The Ordway new era., 1920-12-10
FOREIGN

Simple ceremony pl liklnS inc pdti VI
office marked the fourth time In the
republics history of ninety-nine years
that the executive power has been
transferred peacefully.
The people of Porto Rico, bcnefiting
from a wave OF prosperity which over
spread the territory during the last fis
cal year, were better fed and better
clothed than during any year in the
Islands history, Arthur wager, terri
torial governor, declared in his annual
report recently made public.
An army of unemployed. more than
1000 strong, marched on the center OF
Edmonton, II town of Mddlescx, eight
miles from London, seized the town
hall as their headquarters, and raised
the Red flag. The jobless men and
women then presented set of de-
mands to the town councillors and pre-
vailed upon them TO cyacute the city
building
No less than an average OF forty
persons day We're sentenced To death
by the Moscow revolutionary tribunals
and executed during September, ac-
cording to the official soviet organ
Isvestia. The same paper throws
light on the desperate fuel situation in
Moscow by stating that 5000 wooden
houses have been torn down in Mos
cow TO provide fuel for the people.
General Semenoff, leader of anti
Bolshevist forces along the frontier be
tween Siberia and Mongolia, has ar
riN f,t LInIfunGt.ly Ia,
escort. Dispatches from that city state
he has gone on board IL japanese trans
port. General Semenoffs troops de-
feated by the Bolshevists recently, de-
serted in such numbers that their lead
er gave up the struggle against the
soviet armies in that region.
Increasing hostility toward Ameri-
cans and American relief interests is
being shown by the Turkish nntional-
lists, says letter from Henry Riggs,
director for the Neur East Relief at
| Kharput. He asserts the nattonalists
still refuse the Americans permission
to proceed To various places 10 carry
on their work and forbid the American
/ flag to be flown from American build
Ings and automobiles.
The naval court of inquiry lnvcsti-
eating the actions of American marines
concluded its hearings in Haiti with
the examination of Lieutenant Colonel
Hooker of the gendarmcrie. who testi-
fled TO the belief that 1000 peaceful
| Haitiens had been killed by bandits in
the last few years. He declared that
from March, 1919, to October, 1918,
large farming and settlement areas
were completely wiped out by bandits.
GENERAL
The liner, Celtic, bearing TO America
Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, widow of the
mayor of Cork. who died on hunger
strike in an English prison, has ar
rived in New York.
Six masked bandits held up the
Ridgeville State Bank at Muncie. Ind,
Imprisoned the cashier and several en-
ployes in the vault and escaped with
three sacks of money and quantity
of Liberty bonds. The bandits OBJ
tanned $4,000 in an undetermined
amount of Liberty bonds and securities
according to bank officials.
| c. L. Troyer of La Fontaine, Ind,
was named the national "corn king
at the Hay and Grain show in connec-
tion with the International Livestock
exposition at Chicago. Peter Lux, also
of Indiana was last years king" Mr.
Troyer's ten winning ears of corn were
gathered from seventeen-acre field
that yielded 100 bushels to the acre.
A golden casket, presented by the
city of Baltimore TO Charles NJ
Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Stee
Corporation, has been stolen from hi.
New York mansion on Riverside drive
Schwab declared. Schwab discovered
the golden casket was missing when h,
read an article in New York news
paper stating that such n box had beer
sold in Germany by a sailor.
Senator Harding has declined Presi
dent Wilson's offer to place the presi
Dental yacht Mayflower ut his dis
posal on his arrival at Norfolk t,
carry the president-elect to Washing
ton. 1t was necessary, the senator
said in radio message TO Secretar.
Daniels, who transmitted the offer I,
, the steamer Pastores, that he shoul,
make the trip by rail.
Brownie of Linwood, 4-year-ol,
Guernsey COW owned by the Coriun
farm, near Fond du Lac. Wis, ha
completed years official test witt
a record of producing S31.0T pounds o
butterfat, the equivalents of LOB
pounds of butter. This record is be
lieved to rank her first in Wisconsin
among Guernseys of her age and sec
ond in the United States.
Renewed violence has been reporte,
from several points in the Mingo coun
u ty coal strike zone and nearby, to mil
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