Williams news., 1921-07-15
FOREIGN

l SolS III N1dIllld pay were QTlNeIl
 Representative of soviet Russia
 have been feeling out the ground in
 trade circles in France, with the view,
 they indicated. of placing orders for
 automobiles and other articles of com
 merce. but reports from commercial quarters are that they have met with little encouragement.
 | More than 500 of the visiting Rotary Club delegates and their wives went to | the grave of the unknown soldier in
 the Plate idEtoile in Paris and stood by silently while Dr. Crawford Y. Me Cullough of Fort William, Ontario, president of the international Rotarian | organization, laid wreath on the l tomb.
 | The Cabinet of Premier Allen de | Salazar of Spain has resigned. There
 has been dissensiOn in the Cabinet for
 some time. The situation eliminated 1 in Manuel Arguelles, Minister of Finance, rendering his resignation. on he ground that the new tariff law and
 Inc commercial treaties were inimical to the interests of labor
 Several persons have been arrested and held for examination in connec- ton with the fire which destroyed vir- tually the entire northwest wing of the government house at Lima, Peru.
 Among those detained are two paint
 CTS. said to have been at work in the
 office of the presidents secretary
 shortly before the fire. It is said the
 fire broke out simultaneously in three
 places in the presidential suite.
 Lieut.. Gen. Karl Stenger, charged
 by the French government with hav- ing ordered troops under his command to take no prisoners and kill wounded men during the fighting of August, 1914, has been acquitted by the Ger man Supreme Court at Leipsic, en- ga ged in the trial of cases against al- legged war criminals. Maj. Bruno Crusius, tried on similar charge, was given a sentence of two years ill prison and forbidden to wear the Ger nun uniform.
 GENERAL
 Approximately 1000 coke workers in the independent plants of the Con- nellsville, Pennsylvania, coke region were affected by a 10 per cent reduc- ton in wages, the second announced | this year The new rate is about 33 1-3 | per cent below the rate paid Jan. l, | but, according to coke men, 45 per cent | Only about ' per cent of the independ- ent ovens are in operation.
 Carl Wanderer, triple murderer, ex- hausted his last trick in his efforts to dodge the gallows when the Chicago jury that has been hearing his plea of decided in less than one hour that he was sane and must hang. After the decision had been handed in, Judge David set the date of execution for Friday, July %. The sole hope now remaining for Wanderer is that Governor Small will intervene.
 An alleged unauthorized strike by 200 pressmen in the printing shop of he -Henneberry Company, pub ishers, of Chicago, resulted in the fil- ng of the praecipe of ;t S5O,OOO suit gainst the Chicago Printing and oressmens Union No. and eight of icials and agents of the union. Trou- ,le is said to have started over the 'rfnting of the western edition of a weekly magazine, at whose plant here was a pressmen's strike.
 Mrs. Etta $. Hell, the millionaire naid'' of Chicago, was placed on pro- 'ation for one year after she pleaded uiity to four separate charges of lar eny. Mrs. Heil, the wife of a wealthy roller, was arrested and confessed hat she had footed dozen North hore homes while posing as a maid" Ter loot ran above S1OO,OOO, but resti- ution was made to all her victims by | CT husband The probation sentence | 'as decreed by Judge Kerston in Grim nal Court after attorneys for the oman had appealed for clemency.
 Fire destroyed the plant of the Ne raska Potash Company at Antioch lghteen miles east of Alliance, Neb. is owned by a Denver concern and l he Catholic church and several oth- buildings caught fire from the ames which were famed by a wind Miss Jennie Fullers of Humboldt, eb, was awarded S17,OOO dollars in er suit for breach of promise against ouis Henry Howe, also of Humboldt, the Nebraska Supreme Court. Miss ellerS claimed she had waited twen- two years for Howe on his promise marry her. She previously had | zen awarded $22OO0 by District ldge Troup of Douglas county, Ne -aSka.
 Fred Taylor, an ex-service man of ichita, Kan, is hero. When an pipe, in a grocery store near aylor's place of business broke he re embered his army training, rushed 'me, donned his gas mask and opped the flow of poisonous fumes fore serious damage was done A Imber of customers were nearly suf-