The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 18, 1915, Page 3

News Snapshots Of the Week e Winston Churchill has resigned the army of France. Senator Clapp, of Minnesota, ad- mits that he may enter the presiden- tial race. Industrial conditions in Mexico are said-to be much improved, since the recognition of Carranza by this gov- ernment. David Starr Jordan is back of a “World’s Meditation Peace plan to prevent wars. President Wilson, it is said, approves it. Karl H. von Wiegand, staff corres- pondent for the New York World re« ports that “peace talk” is prevelant in Berlin and Vienna.” I The Italiaq steamer, Ancona, was torprdoed by German submarines, it . is alleged, last week and 27 Americans i are said to have been lost. > j Theodore E. Burton, former sena- 1 tor from Ohio, predicts that the Repmblican and the Progressive par- ,J ties will re-unite in 1916. § KING GEORGE ~ L pEs A " King George of England issued an - ‘appeal to ali classes of the British peo- ple. to comeforward and share. their responsibility in the war. - It is reported that as soon as Phe‘ from the British cabinet and will join | Austro-German army , occupies Con- stantinople, the Kaiser will sue for peace, through President Wilson. Five prisoners made their escare from the state penitentiary at Fort Levenworth last Friday night. They ‘had not been apprehended at last report. . The condition of Geo. S. Loftus, rresident of the Equity Exchange, who has been dangerously .ill foy some- weeks is reported much im- proved. General Alvero Oberegon, Carran- za’s military commander, in an inter- view at Nogales, Ariz., predicts that Villa will be defeated within thirty days. ) The Georgia Legislature has just passed an “absolute-state-prohibition” law, which it is claimed will eliminate entirely ‘breweries, locker clubs and near-beer-saloons”. Lord Davenport, Chairman of the Port of London, which controls ship- ‘| ping and docks of the Thames, an- " THE NONPARTISAN LEADER ~ News of the World The victory of 8. W. McCall of Massachusetts, A. O. Stanley of Kentucky, B. O. Harrington of Maryland and T. G. Bilbo of Mississippi as governors, the defeat of suffrage in New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, the overwhelming defeat of the new constitution in New York and the victory for the wets in Ohio marked the chief features of the elections of the country. First pictures from London of latest Zeppelin raid show a wide range of destruction. Fire in St. Joseph’s parochial school, Pear body, Mass., killed more than a score of children. The sixth German spy suspect was arrested; Max Breitung, the fifth, was released under heavy bail, Sub- marine maneuvers were held off New London, Conn. French cabinet changed, A. Briand premier. General Mahon now commands British in Servia. nounced in the House of Lords that England, is on the verge of bankrup- tey. PR E.-W. Decker, president of the Northwestern National Bank of Min- neapolis, denies that there is a move n foot to suspend the Ninth Regional Bank at Minneapolis. A hospital to “patch up” disfigur- ed faces of soldiers who have lost a nose, a lip or jaw, is almost completed in New York.* It. is promoted by American surgeons and backed by American dollars. 3 Frank B. Warner, on trial at Kan- sas City for defrauding southwest Missouri farmers, “when he dies,” declared N. B. Wilkinson, a Willow Springs lawyer, “will sink so low that he will have to climb steps to get to hell”, The Daijosai Festival, or Grand Thanksgiving Festival, the ceremony of offering sacred rice to the imeprial ancestors and the gods and goddesses of heaven and earth, began at Kioto Japan last Friday. This'is one of three ceremonial rites in connection with the coronation of the new mikado. MRS. McADOO “WEARS” A CANE Washington, Nov. 9.—Mrs. McAdoo, wife of the Secretary of the ‘Treas- ury, and daughter of President Wil- son, made the capital today gasp by appearing on the street carrying a cane. Dressed in a natty tailored walking suit, and wearing a white fur neck piece and hat trimmed with white fur, she walked with Miss Helen Woodrow Bones and gently swung Her stick. It was an ebony hued piece with a crooked handle, inlaid, with silver. Now and then she hooked it over her arm.* Mrs. Norman, Galt, the President’s fiancee, entertained the President, Mrs. McAdoo,”Miss Margaret Wilson and Miss Bones at luncheon today in the Galt home. ; GERMANY TO CONFISCATE FOOD Amsterdam (via London), Nov. 10. —A dispatch received here from Berlin _ announces that the féderal council has voted to confiscate all oats and. fats, which henceforth will be sold only - through government, committee. The Vossische Zeitung says the German authorities are considering B the introduction of meat cards on the principle of bread cards, in' or- der to prevent housewives from lay- ing in stores of meat for the days on which no ‘meat is supposed to be nsediie e Sediii g ad ) Ao MUST SEND MONEY TO CZAR Chicago, Nov. 156.—The czar wants Harry Karzen of 1332 North Leavitt street for the colors. An imposing letter bearing the seal of the Russian government, reached Harry on his way to school ‘yesterday. And an- other missive more fearful and urg- ent, came from his father in Storo- dub, Russia, The father is owner of a small fish market there. ‘He wrote that the mayor of Storodub had, announced ] his. goods would be seized and sold in a short time unless Harry returned to the army or sent 300 rubles imy mediately. Hary is just 19 years old. He came to America two years and one-half ago. The first year he learned the barber trade and sent $200 home. Then he entered as a freshman at the Lane Technical High school and continued, at is job, He works as a tonsorial = artist every day from 4 o’clock until 9 o’clock and whole days on Saturdays and Sundays, for $8 a week.. The rest of his time is spent at school. Harry’s classmates offered to take up a collection to meet the czar’s demands. But, as they are all poor boys, Harry would not listen to it. He will work three more hours every day, he said, and, solve the prob- lem. He is now negotiating for-the loan of $300. . : he has been a gold miner. PAGE THKEW in Paragraph and Picture A considerable rumpus started in by Illinois when Sheriff Griffin of Lake \ county, under orders from governor Dunne, violated an injunction grant- ed by Judge Edwards, and slaughter- ed the $60,000 bloodel herd gelonging to Mrs. Durand, near Chicago. 5 | | United States Senator Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas, declares that the railroads of this country are taking advantage of the-present “absorbed interest” of the American peoeple to inflate railroad value, and affirms that the peoeple will “pay dearly for it”, It is charged that a ‘‘bolted trap door,” caused the death of more than a score of girls in a Brooklyn candy ( factory fire last week. In the indus- trial Relations Committee found that 3 35,000 lives are lost and 700,000 per- b sons seriously injured annually from i fires in factory buildings, ; § — SENATOR FRANK A. ALDRICH - Saslol ol Al KL Frank A. Aldrich Is an Alaskan se ator, and he has to make a journey. 38 days to attend a session of the ter ritorial legislature. Thirty-three day: of the trip are spent traveling on dé sledges from the Arctic circle. Sen tor Aldrich, who has heen visiting i the East, was born In Fort Ind,, fifty-eight years ago, and serv under General -Terry and Geners Miles in Indian campaigns. Since 1 \