, 1919-02-06

nos Aires.
German newspapers predict that
Herr Naumann, Democratic party
leader, will be the first president of
the German republic.
Helsingfors forces say the Bolshe-
vik army is %evacuating Petrograd and
that Trotsky has moved his headquar-
ters to Mini N~ovgorod.
1t is provided in the draft of the
proposed new German constitution
that the president of the empire is to
be elected by the entire German peo-
pie m that his term shall be seven
years.
The Poles in Posen and the Danes
in Schleswig, refrained from taking
part in the elections to the German
national assembly. In Posen out of
| 1,250,000 Poles entitled to vote only
129. 900 did so.
Several Portuguese monarchist lead
ers were reported to lave been ar
rested at various points in Portugal.
Some were captured on Montsanto
after a battle in which the insurgents
lost fifty killed and 100 wounded.
A commission consisting of four ad-
mirals representing Great Britain, the
United States, France INT Italy, has
been in session at Fiume, inquiring
into the occupation of various forts
along h eastern coast of the Adri-
attic.
Nationwide s~hip-building strikes
in Great Britain and Ireland are on
and other industries We're rapidly
being tied up with sympathetic strikes.
The city of Belfast was practically
~paralyzed by a general strike called
in sympathy with the 10000 %shipyard
employees, who demand a forty-hour
week.
SPORT
The New York National League
baseball team will train at Gainesville
Fla, next spring instead of Marlin,
Tex, where it has gone for eleven sue
cessive years.
Jimmy Hanlon of Denver, who was
recently discharged from the tank
corps of the United States army,
knocked out Paddy Kelly in the fifth
at Hot Springs, Ark.
Joe Stecher, Nebraska wrestler, de-
feated Steve Savage at Houston,
Texas. Stecher tool the first fall in
one hour n twelve minutes with a
toe hold and body lock, and the sec
ond fall with the same hold, in six
minutes and ten seconds.
Somewhere in Germany, Grover
Cleveland Alexander, the $780, 900 pitch
er with the Chicago Nationals, and
three other major league players at
tached to the American army of occu-
patton, are impatiently counting the
days when they will board a home
bound transport.
GENERAL
The struggle between Prussia and
Bavaria for leadership of the German
republic is growing intense
A fire in the wholesale district at
Les Angeles caused an estimated dam
age of s125, 900. The b~urned-over area
covered two city blocks.
Fifteen persons were injured, four
seriously, when he real coach of pas
senger train No. 106 of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway jumped
the track and crashed on it's side zeal
Burbank, S. D.
The proposed transatlantic airship
flight is now set for August. Accord
ing to plans revealed Tuesday, the air
voyage will be made from Spain to
Buenos Aires, and it is expected to
take four days. There will be about
fifteen persons on board.
A wagon loaded with high explo-
sives for use in the nearby oil fields
struck a rut in the street as it was
being driven through the residence
section of the little town of Big Heart,
Okla, and as a result nine people are
dead and a score of injured are being
cared for in the few unchanged homes
of the village.
More than 1900 of the $3.50 pris-
oners in the United States disciplinary
barracks at Leavenworth, where fire
destroyed the quartermaster store
house, refused to leave their cells or
to perform any labor.
Villa followers held up and robbed
a Mexican Northwestern train at a
Pedro, $50 miles southwest of Juarez.
They robbed the cars of large guam
titles of provisions which were carted
to the hills and cached.
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chica-
go sounded the keynote of the Meth
odist Episcopal church's plan for a
missionary and educational campaign
which contemplates the raising of a
fund of $115,0 00, 900 in five years. in
an address delivered before the joint
centenary committee of the denofin-
alton.
The South African government has
refused passports to General Christian
DeWet and PETER Grobler, a grand
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