The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-10-08
NEWS OF THE
WORLD in BRIEF

| japanese railways aie 70 use cleo
tricity instead of steam.
Tolls collected on the Panama Canal
| earring the fiscal year ending June
100000 immigrants arrived In the
vi I'd States III
| ninety yearrold counterfeiter has
/ 30. given Jail sentence of one year
! Al Sln Francisco,
J,rcob H Schiff widely known bank
y K d philanthropists died at his home
II lew York Sept. 25.
a emier Alexandra Millerand was
cSGsen to succeed former President
DSS hanel as President Of France
William A. Ketcham, OF Indiana
polls, has been elected commander in
chef of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public,
de second World Brotherhood Con-
gross will convene in Washington; d,
81 October for a 1--WE days session.
a carry your lunch campaign TO
10: ce a cut in the prices of food charg-
ed by restaurants has been started In
Chicago.
Three fthe Ave Socialists elected
to the New York Legislature have been
barred, and the other two have resign
ed.
The fourth annual roll call OF the
American Red Cross Ii TO begin on
Armistice Day. November IL, andS end
Thanksgiving Day.
The United States has led the way
In the establishment OF juvenile courts
and many foreign countries are now
establishing such courts.
The National Coal Association has
declared that all wants of the coal
consumers. big and little, viii be ade-
quately met before winter sets in.
Thirty-siN Rhodes scholars sailed
from New York on the Aquitania Sept.
y. They will so to the various COL
leges at oxford and remain three
years. ~*,t&
Government loans of $50; O00. 900 To
the railroads have been approved by
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
and certified TO the Treasury in the
past seven months,
Jewels belonging to the Romanofrs.
hapsburgs. and Hohenzollerns, depos-
tied for safety in Swiss banks, are said
TO be worth four hundred and thirty
Ave million dollars.
Governor Cox's presidential cam
paign train was wrecked near Phoenix,
Ariz Sept 81 The engineer suffered
n broken leg, the most serious injury
sustained in the wreck.
The International Financial Congress-
comprising one hundred delegates and
nummerees assisting sea!e= O: experts
and secretaries from forty nations, met
Y Brussels Sept. "a
The Panhandle State, the first amer
lean built manned, and registered
trans Atlantic liner to sail from an
American port In generation. has
sailed from New York for England.
The International Committee OF the
Y. NJ c. A.. together with the sccre-
taries. at conference In Atlantic City
last week launched drive TO increase
the membership TO one million,
The largest amount paid into the
United States Treasury In one day
since the collection OF the third install
ment OF income and excess profit taxes
closed on Sept. Is was s17o.66s.ooO.
The ninth session OF the Council OF
the League of Nations has adjourned
TO Paris. after having Slaughtered Out
the difficulties between Poland and
Lithunia and between Sweden and
Finland.
Six thousand bodies OF American
soldiers who died abroad have been
sent back home. This Includes men
buried in England. Scotland, Italy and
France. Work In the cemeteries at
the front has just begun.
Chinese In the famine stricken prov
ince OF Shantung are said to be poiB-
oning whole families to avoid slow
death by starvation. A hundred mill
lion dollars is needed to save the peo-
pie in the starvation districts OF China
President Wilson has declined to
take steps toward terminating certain
commercial treaties as directed by
Congress in the Merchant Marine Act,
holding that such course would be
wholly irreconcilable with the histori-
cal respect which the United States
has shown for international engage
ments."
The farthest cast, west, north, and
south points OF the United States main
land. as recently determined by the
Geological Survey. are: East, West
McQuod tidy Head, near PASSPORT, Me-;
west, Cape Alva Washington; north, a
small detached land area in Northern
Michigan; south, Cape Sable, Fla.
Approximately s4OO,oOoooo worth OF
property seized from Germans and
Austrians whe nthe United States en-
tered the war Is still held by Alien
Property Custodian Carney, The flu
ture disposition Of the property is one
of the problems that will confront the