, 1919-04-17
FOREIGN

ing party.
The Polish paper Louch of Thor an
ounce that according to the Franco
Polish military convention, France is
required to train the Polish army af-
ter the French system. Twelve hun
dred French officers will begin this
training soon.
A wealthy American is expected to
be the biggest bidder for the historic
Queen Elizabeth castle at Richmond,
which has been offered for sale by its
lessee, John Middleton. The castle
was built in 1925 and has housed prac-
tically every sovereign since.
Replying to a question in the House
of Commons of England, Stanley
Baldwin, parliamentary secretary to
the treasury, said allied obligations to
the United Kingdom March 31st last
were 1,56S,447, 900 pounds sterling and
obligations of the dominions 170,S96,-
900 pounds sterling.
General Emiliano. Zapata, the rebel
leader in southern Mexico, has been
killed by government troops, accord
ing to an announcement by the Next
Nah ""i Dtlui lhiChi. II uhuouINt-
ment confirmed an earlier newspaper
report of Zapata's death from Cuaut-
Ia, in h state of Morelos.
The Hungarian Bolsheviki have
turned temperance advocates. The
Budapest soviet has decreed that ex-
IRENE cases of drunkenness shall be
punishable with death, says a dispatch
f.A,,n that ntt,v ,,o Halt -
death also If found in the streets of
Budapest after 8 o'clock at night.
The allies have drawn up a list OF
articles which Germany will not be
permitted to export without permits
sion, according to a Paris report. The
list includes coal, coke, paper, wood
pulp, timber, dyestuffs, products of
iron and steel, sugar, window glass,
machine tools, machinery and electro
cal machines and their parts.
Premier Romanones of Spain had u
conference with the British ambassa-
dor concerning the convention between
Great Britain and Spain. England by
this treaty will permit the importation
of Spanish oranges and will ship to
Spain 10000 tons of coal Il month.
Spain will LEND Great Britain 10000
600 p~esetas, the rate of interest being
. per cent.
SPORT
Governor Beekman of Rhode Island
signed the bill legalizing Sunday base
ball. 1t becomes operative at once.
The Gibbs bill, designed to legalize
boxing bouts in New York was passed
without debate in the Senate by a
vote of 81 to 10.
A team of officers from the Eighth
Cavalry, stationed on the border, won
the Del Monte Lodge cup in the polo
tourney at Del Monte, Calf.
The Chicago Cubs, on their training
trip, had 10 difficulty winning from
the great var veterans baseball nine
at Phoenix, Z to .. A capacity crowd
saw the game, in which Vice President
Thomas r.. Marshall tried to pitch the
first ball, which Governor Campbell
failed to catch.
GENERAL
The Baden bank of st. Louis was
held up by eight bandits and looted of
an amoun estimated at 100000.
Rioting marked by promiscuous fir
ing by strike sympathizers and police
opened the tenth week of the textile
strike at Lawrence, Mass.
By a majority, twice as large as
that by which they voted the state
dry in 1916, Michigan voters reject
ed a constitutional amendment modify
ing the states prohibition laws to per-
nit the sale of beer and wine.
Untitled orders of the United States
Steel Corporation on March 31st were
5,430,5T2 tons, according to the cor
poration's monthly statement. This is
a decrease of 5S0,215 ton compared
with the orders on February 2Sth.
The state Of Illinois won a victory
over the federal government when SUI
perior Judge Foell made permanent
an injunction granted last February
restraining the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company ana Post
master General Burleson from Increas-
ing telephone rates in h state.
Miss Margaret Carnegie, daughter of
Andrew Carnegie, and Ensign Roswell
Miller. U. S. n. r., have obtained a
marriage license. The wedding will
take place April 22nd. Ensign Miller
is the sol of the late Roswell Miller,
chairman of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railway. He is "a years
old. Miss Carnegie is %, and the only
child of the former steel m~anufactur-
er.
Mrs. Stanlslawa Lypchinski has
been held for trial at the May term
of the Circuit Court on a charge of
numbering Sister Mary John, a Felician
nun who disappeared from the con-
vent nj Isadore, Mich, eleven years
ago. Mrs. L~ypchinsky, now so years
of age, was a priests ~housekeeper at