Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-05-24


Jacob Hoffman Brewing company for
the purpose of restraining federal Of
ficials from performing their duties in
enforcing the prohibition laws of the
United States.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
pany has discharged eight hundred
women employees, declaring that it's
action was compelled by the enact
ment into law of the Lockwood-Caul-
field bill which prohibits women in that
state from working after 10 p. IN. and
before a. m.
WASHINGTON.
Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary
of Wa, and Il number of military and
civil aviation experts, will leave for
Europe this month to study possibili-
ties of developing the science of avia-
ton along the lines of civilian usage.
Republican members of the house,
upon the converting of congress, pro-
pose to institute "such investigation
of administration activities and eXpen-
ditures since the beginning of the war
as will fully inform the people and
serve the public interest"
Discharges from the army have
reached total of 2,101 ,O29 officers
and men, of whom 109,527 were in
commissioned grades.
The soldiers settlement bill is be-
lieved to be certain of passage early
in the extra session of congress as
the result of conference May 10 be-
tween leaders of both parties in the
senate and house and officials of the
interior department.
Prospect of adoption by congress OF
the Susan B. Anthony woman suffrage
resolution has been bettered by receipt
of information that Senator-elect Hen
ry w. Reyes of New Hampshire, Re
publican, would vote for the measure
Revised figures made public by the
war department showed that the total
casualties of the American expedition
airy forces during the war, was 2S6,O44.
Battle deaths numbered 4S,909.
FOREIGN.
Sanguinary encounters have occur.
red at Sofia between the garrison and
revolutionaries, who demanded the res
ignation of the government and the
establishment of soviet, according to
dispatch from Vienna. All Bulgaria
is reported to be in an uproar.
General strike of more than three
score labor unions in Winnipeg, precip-
itated by the strike of building trades
and metal workers union for recogni-
in 10000 men and women leaving their
positions, and a suspension of the pub
location of newspapers, while the city
is carless, phoneless and almost water
less.
The total damage in the north Of
France, including buildings, agricul-
ture, furniture and public works, is
estimated at Ga, 500, 100000 francs, or
about $13,OOO,OO0,OOO.
Rebels, led by General Gabay, who
was reported some time ago to have
been killed. held up train on the Al
vardo line twenty miles from Vera
Cruz recently and killed al persons,
including several women and children
and the military guard.
The Asahi reports that the Japanese
government has decided on abolishing
the barrier placed against alien sub
jects in Japan by granting foreigners
the right of ownership of landed estate
and by permitting Chinese laborers to
enter the empire for the purpose OF
engaging in labor in Japan.
In the fighting which took place af-
ter the landing of Greek troops at
Smyrna on May Is, 800 Turks and 100
Greeks were killed.
The all Russian government at
Onsk, through. NJ. Zoukine, the acting
foreign minister, has requested Maj.
Gen. Graves, American commander in
Siberia, not to send American troops
farther into the interior of Siberia
than they are at present.
The Japanese appeal court at Pyeng
Yank, Korea ordered Rev. Eli M. Now
nv of Mansfield, Ohio, Presbyterian
missionary, to serve four months pen
al servitude for sheltering Korean agi-
tators and suspended the sentence for
two years. Mr.. Mowry at once took
an appeal to the highest court.
The Costa Rican revOlutionists APP
parently have failed in their attempt
TO advance into the interior of Costa
RIGA. as they have returned to La Cruz
on the Nicaraguan frontier.
The Stars and Stripes, the official
newspaper of the American expedition
airy force, will suspend publication on
June 13, it was announced last week at
Paris. This indexes the rapid evac-
uation of the American army.
American and British officers in
Berlin have been ordered to wear CIV
ilian clothing outdoors, lest they incite
the population to demonstrations, ac-
cording to dispatch from the Ger