Taiban Valley news., 1920-11-05
FOREIGN

the object of obtaining higher pay.
They also desire new rules regarding
the manner in which bulls are admit
ted to the ring
An increase of $1.15 a day in the
wages of Alberta coal miners, granted
by operators in conference with repre-
sentatives of the United Mine Workers
of America, has been announced in
Calgary, Alberta.
Fifteen thousand Russian Bolshe-
visit soldiers have been taken prison
ers, and many cannon and large guam
titles of war material have been cap
tured in raids carried out by General
Baron Wrangel's forces recently.
Forty-two horses belonging to the
Royal Canadian mounted police were
killed in fire which destroyed the old
winter fair buildings at Brandon, Man,
with loss Of 100000. Efforts of fire
fighters are being directed toward
saving the new fair buildings and
nearby residences.
Sylvia Pankhurst, who was arrested
on Oct. 10, charged with attempting
to cause sedition in the navy by edit
ing and publishing an issue of the
newspaper, The Workers Dreadnaught,
Oct. 16, was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment on conviction for the Of
fense in London.
The municipal employment bureau
announces that $4,000 men and wom-
en- in Germany are unemployed. or
these, 10000 are in Berlin. The labor
ministry estimates that soon 5000, 600
will be unemployed or on short time.
Women constitute approximately one
fourth of those idle.
Fourteen Japanese soldiers were
killed and nine were wounded in re-
cent fight with bandits at Chein-Tao,
Manchuria, in which the outlaws were
routed, say dispatches received. The
bandits lost sixteen killed and the to-
tai casualties inflicted upon them are
said to be heavy.
Canadian highways aggregate $4,000
miles, according to figures presented
by government report, and the land
appropriated for their construction and
Improvement is valued at $3.50, 0,000,000
For every mile the public travels on
railways, it is estimated, it travels two
miles on highways. Canada has eX-
. pended $20,000,000 on highways in the
last five years.
Canada's trade with the United
States continues to develop on both
sides of the account. September fig
ures, issued showed exports to the
; United States amounted to $49,943,OOO
as against S43,457, 900 in the same
month last year, an increase of 10 pei
cent Imports from the United States
totaled $S1, 5000, against $65,917 OOC
an increase of % per cent.
+ GENERAL
Isaac F. Ferguson, Chicago lawyer
}, and Charles +. Ruthenberg of CleVe
t land, were convicted of criminal anar
= chy by jury in Supreme Court of New
= York. Justice Weeks Immediately sen
= fenced them to states prison for terms
i of from five to ten years each.
: Edgar Carlton Stinger Of Cleal
n Lake, NIinn., sent a gold watch ant
g chain to the Democratic national com
II mittee as his contribution to th'
Democratic campaign fund. Still run
l. ming, the watch was received at head
e quarters in New York, with lette
II from Stinger.
II The Otis Company announced a
II Ware, Mass.g that its cloth department
Is would operate only four days week
e beginning at once, because of lack o
T. orders. About 1000 operatives are at
y fected. A part of the underwear de
c partment already is on four-da,
e schedule.
Appropriations totalling nearly $500
600 for relief work in the Near Eas
If were voted by the executive committe
e of the Near East Relief. A gift o
If S15O,OOO from Armenians resident i
V the United States, was received, an
is the committee appropriated $4,000
IS for immediate purchase of supplies TO
Armenia.
10 The steamship Celtic arrived in NeN
10 York from Liverpool and Queenstow
c with 344 boxes of gold valued at al
,e proxlmately $11,000,000, consigned
N the Federal Reserve Bank.
to New York trucking companie
adopted resolutions refusing recent dt
p. mands of their $4,000 employees 70
n shorter hours and increased pay, an
10 notifying them that they must wor
,t ten hours for the present nine-hou
r. wage.
IS The speed typewriting championshi
of the United States and Canada wa
won at New York by George L. Hos
~ field of Paterson, N. j., who typed al
u proximately 131 words a minute fc
ed sixty consecutive minutes. The col
III test featured the opening Of the sever
ne teenth national business show.
o. Many European children, born du
a. ing the lean war years, will enjoy tn
ne taste of sweets next Christmas for tn
a. ri... +;,,o In, THAR Iivoc rngII