Williams news., 1919-08-29
FOREIGN

last shots at the Germans on armis- tice day, November 11th, were pre- Sented to the village of Mons, Bel g1um, with elaborate ceremonies.
 sCrown Prince Charles of Rumania has written a 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, it is learned, have con- cluded arrangements to extend Japa- nese fishing rights provided by the Portsmouth treaty, which settled the Russo-Japanese war; The fishing clauses expired last month.
 The BOlshevist battleship Andrea PervOSvan, the battle cruiser Petro- pavlOvSk, a 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
 Germany is a broken nation, both in body and spirit, and a long time will elapse before the efficiency of her peo- pie IS restored, it is declared in a re- port of British scientists on food con- ditions in Germany. The wartime semi starvation of the people is responsible for the slowness with which recovery will be effected, according to these authorities.
 To recover more than $3,OOO,OOO in gold, part of the fortunte of the late Oom Paul Kruger, once president of the Transvaal, which is believed to be cemented in the hold of the bark Dorothea, sunk on Tenedoes reef off the coast of Zululand, is one of the projects which may be revived as result of improvement in the science of salvaging sunken ships
 The magnificent former imperial yacht Meteor, in which the ex-kaiser used to make his annual summer cruises in northern waters, is offered for sale at the price of a half million marks ($125,OO0). German kaiserist newspapers are denouncing the offer, first, because they consider "the very idea an insult to the ex-monarch, and secondly, because they regard the price as "ridiculously low.''
 SPORT
 Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham pion pugilist, will meet Willie Meeham in an eight-round, no-decision 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
 Lucy Murillo, r years old, of New York City, was arrested on a charge of homicide. She is accused of causing the death of her one-day-old baby by letting it fall six stories from the win dow of a factory.
 Charges of "extortionate profits by Dallas retail merchants were made by F. H. Spencer, chief of the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice, and w. B. Burrell, assistant United States district attorney at Dal- las.
 Three members of the board of di- rectors of the American League, con- stituting a majority of the board, or dered Pitcher Carl Mays reinstated at a special meeting in New York, thus nullifying the action of President Johnson in suspending him.
 George Peters, 55, a farmer of Arundel, Prince Georges county, Maryland, was murdered and his body set afire by an unidentified negro. Catherine Peters, his daughter, was shot through the breast and arm and taken to Washington hospital
 No trace had been found of the four masked bandits who held up and rob- bed Louisville and Nashville passen- ger train No. z, ten miles south of Go lumbia. Officers are continuing the search through middle Tennessee. Booty amounting to $60,OOO in cash was reported taken from the mail pouches, although no official estimate could be obtained
 Postal authorities at Winnipeg have been notified. that $5O,OOO was stolen some night recently from the interior deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed monton, Alta. No cIew to the thieves has been found.
 Agents of the investigation branch at Detroit of the Department of Jus tice said that in one cold storage plant visited frozen hog was found which they were told had been in storage twenty-five years. The officials de- clared that while they believed that if the hog really had been held for that length of time, it was through an oversight; they intend to investigate further.
 A reward of $1,OOO for the apprehen- sion of Paul J. B. Haverly, 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