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WORLD HAPPENINGS
Of CURRENT WELK
1000 W O M EN STO RM
H O TEL
Waldorf-Astoria Attacked by Mothers
Calling for Bread.
2 AMERICAN LIVES
LOST ON LACONIA
T U B ER C U LO S IS C U R E FO U N D
Antitoxin Successful With Animals—
Experiments to Go On.
GERMANS RETREAT
ON SOMME FRONT
New York—A crowd of approxi­
Berkeley, Cal. — Successful experi­
mately 1000 persons, mostly women,
ments in the cure of tuberculosis in
who had attended a mass meeting in
and « prospect of sim ilar re­
Brief Resume Most Important Madison Square to protest the high Chicago Woman and Daughter animals
sults in the treatm ent of human beings British Sweep Into Evacuated
cost of food, stormed the Waldorf-
with a newly discovered antitoxin
Daily News Items.
Positions of Enemies.
Are Reported Victims.
Astoria hotel Saturday, shouting they
will he announced by the University of
were starving and demanding to see
California within a few days in a bul­
Governor W’hitman.
letin by Dr. Frederick P. Gay, head
When informed the governor was
of the departm ent of pathology.
there, but at another hotel, they
Dr. Takeoka, of San Francisco, n
COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS not
refused to believe the statem ent and LINER SUNK WITHOUT WARNING member of the staff of the medical FOG AND MIST AID RETIRENENT
started a demonstration which necessi­
school of the university, has succeeded
tated the calling out of police reserves.
in isolating a secretion of the liver,
Events of Noted People, Government« Several persons were injured in the Vessel Armed for Defense But Attack which, according to his announcement, New Teuton U ne Reported to Me Three
disorder that followed. Four arrests
made to a seminar last week, has
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Milea in ltenr of Former Place
Come« in Dark W ashington ia
were made.
affected complete cures in the cases of
A speaker at the Madison Square
guinea
pigs
at
the
point
of
death
from
Things W orth Knowing.
British Harass Germans.
Greatly Stirred Over Act.
meeting had asked how many persons
tuberculosis.
would be willing to go to the hotel.
The effect of the inoculation of the
Several in the crowd who took this as
tubercular guinea pigs with the secre­
A total tonnage of 24,522 is the toll a signal to march started away and London—Two American women, Mm. tion, which is called takuren by its I,ondon On one portion of the B rit­
by U-boats in the submarine w arfare soon an excited throng was moving up Mary E. Hoy and her daughter. Miss discoverer, has been noted by Dr. Gay ish front at least the war Sunday be­
Madison avenue.
and others. Dr. Edward von Adelung, came a war of movement.
Monday.
Elizabeth Hoy, both of Chicago, lost of
Oakland, will continue the experi­
The Russians renewed their attacks
their
lives
in
the
sinking
of
the
Cun-
ments
and note the effect on human Under cover of fog and mist, which
Tuesday in the Carpathians, in the vi­ These Admirals Command
have been psrticulsrly heavy in the
beinga.
ard liner Laconia, a great vessel of
cinity of T artar Pass. Berlin’s official
I)r.
Takeoka
succeeded
in
isoltaing
First
Line
of
Defense
past 4H hours, the Germans rarried nut
18,099 tons gross, which had been only
statem ent says the attacks were w ith­
the
antitoxin
when
working
on
the
the
greatest retirem ent they have
out success.
recently taken from the adm iralty theory that the liver muat secret its
made
on the Western front in the last
service to resume her run as a mer­ own antitoxin for the germs of tuber­
A bill appropriating $45,000,000 for
two
years
and the liritish have swept
controlling floods on the Mississippi
chant vessel, destruction of which was culosis, inasmuch as it is the only or­
and $5,600,000 for sim ilar work on the
gan
unaffected
when
all
others
are
into possession of Pys, Serre, Mirau-
officially reported by the British ad­
Sacramento in California was passed
tubercular.
mont
and I’etit Miraumont, including
m
iralty
Monday.
Monday by the senate. It already had
Dr. Takeoka succeeded in isolating the famous
Buteu de W arleucourt,
A
Central
News
dis|>atch
from
passed the house.
the substance to his satisfaction sev­
Queenstown says Mrs. and Miss Hoy eral
which^has
been
the scene of some of
months
ago,
hut
it
was
not
until
Twenty-eight persons have been ar­
were drowned by the swamping of a recently that he called it to the atten­ the fiercest lighting of the war and in
rested in Ireland, Henry E. Duke,
boat.
tion of Dr. Gay, who, upon seeing the places is deep with the hones of «lead
chief secretary for Ireland, told the
The dispatch says many survivors successful
house of commons Monday. The ar­
suffered severely from exposure. All seminar. results, called the recent men.
rests were made under the defense-of-
hospitals and hotels in Queenstown Dr. von Adelung refused to make a The exact extent of the German re­
the-realm act. It was not proposed to
were prepared for the reception of the statem ent of his results Wednesday, tirem ent is not known, hut it is es-
try these men.
survivors, and plenty of warm food, saying
any statem ent should come tim ated that it approaches a depth of
clothing and beds were available when from the that
From 10 to 20 persons are reported
head
of the departm ent. I)r. three miles at some points. British
they arrived.
to have been killed and a number in­
Takeoka
said
that
his best results had patrols are out in all directions har­
The Laconia was torpedoed by a been obtained from
jured in a rear-end collision between
takuren obtained
German submarine and sunk without from the livers of molluscs.
assing the Germans and keeping in
the Mercantile Epxress and a freight
warning in the darkness of late night.
train on the Pennsylvania railroad at
touch with their movements. Until
She was armed for defense, hut aj>-
Mount Union station, between Altoona
they rc|>ort it will not he ismsible to
Wilson
May
Break
Precedent.
parently had no opportunity to use her
and Harrisburg, Pa., early Monday.
say
just where the Germans have de­
Washington, I). ( \ - President Wil­ termined
gun.
to fix their next line of re­
German destroyers bombarded Broad-
son
is
considering
breaking
another
There
were
26
Americans
aboard,
of
sistance.
stairs and Margate early Monday
whom six were cabin passengers and precedent of more than 100 years’ It can be said that the British are
morning. One woman and one child
20 were members of the crew. Two standing by not calling the customary now, or soon will be, in a (xisition
were killed and two persons were in­
special session of the senate immedi- | (tossibly to force the evacuation of
lives are known to have been lost.
jured. Two houses were damaged.
ately at the beginning of his new term. Bapaume, which has been the key to
Wesley
Frost,
American
consul
at
This announcement was made by Sir
Inauguration arrangem ents, already the German position since the begin­
Queenstown,
telegraphed
the
American
Edward Carson, first lord of the ad­
much upset by the fact March 4 falls ning
embassy
here
Monday:
the battle of the Somme. The
m iralty.
“ Cunarder Laconia torpedoed 10:50 on a Sunday, may be further disar­ (stints of which
already have fallen into
ranged
by
the
abandonment
of
the
Sunday night. Two hundred and sev­
Kut-el-Amara has been captured
tho
British
hands
have stood out in the
enty-eight survivors landed. Details I special session, which in a measure history of the fighting
from the Turks by the British forces,
on this front
would
change
entirely
the
method
of
lacking but known some missing. One
according to a statem ent made by
and
had
been
most
stubbornly
ceremonies of inaugurating the vice ed. Only a week ago when the defend­
dead.”
_____
Andrew Bonar Law, member of the
British
President. The President’s purpose, attacked on a two-mile front east
British war council. The Turks are
and
Washington,
D.
C.—The
sinking
of
as
understood
at
the
capitol,
is
to
in retreat toward Baghailah, 24 miles
south of Miraumont and I’ys the Ger­
the
big
Cunard
liner
Laconia,
appar­
avoid
a
special
session
of
the
senate
to the west of Kut-el-Amara, pursued
man resistance was bitter ami the high
ently without warning, and with 26 unless an extraordinary session of ground
by British cavalry.
desired was won only after
Americans on board, loomed up Mon­ the whole congress is necessary.
des|M-rate hand-to-hand encounters and
News dispatches from Holland to
day night as the most serious disre­
the taking of more than 800 German
the London newspapers emphasize the
Senaie Passes Spy M easure.
gard of American rights since the
continued indignation aroused among
ruthless German submarine campaign Washington, D. C.—The adm inistra­ prisoners.
the Dutch by the recent destruction of
began.
tion espionage hill, providing severe
ships by the German submarines. The
Government officials here made no penalties for spying on m atters of Na­ Great Snowslide in Idaho
kOWRAL
HENRf
T
dispatches say that there is a com­
tional defense and punishing conspir­
iAL WKk ft. CAPf*T OH attem pt to conceal their concern.
plete absence of noisy protest, the
acies to violate Amreican nuetrality
Mining District Kills Fifteen
ADMIRAL
AsW-WNT
gravity of the situation having pro­
was
passed
Wednesady
by
the
senate
Boise, Idaho — Fifteen men were
duced “ a marked silence, amounting to Admiral Henry T. Mayo is in com- President Asks Congress’ Support
60 to 10. The hill as passed killed
and 15 injured when a giant
j mand of the Atlantic fleet, which must
a sense of solem nity.”
in Protection of Americans takes in 14 separate measures suggest­
snow slide destroyed the hunk house,
_,
,
,
...
,
,
bear
the
brunt
of
battle
in
case
of
war.
ed
by
the
departm
ent
of
Justice
and
Thousands of cars filled with food-, Admiral w illiam B> Caperton is in Washington, D. C. — President Wil­ was put through virtually unchanged, compressor house and warehouse of the
stuffs consigned to the Atlantic se a -; cha
f the Pacific fleet which
son Monday asked congress for author­
Star mine, 12 miles northeast of
the opposition of several sena North
board for export . a r e lying on the have work to do, and Rear Admiral A. ity to use the forces of the United despite
Hailey,
tors, who declared its terms so strin­ morning. Idaho, at 3:30 o’clock Sunday
sidings of the W estern railroads be- w Grant jg in command of the sub. States to protect American ships and gent
to im fieri I American liberty of Work of searching the wrecked
tween Chicago and Los Angeles, Cal., marines of the United States navy.
lives against the German submarine speech as and
of the press. It has not buildings for the remaning bodies is be­
held there because of the congestion in
menace to put the Nation in a state of passed the house.
Eastern railroad yards, according to
armed neutrality.
ing delayed because of the imminent
reports received by the bureau of in­ At Thirty-second street the marchers The immeidate response was the
danger
of bringing down a slide from
Los Angeles Stays Wet.
vestigation, United States department turned into Fifth avenue, and one man introduction in the house of a bill, ap­
the
opposite
side of the gulch.
of Justice, from special investigators pointing to an automobile shouted that proved in advance by the President, Los Angeles—Voters of Los Angeles For it time the Federal Mining &
who have just returned to Chicago no one had a right to ride in automo­ empowering him to furnish guns and rejected Wednesday an initiative ordi­
company, owner of the North
from food inspection trips along the biles when others were starving. The gunners to American merchantmen to nance to “ prevent saloons, cafes and S Smelting
tar
mine,
had a force of 90 men en­
machine was stopped and instantly “ employ such other instrum entalities all public drinking places from selling gaged in recovering
W estern lines.
the dead. Aban­
persons boarded the running and methods” as may become neces­ intoxicating liquors over 21 per cent donment of all hope of
finding any yet
Boise, Idaho—The proposed creation several
board and tried to drag the owner from sary, and providing for a $100,000,000 alcohol.” Returns received from all alive and the danger of precipitating
a
of a new state out of territory com­ the
car.
bond issue, to he used in his discretion but 52 precincts gave: Yes, 6911; second slide which would cover the en­
prised in the 10 counties in Northern Three
policemen who tried to turn for war insurance to encourage Amer­ No, 22,933. The ordinance was tire force of rescuers caused the com­
Idaho was one step nearer realization the marchers
from the Waldorf- ican commerce to brave the submarine opposed by both the prohibition ad­ pany late Sunday to call off the work­
Tuesday, when the House of represen­ Astoria were away
vocates and the wets. The measure ers.
swept
Although peril.
tatives adopted by a vote of 36 to 25 reinforced soon afterw aside.
ard
by
a
number
The President’s long-expected ac­ was proposed by a “ Committee of One Immediately u(>on receiving news of
house joint resolution No. 196 calling of porters and other employes of the tion,
while received in the main with Hundred.”
the disaster a special train conveying
for a constitutional convention to con­ hotel, they were unable to quiet the
expressions of support, threatens to
physicians and rescue workers was run
sider the proposal. Because a call of crowd. One woman cried:
Shackleton to Return,
from Hailey to Gimlet, from where
the house was insisted upon and or­ “ We want to see the governor! Our force an extra session of congress.
York—Sir Ernest Shaekleton, the
Republicans, disinclined to grant the New
was obliged to travel six
dered before debate had been heard for babies are starving!”
A ntarctic explorer, who recently miles party
blanket authority while congress is in rescued
to
the
in sleighs.
and against the resolution, debate was The reserves arrived while she was recess,
the survivors of his expedi­ A fall of mine
give evidence of opposing the tions from
feet
of snow during the
entirely shut off and the measure speaking and formed a line in front of legislation
Ross Barrier, cabled Tues­ past three days, followed
the President asks, not for day from Wellington,
by rain, has
passed without comment.
New Zealand, to resulted in numerous slides
the hotel entrance. They vainly ar­ the purpose of withholding it, hut to
the
A woman suffrage bill is passed by gued with the crowd and finally were force him to have congress in special friends here th at he will pass through North Star district, many in in places
he Indiana legislature. The bill gives forced to charge. One woman later session to take a hand in the next the United States on his way back to where they never were known to occur
the women the right to vote for Presi­ was found unconscious in the street.
steps, which they feel will lead to war. London. He is expected to arrive in before. Two small slides have oc­
dential electors and practically all
The Republicans are receiving passive San Famcisco near the end of next curred on the property of the Silver
state officers except governor and sec­
Mooney Sentenced to Die.
support from the Democratic element month, and probably will speak in Ledge mine, adjoining the North Star,
several cities on his way to New York. but no serious damage resulted.
retary of state.
San Francisco—Thomas J. Mooney, classed as pacifist.
Vindication of all public officials a labor agitator, was sentenced Satur­ The President’s advisers deplore this
At the tim e of the accident the Fed­
Britain Seizes Leather.
mentioned in the investigation of day to death by hanging by Jduge situation, for its effect on Germany, Washington,
eral
Mining & Smelting company had
D. C. — The British 60 men
charges that there was a leak to Wall Griffin in the Superior court for a bomb where, they are convinced, it will feed War office had taken
employed at the mine and 115
possession
of
all
street on President Wilson’s peace explosion that cost 10 lives during a the official impression th at congress the leather in the United Kingdom, at work at the mill, two miles below.
note was voted unanimously Wednes­ preparedness day parade here last July. will not support the President if he
officials have announced that be­
Commerce departm ent was in­ The
day by the house rules committee. The Mooney was convicted of murder in finds it necessary to go to war, and the
cause
of dangerous conditions prevail­
formed in a cablegram Wednesday ing they
report, now virtually complete, prob­ the first degree two weekt ago. Judge that he is not speaking the sentiments from
will close the mine for the re­
the
American
Consul
General
at
ably will be put in final shape soon.
Griffin set May 17 for the execution. of a united country.
mainder
of
the winter.
London. Leather produced between
An
appeal
will
be
taken
from
Judge
now and March 31 also will be taken
A net gain of 1413 recruits has been
refusal to grant a new trial,
Newspapers Accept Plan.
Baltimore to Buy Food.
over.
Another cablegram announced
made in the navy in the last 20 days, Griffiin’s
Washington, D. C.—Newspaper pub­ the seizure of all unsold stocks of jute. Baltimore — Twenty-four five-ton
compared with a total net gain for the Mooney’s counsel said.
lishers from throughout the United
trucks of the city departm ents were
whole of January of approximately the
Millionaire's Son Killed.
Snowslide Buries Tracks.
States, meeting here Monday with the
sent out in the country surrounding
same number.
Brunswick, Ga. — Edwin Gould, Jr,, Federal Trade commission, voted unan­ Salt Lake C ity — Uprooting trees Baltimore Monday morning to gather
The Panama canal did its biggest son of the New York capitalist, was imously to co-operate w ith the com­ and covering cabins in its four-mile in farm products in an attem pt by the
m onth’s business in January, according accidentally killed while hunting near mission if it decides to accept the sweep, the largest snowslide in the city to help smash the corners in food­
to figures available this week, 176 Jekyl Island Sunday night. Mr. Gould proposal by news print m anufacturers history of U tah covered the tracks stuffs.
vessels with a tonnage of 557,839 hav­ was hunting coons. He struck a coon th at the commission fix a price for of the Oregn Short Line railroad be­ Spot cash is to be paid to the farm ­
ing passed through the waterway. The on the head with the butt of his gun their products.
tween Wheelan and Cache Junction ers out of the city’s contingent fund.
previous record was in July, 1915, and the weapon was discharged, fatally The publishers agreed to reduce early Wednesday. All trains in the Mayor Preston said that he expected
when 170 ships of 547,370 tonnage wounding him. His companion had to their requirements if necessary to vicinity are Btalled, and 160 men have to cut 26 per cent off the costs to the
passed through.
row two miles in a small boat for help. make the plan successful.
rushed to the scene to give aid.
consumers.