Williams news., 1919-09-05
FOREIGN

craters on Mont Somma issuing forth much lava, is a late report. Announcement is made in Rome of the inauguration of passenger aero 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 the treaty August Sth. The son of the Earl of March and heir presumptive of the dukedom of Richmond, is dead of wounds received in battle on the Archangel front. Mrs. Mary Lyman Burns, sister of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, who died at her London home recently, left an estate valued at more than $3,OO0,0 900. A Tokio cable says an epidemic of cholera is threatening Tokio. Several cases have been reported. The infec- Tokio from Shanghai.
 A new Zeppelin airship, on it's maid en trip from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, covered the 435 miles in little more than six hours. The aircraft attained a maximum speed of 120 kilometers Ca little more than seventy-four and half miles) an hour.
 Crown 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.
 King Alfonso signed the law 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 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.
 Five million Germans have filed with the Central Bureau of Immigra- tion and its sixty-four sub-stations ap- 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
 E The seamen's strike at Sydney, N. s. w., ended when mass meeting of the men decided to reman the ships af- fected immediately.
 Joseph G. Wilholt, Wichita Western League outfielder, ended his batting streak in which he set a new worlds record by hitting safely in sixty-nine consecutive games.
 Two bank messengers of the Fidel- ity Trust Company were held up and robbed of SIP, 2,OOO by four. masked ban dits in Boston. The robbers made their escape in an automobile.
 Willis E. Davis of San Francisco, defeated Norman E.. Brookes, Austral- semi-final round of the Meadow Clubs cup mems singles at Southampton, N. Y.
 Wearing the French war cross with two palms, Marie Gondier, a 21-year. old Belgian girl, who was once con- demned by the Germans to be shot as a 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 s10, 100000 Irish republic bond issue to be undertaken by the American commission on Irish inde- pendence under the chairmanship of Frank P. Walsh.
 Seven of the Mexican bandits who robbed sailors from the United States cruiser Cheyenne off Tampico last month have been apprehended and put to death by the Carranza authorities, according to an official report from General Pueblo Gonzales to Mexican Consul Meade Fierro at Galveston.
 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 and blew up at sea.
 The Third Division of the American army, one of the last divisions to leave French soil, has subscribed $31, GOO for two monuments to be erected on the Hanks of the approach to the Marne bridge which it's 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 ,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. G. was an-