Arizona state miner., 1919-08-01
FOREIGN

Two British minesweepers collided
with mines off the Esthonian coast
and one was sunk, according to word
reaching Helsingfors. 1t is estimated
that thirty-six lives were lost.
Will f. Archibald, who handled the
first cable message ever sent across
the Atlantic, addressed by the late
Queen Victoria to the President of the
United States, is dead at NanaimO, B.
G. He was 81 years old and had been
a telegrapher since the age of a.
All reserves of the French army in
cuding the class of 1917 will be demob-
ilized by the middle of October, accord
ing to plans completed by the govern
ment and published in Paris. There
would remain in service members of
the classes of 1918, 1919 and 1920.
Japanese newspapers announce that
three brothers-in-law of Emperor YO-
shihito will soon visit the United
States, Great Britain and France for
military inspection They will stay
abroad for about three years. The i'm
perial travellers are Princes Kitashira-
kawa, Asaka and Higashi Kuni
Replying to a question in the House
Of Commons, DR.. Frederick g. Kella-
way, parliamentary secretary to the
ministry of supply, said the govern
ment was considering co-ordinating all
the sources of oil supply within the
empire with a view to preventing es-
tabliShment of a world oil monopoly by
financierS
Twelve hundred sacks of mail for
Germany, the first to be sent to that
country since the United States en-
tered the war, were carried by the
candinavian-American line steamship
United States, which sailed from New
York for Copenhagen. From Denmark
the mail will be sent overland to Ger
many.
Twenty thousand hostages are re-
ported to have been arrested in Petro-
grad in the last three weeks and Petro-
grad newspapers publish almost daily
lists of from fifty to 100 persons who
have been executed for various rea-
sons The names Of all those in charge
of the diplomatic archives of foreign
legations in Petrograd appear on the
lists.
SPORT
Leo Houck of Seattle and "Young"
Cyclone" Brown of San Francisco
fought ten rounds to draw at Phoe-
nix. They are lightweights.
Frank Barrieu of San Francisco was
given the decision after a twelve-round
boxing match at Boise, Ida, with Al
Sommers, fighter recently released
from the army
Tommy Carter, lightweight champion
of the Southern department, United
States army, won the decision over
Otto Wallace of Milwaukee in a fif-
teen-round bout staged at Fort Bliss.
The fight was. fast all the way and the
decision a close one.
GENERAL
Chicago's weirdest tragedy occurred
when a giant dirigible balloon, the
first army style blimp to visit the city,
caught fire and hurtled through the
skylight of the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings Bank, killing u persons, injuring
twenty eight and turning the counting
room of the bank into a charnel house
of horror.
A campaign will soon be launched
by German-Americans in this country
to raise at least $35,OOO,OOO for the
relief of war sufferers in Germany
and German-AuStria, according to a
decision reached at a mass meeting in
New York. The meeting was attended
by about 600 prominent citizens of
German ancestry.
The death of Patrick Cudahy, mil
lionaire packer of Milwaukee, brother
of Edward A. Cudahy, president of the
Cudahy Packing Company, one of the
five great packing firms of Chicago,
removed the third of the Cudahy bro
theirs whose rise to great wealth and
Influence made one of the remarkable
chapters of the history of Western
business.
Thirteen thousand ounces of plat
inum have been sold by the ordnance
department Of the army, it was an
nounced in New York. The mineral
sold at $105 an ounce
The bill providing ratification of the
Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment
to the federal constitution was defeat
ed by the Georgia Senate by a vote
Of 80 to 9. The Senate not only de-
feated the ratification bill, but voted
down an effort to have the question
submitted to the people of Georgia at