Williams news., 1919-09-12
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EvENTe IN THIS AND FOR
 EloN coUNTRiKs.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND hAPPENiNos THAT MARK THE PRoGREss, OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


 Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 WESTERN
 Nathan Shapiro, grocer, was shot and killed in his store in Omaha when he resisted three small negro boys who had come to rob the place.
 William Kunnecke, who was serving a life term in the state penitentiary at Sioux Falls, S. D., on a charge of mur- dering three persons, has escaped
 Nathan Wolfson, who was shot while escaping from jail at Kearney, Neb.. has been arrested in a hospital at Omaha, where he went for treatment of his wounds.
 On charge of flying his aeroplane CTS house, Charles H. Levy was fined $25 and costs for disturbing the peace in Justice Court at Dodson, Mo.
 Six children belonging to two fami- lies living in one house at Jenson, Sask., were burned to death when the house was destroyed by fire recently, in the absence of their parents.
 Fire, originating in the rear of for mer saloon, wiped out two square Elocks in the heart of the business sec tion of Los Banos, causing between $75O,O0O and $1,OO0,0O0 in losses and destroying the habitations of at least 200 people.
 Frank Twohy, 9-year-old son of the president of the Old National Bank, is credited with saving the life of Anna Wagner, %, at Hayden lake, near Spo- kane, Wash. The boy rescued the woman after she had gone under a second time.
 President Wilson will review the Pa cific fleet at Seattle Sept. 13, accord ing to telegrams from Secretary Tu- multy received by chairmen of Seat ties presidential and fleet welcome committees. The historic battleship Oregon will be the reviewing ship.
 Eugene Scott, negro bell boy, was shot and killed at Omaha in a police raid upon a hotel. The officer in charge of the raiders said he saw Scott taking pint of whisky to a woman guest. The bell boy ran from the hotel and was shot by one of the raiders.
 Arsenic was found in samples of cof- fee taken from downtown lunch room where thirty person were poison ed in Chicago, according to Health Commissioner Robertson. He expressed the opinion that someone had put poi tent.
 WASHINGTON
 By agreement Sbetween the United States and France, she is to pay the United States $4OO OOOO,OOO in ten-year bonds bearing 4 per cent interest for the fixed installations and other mili- tary material in France which cannot be brought back to this country.
 Westerners opposed to regulation of the packing industry as proposed in the Kenyon and Kendrick bills occu- pied almost the exclusive attention of | the Senate agricultural committee in l its hearings on the two measures. A | large delegation of Colorado citizens, | led by B. M. Ammons, former governor | of the state, consumed most of the | day, and the delegation leader wound | up the hearing with a speech which, | contrary to custom, was applauded | in the committee room.
  Ninety-seven per cent of the over the United States on the day the armis tice was signed have been demobilfzed, the weekly War Department reports show. Only 65913 men remained in Europe Aug. %, while in the United States there were 324,OOO and in Si- beria $500.
 Frozen fish held in storage Aug. 15 amounted to 64,74O,173 pounds, com pared to 82,554,7 ,798 at the same time last year, the monthly report of the bureau of markets of the Department of Agriculture made public shows. The holdings of mild cured salmon on Aug. l5 amounted to 9,347 1928 pounds, com pared with 5,128,523 pounds last year. An itemization of President Wilson's expenditures from the $15O ,OOO funds put at his disposal by Congress during the war has been sent oy the White House to the House con- nittee on appropriations. The item zation was sent in response to a reso- ution' introduced by Representative Gould of New York. It covers expendi- lures made from the Presidents secret fund during the war and peace confer snce.
 President Wilson has left Washing on on his Western speaking tour in behalf of the peace treaty, confident of Ultimate ratification of the instrument y the Senate without amendments or 'destructice" reservations which would equire re-negotiation.