, 1919-06-26
FOREIGN

IL consequence of an increase in raids
upon food depots.
During an attempt to put down n
strike near ~Sonbarheek, western Hun
gary, los railway men We're killed. The
strike is continuing.
One American soldier was killed, two
AIRED wing and more than 100 others
were injured as the result of the col
lapse of a Knights of Columbus hat at
P~ontanezen, while a boxing match was
in progress.
A dispatch from Vienna, received at
Copenhagen, reports military meas
ures AVE been taken to counterfeit Il
plot of Hungarian red guards to in
wade Germun-Austria and proclaim IL
soviet republic.
Leon Ambrami, under secretary in
the ministry of war, announced that
more than 60,000 French prisoners in
excess of the figures given by Ger
many were found in Germany. The
number of French soldiers missing in
action has reached $4,000, the under
secretary said.
y strike of priests, which is withou:
precedent has Just occurred at Loret-
to, n celebrated resort of pilgrims.
The priests asked for an amelioration
of their financial condition, owing TO
the high cost of living, and when their
claims We're not granted, they stopped
celebrating masses and performing
other religious duties.
Instead of bread ines in Petrograd
there are crowds awaiting their turn
for collins and death certificates.
Visitors to hospitals refuse to recog-
nize heir dead relatives in order to
save funera expenses, II the old and
young are got rid of or told to die as
o o as possible so that a crust of
bread may he saved for the survivors.
No human feeling is left. Life has be-
come absolutely brutal.
SPORT
Nick Gundy, FL Paso f~eatherweight,
was awarded the decision at the end
of Il ten-round bout with Manuel
Chavez, at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Tommy Gibbons, st. Paul light
heavyweight, was given the popular
verdict in his ten-round bout at Min
neapolis, with Billy Miske. 1t wal the
third time Gibbons shaded Miske.
According to tins taken by Victoria
timers at a school meet in Victoria, a
worlds record for the 100-yard dash
was made by a ~14-year-old girl, Ada
Agar, who covered the distance in 91a
seconds. The worlds record is 0 3-5
seconds.
The five-ounce gloves with which
Dempsey and Willard will battle July
4 have reached Toledo from San Fran
cisco. They We're especially built by
Sol Levinson, who has made all the
gloves for championship contests for
the last twenty years. Richard or
dered two sets to guard against acct
dents.
GENERAL
In the ruins of the library of Lou
vain, destroyed by the Germans in
1914, the degree of doctor of law was
conferred on President Wilson by the
University of Louvain.
Commencement exercises in Wool
sci Hall, in New Haven, were those
of Yale University's cloth year Thir-
teen honorary degrees and 59S degrees
for work in courses were given.
There is some reason to believe that
the American army, while making the
world safe for democracy, has also
made Broadway unsafe for the profess
sional actor. Raymond Il. FOsdick,
who has just returned from Europe,
brings the startling news that no less
than 10000 actors have been trained
h- thA Apnarinon n-nnlIttnnar- fa.oa
The name of the English nurse,
Edith Cavell, who was shot by the
Germans, has been chosen as the title
for the first military post of women
to be established in America. The
Edith Cavell post of the American Le-
gion will be composed of yeomanettes
of the Brooklyn navy yard, it was an
nounced at the state headquarters OF
the legion in New York.
Jewels valued at more thar $500
were taken from the residence of Mrs.
Nellie Magnus Loeb, daughter of the
late Adolphus Busch, during a party
In Chicago. The robbers worked with
in sight of the party on the front
veranda.
Citing the fact that conditions re-
vealed by the war called for unprece-
denied exertions TO check the progress
of tuberculosis, the National Tubercu-
losls Association upon adjourning its
annual meeting at Atlantic City, adopt
ed resolutions providing for a Red
Cross Christmas seal campaign in De-
cember by means of which a sum In
excess of S6,00O.O00 will be raised.
Full confessions are expected by the
police from ANTONY Kunski, a build
ing contractor, and Miss Frances
Mann, arrested in connection with u
100000 ''fire-bug" ring, which is al
legged to have been responsible for
more thar 200 fires in Chicago and in