Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-06-11
FOREIGN.

village of Acliupayas. in the province
Of ChImborazo. Fourteen bodies have
been unearthed. Many persons were
| injured.
Albanian insurgents have annibilated
nm Italian battalion near Alessio and
Italian warships have sheIled that city
according to Vienna dispatch TO the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
Gen. Candido Aguilar. governor Of
Vera Cruz and son-in-law Of the late
President Carlanza, has surrendered to
the new government and will he al
lowed to leave the country.
Clifton Crawford, internationally
known actor, was found dead In Lon
don IN AN areaway of the hotel at
which he was stopping, having fallen
five stories from the window of his
room.
Virtually all Of 800 steers aboard the
American steamer st. Charles were
drowned and devoured by si,arks which
lnfest the waters off Moro castle, when
the anlmnis stampeded and plunged
overheard.
Marshal FOch WIS slightly injured
when his automobile collided with
taxicab In Paris. His injury consists
of cuts about the face from glass. The
driver and occupant of the tnxicab
also were injured.
Preparations are being made both by
the government and the municipality
TO receive in few days several hun
dred delegates from the whole world
who will meet at Genoa for the inter
The American delegates will be pres
ent only as observers.
The aeroplane Goliath. plloted by
Lieutenants Bossoutrot and Bernard,
broke the world record for continuous
flight at Paris, being forced to discon-
tinue only after il had remained in the
air twenty-four hours nineteen minutes
and seven seconds, covering a distance
of 1915 l-5 kilometers.
Resht, an important city in Persia,
sixteen miles southeast of Enzcli, the
most important Caspian seaport OF
that country, and about $50 miles
northwest of Teheran, has been occu.
Ditu ny huSSluH iDblSlltNlSt tfOoDS, H.
cording to advices received by the Per-
sian legation at Constantinople.
1t is reported that the Turks cap
tured BOzanti, north of AdiDa, taking
prisoners In large numbers. Turks are
not free to turn their entire strength
In that area against Adina, Tnrsus and
Mersina, but say they do not want To
take these towns lest they incur The
III will of the British and Americans.
Applause from a large audience re-
sounded in the little theater of Ser
bruck, near Geneva, while gigantic
python slowly crushed its trainer, II
Hungarian girl. 10 death. The girl
shreked for help as the coils OF the
serpent closed about her, but the audi
ence believed her cries were part of
the entertainment and cheered loudly
King George V. of England has won
verdict for So, ,575 in the Supreme
Court in II suit against Ernest Harrah,
a broker The king sued for ST., 900
on contract for 250O0 tons of scrap
steel for delivery 10 Italy The con
tract was made through j. +. Morgan
4 Co. The defense was a counter
claim The trouble arose over the
reports of inspectors and alleged de-
lays in delivery.
GENERAL.
New York City had a population of
5,62l, ,151 on January md, an increase
of S54,26S, or 17.9 per cent over 1910,
the census bureau has announced.
Five persons were killed and more
than 100 injured in an explosion ut the
plant Of the Mason Tire Bne Rubber
Company at Kent, twelve % e.
Akron, Ohio.
Five persons We're killed n uraI
Rapids, Mich, when an interurban
train struck an automobile In which
they were riding. The dead: John b.
Polzin, his wife and two children,
Joseph, 10, Agnes, 6, and Uric Host,
| IS, u neighbor's sou.
The John A. Roberts Corporation Of
Utica, dealers in wearing apparel, was
fined $4,000 by Federal Judge Har-
of profiteering on eleven counts ut
Syracuse, N. Y.
Sleeping sickness" cnused the death
of Mdshipman Clinton Hodges of Tu-
lare, Calf, member of the third class,
at the naval hospital ut Annapolis,
Md. He had been i'll about a week
This is the first fatality from the dis
ease that ever occurred there.
The 7,500-ton cargo carrier Gold
star. named in honor of the American
mothers whose sons were killed in the
world war, was launched at Whining
ton, Del, by the Bethlehem Shipbuild-
ing Corporation. The sponsor was
Mrs ]. NJ. Gallagher of Wayne, gold
star" mother.
Flo Lewis, a dancer in "Tick-Tnck-
o rnucipol cap,aIy IN proot,y