, 1919-08-21
VOREIGN

sador to he United States.
Eighteen million eggs alleged to be
held in storage in st. Louis were
seized by the United States marshal.
Officials refused to give out informa-
ton as to who owns the supply.
Postal authorities at Winnipeg have
been notified that $4,000 was stolen
some night recently from the interior
deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed
monitor, Alta. No clew to the thieves
has been found.
Charges of "extortionate profits by
Dallas retail merchants were made by
p. H.. Spencer, chief of the bureau OF
investigation of the Department of
Justice, and w. Il. Burrell, assistant
United States district attorney mt Dali
las.
Six Bolshevist battalions were de-
stroyed in Il successful AngIo-R Russian
offensive on the Dvina river on Aug.
10, h war office announced in Lon
don. More than 1000 prisoners,
twelve field guns and many machine
guns were captured.
SO many English have be-
come confirmed smokers that in re-
cent months railway employees have
hesitated to enforce the rules against
smoking in certain carriages and 1t
has come to be accepted that If the
women passengers do not object, every
compartment becomes n smoking
car"
Charles Downs, night editor of the
FL Paso Morning Times, died follow
ing az accident when he was struck by
II street car while returning to his
home. His skull was fractured and
he suffered internal injuries. He never
regained consciousness after he was
injured. He was well known in New
Mexico, where he was n practicing at
torney, member of the Legislature and
newspaper editor for a number of
years before going to FL Paso.
Gold ingots worth 100000 have
been by salvagers from the
wreck of the former White Star Do
minion liner Laurentic sunk January
s, 1917, off Fasad Light. The Lau-
rentic, a vessel of 1882 tons, which
was acting as a British auxiliary
cruiser, struck n mine off the north
coast of Ireland and later sank. OF a
personnel of 40 only 100 were saved.
y large number of the men persisted
in open boats as Il result of exposure.
SPORT
Benny Leonard. lightweight cham
pion, outpOinted Irish Patsy Cline of
New York at the Philadelphia Nation
al baseball park.
Bobby Green was knocked down
twice in the concluding round of his
ten-round fight with AL McManus at
Tucson, only the gong saving him from
a knockout at the end of the tenth
round.
Fred Gilbert, a well-known profess
sional shooter of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
broke the worlds record for continu-
Gus target breaking at Hampton, Iowa,
according to n telegram. Gilbert
cracked $50 consecutive targets with
out n miss.
Announcement has been made in
Salt Lake by the directors of the Salt
Lake City Baseball Club of the Pa
cific Coast League that $4,000 would
be divided among the players If they
succeeded in winning the league pen
nant this season.
GENERAL
Three children were killed in Pat
terson park, Baltimore, Nd, when an
airplane of the SSth areo squadron,
stationed at Langley field, Va, crashed
inta n fence behind which were several
hundred spectators. Seven were in
jured.
Three members of the board of dt-
rectors of the American League, con-
%stituting a majority of the board, or
dered Pitcher Carl Mays reinstated at
n special meeting in New York, thus
multiplying the action of President
Johnson in ~suspending him.
Moose hunting, duck shooting and
of the prince of Wales trip through
Canada. a seventy-day journey over
ing $500 miles.
Sixty to eighty soldiers were killed
and 200 wounded in the fighting dur
ing God riots, according to estimates,
at Chemnitz. Ten civilians were killed
and fifty wounded. The city now is
quiet and trains are running.
Convicted of bigamy on his confess
sion that he has seven living wives,
one of whom he married twice, Charles
Hugh Wilson, 4S years old, former Y.
NJ. G. A. secretary, evangelist and tray
cling salesman, was sentenced to three
years and six months in Sing Sing
prison, where he announced he will
take up prison reform work.
Profiteering by the government in
the sale of millions of pounds of army
foods has been charged by J. A. Ulmer,
president of the National Retail Gro
GERS Association, at n meeting called
by Mayor Cornell Schneider to discuss
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