The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 2, 1915, Page 3

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER PAGE THREE News of the World in Paragraph and Picture News. Snapshots Of the Week 0 Eeom PHQTCS BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSQCIATION — The war in the Balkans took on a more or less di plomatic aspect as the allies sent high officials to warn the Greek king; Greeca ‘was suspected of intentlon of arresting any of the allied troops retreating across her territory; the Bulgars were reported harassed by the French. The submarine controv ersy seemed likely to reopen, as Secretary Lansing requested from Baron Burk an, Austrian foreign minister, facts on sinking of Ancona. Booker T. Washington, leader of the negro race and founder of Tus» kegee lnstitute, died. Insurrection was reported in India, native troops being used to suppress it. Mayor of New York city, John Purroy Mitchel, was rnshe‘ to the hospital and operated on for appendicitis. Dirt continues to shift in the Panama canal until the famous Gaillard cut is now completely blocked. Al aaction of the Roebling munition works in New Jersey and part of the Bethleh em steel plant were destroyed by suspicious fires. J. J. Hill, J. Ogden Armour and a ed. Whitlock declares he will return railroads so they will be fit for milis number of other multi-millioiers have formed a half billion dollar corpora- tion to deal in foreign securities— which means to loan more money to foreign countries—so as to make it scarce in this country, that interest rates may remain high. Frederick Schwed, an American who has just returned from an extend: ed trip in Germany, reports that Miss Cavell, the English nurse, executed as a spy by German officials, was, shot while lying on the ground in a dead, faint. A suffrage petition four miles in length and containing half a million names, will be presented to congress on the opening day of the coming session. Mrs. Sara Bard Field and Migs Francis Jolliffe will present the Tetition. Effort to induce Brand Whitlock, U. S. minister to Belgium, to become vice presidential candidate ' on the Democratic ticket have, so far, failk DR. G KOO Dr. Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo has been appointed Chinese minister to the United States to succeed Kal-Fu Shah. Doctor Koo was - graduated, with high honors from Columbia uni- versity in 1908, a year ahead of his . class. In 1909 he was made master ‘of arts and for three years thereafter studied under John Bassett Moore, Only recently he was appointed' envoy 'b Mexico. Peru and CMba. 3 to Belgium the latter part of De- cember. An, Ozark land-promotion company after catching more than 200,000 land-hungry suckers; has gone bank- rupt. They claimed to have 76,000 acres of land, in the Ozark mountains, Reynolds county, Mo. Two Pullman-car loads of newly rich, made so by the sale of powder and motors, for war purposes, left Willmington, Del, for New York, last Saturday to make a splurge with their money. Fifty-eight Mexican troopers from Villa’s army crossed the border at Nogales last week and fired upon American soldiers. turned and several Villistas killed. An effort to induce German wom- en to discard French and other for- eign fashionable gowns was abuot to succeed when a lot of the latest French models were displayed, and then the effort went glimmering. President Wilson, will not, it is re- ported, send a representative on the Ford “rpeace ship.” The president does not believe the proper solution for peace has been proposed yet. ‘Abe’ Ruef, ex-San Fransisco political boss, after serving ‘four years of a fourteen year centence for attempt bribery, has been paroled and spent, Thanksgiving with his mother. At least six wére killed and forty hurt in a railroad wreck nera Colam- bus, Ga., last week. Mis interperpa- tation of orders is said to be the cause of the head-on collision. C. H. Markham, président of the Illinois Central Railroad, wants the government to fix up the American EQUITY DOES BUSINESS. - St. Paul, Minn,, Nov. 28.—Despite 1 - the opposition of the Equity’s ene- mies and unsympathetic antagonists, the Exchange at St. Paul continues to receive the fruits of the farmers’ toil from the prairies of the North+ west. Every day finds an increase in the number of cars of wheat, and additional elevators and private ship- pers to the list of Equity Exchange patrons. This speaks loudly for the justice and economy of the real sell- ing ‘agency for the farmers—the Equity Cooperative Exchange. Drafts on Monday were met in the amount of $180,000—a most pleasing situa- . -tion for ‘the cooperative movement. J'M The fire was re-: tary purposes in case of war. Rev. Oscar Hemling, a Chicago pas- tor, was landed in jail last week, for protesting against the “beating up” of a -striking garment worker, by a policeman, Representative Witrerspoon, of Meridian, Wis.,, for twenty years a member of Congress died at his home last week. He always opposed the “big navy.” Secretary of the Navy, Daniels de- nies that he is going to resign. The report of his resignation came on the heels of his attacks on the shipbuild- ing trust. ,,A wireless telephone conversation between Arlington, Va., and Mare Is- land, California, last Saturday night, was heard at the Agricultural station at Fargo. Illinois is to have an extra session of the state assembly to patch up some appropriation laws which the Supreme court knocked in the head. The age-long question, of a merchant marine, it is predicted, will occupy much of the valuable time of the coming session of congress. President Wilson has finished, his message to Congress, which it is re- rorted, sets forth an extensive pro- gram of “preparedness.” Four officials of the German-Amer- ican steamship line are on trial in New York City for violation of th3 neutrality laws. Earl Kitchener, of England, pre- dicts that England and Russia will have 10,000,000 soldiers: under arms by next March. A report from Bismarck says that START ON TWO NEW U. S. SHIPS Washington, - Nov. 28.—Secretary Daniels announced today he had taken the first step with a view to building in government navy yards battleships numbers 43 and 44, private bids for which exceeded the limitation of cost fixed by congress. The department asked, steel makers throughout the country to submit before Wednesday of next week bids on sixty-two mil- lion pounds of structural steel for these two ships, with statements of the earliest possible date at which they could make delivery to the gov- ernment. The Leader fights for the farmer. Gov. L. B. Hanna will announce his candidacy for the Senatorship early in the year. Men, women, children and beasts are fleeing before the German armies in Servia. Thousands are dying from hunger. The Anglo-French armies in the Near East, have been placed in the hands of Gen. Joffre, the French Gen- eral. London repprts that "Greece will side with the allies in the great Eu- ropean conflict. The French deputies are taking oc- tion to reduce the cost of food in France. France has issued a call for 400, 000 youths to joint the colors. Russians report that the Germans are retiring on the Rega front. Wheat hit the low mark of $1.02% in Chicago, last week. MISS HELEN L. SUMNER ! CHARRIS & EXING: Miss Helen L. Sumner is the new, ly ‘appointed assistant chief of the fedi eral children’s bureau. She is an auy thority on child welfare laws and iq : compiling a reference index of all leg-l islation that affects children. Mi; Sumner was born in Sheboygan, Wi and is a graduate of Wellesley colleg