Taiban Valley news., 1920-07-16
FOREIGN

uinplidiil NTetk duNuHCe lntO Andiolll,
and what they regard as complete
rupture of peace negotiations.
/ Keeping pace with the times, the
London Daily Mail has installed its
own wireless receiving plant for the
receiving of news dispatches on the
roof of Carmelite house, home Of the
NOrthcliffe papers.
Police Inspector Turner of BARGE
Iona, Spain, was killed in saber duel
with Police Captain Toro, according
to advice from that city, The quarrel
arose over a question of service in the
police force, It is said. <.
Dumb for three years as the result
of shell shock, Trooper w. Hart sud
denly recovered his speech in the ex-
cltement of u bowling match. He was
playing with the Davisville military
team at Niagara ra-on-the-Lake, Ont.
President Wilson 'has accepted the
invitation of the League of Nations to
call a meeting of the assembly of the
league early in November, it was an
nounced In the House of Commons in
London by Cecil M. Harmsworth, un-
dersecretary for foreign affairs.
The French Chamber of Deputies
voted an additional 10000 francs Il
year for cabinet ministers and 1900
francs for secretaries of state, in rec
ognition of the increased cost of liv-
ing. The vote, which was taken by the
raising of hands, was almost unani-
nous.
A dispatch to the vossiche Zeitung
from Tilsit says that after fighting
the BOlshevists have broken through
the Polish northern front and crossed
the Beresina river at three points. The
dispatch adds that panic has broken
out in wilma, from which the Polish
occupation authorities have fled.
Marie Anne Boude Gagnon, under
sentence of death at Quebec for the
murder by cruelty and neglect of her
stepdaughter, Aurora. gave birth to
twins, boy and a girl in the jail in
firmary. The father Telesphore
Gagnon, is serving life sentence in
ST. Vincent de Paul penitentiary for
completely in the murder of his daugh-
ter.
Fire has swept the entire fishing
district on the western shore of the
sea of Okhotsk, which was leased to
Japan under the treaty Of Portsmouth.
The area burned includes the city of
Okhotsk, according to a wireless report
1 rnnniEnd hy 10 DnI-lyolIa
Company from the steamer Kam-
chatka. The financial loss is esti-
mated at $4,000,OOO
GENERAL
The estate left by Ohio, C. Barber,
the late match manufacturers was ap-
praised at $5,0S1,1l5, in an inventory
filed in Common Pleas Court at Akron,
Ohio.
Six dead and twenty-four injured is
the toll in Chicago from accidents
caused indirectly by Fourth of July
celebrations. The accidents varied
from automobile collisions to aero
plane mishaps. No fatalities are at
tributed by the police reports to fire
works.
A report just completed by the
Phelps Dodge Mercantile Company at
Tombstone, Ariz., showing purchases
of agricultural products which ii made
in Arizona last year, proves that farm
ing and ranching in that state are
steadily becoming the rivals of mining
and stockraising.
NewcOmb Palmer, a young farmer OF
Momence, ILL.,, is being held at Chica-
go, and Byron Caldwell, former EN-
ploye of Palmer, is in Jail at Kanka-
kee, ILL.,, charged with an attempt to-.
extort $4,000 from Lem Small, candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
governor of Illinois.
Sam Cardinella, alleged ringleader
of a gang charged with the murder
Of Arthur P. Bowman, Chicago
salOOnkeeper, has been sentenced to
hang Three other members of the
band already have been sentenced to
death and fourth found guilty and
awaiting sentence
The Big Four Railroad Company suf-
fered loss estimated at between
100000 and 100000 at Elkhart, Ind.
when fourteen freight cars piled up on
curve. The cars contained coal and
merchandise. No one was injured.
In a pistol duel at Spartanburg, $.
c., William F. Cooper, blacksmith,
and Oscar Godfrey, horse trader,
killed each other. Each man emptied
the six chambers Of his weapon and
when the police arrived Cooper was
dead and Godfrey, though dying, was
still swapping his empty gun at the
body of the dead man.
Georges Carpenter, the French
champion, has returned to New York
to make preparations for sailing home.
Jack Curley, who has been In charge OF
Carpenters tour, announced that Car
pentier will positively return to Amer.
ica to fulfill his agreement to meet
Battling Levinsky. The match has been
set forward to Oct. 10 Curley added
that he has received word that Jack
Dempsey and his manager, Jack |
Kearns, would be in New York shortly.
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