The Ordway new era., 1920-10-29
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THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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w. E. Vanderbrake. druggist OF
Rock Valley, Iowa, was murdered In
his store. A man, believed to be his
slayer, was seen TO run from the store
after the shooting
Five firemen were burned by explod-
ing paint and turpentine and property
valued at 100000 was destroyed when
fire wrecked the plant of the Texas
Wheel and Body Company at Dallas,
Texas.
Angered because Miss Rosallnd 1.
Reynolds, school teacher in Chicago,
had reprimanded her son, Mrs. Car
mia Rindoni visited the school and
shot the teacher twice. She will re-
cover. Mrs. Rindoni was arrested.
A telephone conversation, over 4,1OO
miles of wire and wireless, establish
ing what was said TO be worlds
record, was held between Avalon,
Santa Catalina Island, thirty miles off
Los Angeles harbor, and the steamer
Gloucester, 200 miles off Philadelphia,
according to statements made at Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Covington, CT, is
dead at Ogden, Utah, the result, physl-
clans sny, of shock sustained when she
found her son lying in a pool of blood
from self-lnflicted wound. The
mother became unconscious a few min
utes after she found her son dying,
her death taking place few hours
after her sons.
Charles Rowan, under indictment for
fraudulent use of the mails at Mil
waukee, in an alleged "get-rich-quick"
scheme, in which he advertised that
fortunes could be made in deals
through him in guinea pigs and rab,
bits, was refused bail of $4,000 by
United States Judge +. L. Geiger,
when he rendered the amount in cur
rency.
Fearing to leave any question as to
the citizenship of their expected child,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Byam came
from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Omaha,
and little Jocann first blinked her
eyes in an American hospital in that
city. Mr.. Byam is manager of the
Morris Packing Company plant in
Uruguay and accompanied his wife on
Inc S,OOO-mile "TRIP.
The twenty-five-cent haircut has re-
appeared at Los Angeles. 1t has been
absent for some time, while those
costing 80 and so cents took its place.
Its temperance was noted only in n
few of those shops which had been
charging higher prices, but there it
was predicted 1t soon would become
general again. With 1t reappeared
the fifteen-cent shave.
WASHINGTON
Attorney General Palmer has ap
pealed to the bituminous coal oper
ators of the country to reduce prices
and conference of the 1000 oper
ators of the country to consider the re
quirements has been called to be held
at Cleveland, Ohio.
Members of the National Woman's
party will hold their annual conven
tion in Washington, beginning Feb. 10
and continuing six days. Miss Alice
Paul, national chairman, announced
Approximately 500 delegates will b'
called, the statement said.
Approval of n proposal to organic,
S100,000,000 corporation to financ,
the nations foreign trade was giver
by the American Bankers Association
in convention at Washington.
Brig. Gen. John Biddle will be re
tired at his own request on Dec. /
when he will have served forty-thre,
years in the army and be eligible fol
retirement, the War Department an
nounced at Washington.
The self-propelllng steel barge Birm
ingham has been accepted by the gov
eminent representatives following
trial trip and will leave on its frs
trip in the st. Louis-New Orleans
service. The vessel is of 1000 ton
capacity.
The United States, according to ta!
returns, spent S22,7OO,OOo,0OO in 1911
on luxuries. Eight hundred milliol
dollars went up in cigarette smoke
Cigars burned up S510,000,000. Jewelr,
cost S5OO,0OO,00O. A round billion dol
lars disappeared down the Great Amer
lean aesophagus In the form of candy
Pianos, organs and monographs enter
.ained the people to the tune of $3.50,
100000. Automobiles cost 100000,
300.
Issuance of treasury certificates OF
Indebtedness to the amount of at leas
S250,00O for the purpose of facilitating
loans to farmers was advocated to
day by George z. Hampton, managing
director of the Farmers National
Council, who said he had written tc
President Wilson seeking his co-opera-
tion.
Sweeping investigation of the con
duct of marines In Haiti. with refer
ence to charges of Illegal killings, is
ordered in Secretary Daniels precept