, 1920-12-30

Italian government forces have es-
tablished a close blockade of Fiume by
land and sea.
A serious labor riot occurred recent
" in Petrograd In which many persons
We're killed or injured. The riot was
crushed and 105 laborers were ex-
Acuted.
The number of persons dead and in
lured in Argentine's earthquake disas-
err is now estimated ut more than 400.
This figure Is based on reports from
'elief parties in the affected o
First reports from the general cleo
ions held in Spain indicate n govern
nent victory. Unofficial estimates
ire that the majority for the Monarch
st parties will be a large me.
Two firemen were killed and four
injured in n fire which destroyed the
Star theater at st. Johns, n. u. One of
the walls collapsed, burying the six
men. The loss was placed at $4,000.
The Irish home rule bill, as slightly
modified by the House of Lords, has
been adopted by the House of Com
mons In London. The measure now
needs only the royal signature to be
come q law.
Japan's population, as revealed "
he census recently completed. is more
than a million under the estimate. The
total number of persons in the empire
s 77,005,0 900, of which 5000, 600 are
N japan and ~17,2S4,000 in Korea.
Official c|ognizance has been taken
ny h State Department of the action
of h British embassy In writing di-
rectly to Chairman Kellogg of the Sen
ate committee Investigating cable COM
munications, denying testimony of wit
nesses that the British authorities i'm
posed a censorship on cable messages
coming TO the United States from
Great Britain.
Payment by Germany of 100,000,000,-
600 marks in gold remains the basis
upon which experts and delegates to
the second financial conference, in SEES
sion at Brussels, are working. This
amount, although far below what was
authorized by the treaty of Versailles,
is considered by them %collectable only
on condition that Germany is helped
along the lines suggested by the Ger
nan delegates.
GENERAL
Four men are known to be dead as
a result of an explosion in No. 2 pack
ing mill of the DUPONT Powder Works
at Moosic, seven miles from Ccranton,
Pa.
Carrying $14,OO 900 less than was
appropriated for this year, the annual
pension bill was reported out by the
House appropriations committee. The
total of the bill is 500, 100000.
Twenty-Five individual plumbers and
twenty-seven plumbing firms, members
of the Master Plumbers Association,
were charged in n blanket Indictment
reported to Justice McAvoy in New
York with violation of the antitrust
law.
A woman with $4,000 in bank notes
bound to her thigh by a handkerchief
was found dead of gas poisoning in a
room or East Twelfth street in New
York. A note with the money read: IF
his bihiS hbIPtho W me- IN llOAitg
belongs to NJ. Bolaton & Son, Sharon,
Pa"
Losses to the American Railway Elk
press Company through banditry and
wholesale thlevery throughout the
United States for 1920 will total APP
proximately $4,000, 600, according to
Cassius NJ. Day, head of the Denver
an1 mountain hronah ~ tha orOnnfzn-
ton.
Capt. William A. Moffett, formerly
commandant of the Great Lakes train
ing station and later commander of
the battleship Mississippi of the Pa
cific fleet, has been appointed director
of naval aviation, 1t has been an
nounced by Secretary Daniels. Cap
tain Moffett succeeds Capt. Thomas
Craven, who will be SEN to sea, prob
ably in command of a battleshlp.
The entire plant and apparatus of
the Stegmaier Brewing Company, the
largest in Luzerne county, Pennsylva-
mia, were seized by the United States
government for alleged violation Of the
Volstead prohibition act. II was the
first brewery taken ove by the rev.
enue authorities In the state Of Penn
sylvanla.
For an Indefinite period, employees
of the Newbern Iron Works and Sup
ply Company, n of the largest plants
of its kind in Eastern North Carolina,
are to receive all profits made by the
concern above cos of operation. This
agreement was reached between the
workers and the management follow
ing n disagreement over n 20 per cent
reduction In wages.
Criminal carelessness upon the part
of Capt. George ii. Hart, master of
the United States steam launch Mar
garet, that sank In the Ohio river,
was responslble for the tragedy. nc