, 1920-12-09


office marked the fourth time in the
republics history of ninety-nine years
that the executive power has been
transferred peacefully.
The people of Porto Rico, beneflting
from n wave of prosperity which over
spread the territory during the last fis-
cal year, were better fed and better
clothed than during any year in the
islands history, Arthur wager, terri
torial governor, declared in his annual
report recently made public.
An army of unemployed, more than
1000 strong, marched on the center of
Edmonton, a town of Middlesex, eight
miles from London, seized the town
hall as their headquarters, and raised
the Red flag. The jobless men and
women then presented a set Of de-
mands to the town councillors and pre-
vailed upon them to evacute the city
building.
NO less than an average of forty
persons a day were sentenced to death
by the Moscow revolutionary tribunals
and executed during September, ac-
cording to the official soviet organ
lsvestia. The same paper throws
light or the desperate fuel situation in
Moscow by stating that 5000 wooden
houses have been torn down in Mos
COW t%o>provide fuel for the people.
General Semenoff, leader of anti
Bolshevist forces along the frontier be-
tween Siberia and Mongolia, has ar
rived at V~ladivOstok under Japanese
escort. Dispatches from-that city state
he has gone on board a japanese trans
port. General Semenoff's troops de-
feated by the BOlshevists recently, de
serted in such numbers that their lead
er gave up the struggle against the
soviet armies in that region.
increasing hostility toward Ameri-
cans and American relief interests is
being shown by the Turkish national
lists, says n letter from Henry Riggs,
director for the Near East Relief at
kharput. He asserts the n%ationallsts
still refuse the Americans permission
to proceed to various places to carry
on their work and forbid the American
flag to be flown from American build
ings and automobiles.
The naval court of inquiry investi-
eating the actions of American marines
concluded its hearings in Haiti with
the examination of Lieutenant Colonel
Hooker of the gendarmerie, who testi-
fled to the belief that 1000 peaceful
Haitiens had been killed by bandits in
the last few years. He declared that
from Ma rob 1910 70 nntnhnr 1910
large farming and settlement areas
were completely wiped out by bandits.
GENERAL
The liner, Celtic, bearing to America
Mrs. Mnriel MacSwiney, widow of the
mayor of Cork, who died on hunger
strike in an English prison, has ar
rived in New York.
Six masked bandits held up the
Ridgeyille State Bank at Muncie, Ind,
imprisoned the cashier and several en-
ployes in the vault and escaped with
three sacks of money and a quantity
of Liberty bonds. The bandits OBJ
tanned $4,000 in an undetermined
amount of Liberty bonds and securities
according to bank officials.
C. Il. Troyer of La Fontaine, Ind,
was named the national corn king
at the Hay and Grain show In connec-
ton with the International Livestock
exposition at Chicago. Peter Lux, also
of Indiana was last years king" Mr..
T%royer's ten winning ears of corn were
gathered from a seventeen-acre field
that yielded 100 bushels to the acre.
A golden casket, presented by the
city of Baltimore to Charles NJ.
Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, has been stolen from his
New York mansion on Riverside drive,
Schwab declared. Schwab discovered
the golden casket was missing when he
read an article in a New York news
paper stating that such a box had been
sold in Germany by u sailor.
Senator Harding has declined Presi-
dent Wilson's offer to place the presi-
Dental yacht Mayflower at his dis
posal on his arrival at Norfolk to
carry the p~resident-elect to Washing
ton. 1t was necessary, the senator
said In n radio message to Secretary
Daniels, who transmitted the offer to
the steamer Pastores, that he should
make the trip by rail.
Brownie of Linwood, 4~-year-old
Guernsey cow owned by the Corlum
farm, near Fond du Lac, Wis, has
completed n years official test with
"A record of producing s31.07 pounds of
butterfat, the equivalent of 1,03S
pounds of butter. This record is be-
lieved to rank her first in Wisconsin
among Guernseys of her age and sec
ond in the United States.
Renewed violence has been reported
from several points in the Mlngo coun-
ty coal strike zone and nearby, TO mil
itary authorities and to the offices of
fhn Cnn1 Onnrn fnrs, AcanclniInn Of WI