Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-01-03

fnond counties, Georgia, during the
past four months.
Four arrests have resulted from in
vestigatiOns into the deaths of more
| than fifty persons in the Connecticut
valley since Christmas from drinking
wood alcohol contained in mixture
sold as whisky.
Members of twelve western cattle
growers associations have appealed
to President Wilson through former
Secretary McAdoo. to upset the ar
engagements made by Attorney General
Palmer TO compromise the govern
lnent's antitrust proceedings against
the meat packers.
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson observed his sixty
third birthday quietly on December
%, much improved in health, surround
ed by the members of his family, with
the exception of Mrs. w. G. McAdOo,
who was unable to be present.
An increase of 80 per cent in the
cost of living for American wage
earners between July, 1914, and No
vember, 1919, is shown in statement
issued by the national industrial con-
ference board.
With the reconvening of congress It
is expected that action of some kind
will be taken to prevent the German
ships now in New York harbor from
passing into the final possession of
Great Britain.
Dissatisfied with the progress made
toward solution of the peace treaty
tangle, senators of both political par
ties have begun to. bring greater pres
sure on their party leaders for COM
promise to insure ratification prompt
ly on the reassembling of congress
early in January.
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam,
retired, has received from the emper-
or of Japan the decoration of the Or
der of the Rising Sun. Admiral Full
lam commanded the allied naval
forces on the Pacific coast during the
war.
President Wilson on December "a
issued proclamation returning the
railroads and express companies to
private control March 1.
The state department has taken
steps to place tighter embargo ON
arms and munitions to Mexico.
FOREIGN.
A millinery shop, to recoup the fall
len fortunes OF the Russian nobility,
has been started in Paris by Princess
Olga Eristoff, the famous painter,
called the most eccentric woman in
the world.
A general strike is planned for Feb
ruary by the sO-called triple alliance,
composed of railwaymen, miners and
transport workers, it is reliably report
ed in London.
One man was killed and one wo-
man and five men, including two pO-
lcemen, were injured at Havana, dur
ing clash between the POLICE and
crowd engaged in demonstration
cessive house rents.
News has been received in London
of the discovery Of siXty-mile ridge
of gold near Kalgoorlie, in western
Australia. 1t is the longest gold-bear-
ing formation ever found in history.
Two men are reported killed and
three arrested after a sensational at
tack on Lord FreEch's home, the vice
regal lodge, in Phoenix park, Dublin,
early Sunday morning.
The strike on the Argentine State
railroad, which began in the province
of Jujuy in the extreme north, has
extended to the provinces of Santa Fe
and Salta and the territory of Chaco.
A common ground on which to base
joint action in Siberia has been
reached by the United States and ia
pan, according to an announcement
given out by the Japanese official
publicity bureau.
Five additional communists have
been sentenced to death at Budapest,
including Eugen Lasclo, author, journ-
alist and lawyer. Nine others have
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prisonment.
The avalanches at the mountain re-
sort of Davos, Switzerland, caused ter
ror among residents and visitors and
resulted in several deaths. One huge
avalanche swept down upon sanl-
tarium, smashing doors and windows
on the first and second floors and
killing Russian woman and her nurse
and seriously injurlng several others.
Knighthood in the order of the Brit
ish empire has been conferred by
X ng George upon Capt. Ross Smith,
the first aviator to complete an air
plane flight from England to Aus
tralia.
Adherents of former King Manuel
are preparing for a coup de'etat to
regain the lost throne of Portugal, ac-
cording to information reaching Lon
don.
When the shipping trade again set
will