, 1920-09-02
FOREIGN

legged persecution of Catholics has just
been adopted by the Leitrim county
council.
Ten million pesos of the 1000, 900
carried off during the flight OF Car
rama from Mexico City, have been re-
covered, according to IL statement by
the treasury department of Mexico.
Andreas Zorn, the Swedish painter,
died in Stockholm. He visited the
United States in 1911. He was a con
tributor to the fund to enable Swedish
scientists to pursue their studies in the
United States.
President Ebert in a proclamation is
sued at Berlin invited all the political
parties tQ submit Loyalty to disarma-
ment. The proclamation said severe
penalties would be inflicted in case of
failure to comply.
A municipal strike has been called
in Cardiff, Wales, according to dis
patches received at London. The Gene
terry workers are affected and the
families of those dying have had to dig
graves for their dead.
Fourteen oil workers were drowned
in the Panuco river at Tampico, Mex
leo, when the foreman at the whee
of n lighter on which they were travel
Ing made Il sudden maneuver to avoid
collision with another boat.
More than go separate forest fires
in the district south of the Campbell
river in British Columbia have been
reported within the past few days.
The still Water districts are said to
be a vast sea of flames.
Premier Lloyd George during his
conference with Premier Giolitti at
Lucerne promised Great Britain would
recognize the new free state of Fiume
as proposed by Gabrielle d'Annunzio,
says a Central News Dispatch from
Rome.
Gen. Eugenio Martinez, who re-
ceived he surrender of Francisco
Villas forces, has been appointed
chief of operations In the states of
Chihuahua and Durango and the La
guina region, it was announced at the
war department at Mexico City.
Due to war influences, ten European
nations engaged in the world war
show a potential loss in population of
3~5,320,OO0 persons since 1914, accord
ing to u statistical research conducted
by the Society for Studying the Social
Consequences of the War. Causes of
he abnormal falling off in population
were attributed as follows: Killed in
war, 9,S19,000; deaths due to augmen-
tation of mortality, economic block
AIDES, war e%pidemics, 5,3O1, 900; fall in
birth rate due to mobilization of &C.
100000 men between 20 and 40 years
of age, 2O,2OO,OOO.
GENERAL
The Pennsylvania state highway de-
partment is erecting standard scales
at various points along the main high
ways for testing overweights of trucks.
Leslie Allen, a negro, was shot and
killed near Virgilina, Va, by a posse
of Halifax county citizens, following
charges that Allen had insulted two
small white girls at Buffalo Springs,
Va.
Marshal Foch will visit the United
tpihtNS Wiitl tiC Ilu oDt9ll SltutlllOll
permits, he told Supreme Knight James
A.. F1aherty, in response to a formal in
v%itation, extended by Mr.. Flaherty at
n banquet at Metz.
Announcement OF a reward of $500
for the arrest of the man who has
fallen into the habit of holding up the
stage between CedarbroOk and Miami,
In tho n,n,ptaipe MAJ, Vo,o..E.- ~
tional Park, has been posted upon Or
ders of Governor Stephens of Califor-
mia.
Clarence COombs, alternate pilot of
the Texas Wildcat" one of three
American entries in the international
alrplane race, has sailed Ell route for
Paris to assist Roland Rohlfs, former
holder of the worlds altitude record, in
his attempt TO lift the Gordon Bennett
aviation cup.
Two thirsty burglars entered the
local church at Middleton. n. Y, and,
after opening the cupboard where the
sacramental wine is stored, drank
themselves to sleep. The exton found
them snoring on the altar steps.
The marquis of Blanford and Lord
Ivor Churchill have been left $1,000
600 each by their grandfather, William
X. Vanderbilt, 1t became known when
a summary of Mr.. Nanderbilt's will
vas made public. Both are sons of the
Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Con-
suelo Vanderbilt.
Announcement that the gunbOat Sac
ramento had been ordered to La Ceiba.
Honduras, ready to protect American
interests If necessary, revealed that of
ficials have been watching with grow
ing oncern revolutionary oveme
developing in several Central American
countries.
The fOur United States afrnlones