The Ordway new era., 1920-07-16
FOREIGN


rupture of peace negotiations.
Keeping pace with the times. the
London Daily Mail has Installed It's
own wireless receiving plant for the
receiving of news dispatches on the
roof of Carmelite house, home of the
Northellffe papers.
Police Inspector Turner OF BARGE
Iona, Spain. was killed In saber duel
with Police Captain Toro, according
to advice from that city. The quarrel
arose over a question of service in the
police force. 1t Is said.
Dumb for three years as the result
of shell shock. Trooper w. Hart sud
denly recovered his speech in the ex-
citement of bowling match. He was
playing with the Dnvlsville military
team at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Ont
President Wilson hns accepted the
invitation of the League of Nations 10
call meeting of the assembly of the
league early in November, II was an
nounced In the House of Commons in
London by Cecil NJ Harmsworth. un-
dersecretary for foreign affairs.
The French Chamber OF Deputies
voted an additional 2O.0OO francs n
year for cabinet ministers and I5,OOo
francs for secretaries Of state, in rec
ognItion of the increased cost of liv-
ing. The vote. which was taken by the
rnIsing of hands, was almost unanl-
nous.
dispatch to the vossiche Zeitung
from Tilsit says that after fighting
the Bolshevists have broken through
the Polish northern front and crossed
the Beresina river ut three points. The
dispatch adds that panic has broken
out in wilma. from which the Polish
occupation authorities have fled.
Marie Anne Boude Gagnon, under
sentence of death at Quebec for the
murder by cruelty and neglect of her
stepdaughter, Aurora, gave birth to
twins, boy and a girl in the Jail in
firmary. The father, Telesphore
Gagnon. is serving a life sentence in
st. Vincent de Paul penitentiary for
completely in the murder of his daugh-
ter.
Fire has swept the entire fishing
district on the western shore of the
sea OF Okhotsk, which was leased to
Japan under the treaty OF Portsmouth
The area burned Includes the city of
Okhotsk. according to wireless report
received by the Hokkaido Fisheries
Company from the steamer Kam-
chatka. The financial loss is esti-
mated at s4,Ooo.ooo.
GENERAL
The estnte left by Ohio C. Barber,
the late match manufacturer, was ap-
praised at S5.0S1,115, In an inventory
filed in Common Pleas Court at Akron,
Ohio.
Six dead and twenty-four injured is
the toll in Chicago from accidents
caused Indirectly by Fourth of July
celebrations. The accidents varied
from automobile collisions to aero
plane mishaps. No fatalities are at
tributed by the police reports to fire.
works.
A report Just completed by the
Phelps Dodge Mercantile Company at
Tombstone, Ariz., showing purchases
of agricultural products which it made
in Arizona last year, proves that farm
ing and ranching in that state are
| steadily becoming the rivuis-of mining
and stockrnislng
I Newcomb Palmer, young farmer OF
Momence, ILL.,, is being held at Chica.
go, and Byron Caldwell, a former EN-
ploye of Palmer, is In Jail at Kanka.
kee, ILL.,, charged with an attempt &c
extort $4,000 from Lem Small, cnndI
date for the Republican nomination fol
governor OF Illinois.
| Sam Cardinella, alleged ringleadei
of n gang charged with the murder
of Arthur p. Bowman, n Chicago
saloonkeeper, has been sentenced tc
hang. Three other members of the
band already have been sentenced tc
death and n fourth fo,Ad guilty ant
awaiting sentence.
The Big Four Railroad Company suf
fered "A loss estimated Mt between
100000 and $20O.0O0 ut Elkhart, Ind.
when fourteen freight cars piled up OF
a curve. The cars contained conl anc
merchandise. No one was injured.
In pistol duel at Spnrtanburg, s
c., William =. Cooper, n blacksmith
and Oscar Godfrey. horse trader
killed each other. Each man emptiet
the six chambers of his weapon nnt
when the police arrived Cooper wa,
dead and Godfrey. though dying. wa,
still swapping his empty gun at tn,
body of the dead man.
Georges Carpenter, the Frenci
champion, has returned to New YorI
to make preparations for sailing home
Jnck Curley, who has been IN charge o
Carpenters tour. announced that Car
pentier will positively return to Amer
lea to fulfill his agreement to NEE
Battling Levinsky. The match has beer
set forward to Oct. 10. Curley addet
that he has received word that Jacl
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