Taiban Valley news., 1920-12-10
FOREIGN

spread the territory during the last fis-
cal year. We're. better fed and better
clothed than during any year in the
Stands history, Arthur Wager, terri
torial governor, declared in his annual
report recently made public.
An,arniy OF unemployed, more than
| 900 strong marched on the center of
l.,Ednfonton, a town Of Middlesex, eight
miles from London, seized the town
ttai1. as their headquarters, and raised
the Red flag The. jobless men and
women then presented n set of de-
mauds to the town councillors and pre-
vailed upon them to evacute the city
building.
No less than an average of forty
persons day were sentenced to death
by the Moscow revolutionary tribunals
and executed during September, ac-
cerding to the official soviet organ
! ISyestia. The same paper throws
| light on the desperate fuel situation in
Moscow by stating that 5000 wooden
houses have been torn down in Mos
COW to provide fuel for the people.
General Semenoff, leader of anti
BOlshevst forces along the frontier be-
tween Siberia and Mongolia has ar
rived. at NladivOstok under Japanese
escort. Dispatches from that city state
he has gone on board Japanese trans
port. General Semenoff's troops de-
feated by the Bolshevists recently, de-
serted in such numbers that their lead
er gave up the struggle against the
Soviet armies in that region.
Increasing hostility toward Ameri-
cans and American relief interests is
Ibeing shown by the Turkish national
fists, says letter from Henry Riggs,
director for. the Near East Relief at
I[harput. He asserts the nationalists
still refuse the Americans permission
to proceed to various places to carry
on their work and forbid the American
flag to he flown from American build
ings and automobiles
The naval court of inquiry investi-
eating the actions of American marines
concluded its hearings in Haiti with
the examination of Lieutenant Colonel
! Hooker. Of the gendarmerie who testi-
fied-to the belief that 1000 peaceful
|. IIaftiens had been killed by bandits in
1 the Hast few years. He declared that
from March, 1919, to October, 1919,
large farrning and settlement areas
were completely wiped out by bandits.
GENERAL
=. The liner, Celtic, bearing to America
4 Mrs. AIGrtel MacSwiney, widow of the
mayor of Cork, who died on hunger
strike in an English prison, has ar
+ rived in New York.
Six masked bandits held up the
RidgevilIe State Bank at Muncie, Ind
imprisoned the cashier and several EN-
, plOyes in the vault and escaped with
, three sacks of money and a quantity
Sd of Liberty bonds. The bandits OBJ
tanned $4,000 in an undetermined
amount of Liberty bonds and securities
Faccorting to bank officials.
c. f. Troyer of La Fontaine, Ind.
+ was named the national corn king
at the Hay and Grain show in connec
/ | tfon with the International LiveStocl
, exposition at Chicago. Peter Lux, also
Fof Indiana was last years king" Mr.
TrOyers ten winning ears of corn were
gathered from a seventeen-acre fielt
: that yielded 100 bushels to the acre.
"A golden casket, presented by the
=, city of Baltimore to Charles NJ
: Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Stee
, Corporation, has been stolen from hi'
, New York mansion on Riverside drive
) SchWab declared. Schwab discovered
the golden casket was missing when ht
.ffead an article in New York news
: paper stating that such box had beer
sold in Germany by sailor.
Senator Harding has declined Presi
dent Wilson's offer to place the presi
dental yacht Mayflower at his dis
4 posal on his arrival at Norfolk Il
carry the presdent-elect to Washing
, ton. 1t was necessary the senate
S;llu Ill u hlNoodSN W 'NNh
: iDaniels, who transmitted the offer Il
| the steamer Pastores, that he shOult
Iimake the trip by rail.
Brownie of Linwood, 4-year-ol'
Guernsey COW owned by the Coriun
" farm, near Fond du Lac, Wis, ha
= completed a years official test witt
e a record Of producing S3107 pounds o
! butterfat, the equivalent of LOB
| pounds Of butter. This record is be
: lieved to rank her first in Wisconsin
{ among Guernseys of her age and sec
ond in the United States.
Renewed violence has been reporte'
from several points in the Mingo cOun
. ty coal strike zone and nearby, to mil
n ftary authorities and to the offices o
/ the Coal Operators Association at VIII
k liamston, w. Va. The most serious oC
n Cured at Baranshee, on the Kentuck
f side of Tug river, across from Mate
p wan, w. Va, where two deputy sheriff
o were wounded, one seriously, whel
they attempted to make an arrest.