The Raymer enterprise., 1919-10-16
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land.
The 0msk government of Russia
has directed thorough inquiry into
the recent reported arrest Of American
soldiers by Cossack troops and the
fl0gging of one OF them because the
Americans did not have the proper
Identification papers.
General Won der Goltz. commander OF
German forces In the Baltic provinces,
whose activities there have recently
led To sharp exchanges between the al
lied powers and Germany, has. with
his staff, Joined the Russian B0lshe-
yik forces, according to Berlin dis
patch.
The German reply 10 the allied note
demanding the withdrawal of General
Won der Goltzs troops from the Baltic
provinces was discussed by the SUI
preme Council nj the resumption Of Its
meetings. IL was considered unsatis.
factory and Marshal Foch was In
siructed 10 draw up a new note to send
the Germans.
Capt. Andre Tardieu, member Of the
French Peace Commission, speaking al
Il meeting OF the French American
Club at Paris, gave interesting figures
on the reconstruction work accom-.
plished since the armistice. Sixty
thousand Of the $4,000 houses in the
battle area wrecked by shell fire have
been rebuilt; 2,0lG kIlometers OF the
3,246 kilometers OF railway destroyed
have been repaired and 100 of the
1875 kilometers OF canals rendered
useless In the course Of the liostlItIes
are again In commission. OF the i,lf9
plants destroyed by the enemy 5ss
have been repaired. Equally remark
able progress is being made in restor-
Ing 10 civilization the vast areas In
| the devastated regions which, at the
end Of The war, embraced 4JD0.0o0
acres. Of this approximately l,O00,00G
acres have been returned TO the farm.
ers and 10000 acres Of II are ready
for the seed.
GENERAL
Henry Mills Alden, editor OF Harp
er's Magazine since 1869, died at his
home In New York after a long Illness
He was 81 years old.
Serbia has enfranchsed It's women.
according TO cable advIces by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. president Of the
National Woman Suffrage Association.
Mad Halter, owned by s. e. TIildreth
and ridden by Jockey Fator, won the
sJo,e1 latonia championship stake at
mile and three-quarters at Latonla,
Ky.
Race riots broke out at Chester, Pa,
and five others injured, some of them
probably fatally. The dead and injured
all are white. Mayor Mcdowell has
asked the sheriff for assistance IN con-
trolling the situation.
Six men were reported killed and
! five are said by the police to be dying
as the result Of a boiler explosion on
the oil steamer Chestnut Hin ut Phlla-
delphia. The killed and injured were
members of the crew. Several others
were badly burned. The vessel was
getting up steam TO depart for Mexico
when the accident occurred.
Heavily increased use OF sugar In
candy. soft drinks. ice cream and other
Injuries In the United States during
the first nine months OF 1919, II was
announced In New York, by the Unit
ed States Sugar Equalization Board,
means that such over Indulgence in
sweets must now be curtalled In some
sections OF the East for the next three
months"
/ The shrek Of French seventy-fise
shell calls Edinburgh, Ind, to It's work.
sounds lunch time and sends II home
In the evening. It's tame shell. how
ever, adapted to peaceful pursuits. Err
nest Law, a returned soldier, converted
| the shell into whistle for the French
locomotive of which he was engineer.
Then he brought II home and il now
occupies a high place-on the canning
factory roof.
William Warn, farmer charged
with being insane, stood off a sheriffs
posse that attempted to arrest him at
Denison, Iowa, by using his wife as a
shield, while he fired forty shots.
When his ammunition was exhausted,
he used the last shell to kill himself.
An attempt was made TO wreck the
plant Of the American Sheet and Tin
plate Company at McKeesport, when a
missile believed to have been a bomb
was thrown on the shipping depart.
ment building. II exploded, tearing Il
large hole in the roof of the structure.
Two men lost their lives and another
narrowly escaped death when he was
cut off from land ut the end OF
burning pier, and property worth ST.
100000 was destroyed in a fire that
swept the plant of the Standard Guano
Company at Curtis bay, Md. The
bodies of the dead men, both negro em-
ployes, are buried In the debris The
man caught on the end OF the pier was
taken off by a tug, the master OF
which rlsked destruction OF his craft
by coming alongside the blazing pier.
Several small schooners were DANA, ed.