, 1920-04-22
FOREIGN.

aiNG, al uSSOl udHCe WIFI llb lcEniC
Of the Versailles treaty, have begun
recently.
An expert valuation of the jewels
of, the late Gaby Deslys, the dancer,
has just been completed, says the Pc
tit Parisien. The value was placed at
100000 francs.
1t is reported that the Russians have
blow up tunnels on the railway north
of Vladivostok, and hat a Russian
garrison of 5000 men at NikOlsk is
expected to clash with the Japanese
troops.
One German battleship and six tor
pedo boats, allocated to France under
the peace treaty, have left Kiel to be
delivered to the French government.
The battleships Oldenburg and Posen
will be delivered April % at Rosythe,
Scotland.
Twelve hundred horses, 1000 cattle,
10000 sheep and 1000 goats have been
received by France from Germany in
PREPARATION o stock taken by Germans
during their occupation of northern
France. The stock has been distrib-
uted to farmers.
The new republic of Sonora" only
a few days old, has a fully armed sol
diery of more than 10000 men pre-
pared to resist any invasion of the
state by troops of President Carranza
of Mexico, according to the statement
of Sonora officials at Nogales.
A pronounced victory for the Poles
pvnr tho pnIchnuiSt- an tLD ea,tbnaet
ern front has been reported by the
general staff. After several days
fighting a Bolshevist division was put
to flight and more than a score of
machine guns, with much booty, were
captured by the Poles.
H. Gulamu Rasul, adopted son of the
sultan of Sulu, is studying law in
Washington preparatory to assuming
his duties in the government of his
people. He is paying particular atten-
ton to international law and political
science. He is already governor of a
province in his country, and hopes
sOme day to be at the head of Moro
affairs.
GENERAL.
N. P. Bonte, reputed to be more
han 100 years old, is dead at Water
sonville, Calf. He fought for Dem
mark against Germany in 1S4S-1s5O, it
is said.
Three persons are known to have
been killed and a half dozen or more
injured, some seriously, in a cyclone
which swept portions of Union coun-
ty, North Carolina, according to re-
ports.
A band of robbers at Braintree,
Mass, killed Alessandro Barandelli, a
guard, probably fatally wounded Fred
erick P~armenter, paymaster for Slater
C Morrill, Company, and seized the
firms payroll amounting to $4,000.
Action of the Michigan Legislature
in r%atifying the national prohibition
amendment is final and cannot be
submitted to a referendum vote of the
people, the Supreme Court held in a
decision handed down at Lansing.
Governor Smith of New York has
notified John Block of counse for the
expelled Socialist members of the as
sembly, he had no power to call a spe-
cha election in the five assembly dis
tricts formerly represented by Social
list members.
Six hundred million dollars will be
needed by the railroads this year to
finance the purchase of new equip
ment, the Association of Railway Ex-
ecutives have announced. Presidents
of sixty-five railroads met at Chicago
to discuss division of the $780, OO,O 900
loan provided by the transportation
act.
Gabriel Shipley, lock tender on the
G. & o. canal near Hagerstown, Nd,
has received word from a Probate
Court in California hat he and his
five children are heirs to $7,O00,O0O
from an estate of $22,O0O,000 left by
a cousin, who went West in 1S49. A
sister, Mrs. Cyrus Davis Of Williams
port, also shares in the bequest.
A crowd numbering several thou.
sands, while watching aviators do
stunts in the air at Newark, n. j..
saw a plane dive straight down from
a height of 5000 feet, killing its pas
senger, Clarence %Stapleton, and inflict-
ing mcrtal injuries upon the federal
aerial mail pilot, Fred w. Robinson.
Tenants in one Chicago apartment
building set their own rent by order
OF Judge X. NJ. Lands. The tenants,
paying $50 a month, complained that
their landlord, John T. Lewis, had
raised the rentals to 800 and 800.
Judge Lands ordered the receiver to
execute leases at a price to be set by
the tenants and the latter named $62. 30
as the amount they were willing to
pay.
Leading temperance societies of the
country will make every effort to have
the present Congress pass a law with