The Ordway new era., 1919-11-14
GENERAL

The amendment to the federal con-
stitution gi-ing women the right to
vote was ratified in the House at Au-
gusta, Maine in concurrence with the
Senate. This is the nineteenth state
to ratify.
Dressed in pantaloons of the knick-
erbocker variety, made of black satin,
caught at the knees and trimmed with
gold brocade. Miss A. Sheer returned
to the United States on the New Am
sterdam. Miss Sheer said that wom-
en- here would soon be wearing trous-
ers, and that there was nothing start
ling in her dress.
A fierce northwest gale tore twenty
| lighters and scows from their docks in
Brooklyn and blew them down the har
| Dor. Before they had been picked up
merchandise valued at 100000 had
been blown from their decks, includ
ing coffee, sugar and telegraph and
| wireless equipment intended for Amer
lean forces in Siberia.
The world lives in FOOLS paradise
based upon fictitious wealth, rash
promises and mad illusions. declared
| Paul NJ. Warburg, formerly vice gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Board,
in statement issued on his return
from Europe on the steamship Nieuw
Amsterdam. He has travelled in Eu-
rope the last three months studying
the financial situation abroad.
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
champion, signed an agreement in Mo
bile to fight Joe Beckett, the English
heavyweight champion, in New Orleans
next March 18th, according to an
nouncement by Dominick Tortorich,
New Orleans fight promoter. The bout
Is conditional on Beckett winning his
forthcoming fight with Georges Car
pentier, the French champion. The
bout will be for twenty rounds and
Dempsey, Tortorlch announced, will re-
ceive $125,OO0 as his share.
One soldier has been killed and an
other wounded in the coal fields near
Knoxville, according to word received
at Nashville.
No effort will be made by the
United Mine Workers of America ia
have nonunion miners in the Pttsburs
field Join the strike until after the in
junction proceedings in indianapolis
have been disposed of, according to
union officials.
a dying motorman's last act at Edge
water, N. j., was to apply the brakes
to his car lest it coast n precipitous in
cline on the Hudson palisades and kill
thirty passengers. Thrown from their
seats by the sudden stopping of the car
the passengers found the motorman
Alexander Rabb, dead from heart dis
ease
New York packers refused to grant
wage demands of several thousand
striking employees. A resolution was
adopted setting forth that this decision
was reached in order TO support the
government in its fight on the high
cost of living The strikers demands
include forty-four hour week and n
81 wage increase. The employers say
that they are paying laborers S25 n
week for forty-eight hours and will not
consider the new demands.
Prohibition is wiping out another
New York landmark - Hitchcock
"Beanery" on Park Row. In this little
cellar restaurant, chatting until dawn
sat such international figures as Presi-
dent Arthur and Colonel Roosevelt,
such leaders of journalism as Horace
Greeley and Charles A. Dana. Greeleys
chair still occupies its corner and hab-
itues still point to the favorite seat of
Colonel Roosevelt, who, while police
commissioner, frequently dropped In
| after a night raiding party for beef
| and"