less than last year. The government |
|estimates of the crop issued to-day showed |
|sensational losses in the spring wheat crop in the |
|Northwest, a further shrinkage in winter wheat, and |
|big losses compared to a month ago and last year in |
|corn and oats. |
| |
|Both barley and rye figures also indicate greater |
|losses compared to a year ago than were shown in the|
|July government report. |

| =The Follow-up Next Day= |
| |
|American wheat pits had a day of turmoil to-day such|
|as they have not seen since the stirring times when |
|war was declared in Europe. |
| |
|Influenced by the startling government report |
|showing enormous losses in the spring wheat crop, |
|prices soared even more sharply than the wiseacres |
|had anticipated. |
| |
|They were 5 to 8 cents higher when the gong struck, |
|the report, released after the close of 'change |
|Tuesday, having had its effect over night. At the |
|close they registered a gain of from 10-5/8 to |
|11-3/8 cents for the day. Wheat had gone above $1.50|
|a bushel. Two months ago it was around $1.05. |

=265. Probable Results.=--Where no more important details can be
learned, it sometimes is wise to feature probable results.

|A break in diplomatic relations between the United |
|States and Germany as a result of the torpedoing of |
|the Lusitania by a German submarine is the expressed|
|belief to-day of high Washington officials. |

=266. Clues for Identification.=--In stories of crime, when the
offenders have escaped, the lead to the follow-up may begin with clues
for establishing the identity of the criminals.

|If a piano tuner about forty years of age, wearing a|
|pair of silver spectacles and accompanied by a |
|petite, brown-eyed girl twenty years his junior, |
|comes to your house for work, telephone the Boston |
|police. They are the two, it is alleged, who robbed |
|the Mather apartments yest