Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-18

All lAiC villages III llic 16p0IoIl us
trict, southern Albania, have been de-
stroyed by a violent earthquake, ac-
cording to an Avlona message Two
hundred persons are reported killed.
Domestic
A pearl necklace valued at $4,000
was the loot secured by a pickpocket,
presumably a woman, who jOstled Mrs.
Alice A Carpenter at counter in a
department store in Chicago.
Two persons were burned to death
and heavy property damage resulted
from a fire which destroyed a hotel
at Hamilton, Tex. The dead are w.
w. Trimble and Robert Nichols.
Fifty-nine mOtorcars were burned
when fire destroyed part of the Mid
land garage at Kansas City, Mo.
Emil Serdinglanz, an attorney, who
pleaded guilty of perjury, was SEN
fenced to one year at Waupun by Cir
cult Court Judge Grace at Kewaunee,
Wis
Robbers who smashed their way into
the vault of the First State bank of
Shamrock, Creek county, Oklahoma es-
capped with $1,000
A woman's torso was found in New
York bay, off Staten island. 1t was
taken to a morgue and a police inves
tigatiOn begun.
Five men were killed and seven in
jured in an explosion at the Atlas Pow
der company's plant on the west end
Of Lake Hopatcong, near Dover, n. J.
Reductions of wages for farm labor
of from % to so cents a day were put
into effect by the Valley Fruit Grow
ers' association, a large farmers or
ganization at Fresno, Cal
New low record prices were estab-
lished for refined sugar at New York.
The Federal Sugar Refining company
reduced it's list price another half cent
to the basis of 81 cents per pound
for fine graduated.
Ten midshipmen are held on the sta
ton ship, Reina Mercedes, at the An
napolis (Md) naval academy in
connection with alleged hazing, ac-
cOrding to Rear Admiral Scales, su-
perintendent of the institution.
Mrs. Harry Lamasky, aged thirty
five years, and her sister, Miss A.
Kaska, are dead as the result of burns
sustained in a fire that destroyed the
Lamasky farmhouse about five miles
south of Brighton, la.
on and went direct to President
elect Harding's home. Mr.. Hoover
gave the President-elect first-hand in
formation concerning economic condi-
lions il Europe.
Four persons were killed, four more
probably fatally injured and % in
jured less seriously when a Country
club street car ran wild on a hill at
me foot of Main street at Kansas
City, Mo-
The American Sugar Refining com
pany of New York announces a gen
eral reduction of 10 per cent in wages
which affects more than $500 labOrers
in its northern refneries, and is effec'
tive from December 6.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
candidate for vice president at the re-
cent election, conferred with Governor
Cox at the executive office in Colum
bus, O., for several hours. 1t was their
first meeting since election.
One of the first acts of the new adj
ministration will be to make peace
with Germany and repeal the war
time powers of the President, Senator
Lenroot of Wisconsin declared at New
York in an address.
The Bank of SandOval, ILL.,, filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy. IT
listed liabilities of $60,91O and as
sets aggregating SAT $3.50, against which
there is an incumbrance of $13,250.
George Bosko, confessed slayer OF
E. c. Parks and Will Hunter, was
hanged at the state prison at Canon
City, Colo.
Charles Miller, retired farmer
was killed when wagon load of wood
overturned, pinnng him beneath the