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Executive and Legislative Ac-
tivities at the Capitals
The memory of Maj. Dana H. Crissy,
who was killed at Salt Lake City dur
ing transcontinental alr
plane flight,
alr
cisco,
retary
Crissy
the recent
perpetuated in the
fleld at San Fi
ran-
an order by Sec
will be
flying
under
will
sery ice
which
Baker,
eld.
he designated as
Establishmen
depart
tional trainiug
important
ion
adopts
York of
America
{der » on?
of Working
Secretary of
Department of Labor wa
manent of
Labor Conference
»
GENERAL
president
to American armi
June, 1917, and
10,192.00 ons
rope, Charles
former brigadier general
fing agent, told
Committee,
December, 1818,
Ot were haged
G
pure
Dawes. of
4
ana
the Senate Military
More than $1,822,000 was pledged at
the closing session of the Methodist
Woman's Foreign Missions jubilee
at Brookline, Mass. of
the next vear in the foreign flelds oc
cupied by the society.
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for the work
The temperance board of the Metho-
dist Church characterizes as deserving
of rebuke Samuel Gompers' statement
that prohibition was
unrest in this country.
The Common Pleas Court at
burgh upheld the authorities in pro
hibiting mass meetings in the steel
strike zone,
New York's Grand Jury has begun
police department being in a graft
alllance with the underworld,
L. R. Thurston died at Passaic, N.
J., aged 94. One of his surviving daugh-
ters is Miss Mary Thurston, of Wood-
bine, Md.
The cornerstone of the $50,000 Y.
M. C. A. building at Gettysburg, Pa.
was laid with appropriate ceremonies.
Returns from 59 of the 88 counties
fn Ohio show the wets to be leadin
en all four prohibition proposals
The majority for Edwin P. Morrow,
tepublican, for governor of Kentucky,
20,000 on complete un
returns, and 34 the 120
in tha state give the “wets”
majority of 564,
nearly
now
fMicial
counties
of
Dr. Eleanor I. Burns, who through.
out the war stayed at her post as reg.
trar and professor of physics at the
American College for Women at Con.
at New York on
Lapland, from 8S
tantinople, arrived
the steamship
umpton.
South
The presidents of 160 life insurance
companies throughout the United
States will be mobilized in New York
December 4 and § to start the Associa
tion of Lite Insurance Presidents’ war
against the high cost of living.
A resolution recommending a state
wide strike of organized labor as a
last resort in the union's fight for "free
speech, free press and free assembly”
was adopted by the Pennsylvania Fed
eration of Labor.
Batten, of New
Rev. Dr. Samuel Z.
York, urges the Baptist churches
throughout the country
money offered by profiteers.
to spurn
Dr Butler, of Buffalo,
a member of the Presbyte:
Assembly,
WwW Va.
C. 8.
died
thousand
New York
FOREIGN
ivy
the German pe
members criticized
io
eC
At a
Argentine «
ment was made
of
South
el * var » . ” w ard wy
dinner given by Senor Jardon,
Ousul
at Madrid, announces
of the formation a
ing
States.
consuls
American
association represent
ne
North and
labor
British Gover
A London newspaper reports
that the
wbly considering a proposal
ninent is favor
4
i0r & con
ference of Boviet Russia with thé En
tente Allies.
The workin
indignant over
people of Munich
the
celebration
are
of &
anni
prohibition
first
versary of the German Revolution,
public of the
Twenty-two persons were killed and
20 injured when five railroad coaches
Thousands of persons are starving
in Petrograd, and the schools are
closed because of lack of fuel,
President Carranza has reiterated
that he would not be a thirdderm
candidate for President of Mexico,
, The French Government put on sale
a number of articles from the Amer
ican Army supplies,
At dinner King George is waited
on by a special servant, who does
not attend to anyone else at table,
PEACE IN EFFECT
NOVEMBER 28
Decision is Reached to Ex-
change Ratification
LEAGUE TO MEET IN PARIS
Supreme Council Falls To Fix Date
For First Session-——Baltic Mission
Leaves—Berlin Gets New
Demands.
Paris.—The
the ttlement w
will become effective, it
well-informed
28.
treaty of Versal
peace se th
Germany
is asserted in
Paris on
of
circles
vember The the
protocol ratifica
tions between
JOHN BARRETT RESIGNS,
Pan-American Union After
14 Years’
To Quit
Service,
new
ation *
t of international com
cial Vu iniz
and good-will.”
SEEKS MEXICAN PRESIDENCY.
ignacio Bonillas, Ambassador To Unit.
ed States, Is Candidate,
Mexico Clty. —Ignacio Bonillas,
ican Ambassador to the United
will be a candidate for the pi
of Mexico in the election
next ye irding
received at
10 be
to a telegr
from
letter sent
party
ar, RCC
Bonilias
him by
Am
Queretaro
in answer 10
members of the Democratic
bassador Bonilias the only
candidate thus far announced.
in
PALMER “BOMB” HARMLESS.
U. 8. Officials Believe It Work Of A
Crank.
Washington-—The supposed bomb
which Attorney-General Palmer re.
ceived through the mall proved to be
only a bottls of harmless liquid. The
German inscription on the bottle re.
counted the fear of the sender that he
was being pursued by some one who
desired to poison him for hin wealth
THANKSGIVING
Executive
PROCLAMATION
Designates No-
vember 27 Next, As The Day For
The Nation To Unite In Giv.
ing Thanks,
Thursday,
Washington,
aside
President
Nove
Day in a
Wilson
Thursday, mber 27, as
Thanksgiving proclamation
which said the country looked forward
“with to dawn of an
era where the sacrifices of the nations
will find
peace.’
confidence the
recompensge in a world at
OWE
of
The proclamation fol
By President
States of Am
“A proclamation
“The
arrived
the United
the
erica,
LLHE of the
the pe
accustomed
when ple
10
Imighty
which he has ¢
Btates are
ing thanks to A
blessings
g the
our country qurin
have A
passed,
BRAZIL PICKS NEW ENVOY
$600,000 000 FOR ROADS.
1920, Accord.
Estimate,
Huge Sum Available For
ing To Official
§
oO
ture
nounced, is
of the raiiroa
{to transport
ky
Cars nas
New Model Plane Tested.
Mineola, Long Island.-—A (type
forced landings was tried out at Roos
“stunted” ii for a half hour.
Teachers Combine Homes,
Holbrook, Unaehie to
Mass moet
tenement building and have started ©
co-operative housekeeping syatem.
DRYS T0 MAKE
\ FIRM STARD
Will Fight Lifting of Ban Before
January 16, 1920.
| MANY DIFFICULTIES IN WAY
i —
| Necessary Legislation Improbable Be
| fore End Of The Present Ses
sion—Dry Suits In New
York,
An effort
EMBARGO ON PORTO RICO FOOD.
Governor Me
Yager,
Rise
From
FIND SEVEN MINERS DEAD
Fourteen Others Gtill
Probably Dead
broke
The party
those of
WOULD REPEAL EXEMPTION.
of provisions
fed bills exempt
| ing labor and farmers’ organizations
rian prosecution under the anti-irus!
awe was proposed in a bill introduced
Senator Bdge, Republican, New
Jersey. “I am coavinced geld Sen.
ator Edge. “that a very large ma
jority of the people oppose all class
legislation. To exempt any cless from
any regulatory law is a direct javita
tion to violate the law.”
Washington.—Repeal
appropriation
by
| COMMERCIAL
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packing
packing
$12.50@13.50
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@14; heavy, S$1350Q14 medium,
$13.75@ 14; lights, $13.50@014; light
lights, $13.26@ 13.756; picking sows,
$11.756@12.75; pigs, 312.504 14
Cattle Heavy bee! steers, choice
and prime, $15.75@ 18.35; medium and
good, $1215.76; common, $8.75@
11.85; light beef steers, good and
choice, 3¢18.15; common and me
dim, $8.25@13; butcher cattle, hell
ers, I6.50@ 13.75: cows, $6.50@011.95:
canners and cutters, $566.50; weal
| calves, $1250@ 16.95; feeder steorss
| @13.50; stoeker steers, $5.75G 9.
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