The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-11
Peace Notes

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Peace Notes
A Paris dispatch says assurance q
good faith In signing the treaty Nna
given by Doctor Mueller and Doctor
Bell, vae German plenipotentiariea. A
the same time they expressed the hope
that the terms would be modified later.
President Wilson, the treaty with
Germany signed. sailed from Breet -
his return to the United Statea e
U. s. s. George Washington, carr y
the proDidentini party, steamed -
the hasbor at 800 O'Clock sunday -
ternoon.
The peace treaty has been signed.
The world war. which for more than
four years ravaged the greater part Of
Europe. was ended officially. at 3:l6
o'clock Saturday when cannon bGDmed
announcing that the last ,plenipoten-
tiary to the conference had affixed his
signature to the peace treaty. The
delegates, In addition to signing the
world peace treaty. also affixed their
signature to the Rhine protocol md
the Polish undertaking. ~
The peace treaty was take nom
Versailles to Paris and depoGC4d at
the protocol Office. 49,
The Franco-American Coz -
was signed on behalf of the ~ Dv-
ernments. according to Paris -
pers. 1t Is said that the COW In
cludes several articles and -
that violations of the peace ~
Germany will give France tit -
request American and Britt ~
ance.
Domestic
The big nannk dirigible =.
handed by IL y. J. Leaf
crew Of elk - and tvo
bound frqn Cas- Ney,u
s13s 49,
Just amer lan11ne q onn
near Baltinsso. Ma. q
just rudder trouble. SIEVE
sons. mostly women and ch
burned. or otherwise injursA
Ten persons were killed q
than score were injured irl
end collision between New Y0 !
trail Train No. Z, known rs tt o.
erner. and the second sectiou g Go1o
No. II mt Dunkirk, N. Y.
There we're "a officers and ~ -
listed men on the steamer Qeo1gofs
wald when II sailed from Archanuul
on June "a for Brest with the Lest e
the American forces In northern Re-
sia.
While the street mobs were hoWl1ng
their good-by to John Barleyco1 =
Chicago members OF the city counc11
were passing an ordinance authoriuing
the issuance Of 50day licenses for TIE
sale Of 2% per cent beer and also
wines. Edward J. Brundage. attorney
general OF Illinois. issued a statement
TO the effect that the sale Of beer and
wine will be legal. so far as the state
laws are concerned. until national |
prohibition becomes effective
next January 10.
Governor Lowden at Springneld. M
vetoed the boxing bill. He held Il = |
unconstitutional. /
DIR. Walter Keene wilkins under
sentence OF death for the murder e |
his wife. hanged himself In the Jan at
Mlneola. n. Y. He was alive when dis
covered by keepers. but died shortly
litter six O'Clock In the evening.
Three-fourths of the business dis
irict and two blocks OF residences In
Stark county. North Da-
kota. were wiped out by fire.
Traiied for ten days through south
rrn Mississippi by posses which In
riuded several hundred members of
his own race. John fairfield. negro.
confessed assailant OF an EllisviIis
(Miss) young woman. was captured
desperately wounded. In a canebrake
rushed by automobile to the scene Of
his crime. h. rged 10 a gum tree and
burned TO ash ~ His victim Identified
him and witnessed his execution.
losses ranging f-om $4,000 20 81
10000 resulted from fire which com
iletely destroyed the plant 81 the Ar
nour Fertilizer company at Baltimare.
Calls for harvesters aggregnting TO- I
90 have been received at the United
States employment bureau at Topeka. :
Nan.
Tons OF bolShevlSf and SoriaffSf us. ,