The Ordway new era., 1920-12-31
FOREIGN

liullun government IoEt'S nave ts-
tablished close blockade OF Fiume by
land and sea.
\ serious labor riot occurred recent
ly in Petrograd in which many persons
were killed or injured. The riot was
crushed and 1O5 Iaborers were e1-
ecuted.
The number of persons dead and in
jured In Argentine's earthquake disas-
Ter is now estimated at more than 100.
This figure is based on reports from
relief parties in the affected zonc.
First reports from the general cleo
tions held in Spain indicate govern
ment victory. Unofficial estimates
are that the majority for the Monarch
list parties will be large one.
Two firemen were killed and four
Injured in fire which destroyed the
Star thenter at st. Johns, n. +. One of
the walls collapsed, burying the six
men. The loss was placed mt $4,000.
The Irish home rule bill, as slightly
modified by the House of Lords. has
been adopted by the House of Com
mons In London. The measure now
needs only the royal signature to be
come law.
Japan's population, as revealed by
the census recently completed, is more
than a million under the estimate. The
total number of persons in the empire
rs T7,005,000, of which J5,960O00 are
in Japan and 1T,2Si0O0 in Korea.
Official cognizance has been taken
by the State Department of the action
of the British embassy in writing di-
rectly to Chairman Kellogg of the Sen
ate committee investigating cable com
municntlons, denying testimony of wit
nesses that the British authorities i'm
posed censorship on cable messages
coming TO the United States from
Great Britain.
Payment by Germany of 100000, 900
900 marks in gold remains the basis
upon which experts and delegates to
the second financial conference, In ses-
sion at Brussels, are working This
amount, although far below what was
authorized by the treaty of Versailles
is considered by them colectable only
on condition that Germany Is helped
along the lines suggested by the Ger
man delegates.
GENERAL
-Four men are known TO be dead as
n result of an explosion in No. > pack
ing mill of the DUPONT Powder Works
at Mooslc, seven miles from Ccranton,
Pa.
Carrying S14,0O0,O00 less than was
appropriated for this year. the annual
pension bill was reported out by the
House appropriations committee. The
total of the bill is S265,5O0,000.
Twenty-Five individual plumbers and
twenty-seven plumbing firms, members
of the Master Plumbers Association,
were charged in II blanket Indictment
reported to Justice McAvoy in New
York with violation of the antitrust
law.
A woman with $4,000 in bank notes
bound to her thigh by a handkerchief
was found dead of gas poisoning in n
room on East Twelfth street in New
York. a note with the money read: '.If
anything happens to me, this money
belongs to Nj. Bolaton & Son, Sharon,
Pa"
Losses to the American Railway Ex-
press Company through banditry and
wholesale thievery throughout the
United States for 1920 will total ap-
proximately S24,OOOOOO, according TO
Cassius NJ. Day, head of the Denver
and mountain branch of the organiza-
ton.
Capt. william A. Moffett, formerly
commandant of the Great Lakes train
ing station and later commander of
the battleship Mississippi of the Pa
cific fleet, has been appointed director
of naval aviation, it has been an
nounced by Secretary Daniels. Cap
tain Moffett succeeds Capt. Thomas
Craven, who will be sent TO sea, prob
ably In command of battleship.
The entire plant and apparatus of
the Stegmaler Brewing Company, the
largest in Luzerne county, Pennsylva-
mia, were seized by the United States
government for alleged violation of the
Volstead prohibition act. 1t was the
first brewery taken over by the rev
enue authorities in the state of Penn
sylvania.
For an indefinite period, employees
of the Newbern Iron Works and Sup
ply Company, one of the largest plants
of Its kind in Eastern North Carolina
are to receive all profits made by the
concern above cost of operation. This
agreement was reached between the
workers and the management follow
ing disagreement over 20 per cent
reduction in wages.
Criminal carelessness upon the part
of Capt. George ii. Hart, master OF
the United States steam launch Mar
garet, that sank in the Ohio river
was responsible for the tragedy, ac
| cordlng to the verdict returned nv the