The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17
FOREIGN

over imports, according TO Official sta
tlstics.
Armed and masked men attacked
four police officers at Tullow. Ireland.
Two of the constables We're shot dead
and another seriously wounded
The Polish armies of the northeast
ern front delivered series of success
full attacks upon the Russians and took
5000 prisoners, four guns ana two
armored trains.
Advices from West Siberia an
nounce the formation of peasant re-
public in the Altai region. with war
council composed of the military chiefs
and three civilians.
The French police have begun n
thorough investigation into the death
of Olive Thomas, an American motion
picture actress who succumbed in
Paris TO poison taken, 1t is said, by
mistake.
The son of Leon TrotZky, war min
lister of soviet Russia, was killed in
the fighting on the Russo-Polish front.
according to n Central News dispatch
from Cracow, Poland, crediting the
information to the Cracow Kmrjer.
Five school children were killed and
more than dozen seriously injured
ut Paris when an aviator, Going trick
flying. crashed into the M5nt Rouge
schoolyard. The mechanic also was
killed and the pilot was injured. Four
of the children were cut to pieces by
the propellers.
A new journal, with n policy of open
opposition to the league of nations,
will attempt publication in Geneva in
November when the first meeting of
the league is to be held at Geneva.
The projected publication is sponsored
by intellectuals of various countries
who are against the treaty of Yer
sailles.
The Austrian Supreme Court has re-
jected Hungary's demand for the extra
dition of communists wanted in con-
nection with the Hungarian dictator
ship of Bella Kun. The court ruled that
the acts which the communists are al
legged to have committed were part
OF the legitimate discharge of their
governmental functions.
An order rendered at Toronto, Ont,
by Justice Middleton approves the ac-
tion of II. Homer Smith, receiver for
the Mexican Northwestern Railway,
Limited, in filing a claim for $5,0oo,000
gold against the Mexican government
for alleged damages suffered by the
road during revolutionary disturb
ances. The claim was filed by the com.
mission appointed by decree of the
Mexican government in 1917. Smith
was appointed receiver for the road in
1914, in an action by certain bondhold-
ers to enforce a mortgage.
GENERAL
Nine men are dead and four are
i'll in the hospital at Edgewood
arsenal, at Baltimore, from drinking
a liquor, the principal ingredient of
which was said to be wood alcohol.
Three men were killed Mt Clinton,
Ind, by n gas explosion in the Sub
marine mine while they We're feeding
the mine mules about 200 feet from
the hoist. The bodies were recovered.
Seventeen mules were killed.
Rose Catina, seven years old, was
sailing boats in a puddle along the
curb in Forty-ninth street, New York,
when a big motor truck came along
and cut off both hands as they were
trailing in the gutter.
Evelyn Nesbit has been named de-
fendant In suit for $2,9SS begun by
Frances & Co., Inc, dressmakers, for
merchandise alleged to have been sold
between Oct. list and Oct. 31st, 1919.
Among the items charged We're gowns,
hats, wraps and capes.
f. r. Mefford, aged forty. of Grand
Rapids, Mich, and Guy Dickman, aged
twenty-five, Williamsport, Pa, were
killed at Wilkesbarre, Pa, when
hydroaeroplane. piloted by Dickman,
In which Mefford was a passenger,
fell 800 feet.
Six persons We're killed, an equal
number probably fatally injured and
many others more or less seriously hurt
in street car accident near Fairmont,
w. Va.
Forty thousand dollars-includng
$4,000 bill and more than $4,000 in
jewelry-was stolen in ten-minute
daylight robbery by two gunner, who
beat Philip S. Smith, wealthy mer-
chant, into insensibility In his office in
New York.
Street frontage is SO valuable In
Broad street at the Curb market in
New York. where the brokers take
your money by wiggling their fingers,
that a four-pane window on the
ground floor of No. % rents for $1,000
a month. 1t is paid by four concerns,
Nash & Co, Agostine & Co, NJ. Halt
mayer and Joe Goldstein.
A thousand indictments charging
nearly 300 Camden county. Penn, sa-