constitution is subject to the ref
erendum vote of the people of state
having the initiative and referendum
law, opens a way for the liquor forces
of the country to prevent the amend
ment to the federal constitution be-
coming operative January 1, 1920.
The Supreme Court was asked, in
nnemorandums filed by the Commercial
and the Commercial Pacific Cables
Companies, to decide upon their mer-
it's the suits brought by the cOmpan-
les to enjOin the postmaster general
from seizing their properties under the
presidential proclamation of last No
vember The companies requested
that the actions be not dismissed be-
cause the cable properties have been
turned back to private control.
The woman suffrage amendment was
passed by the House of Representa-
tlves by a vote of 3O4 to 88, or AZ more
than. the necessary two-thirds major
ity.
A resolution to create special
house water power committee to han
die all water power development legis-
lation has been adopted in the House
without opposition.
A poll of Congress indicates over
whelming sentiment against repeating
fhe wartime prohibition act in so far