The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-05-21
NEWS OF The
WORLD in BRIEF


in control there since 1858.
Frederick G. Cottrell has been nom
mated by President Wilson TO be d.
rector Of the Bureau of Mines,
The New York Legislature has pass
ed bill making it misdemeanor 70
furnish false news 10 a newspaper.
Joseph C. Cannon has just received
his twenty fifth nomination for Com
gress from the Republicans of Hi
nois.
Japan has notified Hungary that all
| restrictions as to Immigration of Hun
garians to Japan have been raised.
Senator Lodge, OF Massachusetts, is
| to be temporary chairman of the Ma
tional Republican Convention in Chi
cago.
Cash wheat, sold above SO in St
| Louis last week for the first time since
the government took over control Of
wheat IN 1917.
Germany's presidential election Will
probably be held in August. II is said
that President Ebert will not seek re-
election,
Farm loans aggrcgating more than
| $50 900. 900 have been held up by the
litigation over the validity OF the farm
loan act
The soldier bonus plan has been
dropped by the House until after the.
forthcoming recess for the political
conventions,
The iifth anniversary of the sinking
II the Lusitauia was observed in New
York on May I by services at several
churches.
Turkey has been given month to
consider the Peace Treaty presentedto
the Turkist plenipotentiaries in Paris
last Tuesday.
Earnings of the Federal reserve sys-
tenn for this fiscal year are estimated
at $l0O.O0,000 by Governor Harding. of
the Reserve Board.
President Deschanel, of F'raneeli has
refused to permit his wife to accept a
81. 600 hat offered her by three thou
sand American milliners,
The deficiency appropriation bill OF
5000 900, 900 FOR the Railroad Admin
istration has been approved by Con-
gress and signed by the President.
France will honor the American dead
in that country on Decoration Day.
French soldiers will parade Mt the
larger American cemeteries.
b Samuel w. Mccall former governor
of Massachusetts. has been selected by
President Wilson for place on the
United States Tariff Commission.
Japan has withdrawn all objections
to the Chinese consortium and has ac-
cepted the terms as agreed upon by
the United States. England and FranSs,
Col. Thomas Mann Randolph CAL
colt eighty years old. one of the
last Survivors OF Gen Robert F.. Lees
personal staff, died at his home in
Richmond, Va, May 5.
Mrs Samuel Gompers, wife OF the
President of the American Federation
of Labor, died at her home in Wash
ington May 6. after long illness. She
was sixty mine years of age.
President Ebert, Of Germany, who
was a harness maker. has been eN-
PEELED from the Saddlers' Union OF
Berlin because he signed the death
warrant of man named Kopp. con-
victed of murder.
Orion Elliott, of San Diego, Cald.,
i06 years old. crossed the continent
last week to attend the twentieth an
nual convention of the American Book |
seIlers Association in Philadelphia
Ira Nelson Morris, American minis
ter TO Sweden, has been ordered TO
Berlin from Stockholm, where he Will
take charge of American affairs, pend
ing declaration of peace between the
two countries.
Operation of the telegraph and tele- |
phone companies during the war cost
the government Sl4,0005,565, and Con- |
gress has been asked for that amount |
TO liquidate the affairs OF the Federal |
wire administration,
There are Sal 800 veterans of the
World War dependent on the bounty OF
the United States at an annual cost OF
$s25,O 900, according to the chief
medical adviser of the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance.
President Wilson has nominated
Representative Edmund Platt, of New
York, chairman of the House Com
mittee on Banking and Currency to
be a member of the Federal Reserve
Board in place of Albert Strauss, re-
signed.
The Socialist party of America
opened its 1920 National Convention
in Ne WORK City May s with an at
tack on President Wilson and a pre-
diction that the Socialists would poll
two million votes in the presidential
Rationing of sugar to manufacturers
of nonessentials and an agreement be-
tween this country and foreign coun
tries not to bid against each other for
sugar have been suggested by Herbert
as a means of relieving the
present sugar situation.
Switzerland is said to be growing
weary of furnishing an asylum for the
royal refugees of Europe. Elk Emperor
of Austria, eX-Kings Constantine of
Greece and Ludwig of Bavaria, and
many minor princes and their relatives
are now in that country.
DR.. Pasticci. noted Italian chemist
claims to have discovered a method OF
cheaply producing liquid hydrogen. to
De used in driving automobiles, one
gallon being sufficient for two hundred
md fifty miles. 1t also may be utilized
IN railway locomotives and engines of