, 1921-08-18

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Il special prize to the first American
six-meter yacht to finish in the first
British-Americam cup race at Cowes
regatta. The town of Cowes will give
u cup for the first American yacht In
the second cup race.
Gen. Isidro valdes, head of the revo-
%lutionary movement against the Mex
lean government. has been captured
after a fight between government
troops and his followers. One member
Of the NaldcS forces was killed and
several soldiers we're wounded in the
encounter.
The Bulgarian government has
drawn up II plan for the demobiliza-
tion of the army and the recruiting of
IL volunteer force. 1t is inclined to be
lieve, however, that it will be impossi-
BILE to enlist the minimum of $1,000
volunteers by Oct. l. as demanded by
the allies.
GENERAL
Earl Welch, 20, died at Columbus,
Ohio, of a fractured skull sustained
when knocked to the floor i'm Il box
ing match with Harold Myers, who is
held by the police. Both are of Column
bus, and were engaged in a friendly
bout.
Official announcement of the APP
polntment of Bishop NJ. j. Curley of
st. Augustine. Fla, ms archbishop of
Baltimore, succeeding the late Arch
bishop Cardinal Gibbons, has been re-
ceived by Catholic officials at Wash
ington.
The fact that people are not eating
so much candy now as they did during
the war was one of the reasons as
cribed for the failure of the Boston
Confectionery Company, which filed a
petition in bankruptcy at Boston, with
liabilities of more than 100000. The
company's assets were listed as $780,
S65.
The charges that Judge Lucien b.
Wright of the District Court OF Creek
connection with his decision for the
Sallie Atkins interests in the Tommy
Atkins 100000 oil lands controversy
was dismissed twenty minutes after
Justice Court convened at Sapulpa,
Okla, for the third day of the hearing.
Walter Bunton, a 2I-year-old metal
worker in the employ of the New York
Blower Company at Laporte, Ind.
modestly admits hat he is about to
become a millionaire and that he ex-
poets eventually to join the multimil-
l%ionaire ranks. Bunton has invented
Il process for hardening copper for
which he declares the United States
steel Corporation Is TO pay him ST.
100000 and n royalty of . cents II
pound as long as the patent exists.
A 6year-old child gathered flowers
in a neighbor's yard in Chicago, and.
carrying the blossoms back to her W
yard, tried to plant them. As the re-
suit of Il dispute over the punishment
of the child. which followed. her
grandmother. Mrs. Anna Gaugner. ~,
Is dead, and her mother. Mrs. Mar
garet Gaugner, is seriously injured.
The grandmother i%nterceded to save
the child from a spanking. and the
women fell down Il flight of stairs dur.
ing the. struggle.
Where the new Pacific highway
crosses the Canadian border at Blaine,
Wash, II gateway is being erected to
commemorate 100 years without forti.
fications or armies along the 5000
miles of international boundary. In
scribed Owe the doorways are the
legends. "open for 100 Years and
May These Doors Never Be Closed
Lyle A. Turner, official of a Des
Moines, Iowa. rug company, was ar
crested after he had tried TO sell a rug
valued at $1,000 for $50. lie is said
to have admitted to the police that he
shipped several rugs from the stock
of the company by which ne is EN-
ployed to himself at Chicago. and
planned to sell them TO help finance
Il vacation.
Maj. Earl Hamilton Smith. In charge
OF the campaign to restore Belleau
wood announced that Col. Charles II
Forbes. director of the new Veterans
Aid Bureau, had accepted the invita-
tion of the Belleau Woods Memorial
Association 10 draw the plans for the
restoration of the village and super.
r wise the rebuilding OF the community
II Is planned to raise 100000 for thii
: work. Thief irst spadefui Of earth will
be turned mex June.
workmen of the Keene-Strunk Goa
Company at HelenwooG, Scott county
Tenn, have found buried In the earth
and petrlfied a giant six feet foul
Inches tall. The fingers are perfect,
with long, taperlng lalls. The hands
are folded across the breast. on either
+ side OF its head are two horns each
about four inches In length. Its weight
/ is about $50 pounds.
joseph Peters paid n fine of $50
after conviction In municipal court al