The Ordway new era., 1920-09-24
FOREIGN

been reported officially from Korea
with 6,000 deaths, in the present cpl
demic
A number of the members of the diet
are planning to visit the United States
next summer with a hope of improving
the relations between Japan and the
United States.
The Chinese government has ar
ranged "A short term S10o00,000 lonn
to meet urgent demands for famine
relief in the Shantung, Chilli and
Shansi provinces.
The dominion bureau of statistics of
Canada has issued an estimate on the
Canadian crop; wheat. S9,49S,OO0
bushels: oats, 5j6.T19,oC0 bushels bar
ley, 6i,257 bushels; flax, 1000 bush
els.
Three companies of Italian infantry
have seized factory at Lucca, which
had been occupied by workmen and
have forced the men in the plant to
surrender 10000 bombs, according TO
dispatches
According to estimates by the Jap
anese press, Japan will have 100 sub
marines by 1927. when it is expected
sers on the naval building program
will have been completed.
The soviet government of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1919 program the total Red
army strength. actual and potential,
was 4,750,0O0 men, and that this pro-
gram has been restored MS result of
the Polish campaign.
Thirty men were killed, scores
wounded and damage amounting to
S250,0OO was done by the explosion of
dynamite in Callno bay at Lima, Peru.
Negligence in handling the explosive
is declared to have caused the acci-
dent.
Baklanoff, baritone of the Chica-
go Opera Company, arrested in Chica-
go last year for immortality, has been
refused an American passport wise
from the American passport bureau of
Paris. which acted on advice from
Washington. This bars Baklanoff
from the United States.
1t is officially announced that the
total killed in the recent earthquakes
in Italy was 174. The mountainous
zone affected was thinly inhabited and
the destruction was limited to small
places. Normal life is being resumed.
The houses destroyed are being re-
placed by huts.
The Chinese foreign office notified
Prince N. A. Koudachef, minister df
Russia, in charge of the Russian
legation by appointment of the late
car, that in view of the nonrepre-
sentative status of the Russian lega-
tion, voluntary cessation of function
ing of the legation and Russian con-
sulate would be welcomed.
GENERAL
Liquor bandits in two raids on ware
kies and rare wines worth S37, 600 One
of the band, which included five men,
was wearing n policeman's uniform.
Rural letter carriers purpose to start
a campaign among congressman and
United States senator's for the enact
ment of Legislation granting them an
allowance for maintenance of equip
ment, it was learned at indianapolis,
when the first annual convention Of
the National Federation of Rural Let
ter Carriers was convened. The
amount to be asked will be 5000 an
nually, 1t was said.
Robbery, jealousy and other ele-
ments entered into the brutal Staying
of John Zelek, foreman of the stock
department in large warehouse,
whose body was discovered In a small
Mushroom in Chicago. He had been
beaten to death In most savage man
ner, n plank and n hammer being the
weapons. Scattered about the floor
near the body were a number of love
letters which the police are investigat-
ing. They believe Zelek was muir
dered by jealous rival.
Bodies of 763 American soldiers
were brought home from St Nazaire
and other points in France on the
transport Sherman.
A spread of infantile paralysis in the
vicinity of Boston, which. while not an
epidemic, yet constitutes n condition
that has caused some concern among
health officials, was announced by the
state department of health. A total of
ninety-seven cases in the state was re-
ported with the addition of fourteen
new cases in reports received. The
number of cases is the greatest In the
state since the epidemic of 1916.
Two suits of s1000o,OO0 were filed
by the city of Chicago, on orders of
Mayor William Hale Thompson against
the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Daily News, respectively. The suits,
according to Corporation Counsel S. A.
Ettleson, allege that charges made by
these newspapers in the primary cam
paign have injured Chicago financial