Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-08-16
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NEWS OF WORLD
Big Happenings Of the Meek
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Washington

H0Oiuii9lUJI .s. = @ E=
Washington President Harding hal
named the following Minnesota post
masters: William H. Wright, Mont
rose; Nettie Laying, Bruno; Jennie L
Phillips, Clearwater; Chaplin A. Farm
ham, Rockford; Claire M. Peterson
Stanchfield; Charles Olson, Sturgeon
Sturgeon Lake; Maggie M. Halgren
Waukon; Emery B. Lindsey, Willow
River. 49,. ~ - =.
ashington-Secretary of Labor
and Mrs: Davis have started something
new in cabinet dinners. Instead OF
giving the customary formal annual
dinner in honor Of the President and
Mrs. Harding at their town house in
Washington, Secretary and Mrs. Davis
have announced that the dinner will
be given at Moose Heart, ILL.,, Friday
August Is, where they maintain pala,
tial residence. w..
misunderstanding that the Ku
Klux Khan may be made the issue in
a contest over, a senatorial seat was
seen by members of the senate cleo
tions committee, who have had their
attention called to the senatorial cam
.paign in Texas. Committee members
have been informed that contest to
prevent Carl Mayfield being seated if
elected may be begun. .~~. -.
=, Washington-A chorus of emphatic
noes" from members Of congress
greeted the British debt cancellation
proposals. There was every Indication
that there has not been the slightest
weakening of the positions taken all
along by American legislators that the
American people expect Europe to re.
pay dollar fcr dollar, plus interest, the
$11 ,000,000,000 war debt, -~~>,'
Westinghouse searching investiga
ton into soaring gasoline prices has
been opened formally in the senate
After weeks of closed sessions spent
in collecting and tabulating valuable
information on all phases o. the gaso
line and oil industry of the nation, the
special senate subcommittee is pre-
pared to summon witnesses.
Observation-Disclosures emuel
P. Padgett of Tennessee is dead at
his home here. Informed of Mr.. Pad,
gett's death, Acting Secretary Roose.
welt of the navy, said: "The navy has
lost true friend"
WashingtOn-The stipulation made
by Fletcher Dobyns, special assistant
to the attorney general, in Portland:
Me-, not to press the indictments in
New York and Washington against
Charles w. Morse, New York ship.
builder, has been repudiated by Uni.
ted States Attorney Gordon before
Justice Hoehling of the District OF
Columbia Supreme court.
Domestic
New York-Business failures for the
week ending July II number 3S7
which compares with 81 last week;
800 In the like week of 1921; 1853 in
1920; IS in 1919 and 155 in 1918, &C.
cording to Bradstreets.~
Richmond, Va.-Senator Claude A
Swanson, close friend of Woodrow
Wilson, has won the Democratic sena
torial nomination by majority of ap.
proximately $4,000 over ex-governor
Westmoreland Davis. ~
Fort Smith, Ark.-One man was kill
ed and another fatally injured in a
riot in the Missouri Pacific freight
yards at Van Buren,, six miles east Of
here. Both men were employed as
strikebreakers. HI. 80: H.
Missoula, Mont-With weather con.
ditions extremely favorable, frequent
new lightning fires and fires set by
careless campers, together with a
heavy smoke haze which makes de.
lection of the new blazes almost i'm
possible, forest service crews are hav.
ing difficult time saving govern
ment timber. @.'
New York-Anna Mullen and Kath.
crime Flemming. 13-year-old girls OF
New York tenements, are living the
life they have dreamed about. They
slipped on to the Majestic, the largest
ship afloat, and the vessel was soc
miles out before they were discovered
hiding in life boat Wireless mes
sages said they had been placed under
the care Of the matron, with the stand,
ing Of regular passengers.
Madison, Wis.-J0hn Kelly of Be
lott was elected president of the Fra
ternal Reserve association Of Wiscon
sin. Carl Helm, Milwaukee was chos
en- vice president; Mrs. Mary Brown
La Crosse, secretary and Mrs. Mary
summerville. Superior, treasurer.
Chicago-Marie Baker, years old
who had been held for a $4O5 board
bill, was turned over to her uncle anG
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. John Kenny, Rem
vile, Mimi, by Judge Asa Adams Of
the court Of domestic relations and the
child started for her new home. The
court cut the bill to $50. s5s
Burlington, n. Trapped in 3
dense huckleberry swamp here By
three huge rattlesnakes, Miss Harriet
Pittman, aged %. fought despeartely
against attacks Of rattlesnakes anG
held them of until hunters responded
to her cries. Hunting dogs accom-
panying the girl we're driven of by. the
snakes. s n @ q. &
Denver, Colo.-The team Of horse.
B which William Julifte. farmer, wa,
driving to a load OF hay, was stung e