The Ordway new era., 1920-05-14
FOREIGN.


Maj. Gen. Chase w. Kennedy, com
mander of the Panama canal depart
ment at Panama, has raised the re-
| strictions prohibiting American officers
and men minglihg with Panaman Off
| cials of the republic.
The emperor of Japan, whose illness
recently necessitated visit to the win
ter palace at Hayamn, has returned to
Toxic. according to Toxic cable to
the Nippu Jill, japanese vernacular
newspaper at Honolulu.
Germany's presidential election prob
ably will be held late in August, ac-
| cording to Berlin dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company. The
Deutsche Zeitung is quoted as saving
President Ebert will not seek re-elec-
| ton.
DIR. Pasticci, noted Italian chem
list, has discovered method of cheap
ly producing liquid hydrogen. II may
be used in driving automobiles, one
gallon being sufficient for 80 miles.
1t also may be utilized in railway To-
comotives and in the engines Of ocean
steamers, he declares.
1t is semi-officially announced from
Warsaw that man named Posrednic-
lie, who is declared to have been one
of the group which assassinated for
mer Emperor Nicholas, was taken from
Jail and handed over to the Bolsheviki,
who took him to the Red front. There
he was shot for high treason
Two men were killed and nine
| Il ;,. .I,,.
ians and military at the railway sta
| ton at Praga, Il suburb of Warsaw,
where troops from Posen We're entrain-
ing for the front. According to the
military authorities the conflict arose
between some of the soldiers and IL
| group of Jews.
Canadian farmers will get not less
than 40 cents bushel on the partici-
patton certificates issued by the Can
adian wheat board on wheat sold
through that agency, according TO an
pouncement by James Stewart, chair
man of the board. This, with the 81 10
n bushel already guaranteed, will
bring the price to $3.50.
The total cost of the world war in
lives has reached the appalling figure
of 35,3S0,O00, according to final esti-
mates made by the Copenhagen Soci-
ETY. for the Study of the Consequences
of the War made public. These figures
were reached after an exhaustive study
of the decrease in the birth rates of
| the countries involved, as well as in
crease in deaths from causes directly
attributed TO the war. Actual military
deaths in killed totaled 9,S29,00O, ac-
cording to the report. Each nation in
vOlved lost the equivalent of S.S per
cent of its population from all causes.
Each nations actual killed elualed 2.5
per cent of its population. Serbia was
the heaviest sufferer of all the beliig-
erents. She lost 81 per cent of her
total population, while her actual killed
equaIed 14.S per cent.
GENERAL.
The BARRIERS Supply Dealers Asso-
clation of America, with headquarters
in New York and branches throughout
the United States, prosecuted urder
the Sherman antitrust act, has been
ordered dissolved by Federal Judge
Augustus n. Hand.
| Because she could not read, Anna
Sherbetjian, n young Armenian wom-
i'm, at Ellis Island, has been ordered
deported back to Turkey. where she
may face death for her escape from a
harem there to come to the United
States to an unseen prospective bride
groom.
Four hundred and forty-scven Illicit
II a.
Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee dur
ing the month of March. according to
reports received by the prohibition
commission ut Washington. The seiz-
ures include those made by state pro-
hibition officers, federal revenue Off
GERS and civil guardians of the law
The Belts bill, making 1t misde-
meanor to furnish false news to a
newspaper has been signed by Gov
ernor Smith of New York.
The Delaware Legislature stands ad-
| journed until May 18th, when suffra-
gists will make another attemp, to
force passage of the resolution rntify-
ing the federal suffrage constitutional
| amendment in the lower house
Friends of suffrage in the senate OBJ
| tanned the recess after bitter fight
Indications that volcanic eruptions
We're taking place on the Island of Old
Providence In the caribbean sea were
reported to New York by the United
| Fruit Company steamer Calumares. A
| wireless message from the ship said
that volumes of white smoke were OBJ
served ascending from one of its tall
est peaks.
Supreme Court Justice Lydon of
New York issued I'M order permitting
the Equitable Trust Company of New
| York to soil nnnrnN imntnlN So 600 nnn