The Ordway new era., 1918-09-20
FOREIGN

| fifth, mutinied at Cologne. Aug. 81. ac-
cording to the Amsterdam Telegraaf.
The newspapers announce that Lieut.
Nungesser. the French aviator. has
\ scored his forty-fourth official aerial
victory.
According TO LEclair Emperor
William of Germany has been ex-
tremely profuse in his bestowal OF the
iron cross.
Dispatches from Kiey report that
the peasants in revolt. have wiped out
the German garrison in the village OF
| Brusilvoka.
Or. Carl Peters, German, and IA
nous as an African explorer, died
Sept 10 in Germany, according to Il
| dispatch received from Brunswick.
Rear Admiral A. v Razozoff. fo--
mer commander.in-c of the Rus
I sian naval forces in the Baltic. was
murdered in Petrograd. according to
a dispatch from Helsingfors.
7 Lieut. Cecile Healy. a widely known
| Australian swimmer. was killed by a
| bullet on the Somme battlefield Sept
| /, according to Paris lie Journal. The
| Lieutenant led party of 500 swim.
mers across the Somme. enveloped the
| enemy positions and captured Mont
4 st. Quentin. the key to Peronne.
! Reports from Petrograd state that
Maxim Gorky, the Russian author and
revolutionary, has accepted the post
of director of Bolshevik propaganda
! The reports add that Gorky declared
that the attempt on the life of the
Bolshevik premier. Lenine, caused him
TO decide to cooperate with the Boil
shevik government.
President Poincare of France visited
the front to observe the conditions OF
the troops in the zone newly liberat
ed, and particularly those regions
where the enemy carried out system
attic destruction before retiring. Ac
companied by Generals Fayolles and
Humbert. he inspected Chauny, No
yon, Nesle. Guiscard and Ham.
SPORT
Manager Ed Barrow OF the worlds
champion Red Sox will go to France
next season if the war continues.
Total attendance and receipts of the
world series game on the last day fol
lows Total attendance, 1925 total
receipts, 1895; national commits
sion's share, sl,9795O; each clubs
share, ss,9O775.
Verlie Patchen, sired by Roy Patch
en- and driven by Palm, romped oft
with the Hotel Plankington stake foI
purse of $1,000, the feature event at
Wisconsin State Fair at Milwaukee
She won in straight heats.
4 Members of the Chicago Cubs will
not get round shouldered from carry.
ing their end of the world series
money. Instead OF the customary wad,
each got s574.G2, the losers end. The
Cubs shared with six men who did
not take part in the series. They set
aside $1,000, Trainer Brady getting
5000. and the rest being split between
Alexander, Kilduff, DAILY, Elliott and
Aldridge, now of the army
GENERAL
Gov. Charles S. Whitman of New
York received total of 295,i71 Re
publican votes in the recent general
primaries. and Merton f. Lewis, his
opponent. 11S,S79, according to the
primary results announced by Secre-
tary of State Hugo.
William Grissom, private in l57th
tColorado) infantry, was convicted of
murder by general courtmartial at
San Diego, Cal, last May, it was an.
nounced upon receipt OF orders from
Washington committing his sentence
from that of hanging, imposed by the
court, to life imprisonment. The com.
mutation was by order of President
Wilson. Grissom and Horace ST. John
Clark, a private in the same regiment,
were convicted Jointly of the murder
of Francis NJ McCrary, chauffeur,
the theft of his automobile. and de-
sertion.
Newton d. Baker. the American sec
retary of war. with several other no.
tables, witnessed the beginning of the
battle by Americans from a French
fort close behind the middle of the
line
Creation OF the Grand Army and
Navy Union of the Allied Nations" is
one of the propositions to be copsid-
cred by the national convention of the
Army and Navy Union III session at
Atlantic City. N. j.
The Germans have lost 100000 men
in the last month, 100000 of whom
were killed, according to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company. So low
has the German n.power become
that the 1920 class is expected on the
firing line daily
The number of prisoners taken by
the Americans in fiattening out the
St Mihiel salient Friday numbered
1890, Gen. Pershing reported In his
communique, received at the War De-