The Ordway new era., 1919-08-15
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salary ever offered TO any individual
for a lecture tour of the United States
under their management.
The first passenger airship TO ny TO
Rio de Janeiro from England will
leave next month from Barrow. The
fare Will be 5000 a round trip, which
Will be made via West Africa.
Budapest is occupied by Rumanisn
troops who advanced from the river
Tbelss, In spite OF representations
made by Lieutenant Colonel Romanel-
II, the Italian representative of the al
lies at Vienna.
George johnson, United States
army officer, committed suicide In
dramatic fashion at Nice. He waded
out into the sea In sight Of numbers of
pleasure seekers and then drew re-
volver ond shot himself
Marshal Foch, conmander-iB-chiet
of the allied armies during the war. Is
reported by the Echo de Paris TO hav.
been invited by the United States gov
ernment, as well as several organiza-
tions In the country. to visit America
All the castles and buildings which
the Hohenzollerns can prove they pur-
chnsed with their own money they may
retain. This is the decision of com
mission which almost has completed
the task OF liquidating the affairs of
the royal house.
The SOlr announces that the hun
dred million dollar loan concluded by
the Belgian government with Ameri-
fuf, lao kS x-iI ha oil rho
American government, the latter bav-
ing asked that the loan be reserved
for purchases made under Its control.
The United States Is not the only
prohibition country, Belgium having
followed suit so far ms whisky, gin md
other highly alcoholic liquors are con-
cerned. Soon after the armistice was
signed law was passed forbiddlng the
manufacture and sale of such bever-
ages.
a statement has been made that
American steel companies, after hav-
Ing bought out the Doehlewercke steel
factories AZ Vienna and Dusseldorf, the
largest In Europe, are now negotiating
to acquire the famous Skoda works,
noted for It's naval guns. II successful
In this the Americans will have yir-
tually a monopoly Of the steel works
OF the continent, 1t is said.
The surrender OF General Kruska,
commander OF the German prison camp
at Kaiser, has been demanded by the
allies as the first Of the enemy off
cials to be tried for violations of inter
national law during the war, according
to u Copenhagen dispatch, quoting Ber-
lin ndvices. General Kruska Is accused
of having been responsible for an cpl
demic of typhus fever at the Kaiser
camp which caused the deaths of 5000
French prisoners.
GENERAL
The sugar crop of Cuba this year is
expected to break all records, accord
ing to Gabriel G. Menocal, brother of
York from Havana.
The sugar yield from the Louisiana
cnne crop will be more than 100000
tons below the average for the preced
ing ten years. according to estimates
OF the federal bureau OF crops made
public.
An extraordinary attempt of eleven
Koreans to commit suicide by tying
Themselves together with n rope and
then jumping overheard Is reported
from Chemulpo. The incident occurred
on ferryboat. All were picked up,
but three were dead.
Charged with criminal anarchy I'M
der nn old section of the penal code,
four men were arrested In New York
by detectives of the bomb squad after
n raid on their apartment in the Bronx.
Much anarchistlc literature and a load.
ed revolver were found In the flat. All
OF the men We're Films.
A sample loaf of bread refused to
explode when Chicago police shot at
1t within IA package. They thought the
box Judge Landis got In the mail was
a bomb.
| Twenty persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the Tern schoOn-
err Gallia was sunk In n collision with
the British steamer War Witch, near
Halifax.
Approximately S2,0O0.OOO worth of
surplus leather goods, finished and un-
finished, purchased by the government
before and during fhe war, was sol,l
at public auction In Chicago. The
prices obtained for the material were
grcater than those paid by the govern
ment at the time of the purchase. ii
was said.
Two Mcxicans We're shot and killed
by American customs guards Mt El
Paso. Texas, while attempting Ia
smuggle six barrels of whisky to Mex
leo, according TO the announcement of
Judge Jesus Cuen, of the District
Court, who completed an investigation
one of the smugglers was Identified