Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-09-17
FOREIGN

with 5000 deaths, In the present cpl.
demic
Armed and masked msn attacked
four police officers at Tullow, ireland.
Two of the constables were shot dead
and another seriously wounded.
A number OF the members of the diet
are planning to visit the United States
next summer with hope OF improving
the relations between Japan and the
United States.
The Polish armies of the northeast
ern front delivered series of success
full attacks upon the Russians and took
5000 prisoners, four guns and two
armored trains.
Advices from West Siberia an
nounce the formation of peasant re-
lpublic In the Altai region, with q war
council composed of the military chiefs
and three civilians.
The French police have begun n
thorough Investigation Into the death
of Olive Thomas, an American motion
picture actress who succumbed in
Paris to poison taken, 1t is said, by
mistake.
Three companies of Italian infantry
have seized a factory at Lucca, which
had been occupied by worlsmen and
surrender 10000 bombs, according to
dispatches.
Johan Aason of Numedahl, Norway,
who is eight feet and nine inches tall
and weight 503 pounds, walked into a
police station In Chicago and confided
that he was lost. The police captain
directed him to his hotel.
According to estimates by the jap
anese press, Japan will have 100 sub
marines by 1927, when 1t is expected
eight battleships nn6 eight battle crui-
sers on the naval building program
will have been completed
The son of Leon Trotzky, war min
lister of soviet Russia, was killed in
the fighting on the Russo-Polish front,
according to Central News dispatch
from Cracow, Poland, crediting the
Information to the Cracow Kmrjer.
Thirty men were killed, scores
wounded and damage amounting to
S250,000 was done by the explosion of
dynamite in Callao bay at Lima, Peru
Negligence in handling the explosive
is declared to have caused the accl-
dent.
A new journal, with policy of open
opposition to the league of nations,
Will attempt publication In Geneva In
November, when the first meeting of
the league is to be held at Geneva.
The projected publication is sponsored
by intellectuals of various countries
who are against the treaty of Yer
sailles.
GENERAL
Bodies of 1853 American soldiers
were brought home from st. Nazaire
and other points in France on the
transport Sherman.
Nine men are dead and four are
ill in the hospital at Edgewood
arsenal, at Baltimore, from drinking
a liquor, the principal Ingredient of
which was said to be wood alcohol.
f. r. Mefford, aged forty, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, and Guy Dickman, aged
twenty-five, Williamsport, Pa, were
killed at Wilkesbarre, Pa, when
hydroaeroplane, piloted by Dickman,
in which Mefford was passenger,
fell 500 feet.
Evelyn Nesbit has been named de-
fendant in a suit for S20SS begun by
Frances & Co., Inc, dressmakers, for
merchandise alleged to have been sold
between Oct. 1st and Oct. 31st, 1919.
Among the items charged were gowns,
hats, wraps and capes.
Street frontage is so valuable In
Broad street at the Curb market In
New York, where the brokers take
your money by wiggling their fingers,
that a four-pane window on the
ground floor of No. % rents for $4,000
a month. 1t is paid by four concerns,
Nash & Co., Agostine & Co., NJ. Halt
mayer and Joe Goldstein.
Omaha, Neb.-U. G. Bridenbaugh, SO,
retired banker of Coleridge, Neb., end
ed his life here by jumping from
bridge into the Missouri river. He had
suffered nervous breakdown from
overwork, it was said, and had been un-
der treatment at n Council Bluffs hos
pftal. His physician gave him permis-
sion to leave the hospital temporarily
to attend theater in Omaha.
A thousand indictments charging
nearly 800 Camden county. Penn, sa-
loon keepers with selling liquor with
out a license were returned by a Cam
den county grand jury. City and
county detectives and police immedi-
ately began arresting the indicted
men in ten motors hired for the pur-
pose. For hours the Ohancery court
was used as temporary jail.
A spread Of infantile paralysis in the
vicinity nf poctop which xyhfla not an