, 1919-09-04
FOREIGN

plane service between that city and
Naples.
The Belgian Senate has unanimously
approved the peace treaty with Ger
many. The Chamber of Deputies rati-
fled h treaty August Sth.
The son Of the Earl of March and
Richmond, is dead of wounds received
in battle on the Archangel front.
Nikolai Lenine, the Russian Bolshe-
vik premier, has sent n delegation to
Kishinev TO negotiate peace with Ru-
mania, according to a report received
from Budapest.
Andrew Sockalexis. famous Indian
runner, is dead at oxford, Me, from
tuberculosis. He had competed in
many of the important long-distance
running events of the country. He ran
in the Olympic games at Stockholm in
1912.
King Alfonso signed the aw author
izing adhesion by Spain to the coven-
ant of the League of Nations COM
prised in the treaty of Versailles, that
part of the treaty dealing with the or
ganiaztion of labor also being accepted
by Spain.
While Herman Schumann wooed and
won a sweetheart during the last few
years, he murdered ten persons,
robbed scores of Others and saved
enough from his career to marry. Now
he is charged with being the champion
murderer of Germany.
A crushing defeat has been admins
tered to the Bolshevik army in south
Russia. The war office announced that
General Kaomtkov's cavalry, operating
under General Denikine, has broken
through the front of the Red army
south of Makarova, capturing 10000
prisoners and disarmihg 10000 Red re-
cruitS.
Five million Germans have filed
with the Central Bureau of Immigra-
tion and its siXty-four sub-stations APP
plications for permission to leave Ger
many. The majority of the intending
emigrants are turning their eyes to-
ward South America. A large number
also have indicated their desire to
settle in Palestine.
GENERAL
The will of Andrew Carnegie, made
public, estimates the value of the iron
masters estate at between So 100000
and $3O,OOO,OOO.
The seamen's strike at Sydney, n. S.
W., ended when n mass meeting of the
men decided to reman the ships af-
fected Immediately.
Two bank messengers of the Fidel-
ity Trust Company were held up and
robbed of $4,000 by fou masked ban
dts in Boston. The robbers made their
escape in an automobile.
Twelve members of the crew of the
four-masted auxiliary schooner Elmer
Roberts arrived in Yarmouth, n. S.,
and reported that their ship loaded
with ammunition, caught fire n blew
up at sea.
Wearing the French war cross with
two palms, Marie Gondier, Il 2l-year-
old Belgian girl, who was once con-
demned by he Germans to be shot as
Il spy, arrived in New York from
France on the steamship La Lorraine
to become an American citizen through
adoption.
The Irish republic mission has an
nOunced the opening of headquarters
in New York to carry on the work of
floating the $40, 1000 Irish republic
bond issue to be undertaken by the
American commission on Irish indie
%pendence under the craftsmanship of
Frank P. Walsh.
The successful application of the al
%ternating current to wireless tele-
phony, which will make it possible for
any person to plug in" a pony wire
less panel into an ordinary lamp sock
ct n talk through space from house
to house or city to city, has bee an
nounced by DIR. Lee DE Forest of New
York.
William G.. Fletcher, manager of the
local branch of Swift & Co, Chicago
packers, was under sentence of $500
fine and costs at Cleveland in the fight
against high prices. Fletcher was
found guilty of violation of the cold
storage act.
The Third Division of the American
army, one of the last divisions to leave
French soil, has subscribed S31,O 600 for
two monuments to be erected on the
flanks of the approach to the Marine
bridge which its Seventh Machine Gun
Battalion dynamited in defending the
crossing against the great German Of
fensive in the spring of 1918, it was
announced by Maj. Gen. Robert L.
Howe, division commander.
A reward of $1,000 for the ~apprehen-
sion of pnuI i II Hnyprly 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. Tor Fossen of
Beardstown, ILL.,, grand chancellor of
the lodge, who stated that n shortage
of more than $4,000 had been found