, 1919-04-24
FOREIGN

Belgium, has informed the American
congressman who are visiting Brrs-
sells that he will visit the United
States next October.
Reginald Devnelle, a fashion design
err formerly of New York, was found
not guilty of ~manslaughted In cOnnec-
ton with the death of Billie Carlton,
an American dancer, in the Old Bailey
our in London.
Casualties resulting from riots in
the last forty-eight hours total sixty
eight killed and 100 wounded, 1t was
officially announced from Cairo. In
Alexandria troops fired into a mob,
killing twenty and %wounding many.
Four Bolshevist agents arrested in
Bucharest have beer sentenced to
long terms of Imprisonment by u
court-martial. Trials of other Bolshe-
visit agents and of persons accused of
circulating enemy propaganda con
tinue.
The Berlin Zwelf Uhr Blatt reports
that 157 persons had been killed and
1S1 wounded in the fighting between
troops and strikers at Dusseldorf. The
htiNltSl liSntlHS ottuIlth iit tilt
strikers attempted to cut off the water
supply.
Fourteen American and six French
soldiers were killed when an express
train carrying American troops
crashed into Il stationary train with
French soldiers on furlough neal Lee
mans, France. Twenty-Five Americans
and twenty-five Frenchmen were i'll
jured.
Herbert Hoover, direetor general of
relief, has issued a review of the
measures carried out by the United
States. Great Britain, France and
Italy during the month of March
through the coordination of the SUI
preme economic council. The total
value of supplies distributed in the
month was approximately 8 100000,
of which all but about S2,500,000 was
furnished on a basis of deferred pay
ments.
SPORT
Fred Fulton, heavyweight pugilist,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy in
Federal court in Minneapolis.
Babe" Ruth of the Boston Amer
leans, who played left field in the Bal
timore exhibition game with the Bal
timore Internationals, made four home
run in six times at bat. The other
two times he was given base on balls.
The Northwestern Fly Casters AS
ISOLATION will hold its 1919 Champion
ship in Portland Aug. l, 2 and 3. The
event will be staged in a concrete pool
now under construction, and the win
ner of the all-around, championship
will be able to enter the national tour
nament at Chicago Aug. 20, 81 and %.
GENERAL
Lieut.. II. b. Andrews, who is sta
toned in Rumania, in Il letter to his
father at Leominster, Mass, states
that he did not hear from home for
fifteen months and then received 200
letters in N day.
Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, as
chairman of a committee to call a
convention of soldiers and sailors who
served in the world war, has issued
the call for u convention TO be held
in st. Louis on May s, 8 and 10. Col
onel Roosevelt expects that approx
imately 1000 delegates will be in at
tendance at the gathering.
Charging Il conspiracy to control all
foodstuffs and other necessities of
life, and alleging they have been
bounded and prosecuted for fifteen
years because of a valuable patent on
Il pork and bean biscuit which was
used by the hundreds of millions by
| tho ffoI,tirw - ,io, 80 .h1 .ro, NI,-o
Louise Osborne Riorson and Miss
Grace Osborne, her sister. of Omaha,
filed a suit for $12O, 100000 against a
number of persons and firms nation
ally known.
Two spectacular fires destroyed
buildings in sections of the business
district at Pittsburg, ~entailing a loss
Of between S150.O0O and 100000.
The Ukrainian soviet forces have
captured Simferopol, capital of the
Crimea, and Eupatorla, t~hirty-eIght
miles northwest of Simperopol. with
considerable booty.
Mrs. Alice Cult, an actress, and a
daughter of the late Clara Reed, who
created the role Of Little Eva In I'm
Gle Toms Cabin is dead in New
York In her fifty-second year.
Because Mrs. James w. Gerard, wife
of the former ambassador TO Germany,
has an excellent memory for faces,
Henry Bode, the only American sol
der convicted of serving Germany as
a spy is serving a ten-year sentence
in the disciplinary barracks at Gov
ernor's island. Bode, according to his
confession, after Mrs. Gerard had
identified him as a man in German
uniform who had appeared n day at
the American embassy In Berlin, wear
ing the iron cross, deserted from the
American army at Fort Bliss. Texas.
in July, 1914, and made his way to