The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-11-18
GENERAL NOTES

4 The first death due to cold wealth
err this season was reported at Chi
cago Friday when Edward F. Con
ner, 30 years old, was found frozei
! | in a shack where he made his home
near Chicago.
(I A blister ON his right heel causct
the death of Elmer Joyce, IS year.
) old, of Forum, in Nuskogee, Okla.
hospital Friday. He was unconsciou.
! four days after blood poisoning set IL
from the infection.
d The countrv is winning its battle
against the flu according to the
relief expressed by officials of the
public health service Saturday. They
said a recurrence OF the disease III
epidemic form is unlikely.
4 Violent declines were suffered in
the stock market in the early after
: noon Friday on heavy selling by bear
traders. Losses ranged from 2 to II
points. Many issues dropped to the
4 lowest prices reached this year.
| Election returns received at the
secretary of states office show that
there will be four women members
OF the next Kansas house OF repre-
sentatives instead OF three, and the
fourth woman will be Democrat.
She is Miss Nellie Cline OF Larned.
| The Willys-Overland plant, at To.
| ledo, which has been closed for in
ventory for the last week, will re-
| sumo operations beginning next Tues
day with partial force of 1000 men.
1t is not definitely known when the
plant will resume with full force.
Fifteen per cent of the total force
OF the Pennsylvania railroads Al
toona, Pa. shops were dropped from
the pay rolls Friday. Altogether L.
$50 men are affected. They received
five days notice. The reduction OF
the force is permanent. officials said.
Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard.
&c years old, United States Navy
(retired), died suddenly at his apart
n,ents at Annapolis. Nd, Thursday.
He was found unconscious in the
tathtub and died within few min
utes. Heart disease was ascribcd as
the cause of death.
Since the British government per-
mitted MacSwiney to commit suicide |
by starving himself to death while i'll
prison hunger strikes" have lost
much OF their former popularity.
Last week several Irish prisoners de-
clared their Strike off and COM
menced eating again. |
Washington, Nov. ia. NJ.
Dockery, third assistant postmaster
general and former governor of Mis-
souri,, again is critically i'll here. He
was taken to hospital Wednesday,.
Mr.. Dockery recently was reported
seriously i'll but later became able to
take TIP his work. A year ago he
suffered "a severe illness while visit
ing at his home in Gallatin, Mo.
The San Francisco Call Friday al
tcrnoon printed a sensational story to
the effect that Draper Hand, a police
officer. had told Mayor James Rolph
that the prosecution of the Mooney
bomb cases there was a gigantic
frameup. Following publication, OF
the story, Mayor Rolph admitted
that Hand, .of his own volition. at
his own request had made such a
statement.
Decision OF the war department to
authorize the maintenance of only
four permanent cemeteries i'll France
was announced Thursday. These will
be at Suresnes, on the outskirts Of
Paris; at Romagne, in the Argonne
region; at Belleau Wood, WHO'RE
American soldiers and marines met
the Germans in the first important
and at Bony, in the de-
Lartment of the Afsne. which viii be ,
known as FLANDERS Field"
The battle ship Indiana, which took I.
part in the destruction of the Spanish
fleet at Santiago twenty-five years /,
ago became the target for I4-inch
rifles of the superdreadnaught Ok
ahoma at Tangier Sound, Chesa- !,
oeake Bay. The Indiana, which when
built in 1895 at q cost of 3 million
iollars. was the pride of the navy,
vas put out of commission several
Years ago, but in the war was resur- !,