The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-07-02
NEWS OF THE
WORLD in BRIEF

Pensacola. Fla, reports two cases OF
bubonic plague.
The Chicago census shows popula-
ton OF 2.701.2l..
Santiago ccuba) has just suffered a
million-dolla fire
Belgium ana France have formed a
defensive alliance.
The Allies have placed a limited con-
troll over, ConstantinoPle.
Los Angeles, Cal. suffered a slight
earthquake June IS. No damage was
done.
women are to submit fifteen planks
to be included in the Democratic plat
form.
The mint at Washington has pur-
chased 100000 ounces of silver at 81
an ounce
Fiairies OF snow. melting as it fell.
ended the heat wave at Omaha, Nebr.,
last week.
The czecho- Solvak government has
sold 100000 pounds OF sugar to the
United States.
Approximately $1,000. 100000 was APP
propriated by the Si1ty-Sixth Con-
gress ending June 5.
France has prohibited the importa-
ton of artificial teeth upon the ground
that they are Injuries
A contract to widen and deepen the
ancient Grand Canal Of China has been
let to an American firm.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies
has adopted a measure permitting wo-
men to be elected 10 Parliament
President Wilson says the League of
Nations is to be the dominant issue in
the Forthcoming campaign.
Six million pounds of butter have
been imported to this country from
Deumark in the past three months
Members of the royal family were
notified on June is that the former
Kaiserin was critically i'll in Ameron-'
zen.
Expenditures by the Federal govern
ment during the eleven months ending
May g. last amounted to s2O,775,5S5'-
B5S.
The Bank of England is to be rebuilt.
A more cOmmodious structure Is TO re-
place the -Old Lady of Threadneedle
Street"
The water power development bill.
ten years in the making. was signed
by President Wilson previous to June
IL and is now law.
A monument in honor of Col. John
S. Mosby. famous Confederate raider.
was unveiled June 10 in the courthouse
yard al warrenton. Va
Three negroes were lynched at Du-
Iuth, Mimi, June Is. The negroes were.
being held in connection with an at
tack on young white girl
More than one hundred thousand
marcel post packages sent soldiers in
France have been found lying in
French ports undelivered.
From the time the bubonic plague
appeared in Vera Cruz. April II, to
June Is there were thirty-two cases
reported. with twenty-five fatalities.
Police Inspector Dominick Henry
has been sentenced from two 10 nye
Years at hard labor for perjury in
connection with New York's vice war.
Princess Elizabeth. eldest daughter
Of the King and Queen of Roumania,
is to wed Prinse George of Sparta,
brother of King Alexander of Greece
Germany has asked the Supreme
Council for further delay of three
months for the reduction of the Ger
man army to one hundred thousand
The 1919 American wheat crop was
produced at an average cost to the
grower of S215 a bushel. according 10
The Department of Agriculture.
I. The American Federation OF Labor.
at its fortieth convention in Montreal
last week, reelected Samuel Gompers
for the thirty ninth time as its presi-
dent
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of ex-
President and Mrs William H. Taft, is
TO be married July Is TO Frederick j.
Manning at the Taft summer home in
Montana.
Detroit, Mich, with a population OF
se3. 739, is the fourth largest city in
the United States. Its population in
creased 1884 per cent during the past
ten years.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow on
June 1e declared the Afghan troops
were concentrating on the Indian-Af-
CHAN frontier in order TO attack the
British IN India.
The first organization meeting of the
consortium for China. consisting OF
British. French. Japanese, and Ameri-