Williams news., 1922-08-04
FOREIGN

tering the windows of the county hos
 pital and the dwellings of the towns | best residential district.
 | National army troops have gained
 a fresh victory in west Ireland by cap-
 turing Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, | from the Republican irregulars. The l Free State triumph in the capture of
 Limerick was followed swiftly by sue
 cesses in the surrounding district.
 Vienna consumed in the past year | 113, ,992,5 liters of beer, 46,357, 900 | l:ters of wine and 2,436,2OO of spirits.
 according to figures just published.
 Taking the population at nearly 2,OOO,- | GOO, this was a per capita consump- | tion of 62 liters of beer, 9 of wine
 and four of spirits, a total of 91 liters, | or a little over 95 quarts.
 The body of " Receiver C. It Denize, Port Au Prince, Haiti, was
 found recently, a wound in the head | indicating he had been murdered. This | follow~ closely the attempted shooting | of Mayor LdOuard Mandones, for | which minor city official is under l arrest, and which was regarded as a | development from the mayors activi- | ties in uneaI = alleged local graft. 1 Eugene Jova, acting American con- | Sular agent, captured by bandits at l Sagua Ia Grande, Cuba, and held for 1 S2O,OOO ransom, escaped recently, but was badly wounded as he made his | break for liberty. There were five dag ger wounds in the young mans body when he was found in a ranch house in which he had sought shelter, but he was able to give the authorities information which was expected to
 lead to the capture of the bandits. Captain Amundsen has aLandc-ad his ~++cmpt to req h Point Barrow in
 the Maud, his exploration ship, and has transferred to the schooner Holmes, according to a wireless me-
 sage received at Nome, Alaska. Trans ferring to the Holmes with Captain
 Amundsen were Lieut.. G. Omdal, avi- ator, and one other man whose name was not given. It is understood that
 the plan to fly across the north pole
 has been abandoned until next year.
 Because of the technical state of war still existing between the allied powers and Turkey, the plan of the British, French and Italian and Amer ican governments to investigate joint ly alleged Turkish atrocities in Ana tolia has been abandoned and an in- quiry is to be made Instead by the In- ternational Red Cross. The change in plans was made at the suggestion of the British and French officials after the United States had indicated it's willingness to take part in joint gov ernmental investigation
 GENERAL
 Initiative petitions for bill to pro- vide new state grain grading act to be voted on at the general election in November, are being circulated, it was announced by the North Dakota head quarters of the Nonpartisan League.
 Chris Chiolis, 2S, was instantly killed and Charles V. Herman, 3S, was in jured, possibly fatally, when the auto | mobile they had entered in the races at | Lagoon, an amusement resort near | Salt Lake City, plunged through the | fence. |
 Wi 70 -aterS rece--cc, re- ports presented the picture of devas- | tation to thousands of acres or NebraS- ka farr, land, swept clear of all crops, | thousands of head of live stock lying dead and property loss conservatively estimated at $1,OO0,OOO.
 S. c. Freiden, president of the Citi- zens' Ice and Coal Company of Council Bluffs, was shot and instantly killed, it is alleged, by Mrs. Linda Taylor, W alleges that about one week ago when Freiden came to her house to callect a bill he assaulted her; that county off cials refused to take any action and that when Freiden again appeared at | her home she shot him.
 Three men on the wagon bridge spanning the west end of Ray yards, frci ght terminal at the outskirts of Denison, recently fired on Texas na- tional guard troops protecting that section of the railroad property at Denison. An exchange of about fifty shots between the men and the sol diers followed. No casualties were reported.
 The last announcement of the gov about a resumption of work by the striking shopmen, clerks, oilers and | groups of maintenance of way we '-erS, having been that of the federal rail- | .oad labor board to the effect that f board contemplated no further move 1t present, has left the country wait ng for something to happen.
 Benny Leonard, worlds lightweight boxing champion, successfully defend d his title against Lew Tender of in twelve-round node .ision contest at Jersey City, N. J., ( ,arning, in the opinion of majority of { port writers at the ringside, narrow made in a great struggle. The chal- ( enger a left-ha.der, furnished the | the most interesting combat