The Ordway new era., 1919-08-29
FOREIGN

cent. This is to be used Tor reorRan-
ization expenses in Schleswig.
More than 1000 divorce cases will
be heard by six Judges, when court
opens at Winnipeg, Sept. Is. Most of
the applications were filed by returned
soldiers, whose wives were unfaithful.
Crown Prince Charles of Rumania
has written letter to his father. King
Ferdinand, renouncing for himself and
his heirs his rights and privileges as
heir apparent to the Rumanian throne,
according to dispatch.
Japan and the all-Russian govern
ment at Omsk, 1t is learned, have con-
cluded arrangements to extend Japa-
nese fishing rights provided by the
Portsmouth treaty, which settled the
japanese war The fishing
clauses expired last month.
The Bolshevist battleship Andrea
Pervosvan, the battle cruiser Petro-
pavlovsk, II transport and a guardship
are reported TO have been sunk during
an engagement with the British fleet
in the Gulf of Finland The British
are said TO have lost three motor boats
and To have had eight officers and
three men killed.
The allied governments have in
formed the Austrian government that
it Will he held responsible for Bella
Kun, the Hungarian communist leader,
and for his delivery for trial by an al
lied tribunal, according to a dispatch
from Innsbruck. Bella Kun, it is added,
will he tried for hanging and shooting
Hungarians during his reign in Budn-
pest.
Germany is a broken nation, both
in body and spirit, and long time will
elapse before the efficiency of her peo-
pie is restored, 1t is declared in n re-
port of British scientists on food con
dltions in Germany The wartime semi
starvation of the people is responsible
for the slowness with which recovery
will be effected, according TO these
authorities.
SPORT
Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, will meet Willie Mecham
in an eight-round, no-declsion bout in
the East in November, according to a
statement issued by Meehan, who said
he had the promise of Jack Kearns,
Dempsey's manager, for the match.
GENERAL
The Hotel Victory was destroyed by
fire at Put In Bay, Ohio, at an esti-
mated loss of S500,000. The cause was
not determined. The fifty guests es
capped.
Joseph G. Wilholt, Wichita Western
League outfielder, ended his batting
in which he set new worlds
record by hitting safely in sixty-nine
games.
Willis +. Davis of San Francisco,
ian tennis star, 1851, 14-12, in the
seml-flnal round of the Meadow Clubs
cup mems singles at Southampton, n
Y.
Police are combing Detroit for three
automobile bandits who in broad day
light held up William Baldwin, aged
2I, collector for the Standard Oil
him of leather bag containing $1,000
cash, checks and oil coupons which he
had collected from substations of the
company. The holdup was witnessed
by number of pedestrians
A reward of 81 600 for the apprehen-
sion of Paul J. b. Hnverly, grand
keeper of records and seal of the
knights of Pythias Grand Lodge of
Illinois, missing since Aug. 6, was an
nounced by Smith l.. Won FOssen of
Beardstown, ILL.,, grand chancellor of
the lodge, who stated that a shortage
of more than 100000 had been found
in the lodge funds Issuance of a war
rant for arrest was authorized by n
legal advisory committee appointed by
the chancellor.
Seven persons were killed and thir-
ty-four injured in collision between
an express train and troop train in
France. The express was running
from Paris to Nancy and Strasbourg.
Charges of "extortionate profits" by
Dallas retail merchants were made by
p. ii. Spencer, chief of the bureau OF
Justice, and w. b. Burrell, assistant
United States district attorney at Dali
las.
Walter Elliott, n negro, who is al
legged to have assaulted farmers
wife, was shot to death by mob
which later carried the body to the
scene of the crime and swung it to
tree in country churchyard. The
mob took the negro from Sheriff
kearney, two miles from Louisburg,
n. c., while on his way to the jail.
No trace had been found of the four
masked bandits who held up and rob-
bed Louisville and Nashville passen-
lumbia. Officers are continuing the
search through middle Tennessee.
Booty amounting TO 500 OOO In cash