, 1920-07-01
FOREIGN

The commission Of jurists in session
for formation Of a permanent cour Of
International justice, as provided in the
League Of Nations covenant, has unan-
imousiy decided that the court shall be
located al The Hague.
The Poles have repulsed strong en-
envy attacks in the region Of Smigal
Szaozinn, inflicting considerable losses
upon the Bolsheviki, according to ar
official statement on the fighting op-
e%rations Issued at Warsaw.
American missionaries stationed at
Ressht, Persia. near the Caspian sea,
retired from that town when the Boil
sheviki approached 1t and are safe, the
State Department was advised by the
American legation at Teheran.
FOur people were drowned when
their automobile RAJ off the ferry at
Latellier, forty miles south Of Winni-
peg, into the Red river. The dead are
Joseph Knisely, aged 45 his SOL, aged
8; Thomas Bennett, 81 and Miss Edna
Scott, %.
An automobile carrying the assist
ant director general of the royal Irish
constabulary and -four constables was
attacked with revolver fire and bombs
in Dublin. Assistant Director General
Roberts was shO. in the head, but is
expected to live. The chauffeur was
shot in both legs.
AS an example of the strict vigilance
of the German customs officers in Or
der to save their country from being
dSlined of valuables, the Handelsblad
says that 100000 marks worth of
diamonds and 600, 900 marks have been
confiscated at Bentheim, the Dutch
frontier station, within the last two
weeks.
Several persons are reported to have
been killed at Ulm, Wuerttemberg, in
the course of riotous demonstrations
against the high cost of food. Similar
demonstrations are reported in other
parts of Germany. Many clashes have
occurred between the police and the
reichswehr on the one hand and the
demonstrators o. the other.
GENERAL
Two proved cases of bubonic plague
oVSh iot III liz CpuDlIS
of Salvador. The Central American
nations are declared to have ordered a
quarantine against Salvador.
Suit to recover inheritance and in
come taxes of {, 100000 paid from the
estate of Mrs. Potter Palmer have
been filed in Chicago by Honore and
Potter Palmer, Mrs. Palmer's sons.
An announcement has beer made
that the marriage of Miss Helen Taft,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Howard Taft, to Frederick ]. Manning
will take place It Murray Bay, Can
ada, July 10.
Between 100000 and $4,OOO,OOO
damage was done to corn. tobacco and
cotton crops by a hailstorm which
swept Wayne, Pitt, Lenoir and Greene
counties in North Carolina. The grow
ers declare little of their crop can he
saved.
Operating revenues of the Southern
Pacific Company and proprietary COM
panies for 1919, as disclosed In the an
nual report published in New York,
amounted to $239, 657 ,272, an increase
of s1s,O46,O6s, or S.14 per cent over the
preceding year.
President Lowell has announced gifts
to Harvard during the year totaling
$500, 615. This mOu does not in
clude sums less thar $4,000, or piedg-
es. Total subscriptions to the pro-
posed endowment fund of $15,250,00O
have reached So, 157 ,764.
Allan A. Ryan, chairman of the Stutz
Motor Car Company, who became in
vOlved in a controversy with officials
of the New York Stock Exchange at
the time 1t was alleged a corner exist
ed in Stutz, has been expelled from the
exchange, according to an
ment by the board of governors.
Five workers who had refused to
join a strike of machinists and I'M
skilled laborers, a woman and three
children miraculOusiy escaped death at
Waterbury. Conn. when a bomb was
hurled through the window of one of
the sleeping rooms. blowing out all the
windows in the house and demolishing
one side of the structure.
A record in collecting fines for vio-
lntion of the yolstead act was made in
New York when $4,000 was taken
from ~bartenders and saloonlSeepers in
penalties of from SIS to $3.50 each, re-
Gently. Federal Judge Hand offered to
let off with fines all first offenders
who would plead guilty to violations
prior to June 8, when the Supreme
Court declared the prohibition meas
ure constitutional.
Frank de II. Storey, a New York
lawyer. convicted of crininally receiv-
ing several thousand dollars worth of
stolen securities, was sentenced to Sing
Sing prison for two and one-half to
five years at hard labor. Storey, de-