The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-10
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PETERSBURG, va.--Mrs. Maud
a prominent farmer and deputy sheriff
of Surry county shot and killed her
six-year old daughter and probably IA
tally wounded her son, aged five years.
When her husband heard the shots,
rushed into the room, the mother was
to finish the job" Her three weeks
old baby on the bed was unframed.
She had been i'll some months.
PARfS.-Three hundred and fifty
American Boy Scouts arrived in Paris
They were received by delegations of
French Rumanian and Spanish Boy
Scouts. After giving a demonstration
at the Grand Palais, the scouts will
leave for a visit of a few days to the
battlefields.
ATLANTA, Ga,--The Georgia house
passed the senate bill providing for
creation OF a state commission to clas-
sify and regulate sale Of securities In
the state.
MIAMI, Fla.-Rear admiral Benton G,
Decker. commandant of the Seventh
naval district, with headquarters at Key
West, has been detached and ordered
to report at Hampton Roads for gen
eral court martial duty, it was Off
cially announced at the Key West naval
station.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.--Eight di-
rectors of the Idaho Utah Sugar COM
pany, charged with profiteering in
sugar, were bound over to appear at
theS October term of United States
court for the Eastern division of Idaho
by a United States commissioner here
Bond was fixed at $4,000 each.
LONDON-A Reuter- dispatch from
Vladivostok says the government has
received advices that the Japanese resi-
dents of Okhotsk maritime town Of
Siberia on the sea of Okhotsk, have
been massacred and the town burned
II LIVERPOOL.-The master and crew
q Of the American schooner Nethertor
"a abandoned their vessel after it caught
# fire at sea and We're brought to Liver
pool on the trawler Margaret Duncan
Il which picked them up.
N VERA CRUZ.-Tne opinion is ex.
pressed here that the order of Pro
visional President de la Huerta, by
which Antonio Nava, provisional gov
ernor of the state OF Vera Cruz, hat
been relieved of his office, viii be re
sisted by political and military Leaders
within the state.
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anti-Italian outbreak in West Frank
tort, Ill, were put to Count Sforza
he foreign minister, in the chamber D
deputies, by Deputy Gentle, forme
italian consul at New York and Phila
delphia, and the socialist Deputy Carrot
who lived for nine years in the Unite
States. In reply the foreign ministe
stated he was awaiting a report iron
the Italian embassy At Washington, u
receipt Of which, he announced, h
would take the necessary action.
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CLEVELAND, 0 The Brothcrhoo
of Locomotive Engineers has with
drawn its application ror membership 4
the American Federation Of Labor
Warren S. Stone, grand chief, admitted
He declined 10 comment.
DALLAS, Tcx.-Seven persons wcr
injured, two seriously, in the collaps
OF two buildings on Main street here
trhe buildings, two-story and three
story structures. were undergoing re
pairs Search Of the ruins failed
verify reports Of loss Of life.
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SHREVEPORT, La.--Regaining cor
seriousness for the frat time since be
ing brought to the hospital here, "
= Rudder, Az of Pine Bluff, Ark
u brakeman for the Cotton Belt railrJa'
related how he had been shot 10y he
gro tramp last FRIDAY morning Will
the freight train on which he was " ork
ing was near Bradley, Ark. Rudde
is in a critical condition. His assail
ant escaped
FREEDONIA, Kan.-Two men wer
killed by lightning near hero. r.
Wilson young farmer, near COyVilt
was struck while working with a ha
barpr Donald Rlchey, 10, was kilc
at Altoona 10 miles east of here.