Small and Big Facts of the Week

- American Independence Day is celebrated in Paris.
- The Queen of Romania leaves for London.
- Germany has a population of 62.5 million.
- The Queen of France is crowned at the Tuileries.
- A steamship sinks near Douarnenez.
- A town in Colombia is destroyed by fire.
- New earthquakes are recorded in southern Japan.
- The Dutch Cabinet resigns.
- In Béziers, a powder and rocket depot explodes during a fire, killing three people.
- Violent storms cause rivers in Zaragoza to overflow their banks and cause serious damage.
- On Rue Muller, a waiter returns home to find his wife and young daughter asphyxiated by gas.
- Marshal Foch receives the Franchise of the City of Manchester.
- A naval review will take place next week in Cherbourg.
- Madame Séverine, the eminent journalist, refuses the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
- Mademoiselle Fédor, a true Russian princess, receives the only first prize for acting at the Conservatoire.
- Mr. Fiancette is appointed general rapporteur for the Department's budget.
- In a hotel on Rue de Rivoli, an American woman is robbed of 300,000 francs worth of jewelry.
- On Rue Stendhal, a 69-year-old man is killed by a truck.
- In Berlin, an explosion leaves two dead and several injured in a chemical factory.
- Krassine returns to Paris.
- The metalworkers' strike threatens to spread to Belgium.
- More than 80 people die in a Boston dance hall collapse.