Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-05-28
FOREIGN.

| Hungarian peace deiegatlOn, notified
the supreme council.
| A copy of the extremely rare two
pence stamp of Maurtius, Issue of
| 1S47, was sold for 100000 francs at the
sale OF collection In the Hotel
Grouot, in Paris.
| Greek and Turkish troops have
clashed about twenty-five miles east OF
Smyrnn, where the Turks are taking
the offensive and are apparently mass
ing reInforcements preparatory to fur
ther advances against the Greeks.
| The carrying out of $50 death sen
tences pronounced by the courts-mar-
tial In the Ruhr district in Berlin has
been postponed by President Ebert's
order, according to official announce
ment The sentences probably viii be
| revised
| The Bolshevists have launched an
attack on the northern front between
the River Dvina and Borisoff and the
Poles have been compelled to suiren-
der ground In the face of superior
forces, says an official communication
Issued at Warsaw.
| The council OF the League OF Nations
has sent a message 10 President VIII
son requesting him to convoke the
League of Nations next November al
Brussels. 1t is pointed out that Gen
eva IL not ready to receive the assem-
bly,.
| A $250,00O plant to manufacture lig-
mite briquettes TO help relieve the
coal shortage is 10 be erected AT Bien-
fait. Sask., Immediately. The plants
product Will be sold for $10.50 to $1l
| a ton, and It is said 1t will equal the
best American anthracite.
| A reward of 100000 pesos for the
death or capture of Francisco villa
has been offered by the government OF
the stnte of chihuahua This an
nouncement was made by Provisional
Governor Tomas Gameros, who added
that 1000 troops left chihuahua City
under orders to hunt down the bandit
| chieftain.
lump of pure gold weighing just
over twelve pounds, one Of the largest
nuggets ever found, has been dlscov
cred IN the Kilo state mines In the
northeastern district of the Belgian
|
| World Ii is now In the possession of
the London branch of the Banque du
Congo Beige and will be sold on behalf
of the Belgian government.
GENERAL.
A hydro-airplane marked mo. S28,'
was picked up at sea off Scotland light
ship by the steam pilot boat New York.
The hydro-airplane was upside down
and there were no traces of any occu-
pants
wildair. owned by Harry Payne
| Whitney, won the historic Metropol
itan handicap at Belmont park, at New
York. Thundercinp was second and
On Watch third The time was.
j :3S 40.
Thirty-flve states Will elect govern
ors next fall at the time when the
President and vice president are chos-
en-. ThIrty-two United States senators,
to take office March 4, 1921, also are
to be elected
Three men were killed and Sisters
vile. W. Va, was rocked by an explo-
sion of 100 quarts of nitroglycerine at
the plant of the Young Torpedo Com
pany. The cause OF the explosion has
not been determined.
A nationwide campaign against the
use of tobacco was advocated by Mrs.
Stella b. Irvine, president of the w.
c. L. U. of southern California, at
that organizations thirty-eighth an
ual convention ut Long Beach, Calf.
The American Legion has inaugu-
rated a campaign for the re-adoption
of approximately 1900 of the more
than 3,I00 fatherless French children
whom the American expeditionary
force cared for during the war. 1t was
said that only about 700 OF the chill
dren have been able to live without
outside assistance since the A. e. f.
ceased to provide for them.
Fifty persons saved themselves by
jumping into life net spread by po-
lice and firemen when fire broke out
in the Hotel Manhattan, ut Paterson,
n j., u four-story structure in the bus
mess section. The loss is estimated at
$5OOOOO.
Eight large passenger liners, carry
ing more than 1900 persons have left
New York for European ports, mark
ing one of the largest sailing days
since the close of the war Among
passengers are Commander Evangeline
Booth of the Salvation Army, Walter
Hagen, golf champion; more than 900
students for the Sokol athletic meet
ings at The Hague, and number of
grand opera stars.
The U. S. super-dreadnaught Mary
land is soon to go in commission. This
huge ship will have a displacement of
| 80 haQ TONS rln Marylnud is nlnctric.