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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1917
Page
1
Secretary Baker approved final draft for the universal draft rules. Provisions target aliens and foreign slackers with possible 1,000,000 additional eligible draftees if adopted. Drafting likely by Saturday with local boards handling fitness and dependency, while appeals moved to larger districts.
A street scene in Lemberg shows a government building likely to become a Russian HQ as General Kroniloff, Kenensky, and strategist Brusiloff rally the troops. The Austrian stronghold appears aced by the advancing forces with American Press Association image capture.
After a four day hunt in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan the bodies of Clifford Smith seventeen and his brother Thomas seven were recovered from Frenchman’s Lake about one hundred feet from shore both drowned while fishing authorities reported.
Mrs. Alice Mannering nominated for mayor by the Socialist party subject to the fall election. She will campaign on a platform for a free city dispensary a municipal dairy a municipal coal yard a municipally owned coal mine and an ordinance to regulate housing conditions. The Weather partly cloudy and warmer.
Live stock receipts and price ranges across Chicago Kansas City and East Buffalo. Hogs, cattle and sheep show varied demand with quotes for light to prime quality pigs and steers, and lo wer hog values at East Buffalo. Grain and produce prices include corn, oats, eggs, poultry and vegetables with range figures for buyers and sellers.
In Petrograd on July 18 demonstrations by Bolshevik factions led to midnight gunfire on Nevsky Prospekt, with several killed or wounded and panic as rioters exchanged fire. Also on that day three cadet ministers resigned amid Ukraine policy disputes, while a special session was convened to avert a cabinet crisis. Separately, Russian forces evacuated the Galician town of Kalusz as Austro German advances continued in the region.
In Globe Miami district on July 18 under army orders public speaking by the I W W has been prohibited. Three Germans were arrested.
Chicago July 18 Recommendations that the state council of defense initiate action to bring about state or federal regulation of coal prices were unanimously approved at a special meeting. Governor Lowden promised a special legislative call if Illinois coal operators have not agreed on relief by Saturday. A further council meeting was set for Saturday to hear operators’ plans.
Leonard Kress a German native claiming naturalized American citizenship was arrested in East Dubuque Illinois by militiamen after attempting to tear a flag from another man. He insulted the flag and tossed his wallet into the Mississippi during transfer to Dubuque, a guardsman recovered the wallet but some damaging papers may be missing.
Chicago July 18. Pitcher Tom Seaton of the Cubs was sold to the Los Angeles club.
London reports the admiralty says four German steamers were sunk by British destroyers in the North Sea. The vessels Pellworm, Brietzeig, Marie Horn, and Heinz Blumberg were captured or sunk. seventeen ships have sailed from Rotterdam since Saturday, with several stranded or returned to Rotterdam.
Springfield Ill July 18 Illinois is fixing district quotas from the war department population estimate. Major B M Chiperfield traveling to Washington reports progress and will present a personal report on return. Original Illinois estimate over seven million suggests about 12000 more men than first planned. Colonel Edward J Lang ordered continued progress but district figures will take days to finalize.
Washington reports sixteen members of the Woran's party arrested Saturday for an attempted picket in the District. They face fines or sixty days in Occoquan jail. a six ty day sentence appeal will be taken.
A German centrist party apology notes disappointment that submarine warfare did not end the war by midsummer. Reports from Berlin and Copenhagen describe Reichstag tensions, Michaelis policy hints, and plans to vote war credits while seeking peace terms.
In Helsingfors the push for Finnish independence from Russia raises extreme tension as the diet blocks a large loan to Russia and threatens a general strike if the communal bill abolishing property qualifications is delayed. The bill, supported by Socialists and some bourgeois members, faces third reading after a senate demonstration.
Washington July 18 The adjutant general reported a surge in regular army recruiting with 32 more recruits accepted Tuesday than in the prior two days. Daily tally reached 1,500, while the two-day total was 1,117. Pennsylvania set a daily record with 269, New York followed with 272. The army still lacks 35,282 men of a 183,898 quota.
Kingman Arizona reports the Golconda mine shut down due to union activity. About two hundred miners are affected as the IL W. W. movement disrupts operations in the region.
All indictments pending from the 1913 coal miners strike in southern Colorado were dismissed in Las Animas County district court. The action, taken in Trinidad, Colorado, ends the long legal case against the involved miners.
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