, 1920-10-07
FOREIGN

n dispatch from Rome.
Wireless communication between
Buenos Aires and Nauen, Germany,
was inaugurated with the transmission
of n message from Nauen salutlng
President Irigoyen.
Countess Buyermineure, formerly
Miss Daisy Polk of California, was
made a member of the French Legion
of Honor at Paris. The countess was
recognized because of her work during
the war.
Capt. R. w. Schroeder of McCook
field, holder of the world altitude
record, will retire from the air serv-
ice as soon as he returns from
France. where he flew in the Gordon
Bennett race.
A violent earthquake is reported to
have occurred in Giarre, Sicily, at the
base of Mount Etna, according to .
Rome dispatch. The quake lasted ter
seconds. One village was destroyed
and many persons We're injured.
Mrs. Sarah Jackson, found guilty of
murder in the first degree for shooting
her husband on their homestead at
Swan river, Alberta, on Christmas
night, 1919, has beer sentenced to be
hanged on December Dist. This is the
first woman eve sentenced to death In
Alberta province.
The yearly production by paper milln
turnout Japan is roughly given as 1885,
700 tons, of which $4,000 tons are used
for newspaper printing, $4,000 tons by
the government monopoly bureau for
cigarettes, 100000 tons for the printing
of school te1 tbooks, and 10000 tons for
the printing of magazines.
Two thousand peasants took part in
the seizure Of royal estates near
Naples. AS they marched toward the
kings property they carried shotguns
and sang the 'workmen's hymn" The
property seized was called the Gar
diello" and was one of the largest be-
longing to the royal house.
Twenty-Five persons were killed in
rioting at Gensan, Korea, when Korean
students attacked and destroyed or
damaged branches of the Korean In
dustrial bank and the Oriental Devel-
opment company and seven Japanese
houses. The following night there was
further shooting with additional cas-
Slow moving landslldes covering con-
territory are doing consider
able damage in the Sanding Alps of
Austria. The entire mountain
surface apparently is settling into the
valley. Many huts have been
destroyed and hamlets, forests and
are moving bodily, accompanied
by tremendous noises.
In order to make h~oarders of gold
bring them in to the treasury, the
finance minister has announced
that when gold coinage is resumed
those which were in circulation before
the war will not be recognized. The
announcement, the legality of which is
contested, has given the French gold
louis a new value In the eyes of col
~lectors.
GENERAL
Former U. s. Senator w. Murray
Crane, who has been seriously Ill for
several weeks. died suddenly at his
home in Dalton, Mass.
Four armed robbers escaped with
$4,000 after holding up the cashier
and bookkeeper of the American
Cigar Company In New York.
Twenty-Five hotel owners in Chicago
agreed to cut their restaurant
prices from % to 33 1-3 per cent.
Vegetables, fruits and cereals will be
cut the most.
The largest shipment of gold-S16,-
750,000-ever transported across the
Atlantic, was brought to New York on
the White Star liner Baltic. which left
Liverpool September 22nd.
A bill appropriating 100000 0 for
the construction of n thousand-bed hos
pital for the care of the states World
Wal veterans who have become men
tally disabled. has been signed by Gov
ernor Smith of New York.
The Santa Fe railroad handled q
by per cent more business in the first
eight months of this year, represented
by carloads, than 1t did In the CORE
spending period last year and 11.2 per
cent more than for the same period in
1918, according to n bulletin Just is
sued by the railroads general office ut
Topeka, Kan.
Japanese troops are 10 be withdrawn
from Nikolaievsk this winter, Minister
of War Tanaka has informed the gov
errors of the empire. This, however,
does not necessarily mean n permanent
evacuation, he added, He explained
that insufficient preparations had beer
made to winter the troops, but that
such arrangements probably would be
completed by the succeeding winter.
Babe Ruth. worlds champion
home-run hitter. on his way to
Springfield in n new roadster, col
with a truck in Meriden. Conn.
He laudad In a ffaId ,yfth hl. o.r