, 1920-06-10
FOREIGN.

committee in Berlin by Chancellor
Mueller.
Gen. Candida Aguilar, governor of
Vera Cruz and son-in-Iaw of the late
President Carranza, has surrendered to
the new government and will be al
lowed to leave the country.
Edward Valpas, editor and leader of
the Finnish Socialist party and of the
Finnish revolution in 1918, has been
sentenced to prison for life. He was
tried on the charge of high treason.
Clifton Crawford, internationally
known actor, was found dead in Lon
don in an areaway of the hotel at
which he was stopping, having fallen
five stories from the window of his
room.
An explosion during experiments in
the chemical laboratory of MueDster
University resulted in the death of six
students, says a wireless message from
Berlin. Several others were seriously
injured.
Germany has submitted a statement
to the allied control commission de-
claring that $4,000 pieces of German
artillery remain to be destroyed and
that 500 have already been broken up,
according to the Echo de Paris.
Resht, an important city in Persia,
sixteen miles southeast of Enzeli, the
most Important Caspian seaport of
that country, n about $50 miles
northwest of Teheran, has been occu-
pied by Russian Bolshevist troops, ac-
cording to advices received by the Per-
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The Ukrainian mission has addressed
n protest to Premier Lloyd George, to
be forwarded to the supreme economic
council, claiming for Ukrainia a pro-
p%ortional share of the gold which the
mission understands Gregory Krassin,
Russian soviet minister of trade and
commerce, proposes to use to buy sup
plies for soviet Russia.
Applause from a large audience re-
sounded in the little theater of Ser
bruck, near Geneva, while a gigantic
python slowly crushed it's trainer, a
Hungarian girl. to death. The girl
shrieked for help as the coils of the
serpent closed about her, but the audi
ence believed her cries were part of
the entertainment and cheered loudly.
Seventy Argentine soldiers are re-
norted killed and many wounded in an
encounter with u tribe of Pilaga In
dams in the Chaco Territory of North
ern Argentina. Dispatches say the
troops were ambushed by superior
numbers of Indians, who attacked them
in reprisal for the alleged destruction
of n of their camps and the seizure
lnf r,pNc anI nn,,,t,ytttor T.D,, A. r
dians.
GENERAL.
Fire destroyed a section of pier at
Galveston owned by the Morgan Steam
ship line. The loss, including pier,
warehouses and their contents, was es-
timated at $2,O00,O0O.
The Lincoln hotel fire in Seattle In
which four lives were lost, was proba-
bly, the work of an incendiary, Fire
Marshal Harry w. Bringhurst as
serted. Ten fires in that city during
the last month were of like origin, ac-
cording to the fire marshal, and six of
these We're set in the basement of no.
tells.
More than 100000 gallons of whisky
haNS ptth lioIh Do1luttl
warehouses in the Pittsburg district
since January 18th, last, with bogus
and forged permits, according to an
announcement made by w. H. Hind
man, federal prohibition agent for
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Hindman said cases
under suspicion run into thousands.
Neutrality-suspicious. and Senate con
~ferences on the army appropriation
bill tentatively agreed to fix the ap-
preparation for the army air service
} at 8 100000, of which $4,000, 0OO
would be used for new equipment and
} S5,250,OO0 for research work. The
House bill fixed the appropriation at
S27, 255,0O0, and the Senate increased II
20 $40,O00,0OO.
The John A. Roberts Corporation OF
; Utica, dealers in wearing apparel, was
fined $1,000 by Federal Judge Har-
land B. Howe. following its conviction
of profiteering on eleven counts a,
Syracuse, N. Y.
Although Luther Davis, giant negro,
admitted to Oakland police of having
robbed hundreds of spoOners in 'lov-
ers' lane" only two of the holdups
were reported to the police. Davis had
'em hypnotized, police say.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor, de-
clared that a war between the United
States and Mexico would result IL the
recommendations of the Senate com
mittee which investigated the Mexican
affairs were carried out.
Flo Lewis. a dancer in '@Tick-Tack-
Toe" a musical comedy OF Broadway
at New York, brought suit asking