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pM, %% M IRELAND ATTACK SOLDIERS Rioting and Looting Occur at Londonderry -- Troops Charge Crowds. w< HOARDED FOOD • SEIZED BY 0. S. Confiscation Penalty to Be Added to Fines and Prison for Guilty Onw, PRORERTY LOSS IS HEiflf TAKE GOODS FROM STORES ^i:s • Stone* Hurled at Troops When Attempt to Break Up Nationalist Ocpwwstration--Sinn Fein, . ' Policy Assailed. Londonderry. Aug. 19.--Rioting: and -looting occurred in this city during Friday night and Saturday morning. ^ Troops charged on mobs, but did not ', iBre any shots. The soldiers, however, were met with a volley of stones when . they attempted to break up a nationalists' demonstration. The monetary loss from looting and from damage to property is estimated ,;.at many thousands of dollars by police , * .authorities, vfc The trouble started when national- V, - ists set fire to a large number of tar L - -•."Jharre'S which had been collected be- " 1 'lieath an arch, over which was dis- • ". played a picture of Edward de Valera, president of the Irish republic, and •( sang the "Soldiers' Song." Unionists responded by singing the national anthem. One force of troops kept the crowds apart while other detachments at- <r tempted to clear the streets, charging upon the throngs repeatedly. Bricks and stones were hurled at the charging troops, one soldier being seriously hurt The nationalists were •--finally driven back to their own quarters. Windows were smashed and shops were looted by the crowds, and the " city was in darkness the entire night. More rioting is feared. Although several revolver shots were heard during the rioting, no report of anyone having been wounded " •~,x has been received. The troops declare that none of them fired any shots, and that when they drove back the crowds they advanced with their bayonets raised in the air. Belfast, Aug. 18.--Ten nationalist excursionists were Injured during a fight Friday with Orangemen at Lisv, . " burn. County Down. Serious rioting also occurred at Goal Island, County Tyrone. _ ^ The trouble at Lisburn took place after the nationalists had attended a "ladyday" celebration at Louth. In the riot at Coal Island several policemen and military officers were injured severely. London. Aug. 18.--John Devlin, nationalist member of parliament for Belfast, addressing a meeting of na- - tionalists at Blackrock, near Drogheda. Ireland, made an appeal for the '•old nationalist policy as against the t Sinn Fein policy in the matter of abstention from attendance upon the sessions of parliament. , • Mr. Devlin contended that the presence of the eighty Irish members at V Westminster during the peace confer- V\ ence would have changed Ireland's , fate, because every voice raised for y freedom in the house of commons "responded through two hemispheres." The nationalists, Mr. Devlin eon- ^ tinued, had given the Sinn Felners fair play, but in the future must show whether the old policy, so fruitful of results, or the new policy, so prolific In promises, was the better for Ireland. DAYLIGHT BILL IS VETOED ' President Wilson Declares Law Is Aid to Increase of Industrial Production. Washington. Aug. 18.--President 'Wilson vetoed the bill repealing the daylight saftag law. The president hhid he did so with "the utmost reluctance" because he realized "the very ^considerable and in some respects very serious inconveniences to which ihe daylight saving law subjects the fanners of the country." Thin is the second time the president ha* vetoed repeal of the law by which the clocks are set forward an hour on the last Sunday in March and turned back Aa hour the last Sunday in Ciietor ber. TRAIN KILLS FAMILY OF EIGHT New York Central Passenger Train ; flits Automobile at Grade Crossing in Pennsylvania. Cleveland. O.. Aug. 19.--Seven mem- Ihts of the John Trainor family of Cleveland, father, mother, four sons and a daughter and a woman relative were killed when a New York C< ntral passenger train struck . their automobile at a grade crossing near West Springfield, Pa. Qevsrnment Cuts Prices aa the Market '. Falls--Lowers Cost of Army Goods to Meet the Reduction * 1 ; Made by Retailers. Chicago, Aug. 15.--In its drive tereduce the high cost of living, the federal government begun the seizure of huge - amounts of foods in storage houses. The first seizures were reported from Chattanooga, Tenn.. and Jacksonville, Fla., and the United States district attorney's office announced that similar action would be taken in the Chicago district. ' Governors of a (lumber of states have asked the assistance of the department of justice to force into the market "amazing quantities" of food being held in storage, apparently until prices Increased. Attorney General Palmer announced In Washington that district attorneys had beeu tmlered to co-operate with the governors. Not only will Chicago food hoarders be fined and imprisoned, but their stocks will be seized and sold. At Chattanooga government agents went to the storage plant of the Atlantic Ice and Coal corporation tflid took possession of 84.000 dozen eggs that were being held for Morris & Co. of Chicago; At Jacksonville, according to an Associated I'ress telegram, more than a million eggs, hundreds of thousands of tins of canned foods and 27.500 pounds of sugar were seized in raids on wholesale food warehouses and cold-storage plants by federal officers. Plans for the seizing of all hoards of food that may be found are now being perfected, according to Mr. Mllroy. Violators of the anti-hoarding law will be liable not only to pay a fine of $5,000, or Imprisonment for two years, or both, but are also likely to have the government confiscate the food and sell It. It is expected that this punishment will be effective against profiteers. The Cuban sugar crop is the largest this year in the history of the island, according to H. H. Rolopp, who Is the head of the sugar , distributing committee for the government. Most of it has been marketed, he said. Food caches will be seized for uses of the army and navy and later will be directed to civilian uses- Release of sugar for the canning season is promised. Determination on the part of consumers to take advantage of the govment co-operation in bringing about a lower cost of living was indicated in the restricted buying of distributers in the produce market during the day. Sales of government fowls continued with reflected lower prices in competing commodities. Washington, Aug. 15.--To meet reductions recently made by retailers, a new scale of prices for surplus foodstuffs was ,put Into effect by the war department. Roast beef was reduced from $2.13 to $1.90 per six pound can ; bacon from 35 to 31 cents per pound, and No. 3 cans of beans from 11 to 9 cents. Prices on other items were reduced in proportion. m m TO MARKET r r'MARKtT Wtve_ 3V*T CoTTA * L Aooor United States Rushes SI 5,OOC| ta Twg) Xflflkees in Mexicaa * ? ; Bandit Lair m : *K •• New Crisis Are 6ent as Sharp Messages to Carranza--Troops of Eighth Cavalry March for the Rfb Grande Look for (be MOM: In sealed MClUttS. m digestion, tbrie flavors. not enouafo to make tfood, we libtANAMKift fctw* SUGAR PRICE 11 CENTS ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER SETS FIGURE FOR RETAILER. If G>*bcer Charges More He Is Profiteering, District Attorney Told; After Clothing, Etc. Washington, Aug. 15.--Through license regulations and the power of Mie food administration to procure the cancellation ,*>f licenses, the department of justice hopes to reach some ?ases of profiteering In sugar that would be more difficult to reach through enforcement of the criminal provisions of the food control act. . This position of the department was made plain in a circular sent to district attorneys calling attention to the fact that food administration officials tind taken the position that sugar should not retail for more than 11 ;ents a pound and that "where It is retailing for more it indicates that ?ither the wholesaler or retailer is making unreasonable profit." Mr. Palmer conferred with Clarence Wilson, food administrator for the District of Columbia, about efforts to reduce,, prices in Washington. He also had a conference with F. C. Hen- Jerschoot, secretary of the New York, fair price committee. Mr. Palmer appeared before the senate agricultnre committee to explain imendments to the food control act extending antiprofiteering section^ to Nothing and -other necessities and providing penalties for violations of the aw. When the committee met, senators expressed divided opinions as to the necessity for the legislation. FORD LIBEL SUI1 SIX-CENT VERDICT AWARDED IN CASE THAT COST MILLION. CALL OFF *BIG RAIL .STRIKE STRIKERS PROTECT FACTORY Offer Watchmen to Keep Fire Insure ance in Force on the Empty Buildings. Peoria, 111., Aug. 16.--The departure Thursday of all the imported strikebreakers from the Keystone wire mills left the buildings empty. The strikers proffered services of 25 of their number as watchmen, inside and outside of the mills, to keep in force the fire insurance, "both to protect our employers and our Jobs when this blows up." Threat of Big Traffic Tieup Is Removed After Spirited Meeting at Chicago --Lay Trouble to I. W. W. Chicago. Aug. 16.--The break in the railroad shop crafts' strike came on Thursday when representatives of 27,- 300 car men decided by an overwhelming vote to return to work. The vote to remain In affiliation with the International organization of the union instead of with the Chicago district council of federated shop crafts which has had charge of the strike, came after a spirited session during which It was charged that the I. W. W. has been responsible for the rebellion In the ranks of the shop men. The resolution providing that the men resume work was presented by P. A. Halleen, president of the central body of car men, at a mass meeting in Car Men's hall. The meeting was addressed by J. M. Patterson, international vice president of the association, who laid the disturbances in the Chicago district to the Influence of a Ted™ element. , BIG RAID MADE AT ST. LOUIS Twenty Million Pounds of Meats and Other Food Supplies by United States. Bt. Louis. Aug. 18.--Twenty million pounds of meats were reported seized when federal authorities raided the Booth Cold Storage company here. Large stocks of eggs, cheese and other foodstuffs were nlso said to have been located. Officials had not yet learned who owned the stocks. 1,363,792 Babies In 1917. Washington. Aug. 19.--Complete Statistics for 1917 show 1.353.792 babies were born in the states comprising the birth registration area. The birth rate exceeded the death rate by 74.4 per cent, the public health reports show. Coal Allotment Reduced. Berlin, Aug. 19.--Coal required from Germany by the allies under the pehee treaty has been reduced from 40 000- 000 tons to 21,000,000 tons, it was announced by Doctor Schmidt, minister of food, In the national assembly. U. S. Mission to Quit Berlin. Berlin, Aug. 18.--'The United States military mission assigned to Germany after the armistice and which has had its tieadquarters In Berlin will be dissolved in the course of the next month .IttM will leave for home. Artist Christy Weds Again. New York, Aug. 18.--Howard Chandler Christy, artist, and Mrs. Nancy May Palmer, a young widow, formerly of Poughkeepsle, who for eight years hift been his favorite model, were married in the Broadway tabernacle here. No U. 8. Food Ships at Petrograd Stockholm, Aug. 18.--The American legation denied today that two American ships had arrived at Petrograd with foodstuffs for the soviet govern ment, as was reported August 6 by wireless. < 1,500 Idaho Miners 8trike, Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 18.--A walkout of owners of Burke, Mullan and Nine Mile districts of the Coeur d'Alene occurred here. Fifteen hundred men are out to enforce the demand for aa> iflg Yaqul Indians Attack Town. Nogales, Ariz.. Aug. 16.--Marauders numbering about 200 and said to be Yaqui Indians, attacked a suburb of C.uaymas, on the western coast of Mexico. and killed one child, according to travelers. 0 LUXEMBURG HAS H. C. L. RIOT Thousands Storm Parliament Buildings; Troops Are Called to Clear Streets. Luxemburg, Aug. 18.--Parliament -buildings were stoned by a crowd of 7,000 workingmeu during a demonstration caused by the fact that tin amount voted by the chamber of deputies to meet the high cost of living was deemed insufficient. Some of the manifestants , succeeded in entering the chamber, t»ut weiv driven out when fir@d on by gendarmes. Magnate Awarded Nominal Damages Because Chicago Tribune Called Him an Anarchist ilount Clemens, Mich., Aug. l$rr Henry Ford won a* verdict in his libel suit aginst the Chicago Tribune. At 8:15 o'clock at night the Jury, which for three months has been hearing testimony and arguments in the suit, returned a decision in favor of the auto manufacturer, who sought vindication in the courts of the charge made by the Tribute that "Ford is un anarchist." , Trial of the suit, which, it. Is estimated, cost a million, was featured by the testtmony of Mr. Ford, his soil Edsel, owners and editors of the Tribune and 'notable educators and' clergymen. ! The jury awarded Mr. Ford damages of 6 cents, thus following the piecedent of the famous Roosevelt damage suit jury of «ome years ago in awarding a moral victory. The jury had been deliberating since 9:55 o'clock in the morning. Judge Tucker, instructing the jury, stated "the right of fair comment" Is expected in the case of Mr. Ford, because his position as n great employer of labor and entry as a propagandist into the discussion of the preparedness question made him a public character. The judge held that a newspaper has no greater privilege In making comment than has an individual. The jury was instructed further to dismiss the case against the Solomon News company, which on ti purely technical charge that it distributed in Michigan 208 copies of the Tribune issue of June 23, 1916, containing the alleged libelous editorial headed "Ford Is an Anarchist^' was made a co-defendant. The judge Instructed that^ plpintllTs charges of pro-Germanlsih against the Tribune and of a selfish interest in advocating Intervention in Mexico had not been proved and the jury need not consider it. GRAB 28,180 POUNDS^COFFEE Government Officials Seize Huge Supply From Storage Warehouse at St. Louis. 8i, Louis, Aug. 15.--Federal officials here seized 284,180 pounds of coffee held in storage in a warehouse on a libel information issued by the United States district attorney. It was alleged in the information that the coffee is held for J. Aron & Co. of New York. The information alleged that the coffee had been in the warehouse since October 1, last, and was willfully hoarded to increase its price. FOOD RIOTERS ARB FIRED ON Serious Disturbances Occur at Katto* *vitz, Silesia--Market Dealers and Shops Plundered. Berlin, Aug. 18.--Serious riots occurred at Kattovltz, Silesia, and many persons were wounded when troops fired on a crowd of deiponstrants against the high price of food. Market dealers were mauled, shops were plundered and windows smashed. Another Army Flyer Killed. Laredo. Tex.. Aug. 19.--Lieut. Fernando A. Robertson of Clarksburg, Va„ was instantly killed and Norman Roddy, mechanician, suffered a broken leg here when ati airplane In which they were flying crashed to earth. Kiel for Private Vessels. Berlin, Aug. 19.--A Kiel telegram to the Neue Berliner Zeitung says naval work at the Kiel dockyards will bo transferred to the Wilhelmshaven dockyard. The Kiel dockyard will be solely employed for private work. Kolchak Continues Retreat. London, Aug. 16.--The retreat in the Ural mountains of the forces of Admlr nl Kolchak continues, according to news received here. South of Uralsk, It Is added, the bolshevik! have driven £he Cossacks back 60 miles. Beer In Wisconsin?. Madison. . Wis.; Aug. io.--3'Every man who has been making or selling beer in the western district of Wisconsin will be prosecuted." United States District Attorney Wolfe announced. Seize Butter In Chicago Chicago, Aug. 16.--Eighty-five thousand pounds of butter was seized in cold storage houses and freight cars In Chicago by federal agents and department of justice men started out 600,699 Men 8till in Army. Washington. Aug. 19.--Discharges from the army now total 3,208,759. the war department announced, leaving a net strength on August 12 of 500.699 officers and men, of whom 109,988 still were In Europe. Mexican Envoys Are Named. Mexico City, Aug. 19.--The senata has named a committee of three to confer at the frontier with the subcommittee named by the United States senate to Investigate the Mexlcau question. New Army Has 100,000. Washington, Aug. 18.--The "first 100,000" of recruits have been secured for the permanent regular army. General March, chief of staff, announced, and of these more than OSJJOO w«re j»- enlistments. Nab Bank Robbers, Recover Lftot. Russellville, Ky„ Aug. 18.--Horac* Withers and Alfred Armstrong, who with John Wells robbed the Citizens hank at South Carrollton, Ky., surrendered to police here. All except $1,000 I *? the was Washington, Aug. 20.--Th# American embassy at Mexico City was instructed by the state department to immediately call upon the Mexican government for quick action to effect to release of Lieuts. Paul R. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, American irmy aviators, who were captured by Mexican bandits near Candeiaria, Tex., while patrolling the border, and who are threatened with death unleas 815,000 ransom is paid. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 20.--Troops of .the Eighth cavalry were on the marchon. the American side toward the Rio Grande Monday night and army truck companies were being* assembled for mmedlate use. / Marfn, Tex., Aug. 20.--Authorization for the payment of the $15,000 ransom-asked by Mexican bandits for the release of Lieuts. Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, was received here from MaJ. Gen.SIoseph T. Dickman, commander of the southern department, and the money will probably be delivered late In the day to an agent of the bandits at or near Candelaria, Tex., It was announced here. The American, aviators are being held somewhere in Mexico south of Candelaria. - H. M. Fennel 1, vice president of the Mai-fa bank, left for Candelaria with the ransom money raised here. He was accompanied by' a military guard commanded by MaJ. C. C. Smith. It is not known here when the aviators are expected to recross the border to the United States. Aviators on detached service at the Big Bend headquarters also left hera for the Candelaria border presumably to watch from the- air for the return of the aviators. As the payment of the ransom has been officially authorized by the southern department the money raised bythe cattlemen of the Big Bend district at the cowboy camp meeting will be reimbursed, it was announced. Tlie money raised by the cattlemen was used. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 20.--Somewhero In Mexico, south of the Big Bend district of West Texas, Lieuts. Paul, H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, U. S. A., are being held by Mexican bandits for $15,000 ransom. After eight days of suspense since the aviators, patrolling the border, dis-< appeared, messages were received by military authorities at Marfa, Tex., demanding payment of the ransom in gold to Dawkins Kilpatiidk of Candelaria, Tex., or the Americans would be killed, according to the message. Another message, signed by the aviators, accompanied the demand for the ransom. In "which they stated practically /the same facts as contained In the message from the bandit leader. They also sent messages to their relatives in Strathmore, Cal., and Hutchinson, Minn., urging them co see that the ransom was raised at once. Another message was later sent toi Candelaria, Tex., addressed to Dawkins Kilpatrick, an American, and signed by one of the bandit band, saying they would kill the aviators if there were any signs that the American military commanders were preparing to pursue the bandits. Replies were received from the parents of Lieutenant Peterson stating they would furnish the ransom if the government failed to put up the money, according to messages from Marfa. These replies were immediately given to a courier, who attempted to make an effort to reach the bandit rendezcous south of the border. Whether or not he succeeded was not known here or at Marfa. It Is also believed he carried assurance to the bandits that the ransom would be paid. This and other developments has led army officers here to believe the bandits are not far from the border and are holding the American aviators in some out-of-the-way canyon until the ransom is paid, whereupon they will release them and permit them to f,o to the border. Nothing has been heard pf the scout biplane which the men flew when they to*ere captured. ~~|!J»na Form New Cabinet. HeTslngfors. Aug. 20.--The TWW cabinet of the Finnish republic hps been formed with President Stahlherg holding the war portfolio. , > Giant Airplane Is Miaatnfl. ,-,\ . Paris. Aug. 20.--Anxiety Is felt over the lack of news of the arrival of the giant airplane Goliath at Dakar. The airplane was last reported Saturdny morning. August ' 16, passing over Portetlnne, 50 miles from Dakar. Dry Ratification Held Void. Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 20.--The vote#* of Nebraska barve the right to vote to reject or approve the action of the state legislature In ratifying the federal prohibition amendment the district court here held. QropvNam* "Reichstag." Weimar, Aug. 20.--President Rbert took the oath under the new constitution before the national assembly on August 20. He has withdrawn the decree which designated the assembly as the reichstag. Named as Collector of Port. Washington, Aug. 20.--William H. Clare of Joliet, III., was nominated by Piesldent Wilson to be collector of customs for the port of Chicago tp succeed Rivers McNeill, wiw 4^ re" KEEP it good onti#t • * V Mt It tbe sealed package ^Impurity-proof-guarding •reserving the delicious contents-- the beneficial goody. ' I *£AL£D- TIGHT Flavor Lasts UNHURT BY LONG IMMERSION kirwsi -AKEPT W6HT * v.' . *" Articles Salvaged Prom Sunken Ships Found to Be Practically Unhwpd by Action of Water. Chptaln Reginald Humphreys of 1tie British navy in speaking of the action of the^pea on vessels and merchandise says; 'Wooden ships, after being sunk, »ro rapidly covered with a marine srrowth which, forms a sort of lime ieposlt and preserves tbe wood in some ases . for several centuries. We are Informed by one of the underwriters 5f New York who had charge of the salvage operation on the Oregon that bicycles were brought up from her hold that had been In the water over four months and yet looked as bright as when they went down; also silks the rater folds of which only were Injured. Some wines that had Ijeen* recovered from a vessel sunk about fifty rears brought $75 a bottle at auction. Sold and some other metals, glass and precious stones are never affected. A new avenue of wealth Is opened to the world by means of the saivagini ipbm^rlne. Looking for Bids. DM you ever use money in an election?" " 'No," said Senator Sorghum. "I have been accused of it, but I have always found that when you begin to hint at aioney anybody with a vote to sell got Ills mind entirely off the election and wanted to turn it into an auction." ; l Doesn't Know Enough. "Why don't you sue the paper (or libeir 'Not me, mister. I ain't had no rollege education." t Its Class. "Is forestry a science?" ?•. "It ought to be an art. Wt # irheie all the wood cuts come from." Coke Driven 'Truck. A new British steam driven truck makes use of coke as fuel, which la said to be successful and economicaL Cutlcura for Sore Hand* Soak hands on retiring in the hot ante of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub in Cutlcura Ointment. Remove surplus Ointment with •tissue paper. This la only one of the things Cutlcura will do If Soap, Ointment and Talcum are used for all toilet purposes.--Adv.. The Difference. ^Imson had heard news about J(MBson that pained and grieved hlai. When he met Jonson he demanded: "What's this I hear about you and your wife having trouble? Before you were married you told me you would go to the ends of the earth - gether." "Yes," said Jonson, and there was ft great weariness in his voice; "but t didn't know she wanted to go there in a taxi."--Boston Post. N . Just us Usual. *H«t !s your baseball team heref* asked the guest with the tintinabttulatory waistcoat. "Well, all winter they are the champeens of tbe whole region and sweep everything before 'em like a cyclone,* replied the landlord at the tavern at Grudge. "But when spring comes and they begin to play matched gamea 'pears like something always gets tho matter with 'em to keep 'em from winning anything but execrations and such like."--Kansas City Star. Would Have Given Him Pause. Blx--Were you nervous when yo* proposed to your wife? Dlx--No, but I would have been if, I'd foreseen the present cost of living.-- Boston Evening Transcript. , , Elephantine. "Didn't "I see Mr. Ledfpot dancing with you at the party?" 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