The Ordway new era., 1920-10-01
FOREIGN

ing.
Representatives of italian employers
and the striking workmen who have
seized the factories have accepted Pre-
micr Giolitti's offer of mediation, It is
stated In advices from Rome
Three persons were killed and six
injured in an explosion in the Ionfolo
powder factory at Mantau, says Rome
dispatch The explosion, which dam
aged several houses, is believed to have
been caused by parties unidentified.
An official report issued at Dublin
castle shows that the attack on a mo-
tor lorry containing six policemen
near La Hinch was more serious than
announced. Six constables were killed,
while soldiers assert they saw four Of
their assailants drop.
The Poles have reached Zbrucz river
along the entire line, according to
Tuesdays official communication, and
Ukrainian troops have crossed the
river In the Pruzana region prison
ers taken number 2,2J0. The communi-
cation adds that cavalry has occupied
Oysterog, Bubrin and Derazono.
France will pay every dollar of the
S25000O,000 loan due in New York
October 18th, NJ. Francois Marshal,
minister of finance, officially an
nounced to the cabinet council at Par
is. This sum is Frances share of the
$500, 100000 Anglo French loan floated
in the United States during the war.
The suggestion accredited to Pro-
visional President de In Huerta of
Mexico that dry zone be estab-
llshed in Mexico within sixty-five
miles of the United States border will
be discussed at an international con-
vention of the border chamber of
1t was stated on reliable authority
that the jewels belonging to the Ro-
manoffs, Hapsburgs and Hohenzol-
lerns, deposited for safety with Swiss
banks and private firms, are worth
fST, 100000, while the Jewels sold or
pawned in Switzerland since 1911 by
these families amounted to double this
sum.
Canada is settling its housing prob
lem by government action. The do
minlon government agreed to loan the
provinces $25,000,O00 at 3 per cent,
the loan to be repaid in twenty to
thirty years The provinces were en-
powered under certain simple condi-
tions carrying responsibility to lend
money to municipalities and munich
pnlities were empowered to lend money
to builders or to housing organiza-
tions, which are forbidden to pay divi-
dendn in excess of six per cent.
GENERAL
The Supreme Court of Maine has
required to tell her age in order to
qualify as voter.
Department of justice agents and
the police are still without a definite
clew to the identity of the persons re-
sponsible for explosion in Wall street.
]. Milton Smith, as counsel for
James O'Brlen of Mount Vernon, has
filed n suit for $4,000 against the
city of New York for injuries received
in the Wall street bomb explosion.
Manager ]. NJ. Winn announced at
Lexington, KY, that the Kentucky
Jockey Club would offer $4,000 and
a gold cup valued at 5000 for a race
to be run in Kentucky this fall be-
tween Man o. War, Sir Barton and
Exterminator.
Jail for not less than six months
nor for more than one year will be
the penalty for landlords who refuse
to rent apartments to families with
children, under bill introduced In the
assembly by Assemblyman o. ]. Smith
of New York.
Substitution of metal for wood in
making shipping cases would increase
the annual output of newsprint 4,00O,-
900 pounds. Il. w. Morgan of the
Pneumatic Scales Corporation declared
in an address before the American In
stitute of Chemical Engineers in New
York
Charged with shipping more than
100000 worth of automobiles stolen
in Detroit thru eastern ports to Scan
dinavian countries, six Detroit per-
sons, one of them woman, have been
arrested at Detroit, and are being held
by federal authorities under the Dyer
Interstate automobile theft act.
held under guard.
A million-dollar endowment fund for
an institution where, speakers said,
the worlds most scientific bakers
would be developed was started by
the American Association of the Bak-
ing Industry in annual convention at
Atlantic City. More than 100000 was
pledged. Cheaper, better bread" will
be the slogan on which the institution
Will be founded, it was announced.
All this talk about the horse becom-
ing extinct because of the universal
use of automobiles is idle gossip, ac-
cordIng to the delegates who assem-