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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC—For the fifth time since 
the war started the United States Steel 
Corporation has announced an increase of 
10 per cent, in the pay of the employees 
of its subsidiary companies. The advance 
went into effect October 1, and will affect 
approximately 270,000 workmen. The 
increase will mean an addition to the 
annual payroll of the Steel Corporation 
of approximately $30,000,000. 
Warrants charging conspiracy in con¬ 
nection with the killing Sept. 19 of a 
policeman and the assault on two other 
men by alleged .Jersey City gunmen in the 
Republican factional contest in the Fifth 
AVard of Philadelphia were sworn out Sept. 
20 for Mayor Thomas B. Smith, Police 
liieut. David Bennett and Isaac Deutsch. 
Deutsch was a candidate for the Select 
Council and opponent of James A. Carey 
for the leadei'ship of the ward. 
A voluntary agreement entered into b.y 
the copper industry of the country and 
approved by President Wilson, Sept. 20, 
fixed the price of copper at 231^ cents a 
pound, f. o. b. New York, approximately 
three cents under the present market 
quotation. The agreement, framed by 
the copper producers and the War In¬ 
dustries Board, and effective for four 
months, calls for a universal price, not 
only on Government contracts, but on all 
sales to the European allies and the gen¬ 
eral public. 
Pro-German instructors who find them¬ 
selves in sympathy with Germany, Ger¬ 
man philosophy or “Kultur” have been 
asked to resign from the faculty of the 
Kansas State Manual Training Normal 
School by AV. A. Brandenburg, president. 
Judge F^rank Rathmell of the Common 
Pleas Court, Columbus, O., September 21 
issued a temporary injunction which 
would prohibit a referendum vote in Ohio 
this November on the Reynolds Presiden¬ 
tial suffrage law. The coni-t knocked out 
petitions calling for a referendum vote 
from 22 counties, where the boards of 
elections failed to certify to the Secretary 
of State that the petitions were in com¬ 
pliance with the law. Anti-suffragists im¬ 
mediately announced they would return 
the faulty petitions to the 22 counties 
for proper certification. In case this is 
done the suffragists will attack the peti¬ 
tions again, contending there is no author¬ 
ity for an amended certification. To call 
a referendum 70,744 signatures are re¬ 
quired. This court action reduced the 
number of valid signatures to 60,401. 
Lightning playing on the steel rod of 
an umbrella was the cause of Steve Ja- 
necko’s death near Mount Pleasant, Pa. 
A heavy electrical storm was raging as 
Janecko left home September 23 for his 
work in the mines, A bolt of lightning 
struck the rod and the man was instantly 
killed. 
A revolution of 2,000,000 malcontents, 
nationwide in scope, backed by the I. W. 
W. and 48 affiliated organizations, includ¬ 
ing the'Working Class Union, in which it 
was planned to apply the torch to small 
cities, shoot officers of the Government 
and demoralize communication, was 
planned for July 27 last, according to the 
testimony at Enid, Okla., September 24, 
in the trial of alleged anti-draft agitatoi’s 
from Central Oklahoma. Details of the 
plotting were given by Will Hoover, a 
witness for the State. The Industrial 
Workers of the World were to launch the 
ui)rising. Hoover said. “Rube” Munson, 
allf'ged State organizer of the W. C. IT., 
told of a meeting of the Friendship local 
in an open cornfield near Sasakawa. At 
a prearranged time the W. C. IJ. was to 
captulre small towms, take elvarge 
hank.s, burn bridges and cut telegraph 
vires, Avliile tlie I. W. W. cared for the 
larger cities in a like manner. Presi¬ 
dent Wilson and Governor Williams of 
Oklahoma, Hoover quoted Munson as hav¬ 
ing sjiid, would have such a large force 
of soldiers for personal protection on the 
Mexican border that none would be avail¬ 
able to send against the rebels. 
Two men were killed at Richmond, Cal., 
September 25 in an exidosion which tore 
out tile forward woiLs and superstructure 
of the Standard Oil tanker .1. A. Moffett 
as slie lay at her pier. The explosion was 
probably caused by an accidental ignition 
of gas while the men wore cleaning the 
hold. More than 60,000 gallons of oil 
which had been pumped 'aboard escaped 
destruction. 
Harry A. Reed and James E. Eaton, 
attaches of the Hamilton Private Detec¬ 
tive Agency, convicted of having kid¬ 
napped inexperienced sailors and of hav¬ 
ing held them prisoners until rewaids 
might be collected from the Navy De¬ 
partment for their return as deserters, 
were sentenced at New York September 
25 to serve five years 'and five days each 
in Atlanta Penitentiary by Federal Judge 
William R. Sheppard. Harold A. Con¬ 
tent, Assistant United States Attorney, 
said that for years they had made a busi¬ 
ness of collecting rewards from the Gov¬ 
ernment for the return of stragglers and 
deserters. It was testified that Eaton 
made ft practice of representing himself 
as a Federal officer; of seizing sailors 
Avhom he thought to be stragglers, hand¬ 
cuffing them and bringing them before 
Reed, who posed as a captain of the 
Navy. The men were then held prisoners 
in the offices of the detective agency at 
1482 Broadway until the sleutlis were 
assured of a reAvard for their return. 
Some of the recruits, as a result, were 
charged with the time they were held 
in the Hamilton agency offices, and were 
sentenced to long terms in the naval pris¬ 
on as deserters. 
WASHINGTON.—A provision for cen¬ 
sorship. under regulations of the Presi¬ 
dent, of mail, cable, radio or other com¬ 
munication between the United States 
and foreign countries, was written into 
the Administration trading with the ene¬ 
my bill September 20 by the Senate and 
House conferees at a special meeting. It 
is designed to prevent military informa¬ 
tion from reaching Germany by relay 
through Latin American or other neutral 
countries. The provision was inserted at 
the request of the Federal departments, 
having knowledge that many messages 
•have reached Germany, in code, by steam¬ 
ship and otherwise. A censorship of 
mails and cables, comparable in its sever¬ 
ity to that employed by Great Britain, is 
to be invoked by President Wilson as soon 
as the conference report on the trading 
with the enemy act, with its censorship 
provi.sion, is agreed upon by the House 
and the Senate and becomes a law. Such 
action by the President is regarded us 
certain in the light of revelatmus of the 
manner in which German-American mer¬ 
chants and German sympathizers haA^e 
been freely sending valuable information 
to Berlin by means of cable code mos- 
.sagos and by mail through Central and 
South American countries. German 
agents, it is now established, have been 
supplying such information as the sail¬ 
ing of American transports and other mil¬ 
itary details in carefully coded messages, 
which on their face appeared to be inno¬ 
cuous business transactions. The mes¬ 
sages in inany cases wopuld go to corre¬ 
spondents in Spain, who would forward 
them to Berlin by wireless. 
Woolen goods manufacturers unani¬ 
mously pledged their support to the Gov¬ 
ernment in the conservation of wool Sep¬ 
tember 20 at a meeting at the Woolen 
Goods Exchange in New York. A com¬ 
mittee was named to meet representatives 
of the Federal Committee on Supplies 
and the Commercial Economy Board of 
pie Council of National Defence at Wash¬ 
ington. At the Washington conference a 
progr.umme will be outlined by which sup¬ 
plies intended for civilian use will be di¬ 
rected to channels supplying the needs 
of soldiers and sailors. The programme 
will be passed upon later at a general 
meeting in NeAv York of the country’s 
textile manufacturers. 
Owing to the .shortage of silver cur¬ 
rency in the Philippines the National 
Bank, acting under Government author¬ 
ity, has contracted with the Government 
Printing Bureau to print several million 
peso and smaller note.s. The Government 
has ordered the arrest of all persons dis¬ 
counting paper currency and is preparing 
coastguard vessels to be used as a pos¬ 
sible patrol to prevent the exportation of 
silver pe.sos and bullion. Small coins are 
now being sold in the streets at a 10 per 
cent, premium. 
The State Department made public 
September 23 official documents revealing 
a plot on the part of German dij)lomatic 
representatives to create an epidemic of 
anthrax and glanders among Roumanian 
live stock and the population itself. It 
Avas another of the series of Mr. Lan- 
.sing’s disclo.snros of German intrigue, 
made public Avithout comment. IVith 
eight vials of the deadly microbes found 
buried in the grounds of the German liC- 
gation in Buchare.st—Avith directions for 
the inoculation of horses and cattle—Avas 
uncovered a box of high explosives suffi¬ 
cient to destroy public buildings, bridges, 
railroads or other public Avorks. 
PoAvers equivalent to those sought by 
the Administration in the censorship pro¬ 
visions of the e.spionage act of .Tune, 1017, 
Avhich were denied by the Congress at that 
time, have been accorded the exectitive 
branch of the Government through the 
Postmaster General in the new trading 
Avith the enemy act. The conference re¬ 
port on the bill Avas adopted in the Sen¬ 
ate September 24 by a vote of 48 to 6. 
As noAV draAvn mo.st drastic action on the 
part of the Postmaster General may fol- 
loAv any infraction of the espionage laAV 
as he himself may interi)ret it. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Dairy Cattle Congress, Waterloo, Iowa, 
Oct. 1-7. 
International Wheat ShoAv, Wichita, 
Kan., Oct. 1-13. 
Eastern States Agricultural and Indus¬ 
trial Exposition, Springfield, Mass., Oct. 
12 - 20 . 
Ncav York State Guernsey Breeder.s’ 
Association, annual field day, Harbor 
Hill, Roslyu, Long Island, Saturdav, ()ct. 
13. 
National Dairy Show, Columbus, Ohio, 
Oct. 18-27. 
Sheep shoAV, under auspices of New 
York State Agricultural Society, Utica, 
N. Y., Oct. 30-31, Nov. 1. 
American Pomological Society, regular 
biennial meeting, Boston, Mass., Oct. 31- 
Nov. 4. 
Winter short courses in agricnltuia'. 
State College, Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 7-Fel). 
15. 
NortliAvest Live Stock Exposition, Lcav- 
iston, Idaho, Nov. 8. 
National Farm and Live Stock ShoA\'. 
New Orleans, La., Nov. 17. 
Pacific International Live Stock Exj)')- 
sition. North I’ortlaud, Ore., Nov. 19-24. 
Short courses in agriculture, Rutgers 
College, Ncav BrunsAvick, N. J., open Nov. 
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