The Ordway new era., 1919-04-25
FOREIGN

commonwealth on April IL, according
TO dispatch.
Cardinal Mercier, the primate OF
Belgium, has informed the American
congressman who are visiting Brus-
sells that he will visit the United
States next October.
Reginald Devnelle, fashion design
er formerly of New York, was found
not guilty of manslnughted in connec-
ton with the death of billie" Carlton,
an American dancer, in the Old Bailey
court in London.
Casualties resulting from riots in
the last forty-eight hours total sixty
eight killed and 100 wounded, II was
officially announced from Cairo. In
Alexandria troops fired into a mob,
killing twenty and wounding many.
Four Boshevist agents arrested in
Bucharest have been sentenced to
long terms of Imprisonment by a
court-martisl Trials of other Bolshe-
visit agents and of persons accused of
circulating enemy propaganda con-
tinue.
The Berlin Zwelf Uhr Blatt reports
that 15T persons had been killed and
1S1 wounded in the fighting between
troops and strikers at Dusseldorf. The
heaviest fighting occurred when the
strikers attempted to cut off the water
supply.
Fourteen American and six French
soldiers We're killed when an express
train carrying American troops
crashed into statiOrery train with
French soldiers on furlough near Le-
mans, France. Twenty-Five Americans
and twenty-five FrYchmen were in-
jured.
Herbert Hoover, director general of
relief, has issued review of the
measures carried out by the United
States, Great Britain. France and
Italy during the month of March
through the coordination of the su-
preme economic council. The total
value of supplies distributed in the
month was approximately S95,000,0O0.
of. which all but about S2,5OO.000 was
furnished on basis of deferred pay
ments.
SPORT
Fred Fulton, heavyweight pugilist,
has filed II petition in bankruptcy in
Federal court in Minneapolis.
Babe" Ruth of the Boston Amer
leans, who played left field in the Bal
timore exhibition game with the Bal
timore Internationals, made four home
fV, sstx .as hot rl.a tlaar-
two times he was given base on balls.
The Northwestern Fly Casters AS
sociation will hold its 1919 champion
shin in Portland Aug. l, = and 3. The
event will be staged in concrete pool
now under construction, and the win
will be able to enter the national tour
nament at Chicago Aug. 20, 81 and 22
GENERAL
Lieut.. Il. b. Andrews, who is sta
toned in Rumania, in n letter to his
father at Leominster. Mass, states
that he did not hear from home for
fifteen months and then received 200
letters in one day.
Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, as
chairman of IA committee to call a
convention of soldiers and sailors who
served in the world war, has issued
the call for convention TO he held
in st. Louis on May s, 8 ana 10. Col
onel Roosevelt expects that approx
imately 1000 delegates will be in at
tendance at the gathering.
Charging conspiracy to control all
foodstuffs and other necessities of
life, and alleging they have been
bounded and perscuted for. fifteen
years because of valuable patent on
II pork and bean biscuit which was
used by the hundreds of millions by
the fighting armies of the war, Mrs.
Louise Osborne Riorson and Miss
Grace Osborne, her sister. of Omaha,
filed suit for $120,OOO,O0O against n
number of persons and firms nation
ally known.
Two spectacular fires destroyed
buildings In sections of the business
district ut Pittsburg entaiTing II loss
of between $150,0OO and 100000.
The Ukrainian soviet forces have
captured Simferopol, capital of the
Crimen, and Eupatoria, thirty-eight
miles northwest of Simperopol, with
considerable booty.
Mrs. Alice Cult, an actress, and II
daughter of the late Clara Reed, who
created the role of Little Eva In I'm
Gle Toms Cabin is dead In New
York in her fifty-second. year.
Because Mrs. James w. Gerard, wife
of the former ambassador TO Germany,
has an excellent memory for faces,
Henry Bode, the only American sol
n spy, Is serving a ten-year sentence
in the disciplinary barracks at Gov
ernor's island. Bode, according to his
cnnfassinn after Nra Gara rI hnI