, 1919-11-27
FOREIGN

Ndlle OlINd, HtdE tie 'DItllOS ElNeI
in Chihuahua.
Dispatches received from Belgrade
state that the Serbian government has
authorized hat country's delegation at
Paris to sign the treaty with Austria,
which Serbia did not sign at st. Ger
main on September 10th.
The peace treaty will become effec-
tive by Dec. LIST, the Supreme council
has decided. Nations which have ac-
copied the treaty will exchange formal
notifications in time for the pact to
become effective on that date.
A crisis appears imminent in Aus
trla. The Vienna government, 1t is
reported, is unable to maintain its
power and the republic is likely to fall
to pieces, several groups declaring for
a union with Germany.
The Bolsheviki claim the capture of
ten generals and more than 100 other
officers at Omsk, according to an of
flcial statement issued by the soviet
government at Moscow. Kolchak's
army is being pursued in an easterly
direction, he statement adds.
The first list of Germans to be tried
by the allies for being responsible for
the war totals so names. according to
reports from London. The list includes
the former kaiser, the former crown
prince and Admiral Won Tirpitz. An
English judge will preside.
A message from General Denikine
says his volunteer army has broken
the Red" front between Orel and
Tamboy. A Bolshevik army, consist
ing of 10000 men, was beaten. 1t is
stated that 10000 men, belonging to
General Petlura's army, have deserted
and that his force are in disorder.
So acute has the shortage of house
hold coal in France become that
wealthy Parisians who can afford it
have ordered such fuel shipped to
them from America as they would
table d~elicacies. In the cargo of the
Siamese Prince, which sailed for
Havre, was twelve barrels of coal con-
signed to IN individual in Paris.
The Kosciusko squadron composed
of American aviators serving in the
Polish army has begun active opera
tons against the Bolsheviki. Patrols
over the Bolshevik lines have been
made by Maj. Cedric Fauntleroy,
formerly of The Lafayette ~escadrille
and American air service, who COM
mands the squadron. and by Captain
Cooper of Jacksonville, Fla, Captain
Corsi of Brooklyn, and Lieutenant
Graves of Boston.
GENERAL
A mail pouch containing 0 1900
worth of Liberty bonds was stolen
from the union station at Dunkirk, N.
Y.
A special federal grand jury at Cow
ington, KY, returned sixty-three in
dictments charging $50 persons with
violations of the wartime prohibition
act.
Lieutenant Commander Lathrop, at
tached to the United States naval mis-
sion to Brazil, vas attacked with heart
failure while bathing in Rio bay at
Rio Janeiro, and vas drowned.
AS a result of eating butter believed
to have been poisoned by weeds eaten
by the COWS from whose milk the but
ter was churned, Mrs. Sarah Haver-
stock is dead at West Salem, Ohio,
and -four others are seriously Ill.
Approximately 1000 bales of cotton
burned in a fire which swept part Of
the st. Louis Cotton Compress Com
pany's plant at Eldorado, Ark, accord
ing to a dispatch received at Little
Rock. The loss is about 81, OOO,OO
A crowd took Wallace Baynes, a
negro, from his home near Madison,
N. G. and shot him to death, after he
had killed Kay Ozburn, railroad sta
ton agent, who had assisted an officer
in an attempt to arrest him on a
minor charge. The negro was found
between two mattresses and dragged
with a rope around his neck to nearby
woods and hanged.
Twenty foreigners, all striking coal
miners, were refused naturalization
papers at Hillsboro, III. by Circuit
Judge w. Il. Jet, when he was in
formed that they had not returned to
work following withdrawal of the
strike order.
The eighth international egg-laying
contest at the State Agricultural Col
lege at Storrs, Conn.,, ended with a vic
tory for the ten Barred Plymouth
Rocks entered by Jules f. Francois of
Westhampton Beach, L. 1. Their total
yield for the fifty-two weeks is 2,022
eggs, this being the only pen in the en-
tire competition to average more than
200 eggs for each of the ten hens.
Automobile accidents in the state of
New York were responsible for the
deaths of 104 persons, according to a
report of the National Highway Pro-
tective Society issued recently. Dur
ing the corresponding month last year
ninety-flve persons were killed in the
state by auto accidents. The report