, 1919-07-17
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union New, Service.

WESTERN
Gen. Luis Terrazas, reputed the
wealthiest citizen of Mexico until his
large holdings in land and cattle were
swept out of his control by revolt
tions, has arrived in Los Angeles to
live.
Three children named Fuller, the
eldest of whom was 10, were burned
to death twenty-five miles east of
Chehalis, Wash. Their grandmother,
II Mrs. McClanahan, with whom they
were staying, also was badly burned.
While thousands laughed at Charlie
Chaplin's antics ON the movie screen,
the king of mirth is bitterly mourning
the death of his forst born son-the
babe born to Chaplin and his wife, Mil
dred Harris Chaplin. Death came to
the child seventy-two hours after birth
at Los Angeles.
The Senate of the Texas Legislature
eliminated from the annual education
al appropriation bill n provision which
would nave prohibited the teaching of
the German language in the University
of Texas and reinstated an %appropria-
ton of $1,000 a ear for Il German in
structor. Similar action had previous
ly been taken by the lower house.
Representatives of twelve middle
Western states and the United States
Department of Agriculture opened n
conference at Ames, Iowa, to lay plans
for the determination of b%arberry as a
means of preventing black stem rust,
which is said to have caused great
damage to cereal crops throughout the
country.
Mayor James Rolph of San Francis
co has appealed to President Wilson to
take some action to end the strike of
telephone workers. The strike has
brought about a serious labor situa-
ton on the Pacific coast, the mayors
telegram said, and union other h
the telephone employees are about to
become involved.
Seven persons are dead and four are
in a hospital at Dubuque, Iowa, seri-
ously injured, the result of being
caught in flood waters during a ter
rifle storm. All the deaf were drowned
and the injured were hurt by being
washed against trees and other OBJ
jeets during the storm. Property dam
age is estimated at 100000.
WASHINGTON
Trade relations with Germany will
be resumed at once, Acting Secretary
of State Polk announced In Washing
tor.
Announcement has been made that
ENron l. T pnlly nntInp lanratarv of
state in Washington, had been asked
to go to Paris to a k the place of Sec
rotary of State Lansing, as head of the
American peace mission, if Mr.. Folks
health would permit.
In the absence of their statutory
limitations, war measures effective I'M
til the end of the war, will continue
in operation until the exchange of rat
ifications of the treaty of peace be-
tween this country and its enemies.
This Interpretation of several much
disputed phrases was given by Attor-
ney General Palmer as the accepted
meaning of the termination of hostili-
ties, and the one on which administra-
tion officials would procede.
Officers in the Finnish army have
been promised 5000 marks ZACH to de-
sert to the Bolshevist forces, according
to dispatches quoting Swedish press
reports received by the State Depart
ment at Washington. Bolshevist
prociamations struggled across the Fin
nish gulf also promised 10000 marks
for each gun and 300 marks for each
pair of shoes
A clemeney board, consisting ~
Secretary Daniels, Rear Admiral
George II. Clark, judge advocate gen.
eral, and Commander Frank B. Freyer,
assistant judge advocate general, now
is engaged in reviewing court-martial
sentences imposed during the war,
many punishments involving prison
terms or fines being mitigated or set
aside by the reviewing board.
All certificates of Indebtedness is
sued by the railroads, following the
failure of the appropriation in the last
Congress were called for redemption
July 10. The total amount of certifi-
Gates issued between March 4 and July
1 when the new appropriations became
available was $3.50, 5I1 ,7O4. Arrange
ments have been made for redemption
of the certificates at all federal re-
serve banks.
Results Of the railroad admlnistra-
tons safety campaign, declared by
Director General Hines to be most
satisfactory were made public in sta
tistics showing that in the first three
months of this year $50 fewer persons
were killed in accidents than in the
same period of 1918. The total num-
Der of accidents decreased 300.
Payments by the war risk bureau to
soldiers and their dependents amount
ed to S3O,S32, 726 in June, &c., 1922
checks being mailed. Payments this
war have amounted ~ mare chan