Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-04-28
Washington

100000 would be prohibited by 100
peri cent surtaxes under a bill intro
duced by Representative A. J. Griffin,
(dem., N. W %#I@
ton.-President Wilson has
signed the annual postoffice appropria-
ton bill, which carries provision for
an air mail service between New York
and San Francisco via Chicago.
hingtOn.-Secretary of War n
D. Baker approved plans to locate the
United. States army school for chap
lains at Camp Grant, Illinois, instead
of Camp Sherman, Ohio as originally
proposed.
Washington. 49, President Carranza
has opened negotiations to make peace
with the revolving state of Sonora, but
revolutionary agents in Washington
declare his overtures may come too
late and will result in nothing.
Observation-Disclosures of $19,O51,-
23S in delinquent taxes and penalties
and discovery of 295,977. delinquent
tax payers were made by the bureau
of internal revenue in six months
delinquent tax drive ended Jan. 81,
1920.
Washington.-Buria services for ~
soldiers, whose bodies recently were
brought back from overseas, will be
held at Arlington with the usual mill.
tary honor. The bodies will be buried
in the European section of the ceme-
terry.
Washington.-The Federal Reserve
Board in its monthly report on bust
ness conditions emphasizes the great
scarcity of farm labor and consequent
high wages as factors that work
against decline in prices of farm pro-
ducts.
Washington, April 22.-Presidential
third terms would be prohibited under
resolution introduced by Represen
tative Humphrey, Democrat, MISSISSIPPI
pi, proposing constitutional amend
'nent limiting the tenure of any person
as president to two years.
Washington.-Pay increases of 81
per cent for the enlisted personnel of
the navy and 20 per cent for the enlist
ed personnel of the army, with grad
ers in both services. were agreed on
tentatively by the senate and house
conferees on the service pay bill.
Foreign
Berlin.-The national assembly
granted 2,25O,0OO,000 marks for in.
creased wages to prevent general
rai1rOad strike
Rome.-Paul Joseph Tussbaum,
bishop of the Corpus Christi, Texas,
diocese, was nominated titular bishop
of Gerasa at the Vatican
Tokyo.-The war office announces
the crushing defeat by the Japanese
of $500 bolshevik troops at Chilnofski,
west of Chita, in eastern Siberia.
Tokyo.-The silk, cotton and rice ex-
changes closed following a 10 days
slump in prices. Losses to spectators
were estimated at 100000, 900 yen.
London.-Thomas j. MacNamara,
minister of labor, told the House of
Commons that the strikes and lock-
outs reported to the ministry of labor
during 1919 aggregated 1,413.
ST.. Johns, N. F.-Thirty-four thou
sand seals valued at $175,OO0 was the
total catch for the season which has
just closed. This is the smallest num-
Der of seals taken in the history of
the industry.
Quebec.-Mrs. Marie Anne Houde
Gagnon has been found guilty of tor
turing and numbering her Is year old
stepdaughter, Aurora Gagnon, and SEN
fenced to be hanged Oct l. The girl
was beaten, burned with redhot
poker and made to walk barefoot in
the snow. then forced to drink poison,
the evidence disclosed. The postmor-
tenn examination of the body revealed
81 wounds.
Domestic
Williamsburg, Col.-Dr X. L.. Klock,
81 years old, killed himself to set free
his 10 year old wife, whom he married
year ago.
Boston-The senate passed bill to
legalize the sale in this state of light
| wines and beers with not more than
2.75 per cent alcoholic content.
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Westerville, Ohio.-William pussy
foot) Johnson, American anti-saloon
league worker, received royal well
come when he arrived at his home
here.
Yuma, Ariz.-Lieutenant C. F. Boil,
army aviator, was drowned when his
plane, in which he was attempting to
by under abridge, struck a wire and
fell into the Colorado river.
Philadelphia-The 5000 ton Shriner
ship, Salaam, named in honor Of the
war work of Salaam temple, Newark,
| N. j., was launched at the yard Of the
Merchant Ship Building corporation at
Hartman, Pa.
New York.-Indictments charging
charging proflteering in meats were
returned by a federal grand Jury in
Brooklyn against the Chicago packing
houses of Armour & Co., Swift & Co.,
Wilson & Co., and their representa-
tives here. - ~ %@