River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-03-11
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to committee of Gold Star fathers.
Blunt rejection met efforts of the
state department to induce Mexico to
| permit Henry Forres, an American
| to re-enter Mexico after testifying be.
fore the senate subcommittee on Mex
icaa conditions.
Foreign
have captured Bataisk on the Sea of
Azov.
There is no intention of American
naval participation in the Dardanelles,
it was announced in London.
The Finnish cabinet has resigned.
This ministry was formed on Aug. Is,
1919, with NJ Venola as premier.
Several hundred anarchists attempt
ed to capture the labor exchange at
Milan, but were dispersed by the pol,
ice.
Two hundred and fifty thousand PEN
sions have been already approved by
the Italian ministry of pensions for
men injured in the war.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
adopted the first article of a bill pro-
viding communal suffrage to all its
citizens, including women.
immigration into Canada from the
United States fell off 43 per cent dur
ing the last fiscal year, according to
report Of the Canadian department of
immigration.
The French chamber Of deputies
passed bill providing for an inter-al-
lied colonial exhibition in Paris in
1915. The senate already has pagsed
the measure.
Mexican workers are going to che
United States in large numbers and
the exodus is becoming alarming, &C.
cording to press advices from northern
Mexican states.
A monument commemorating Amer
ica's collaboration in the war will be
unveiled on the banks Of the Marine on
Columbus day, October IL, according
to the Petit Parisien.
Moderate and just use of the su.
preme power and the maintenance at
order is promised in manifesto to
the Hungarian nation, issued b. Adj
IIOlluy, IuC tC6CAt
American orders amounting to $780,
100000 have been booked by the Ger
man potash syndicate, says the Nos-
sische Zeitung, which declares deliv-
cries will be extended over a numb er
of years.
All Germans who believe their
names to be on the list of men whose
So, Nv! Atlas
are called to make known their places
of residence or whereabouts by the at
torney general of Germany.
The Swedish cabinet has resigned.
The king has asked Premier Eden to
form new ministry. 1t is considered
highly possible he may not be able to
do this, in which event it is predicted
Jalmar' Branting. socialist leader, may
become premier.
Decision to organize a great trade
excursion to the United States and to
open as soon as possible an interna-
tional exposition for foreign goods in
this city was reached by the federation
of Mexican Chambers of Commerce in
session at Mexico City.
Domestic
Sixty-six alleged radicals were taken
in raids on meeting places at Akron.
Ohio, by federal operatives, city police,
deputy sheriffs and Industrial police.
Six persons were killed, when
"jitney bus in which they were riding
was struck by New York Central
passenger train at crossing in Bre-
men, Ind.
old, an aviator from Kelly field, San
Antonio, was instantly killed at Wat.
kins, Texas, when terrific wind storm
sent his machine crashing to earth.
AS result Of the whisky revolt" in
Iron county, Michigan, John E. Kin
name, United States district attorney,
called meeting of state and federal
officials to discuss unity of action in
the enforcement of the prohibition
laws.
Charles j. Willis, a civilian aviator,
was drowned in the Potomac river at
Washington, after leaping from an
army airplane with parachute.
Floyd Smith, inventor of the para
chute, who also landed on the water,
was saved.
Lieutenant Raymond F. Pearson. a
United States army aviator, was killed
at March field near Riverside, Calf,
when his airplane went into tail
spin too near the ground to recover.
Lieutenant Pearson had been flying
here six months.
At the present rate of decline a fam.
lily two generations hence will have on
the average less than one child, &C.
cording to a survey Of the birth rate
In families of native American stock.
made by sociology students of Mount
Holyoke, Mass, college under direc.
ton of DR.. Amy Hewes of the depart
ment Of economics.
Federal agents seized much litera.
ture and locked up 204 persons in
radical raids in Waterbury, Conn.