The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-17
OUR FOREIGN LETTER

London, July 15.-British newspapers are featuring William Williams, the town crier of Llanwrst, Wales, as a worthy rival to Senator Smith of Michigan in the art of rhetorical flap doodle,P as they characterized the speech of the chairman of the Com merce subcommittee in presenting his
 Titanic report to the Senate.
 Williams who was the prosecuting witness in case of assault against a neighbor of the same name with whom he had quarreled because the neighbours chickens had .tassimilated;'
 his onion beds, thus addressed the court:
 Between the hours Of noon and one
 p. m. on Thursday ultimo last, I was
 walking peacefM3y along Wa tlin4
 when was rudely and abruptly stop- ped by Kefzie Williams, hereintofore known and identified as the defendant in this action, who detached my mind from it's congenial pursuit by the use
 of such terribless language that the
 most godly man at Llanwrst who was approaching. turned back shocked, and
 hastened away. @
 "The defendant then challenged me
 to combat, but I am a man of peace. so I admonished him and told him to
 engage in battle with a younger man than l.. But seeing savagery deep ening in his eye, took refuge in an
 back-door to another house. where
 stopped for twenty minutes in fear and trembling. <
 'HThinking the defendant had sheer ed off, I emerged out of my shelter,
 when, before I could run for my life, the defendant struck me one in the eye
 and another on the temple where your Ia N4rt1 a paper. The blows sent me hurtlins into shop, from which, when I emit ted I leaned on the windowsill and bled ,profusely, leaving an ensangu1n-
 ed mark on the pavemetlt, still o5- servable."
 Overcome. by the complainant's eIo- quence the court promptly fined the
 prisoner $2.50 and costs.
 Berlin. July 15-A movement has ] been started in Berlin against ''poW- der and perfume in theatres. One publication says some of the feminine theatre and opera-goers powder so
 heavily that it causes the masculine part of the audience to constantly
 sneeze. (which is very annoying as we'll as distIIrbing'' What the pow der fails to do in making theatre and opera going unpleasant, perfume fin- i ishss, many women using so much that It IS SQI1OGdpAuS Io S4e HEAL " | thena," says the sheet.
 l Berlin, July 15.--The discovery of | what is believed to be the real Mount l Sinai of Holy Script is reported to the Academy of Science by Professor Dr. Al. Musil. from Damaseus.S Pro
 lessor Musil believes that the extinct zion of northern Arabia, is the bibli- Teal Mountain where the Ten Com mandments were given to Moses. l London, July 15.-England's cham pion bigamist, Harry Johnston Jor- 1 don, has just begun serving a sen, l tence of three years penal servitude Within five years, from 1901 to 1906 Jerdon, who is 40 years of age and the superintendent of an insurance com pany, biganously married five woIn- | en, his first wife, whom he married
 in 1897 and deserted II weeks later being then alive. Each of his next ] four wives Jorden left after living with them from one to three months and borrowing from them various sums of money. He was living with the sixth when recently he was ar
 rested in London.
 'srhis Is the worst case of it's kind within my knowledge" commented the judge in passing sentence.
 | St. Petersburg, July 15.-The unac.
 couhtable epidemic of suicides in Rus sia's capital continues at the rate o1 | nearly 10 a day, most of the victims | being less than 25 years of age. 1 PaiSon ig the usual means employed although a number have cut their 1 throats with razors. Several have l jumped through holes in the ice al | Neva. An aged noblenan, reduced te poverty, leaped from a six story win dow to instant death.
 l London, July 15.-Following the re- l cent example of the Baptists of Eng | land in enacting church legislation looking to the establishment of min. 1 imum wage for ministers. the Unitar, ian Association has taken similar steps
 A sssustention fund.- of s150.000 IS tc be raised, from the interest of which | it is proposed to make grants to tht poorer congregations so that they may be enabled to pay their pastors live able salaries. The graduated scale O. minimum pay suggested is from $500 2 l year in the villages and smaller towns to $975 in the cities.
 Geneva, July 15.-"In the event O | a hirth oT. a death occurring in an air