Williams news., 1919-09-12
VOREIGN

| Grown Prince Leopold will leave for America between Sept. 20 and A, on board United States warship. An unsuccessful attempt was made | to assassinate the Egyptian premier, | with a bomb during a demonstration, l said an Exchange Telegraph dispatch l from Cairo.
 Nikolai Lenine, the Russian Bolshe- vik premier, has sent delegation to Kishinev to negotiate peace with Ru. l mania, according to a report received | from Budapest.
 Prince Joachim of Prussia, one qf | the ex-kaiser's sons, has bought tAe magnificent and ancient mansioh | called "villa Favorita" at Castagnola, | Italy. It cost him $SO,OO0. Twenty men were killed and forC | are missing, it has been reported, as | result of the explosion of an ammu-
 hilton barge which destroyed and sank | the British monitor Glow Worm. The United States has granted a loan of $5O,OOO,OO to Esthonia, to be
 used chiefly to pay for American goods l sent to that country, according to an announcement made by the Esthonian press bureau.
 Andrew Sockalexis, famous Indian
 runner, is dead at Oxford, Me, from tuberculosis. He had competed in many of the important long-distance running events of the country. He ran in the Olympic games at Stockholm in 1912.
 Dr. Lipp, who participated in the so- viet government at Munich and issued orders which were consedired amazing, has been declared incapable of stand ing trial because of his mental condi- tfOn. For some time he has been con- fined in an insane asylum.
 Paul Mistral, minority Socialist, dur ing the debate in the Chamber of Dep utfes in Paris, on ratification of the peace treaty with Germany, declared that he and his party of about thirty five members would vote against rati- ffcation of the treaty.
 Marshal Foch, the allied commander in chief, has decided upon the extent of the territory in the Rhineland to be held permanently by American forces. Its area will be twice as large as that which has been under American juris- diction since the last combat division left for home
 The American transport Thomas, with 600 replacement troops, has ar rived at Vladivostok with $40 Ameri- can soldiers bound for Manila by way of Nagasaki, arriving at San Francisco in about ffrty-five days. This is the first large detachment of the American forces in Siberia to sail for home.
 
 these words William F. Tanner, cash fer in the offices of the Baltimore 6 Ohio railroad of Chicago, closed his eyes, embraced his wife, whose foot | was caught in a railroad frog, and was l killed with her when limited train of l the Chicago & Northwestern railroad | crashed into them on a street crossing. |
 Queen Maude of Norway is the first | woman to pilot a seaplane. The queen | has been taking flights over Christi ania and grew so enthusiastic that she | insisted on piloting herself. The sec ond time she was accompanied by Grown Prince Olaf. Queen Maude took | the controls and piloted the boat skill fully, to the cheering of vast crowds below
  first aeroplane funeral ever held oc- cured at Toronto, Ont, when a tiny coffin bearing the body of Leonard AL len, a 5-months-old baby, was conveyed to Mount Pleasant cemetery in plane piloted by Harry Smith, formerly of the Royal air force. The flying hearse" was closely followed by sec ond plane bearing assistants of the un- dertaker
 GENERAL
 The biggest users of motor trucks in the world are the American farmers, with 79,789 motor trucks in operation. cturers come second with 75,- BPS, and retailers third with 74,486.
 The will of Andrew Carnegie, made public, estimates the value of the iron estate at between $25, 1000, ,OO0 and $30,OOO,O0O.
 Five million pounds of frozen meats, now in cold storage in New York and Chicago, has been offered by the War Department to municipalities for re sale. Tine offer will remain in effect until Sept 25.
 As unreasonable as it sounds, the ,ity authorities have announced that every canine resident of Asheville, N. J., must wear a bell during the next year, and to prove their earnestness hey have purchased large supply of he necessary ornaments for distribu- ion among the owners of dogs
 The purchase of land for the pro- ,osed Theodore Roosevelt Memorial