Arizona state miner., 1919-09-19
FOREIGN

ing to reports from Polish sources.
Japan is not planning to withdraw
troops from Siberia, according to an
official statement issued at the war Of
flee in Toxic.
Two British destroyers have been
sunk in the Baltic by mines with the
loss of twenty lives, according to in
formation received.
Premier Hughes has announced at
meeting of the ministerial party that
the indemnity to be paid to Australia
would be something less than G6O,OOO,-
900.
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.
A news agency dispatch from
Cologne reported that more than two
hundred persons were injured and an
unknown number killed in a 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.
An American company having a cap
ital of $100,O0OO00 is being organized
in Poland to extend credits to Polish
cities so they may meet their necessi-
ties, especially for the construction of
canals, water plants and hospitals, ac
cOrding to the Vossische Zeitung of
Berlin.
Extension of relief activities in
western Russia and the Baltic prov
inces has resulted in the American
Red Cross increasing the appropriation
for it's commission in that region from
$27O,OOO to $5OO,O00, it has been an
nounced. Both Esthonia and Lithu-
ania will benefit
The Ulster Labor Unionist party has
extended an invitation to the labor
party of Great Britain to send a 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 Endorsement Of
Sir Edward Carson's views, recently
oYnrnSCnd Of Rn1foct
GENERAL
More than $4,000 Knights Templar
attended the thirty-fourth trienniaI
conclave and paraded at Philadelphia.
Johnny Dundee holds a twelve
round decision over frankie Britt of
New Bedford. Dundee was Britt's
master in every round at Providence.
Five strikers were killed and fiji
teen wounded in a battle between 1000
former employees of the Standard Steel
Car Company and the police at Ham
mond, Ind.
Two unmasked bandits robbed the
State Bank of Chautauqua county at
Wichita and escaped with $1,000 in
currency and Liberty bonds valued at
from $500 to $4,000.
The House of Commons of Canada
assented without reservation to the
treaty of peace with Germany. Both
houses of Parliament now have rativ
fled the treaty and notification to this
effect was forwarded Immediately to
the British government
Burial of the dead at Mobile, Ala,
on Sunday is punishable by fine of
$100 under city ordinance just
adopted. Passage Of the ordinance
was the result of petition to the city
commission by ministers, undertakers
and grave diggers.
Twenty-nine lumber dealers and
eight ice cream dealers and manufac-
turers were charged, in indictments re-
turned at Dayton, Ohio, by the Mont
gomery county grand jury with viola
ton of the Valentine antitrust act in
operating in restraint of trade and fix
ing prices.
Two men were killed and six in
jured by the explosion of a six-inch
shell which was being unloaded from
barge in the Raritan river at the
Raritan arsenal at Bonhamtown, N. J.
The ammunition on the barge was
being transferred to one of the maya
zines. The victims of the accident
all were civilian employees.
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
Hnmnhill Enpinn COmnanV and ad-