Williams news., 1919-09-19
FOREIGN


 troops from Siberia, according to an official statement issued at the war of flee in Tokio.
 Two British destroyers have been sunk in the Baltic by mines with the loss of twenty lives, according to in- formation received.
 Occupation of Petropavlovsk, on the Ishim river about 175 miles west of Omsk, by Bolshevist forces is claimed in Russian soviet official statement. In order to relieve the dock and transport congestion, Sir Eric Geddes will raise the railway rates so as to induce greater extension of railroad transportation, it was announced in London. 3 From two to three hundred persons are dying daily in Petrograd of chol- era, according to advices from that city. Owing to the lack of medicines and food many of the hospitals have ben closed.
 Georges Gaston Quien, on trial be- fore court-martial, charged with hav- ing had reasonable dealings with the Germans, and of having betrayed Edith Cavell to them, has been convicted in Paris and condemned to die
 The Mexican War Department issued circular to it's troops along the bor- der to flash red, white and green sig nals as warning to American avia- tors who have crossed the frontier and are flying over Mexican territory.
 A news agency dispatch from Cologne reported that more than two hundred persons were injured and an unknown number killed in munitions explosion at Neuwied, near Coblenz. Many buildings were said to have been demolished.
 To show that he is really a patriot, Prince Louis of Bourbon, pretender to the French throne, has just entered the butter trade in Paris. He says he will fight profiteering and if he can reduce the cost of butter he will feel he has done his bit for the people.
 Anti-Italian disturbances continue to spread in Albania, according to dis patches, it being reported that a de tachment of 300 Italians was annihil- ated at Kastrali recently. Advices say that the Albanians intend to send delegates to the peace conference to demand that their country be granted autonomy.
 The Ulster Labor Unionist party has extended an invitation to the labor party of Great Britain to send depu- tatiOn to Ulster with a view of having it obtain first-hand information on the Irish question as viewed in Ulster, and securing the party's indorsement of Sir Edward Carson's views, recently expressed at Belfast.
 Bare legs are the custom throughout Warsaw. Probably not one in five of the poor own stockings and many not even shoes except the wood-soled san- dals strapped to bare feet. Adult wom- en, bare-legged and barefooted, are to be seen everywhere, not only in the country, but in the streets of Warsaw and other large cities.
 GENERAL
 Johnny Dundee holds a twelve round decision over Frankie Britt of New Bedford. Dundee was Britt's master in every round at Providence.
 Two unmasked bandits robbed the State Bank of Chautauqua county at Wichita and escaped with $7,OOO in currency and Liberty bonds valued at from $500 to $4,OOO
 What is believed to be new two man airplane altitude record was set at McCook aviation field by Maj. R. w. Schroeder when he ascended to height of 29,OOO feet.
 Burial of the dead at Mobile, Ala, on Sunday is punishable by fine of $100 under a city ordinance just adopted. Passage of the ordinance was the result of a petition to the city commission by ministers, undertakers and grave diggers.
 More than 15,OOO Knights Templar attended the thirtyfourth triennial conclave and paraded at Philadelphia.
 Five strikers were killed and if teen wounded in a battle between 1000 former employees of the Standard Steel Car Company and the police at Ham mOnd, Ind.
 A fire which broke out in the plant of the Central Elevator Company at Pittsburg, completely destroyed that building with 100000 bushels of grain, damaged the plant of the Mcintosh Hemphill Engine Company, and ad- joining buildings and menaced a large part of the downtown section before it was controlled. The loss was esti- mated at $65O,OOO.
 eff anyone attempts to raise the red flag of anarchy in this country, shoot him on the spot" declared Clarendon B. Adams, commander-in- chief of the G. A. R., in ending his annual ad- dress of the national encampment of the G. A. R. at Columbus, Ohio.