, 1919-10-30
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVE.ITs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN


American soldiers won the war.
was the declaration made by King Al
bert of the Belglans, in accepting the
honorary office of state commander OF
lie Missouri branch of the American
Legion mt st. Louis.
Ramon Vega of Francisco Villas reb-
81 forces, who has been operating in
the state of Chihuahua, has surren-
dered himself INT his forces to Gen.
Rodrigo Quevedo at Casas Grande, Chi
l%lualua, according to advices received
by Andres G.. Garcia, Mexican consul
general at FL Paso.
While attempting to regain his seat
in his airplane after performing IL
series of daring seats in midair. Capt.
Charles Theodorel of Dallas, became
exhausted, lost his grip OIL the rope to
which he was clinging below the land
ing gear of his machine and fell U
feet to his death at Dallas, Texas.
Thousands of people witnessed his eN-
hibition and his fall.
Following the withdrawal from Pres
ident Carranza of Mexico of his extra
ordinary war powers by the Mexican
llOuSe Ol deputies, IEpSlutll ,lIluh-
"a has placed himself at the disposal
of the high judiciary committee of the
Mexican Congress for judgment on his
record" according to Il message re-
ccived by Ell NaciOnal, n Spanish Ian
guage newspaper published ut Ell Paso.
j. Il. Mccoy, Il prominent and
and wealthy oil man of Oil City, Pa,
was killed at Tulsa when he was
struck by an automobile. Mccoy, who
was T3 years old, was the father-in-
law of Frank A. Gillespie of Tulsa,
rated as the wealthiest oil operator in
Oklahoma. Mccoy had come to Tulsa
to attend a family reunion. The acct
dent was unavoidable,
Sale has been announced in San
Francisco of the historic Richmond
and Eureka silver and lead mines of
Eureka, New, which were opened in
1863 INC We're said to have yielded
more than S32,0O0,000 prior to 1910.
John w. Mackay of Comstock fame
was one of the investors in the mines
at Il time when they paid dividends
of So Il share monthly. The sale price
was given us S9,500,000. The Rich
mond- Eureka Mining Company of
Maine was the seller and the Il. a.
Hotter and III. p. Henderson syndicate
of New York city the purchaser.
WASHINGTON
The American army transport Great
Northern sailed from Valdivostok with
100 officers and 1,400 enlisted men re-
turning to the United States.
Denial of n seat in the House of Rep
resentatives to Niceor Berger, Milwau-
kee Socialist, who is under conviction
for violation of the espionage law, was
recommended by a special house com
mitten. Representative ~Rodenburg,
Illinois, filed a minority report recon-
mending delay.
1T is practically assured that legis-
lation will be enacted at this session
relieving miners of all assessment
work for the year 1919" This state
ment was made by Ravenel Macbeth,
Western mining promoter, who is in
Washington working for this legisla-
ton.
Count v. Macchi di CelIere, Italian
ambassador to the United States since
1913, died in the emergency hospital
at Washington just as he was about to
undergo an operation.
Advised that the Navy Department
has in reserve 9,000,000 pounds of SUI
gar, Secretary Daniels intimated that
he would release one-third of the stock
or 5000, 900 pounds for public use to
relieve the situation resulting from II
nationwide shortage of the commodity.
ThnNrnanV, nx~Wn 90 Tho ,I...s-.
board advised Senator Capper, Repub-
lican, Kansas, that the hoard had de-
cided to reduce freight rates on dressed
meat to Europe 81 per hundred-weight
or from $3.50 TO $3.50 per hundred.
When the new rates, which apply to
continental Europe are to become eff
fective vas not stated.
Cash a%ggregating about 800. 1000
was contributed by the American Red
Cross for relief work in France alone
and about $75, 1000 was contributed
for similar work in twenty other coun-
tries during the war period of twenty
months ending last Feb. 2S, according
To Il report of the war activities of the
organization made public in Washing
ton.
Authority of Ohio state officials to
confiscate and sell food held in cold
storage longer than authorized under
a state law, was in effect sustained
by the Supreme Court, which refused
to review appeals in proceedings
growing out of the seizure of 1855 o
pounds of pork of the Columbus Pack
ing Company.
Pressure from administration sources
for enactment of permanent railroad
legislut ON may block the tentative
plans of congressional leaders for adj
Jour mont of the extraordinary SEES