The Dolores star., 1919-07-25
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less ulSpatch received In London.
The electoral committee of the French
Senate decided to report unfavorably
the bill adopted by the Chamber of
Deputies giving the vote TO women.
The R-33, sister ship to the British
dirigible R-3i. which has just com
pleted n round trip across the Atlantic,
will start on trip To India within the
next few days.
If the Germans are good" and full
fill the terms. of the peace treaty,
American forces on the Rhine will be
reduced TO 10000 men by November,
General Pershing stated in London.
Baroness de la Roche, the French
aviatress, was killed in an airplane ac-
cident ut the airdrome at Crotoy near
Paris. The baroness was flying with
IA passenger when the accident oc-
Cured
One officer and six enlisted men
were killed in the destruction of the
American mine sweeper Richard ii.
Buckley by the explosion of a mine in
the North sea. Two other officers were
injured.
A Helsingfors dispatch to London
gives ii refugee from -Petrograd as au-
thority for the statement that the
Bolsheviki are offering a quarter of
million dollars for the assassination of
Gen. Justus Mannerheim, the Finnish
regent, with the object of paralyzing
Finnish resistance
Four million children in Europe are
being fed under the auspices of the
American relief administration. This
work probably will be continued
through private charity and under
American direction, even after the con
clusion Of the work of the American
food administration in Europe.
Prices on all foodstuffS have fallen
with crash in Berlin as a result OF
the lifting of the b.<ckade They be-
gan to show weakness when it was
rumored that the embargo would he
lifted, but the real drop came only
when Illicit dealers with huge con-
cealed stocks brought them out in Il
virtual panic to unload before compet-
ing supplies entered Germany.
As English law now stands. man
may marry his dead wife's sister, but
woman cannot wed her dead hus-
bands brother. The point was made
clear by the presiding judge ut the
Northampton AssiZes the other day in
the case of two women who went
through the marriage service with bro
theirs of their dead husbands. Both
We're held for trial.
SPORT
Miss Ryan of California won the
Irish ladies' lawn tennis champion
ship at Dublin from Janet Jackson,
the Eng iSh representative The score
was 6 o. 6-l.
Norman Ross of San Francisco,
United States army, won the swim
ming match in the Seine across Paris,
distance of about G,5OO meters. in
one hour and thirty minutes Bacigal-
upo, Italian, was only four-fifths of
second behind Ross. Morris. Aust"al-
ian, was third. An immense crow 4
lined both banks of the Seine and gave
evidence of the popularity of Ross, as
consequence of his victories during
the interallied games, by heartily
cheering him.
GENERAL
a federal mail airplane, carrying
800 pounds of letters from New York
to Cleveland, was forced down by Il
terrific wind at Albany, and wrecked.
The aviator, Lieut.. j. ID. McAldcn, was
uninjured.
Federal investigation of an alleged
SlOO,OO0,OO0 food combine at Chicago
is under way by Charles +. Clyne,
United States district attorney, and
Walter B. Wooden and Attorney
Charles f. Moore of Washington Clyne
said there was evidence of great
trust of producers, Gamers and dis
tributors operating in this territory
and extending its activities TO all parts
Of the country.
Negotiations for loan of S3OOO0,-
900 to $4,000, 600 TO the Swiss republic
through the sale of bonds III this coun-
try have been virtually completed
Using an iron wedge, Robert Seifert,
26, beat his mother, 5G, TO death at
Alix, Ark. The womans skull was
crushed The cause of the crime has
not been learned. Seifert is in Jail.
A Zeppelin freight and passenger
transatlantic service to start about
Oct. is. between New York and Ham;
burg with Boston, Chicago, Berlin and
Dusseldorf as ports of call, was an.
nounce,lin advertisements in German
language newspapers and one Ameri,
can trade paper published in New
York. - .
The high cost of travelling has been
solved by Mrs. j. NJ Franklin, u young
graduate nurse of Seattle, Wash. she
is in New York after making the trans
continental trip mt n cost of SOB. The
trip was made as the result of a 81, 900
wager. She walked 49, miles, the rest
of the way being covered on hay wag-