Arizona state miner., 1919-08-22
FOREIGN

ly to accept the post of British ambas-
sador to the United States.
Eighteen million eggs alleged to be
held in storage in ST. Louis were
seized by the United States marshal.
Officials refused to give out informa-
tion as to who owns the supply.
Postal authorities at Winnipeg have
been notified that $4,000 was stolen
some night recently from the interior
deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed
monton, Alta. No clew to the thieves
has been found
Charges of "extortionate profits by
Dallas retail merchants were made by
P. 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.
Six BOlSheviSt battalionS were de-
strOyed in a successful Anglo-Russian
offensive on the Dvina river on Aug
don. More than 1000 prisoners,
twelve field guns and many machine
guns were captured
So many English women have be-
come confirmed smokers that in re-
cent months railway employees have
hesitated to enforce the rules against
smoking in certain carriages and it
has come to be accepted that if the
women passengers do not object, every
compartment becomes smoking
car"
Charles Downs, night editor of the
El Paso Morning Times, died follow
ing an accident when he was struck by
a street car while returning to his
home. His skull was fractured and
he suffered internal injuries. He never
regained consciousness after he was
injured. He was well known in New
Mexico, where he was a practicing at
torney, member of the Legislature and
newspaper editor for a number of
years before going to Ell Paso.
Gold ingots worth 91,OOO,OOO have
been recovered by salvagTs from the
wreck of the former White Star Do
minion liner Laurentic sunk January
8, 1917, off Fasad Light The Lau-
rentic, vessel of 1882 tons, which
was acting as a British auxiliary
cruiser, struck a mine off the north
coast of Ireland and later sank. Of
personnel of 47O only 12O were saved.
large number of the men perished
in open boats as result of exposure
SPORT
Benny Leonard, lightweight cham
pion, outpointed Irish Patsy Cline of
New York at the Philadelphia Nation
al baseball park
Bobby Green was knocked down
twice in the concluding round of his
ten-round fight with AL McManus at
Tucson, only the gong saving him from
a knockout at the end of the tenth
round
Fred Gilbert, a well-known profess
sional shooter of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
broke the worlds record for continu-
GUS target breaking at Hampton, Iowa,
according to a telegram. Gilbert
cracked $50 consecutive targets with
out a miss
Announcement has been made in
Salt Lake by the directors Of the Salt
Lake City Baseball Club of the Pa
cific Coast League that $4,000 would
be divided among the players if they
succeeded in winning the league pen
naDt this season
GENERAL
Three children were killed in Pat
terson park, Baltimore, Md, when an
airplane of the 88th areo squadron,
stationed at Langley field, Va, crashed
inta fence behind which were several
hundred spectators. Seven were in
jured.
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
special meeting in New York, thus
multiplying the action of President
Johnson in suspending him.
Moose hunting, duck shooting and
fishing are included in the itinerary
of the prince of Wales trip through
Canada, seventy-day journey cover
ing $500 miles.
Sixty to eighty soldiers were killed
and 200 wounded in the fighting dur
ing food riots, according to estimates,
at Chemnitz. Ten civilians were killed
and fifty wounded. The city now is
quiet and trains are running.
Convicted of bigamy on his confes-
sion that he has seven living wives,
one Of whom he married twice, Charles
Hugh Wilson AZ wears old former "