FRENCH LOSSES ARE CUT DOWN Kk Scientific Projection of Shell Barriers. VERDUN CASUALTIES 2,000 | Weigh- | More Than ing 10,000 Tons, the Great Guns, 4,800,000 Shells, Hurled By French Paris il Verdun vict ory, parti foward explaining zing di portion of the French and German | losses, wi without preceden the Fren Their more th poriio 1 chine , but ersed, now add ped deve A neral | sou! of been the i in front the enemy jection of barriers the ‘infantry after all i pulverized The French list this Verdun show that the t been increased to 20 per cover casualty week at diminution has cent Millions Of Shells Fired. Last ve ] Meuse ar this invaluable groun the would | ghtly won i 20.000 oniy man sir: to war powerful to the ant Lhe apg scream their piercing of t} artille JA LIINE WOULD TURN CLOCKS FORWARD. Enthusiasts Plan National Convention in December. New gions York Preliminary for a nat convention “Turn the clock forward an thasiasts in in were taken at a meeting here will of Commerce prepara of an. December ional hour" this Te city invitations be extended to Chambers scientific so labor iat to send Join a national organization Si kers at the the pian one-fourth bill more red cletion and representative ' unions other organ- ns and meeting suit in a and of outdoor declared saving of Hight would on gas tonservation re electric and and eyesight time for Lion apport port CARRANZA 1S CANDIDATE. Message To General Trevino Says He Will Again Seek Presidency. Chihuahua City General Trevino received a message from General Venustino Carranza announe- fing his candidacy for Mexican | presidency at the coming election. | The message stated there probably would be many changes In the Car. ranea Cabinet. General Pablo Gon- | males, it stated, is to give up his com- | mand of the first military division to | accept a special confidential eommis- | afon, wirel oan the 141 SHIPS SUNK. Berlin Reports On September Bag Of Merchantmen, Berlin, via wireless to Sayville, Long ¥sland During the month of Septem: ber 141 enemy merchantmen of a total Tonnage of 182,000 were sunk by Austro-German submarines or mines, the Admiralty announced. Thirteen captains of enemy ships were captured and three cannon taken. In the same period 39 neutral merchantmen of a total tonnage of 72,000, carrying con. ¢raband, were captured. ELEVEN DEAD IN HOSPITAL FIRE Catholic Nuns’ Institution De- stroyed During Night. 350 PERSONS IN PERIL At In- Are Farnham, Quebec; Two Buildings Destroyed 25 Children jured—350 Inmates Asleep; Fire-Escapes Lacking IT RAINED BEARS. That Is, If This Story From Far West All Wool Is fired ind bl OF ne Then ae ¢ . } ar hear Smith began ¢ illade He emerged four in al een with Sixteen bears were Smith REACHES 100 YEARS, Woman Chews, Smokes—Retaing All Faculties Except Hearing. Newark, ( joy, yhio.— Mrs who chews and Mary A + tr SMOoKes Love and hear faculties except hear her Mrs retains all of ing, birthday here diati of in the United pension under the new pensioning widows of who fought in the Mexican and Civil War Born in Fredericktown, Md celebrated one Lovejoy has the the first to apply Ashbrook roldiers being States ction she of Barbara Frietchie NO WOOD PULP RATE RAISE. For Second Time. » Washington. —The Interstate Com- merce Commission resuspended until and Ohio rallroad tariffs increasing the rates on wood pulp in carloads from Elkton, Md, Wilmington, Del. and other points to Holyoke, Mass. and other New England points, POLICE MUST SALUTE FLAG. Pittaburgh Force Also Asked To Honor Funeral Trains, Pittsburgh, Pa.-Uniformed police. men must hereafter recognize the Stars and Stripes with a salute when. ever seen on parade, according to the duty manual of 1918, issued by the De. partment of Public Safety and jus made publie. OUITTING MEXICE OUT OF QUESTION New Villa Moves Check on Work of Joint Commission. TROOPS TO REMAIN ON DUTY Removal Of Queretaro Up Fam- Carranza To Is Declared Sign Of Breaking Process-—Officials Send ilies Out Of Country re apparently but in 3 lefinite, reports tion of ent with he so-called Legalista n the train of event by situation short whole which are expected Mexican within a The Mexican Embassy £11 Villa's those familiar with here W ae 1 t 0p 10 deve time declared that of a few ‘claiming Villa as branded forces consist only hundred men and in tability of General Carranza’s govern nent as “a flood of misrepresentation that might be expected from enemies,” their reports of the Mexican-American work fey v #y time reps when commis. fon began ft At the War campfire same Department rts that came to were in sight that General Trev ere ino, wander ti gupplied with arms and re. was short considering evacuat reinforcements, of ammunition and Commanding Point. Department officials said they had not heard the report reaching the bor. der that Chihuahua actually has fallen As a matter of military strategy it was pointed out that Villa, once oc cupying Chihuahua, could compel the surrender of Juarez, as he did easily once before, and at another stroke might take Torreon, Monterey and Saltillo, when he would be a military factor somewhat different from the bandit for whose life an American military expedition was dispatched. The Mexican Embassy's explanation of General Carranza’s move to Quere taro was that he had gone to prepare for the meeting of the Constitution alists’ Assembly, for whieh deputies just have been elected. The arrival of the families of Generals Carranza and Obregon in the United States are de clared to be without significance, “The rumors that this visit has any politieal significance, or that the fam. ilies of the leaders are abandoning the country, are absurd,” said an em. bassy statement, the War Zone | for the announcement that | Roumanians, before thelr retreat from Tchernavoda, blew up the big | bridge spanning the Danube River, | thereby placing an obstacle in the way of the advance of Teutonic Allies from Dobrudja Roumania, if h a intended by them, | xitua Except the the into Old move was little fresh knowledge of the real tion in that of world’ beer afed by « her the Rus- sian or iton ailied war chancel lories. ector the wal has TWENTY MEN EXECUTED Accused Of Robbing Freight Consign ments In Mexico City. Tex Twenty warehouse men, in Mexico City k for pa coneignn ills of lading, according t 2 In through on received here been fre onstitutional "0 ave prac it was sinted AUTO THEFTS $1,250,000 Chicago Alone Reports Big Losses | Thus Far 1916. The growth of ¢ here from pra 1811 to excens 1818 wae in “hicago in of 81. in i Department in shown a report by the Police The thefts since January 1 were 25871 cars Insurance companies have paid $500,000 in theft losses thi year, this yea $3,000,000,000 MORE FOR WAR German Credits Up To Now Tota $13,000,000,000. Berlin.—-A new war credit bill 12.000.000.000 marks (33,000,000,000) waz submitted to the Relchstag be Count von Roedern, Secretary of the Imperial Treasury. Count von Doedern stated that the total German war credits up to now amounted to 52,000 000.000 marks ($13,000,000.000), fo VATICAN DENIES PEACE TALK Negotiating End Of War Between | Austria and Russia, | Rome. 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