The Ordway new era., 1919-10-31
FOREIGN

forty deaths. Many miners were In
jured.
1t has been reported in dispatches
from Lisbon that Portugal had granted
the United States concession In the
Azores for a naval station.
Marshal Foch has informed the Bel
gian government by telegraph that 49,
600 Belgian freight cars have been
found on the left bank of the Rhine.
Hundreds of American children will
receive Christmas dolls, gifts OF the
French children of the city OF Mez-
ieres. as a mark OF their gratitude for
the organization there of the schools by
the American Red Cross.
The disappearance of silver money
from circulation has resulted in such
q shortage of small change that many
restaurants in Paris have posted
| notices that customers must make
their own change or accept postage
stamps in place of silver.
A wave of diamond buying has
struck England despite the repeated
pleas of the government and business
organizations for thrift. West End
jewellers report doing an extraordinary
business in precious stones, especially
among women who made big wages in
war work.
Nikolai Lenine, Bolshevist premier
of RUSSIA, has been captured by anti
Bolshevist forces. according to n wire
less message picked up by the Japan
ese ship Tenyo Maru in the harbor ut
ther details of the reported capture of
Lenine.
An official census shows that the
population of Korea at the end of 1913
was 1867 ,032. This shows an increase
of SS,035 as compared with the end of
1917 and of 3,744,01J over the figures
for 1910, the year of annexation TO
Japan. Japanese residents number
336,S72.
The supreme council has decided TO
intrust to the military authorities of
the allied powers the duty of fixing a
date for deposlting notifications of the
treaty of peace with Germany, which
date VIII mark the coming into force
of the convention, according to the
Echo de Paris.
The supreme council has refused
request from the German government
that members of interallied commits
sions in Germany should not wear uni
forms after the peace treaty comes in
to effect The council declared 1t saw
in the request an attempt to weaken
the authority of the commissions.
nf ha ;e, ,t,, nj
lowed in the clubs in France since the
ratification of the peace treaty. As
soon as the ban was lifted n veritable
frenzy of gambling set in all over
Europe. 1t is estimated S1,OOO,OO0
were won and lost in the first night
after the famous game was resumed.
GENERAL
The state of New York will attempt
to collect an Inheritance tax amount
ing to millions of dollars from the es-
tate of William w. Astor, who died in
London.
Recommendations granting the right
of suffrage to Cuban women and call
ing for participation by Cuba in the
league of nations have been placed in
the revised platform of the Liberal
party.
Progress in surgery and medico-ther-
apeutics since the Civil war have add
ed fifteen years to the average human
life, DIR. William Mayo of Rochester,
Mimi, told the ninth annual American
Congress of Surgeons in New York.
What is said to be new record in
the price of books was established by
the sale of single volume for 500 600
The purchaser, n New York collector,
asked that his name be withheld. The
book is the only known copy Of the
first collected edition of Shakespeare's
works, published in London by Thomas
Pavier in 1000 and printed by William
| Jaggard.
Alfred Il, Itingling, head of the firm
of Ringing Brothers, circus owners,
died suddenly on his estate at Oak
Ridge, n. J.
| George Babe" Ruth. world cham
| pion home-rum hitter of the Boston
Americans, said before leaving for Los
Angeles that he would demand $4,000
salary next year.
| Two men were killed, another may
die and several others were injured
following two explosions In fire
which destroyed the produce plant of
Swift x Co. at Iowa Falls, Iowa
For hours detectives with drawn
| guns guarded n papier-mache safe in
store in New York. Burglars had re-
moved the real safe to n safe point for
cracking and left "camouflaged" one.
The otd Clothes Society was organ
lied by clerks in the city hall in Chi
cago with chapters" in each of the
principal departments of the municipal
government. The object is to glorify
the wearing of patches, frayed or shiny