Williams news., 1921-05-13

the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient, who
 made an inspection trip over the Ori- | ent lines in Mexico, said the company
 is contemplating the expenditure of S2O, 100000 to $35, GOO, 900 to complete
 the line from Kansas City to the Gulf 1 of California.
 | France held a two-day observance
 of the centenary of the death of Ma
 poleon. A saIvo of artillery at the In-
 valides marked the passing of a cen
 tury since the death of the great war | rior at St Helena and closed the exercises. The celebration appeared to
 have little appeal for the general pub | lie.
 GENERAL
 Frank Miller is held at Muskegon,
 Mich, on a charge of mayhem. It is alleged he twisted off his wifes ears
 because of her relations with Jaseph Romenoff-
 Five hundred city laborers of Lima,
 Ohio, petitioned the council to be al- lowed to work ten hours day, instead of eight, as heretofore No increase ill wages was asked.
 A strike of approximately 150 bal- CTS employed in twelve Jewish whole sale baking companies was the prin- cipal development in the May 1st labor situation at Cleveland.
 High school fraternfties and socie- ties were declared evil, in that they tended to "create snobbishness and in subordination," in an opinion given in Circuit Court at St. Louis.
 Motion pictures censorship by a board of review established under the industrial commission failed to re- cefve the approval of the Wisconsin Senate, which killed the bill, 27 to 4.
 Fire destroyed the Osage cotton seed oil, mill and small buildings in the same business block with a total dam age of approximately $2,OOO,OOO at Shawnee, Okla. Flames reached more than 100 feet in the air.
 An orderly parade and meeting called by the Socialist party of Amer ica as a demonstration in favor of so- viet Russia were the only observances of May day at Chicago. Police had for bidden the display of the red flag and not a none was to be seen.
 Mrs. Clarence Mullenix, 36 years old, is confined in hospital for the insane at St. Joseph, Mo. It was disclosed she drowned her two children, 6-year- old boy and an S-year-old girl, in a pond near their home, several miles from Unionville, Mo. The bodies were 
 The Portuguese steamer Mormugao went to New London under her own | power after having been floated by | tugs from the west side of Block isl | and, where she grounded in a heavy | fog All of her AS passengers were | to naval vessels and were | taken to New Bedford.
 While cleaning out a box of sup posed rubbish a waiter at the Hotel ambassador at Los Angeles, discovered l necklate with 100 small diamonds. It vas found to have been the property of Mrs. Arthur T. Gage of Los Angeles md is supposed to have been accident lily lost. It was returned to the owner. The value is $1O,OOO.
 The Extension Service of the Colo ado Agricultural College has a good of bulletins available for dis to the people of Colorado.
 The theft of jewelry and money to- alling $1O,555 while she dozed in a moving picture theater in Chicago, was eported to the police by Mrs. Bessie 1orrison, wife of an oil operator of ,alt Lake City.
 The automobile drivers license of 'eter E. ThrOpp, 16-Year-old son of 'eter D. Thropp, a manufacturing ma hinist, was revoked at Trenton, N. J. 'hropp admitted placing tacks in the ighway near Bordentown. He said he i'd it to disable car of his chum and lval in love, who had taken a girl they oth admired for drive.
 Colorado is becoming more distinc- vely and American state. There was decrease of S-1O per cent in the for gn-born population of Colorado in the ecade from 1910 to 1920. According an announcement of the census bu- eau the actual foreign-born decrease as from 126,S51 in 1910 to 116,954 in 920 The population of the state has lcreased from 799, ,O24 in 1910 to 939,- % in 1920
 Creation of a new state of northern linofs was advicated by Senator Den r of Chica go, Ill.,, who introduced in the Illinois Senate calling l Congress to divorce Cook county Id seven neighboring counties from e other ninety-four counties in the ate.
 Burglars who blew and plundered e safe deposit vaults of the Bank of ampbell at Campbell, N. Y., escaped ith Liberty bonds and other securities