The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-07-24
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE news OF THE SOUTH
What IL Taking Place In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs


Brutal treatment of American mill
tary pris~lers in Paris was brought
up with sudden check when MRS.
Woodrow Wilson first heard OF it, says
John w. Kehoe, hospital superlnten-
dent of the Knights of Columbus who
has Just returned from France, ana
is in New York.
First Lieutenant Dayton B. Martin,
United States army reserve corps, VINO
was found MORALLY wounded IN MS
bed at 247 South Pryor street, Atlanta
Ca, was killed on the day he had
planned to we'd pretty black-eyeo MIL
dred. Peacock of 81 East Cain street,
according to the story told between
sobs by the grief-stricken girl. inns
statement, which is borne out by
note written by Martin to the girl just
before he retired on the night OF July
II, coupled with the added discoveries
that the fatal shot was probably Tired
through a slipper to muffle the soCno
of the explosion and the disappearance
of $40 which Martin is supposed 10
have had on his person, have addeo
mysteries to the case which nave LED
the police largely to abandon their
first theory of suicide and to search
for possible slayer.
A will of six words, scrubbed hastily
on the margin of daily market re-
port four minutes before the testator
died, was filed in New York in the sur
rogate's court. The writer was Alex
ander William Waters, general agent
of the American Fruit Exchange. With
the words, "All have belongs to zul?
ma" he left his 100000 estate to AuI-
ma Powell, his housekeeper.
Racing over mountain ridges of west
ern Montana and northern ldaho' Tor
est fires which have been burning for
more than week, continue to spread
destruction and threaten to several
small towns which have been severed
by the flames from communication
with the United States forest service
Headquarters at Missoula, Mont.
Demanding an increase in pay sew
eral hundred umbrella makers en-
ployed by the frankfort Manufacture
ing company of Philadelphia are out
On strike. A IS hour week is demand
ed and wage increase.
In a pistol duel in Augusta, Ca,
resulting from an alleged quarrel over
an illicit distillery, Charles Cheeks
shot and instantly killed George Tay-
,or, a bystander, and was himself shot
dead by William Peeler. The pistol
duel was between Cheeks and Peeler,
both white, and about 35 years Of age.
Peeler is in Jail.
Missoula, Mont-St. Regis, Mont,
which was partially destroyed in the
forest fires of 1910, has been surround
ed by the Niger hill fire, which has
leaped the divide. The town is COM
pleteIy cut off from help and is de-
clared to be in danger of destruction.
Forest fires, famed by heavy winds,
are threatening timber and live stock
in western Montana and northern Ida
no, according to reports received by
federal forces officials here. Several
small towns are also reported in dang
er of destruction. The flames have
caused the ffefighting crews to re-
treat.
In a report issued, officials of the IL
linois department of agriculture de-
clare that enormous quantities OF
meats, butter and eggs are now in
storage in Chicago warehouses chiefly
under control of the five big packers.
The report states that since the last
regular compilation Of figures June l.
the stocks of these commodities have
grown in abnormal proportions and
that their release would go far to-
ward relieving the present shortage
and tend to reduce prices.