The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-23


 fire at the corner of Boston avenue and Sheridan street. The National Coal association has predicted that there will be plenty of coal for the country's needs this win ter.
 American Anti-Japanese legislation and racial equality will be put up to the League of Nations by Japan. Feeling in Japan is growing more acute each day. according to reports Fiossa Ffori, an Italian Socialis. leader has instituted a hunger strike. in imitation of the Irish hunger strikers. Fiori, who is now in jail has refused food for ~the past eight days
 Premier Millerand has no opposi- ton in his candidacy for the presi. Parliament in full assembly cast 1 overwhelming votes in favor of the premier. Leon Bourgeois and Raoul Peret, are unwilling candidates, their names have been put forward de- spite their opposition. Aaron s. Watkins, prohibition can | dldate for president, has announced | that he will withdraw from the race I on condition that dry pledge can | be obtained from either Harding or | Cox.
 l The three Socialists just busted for | the second time from the New York 1 state assembly, have started a. new i fight to regain their seats on the | grounds that the custer waseil1ega1 in | that they had not yet received their certificates of election when they were sworn in as members for the second ] time.
 Irish residents of Balbriggan are l creeping back to their homes after | having spent two nights sleeping in l the fields, where they fled before the
 terror spread by the British raid on that city. Press despatches say that
 the principal industry of the city, the
 hosiery mills, have been ruined. the
 damage amounting to a million dol
 lars.
 l France has already shipped $15o,-
 00O,O0O in gold to the United States 1 and announces that she will pay every
 dollar of the $250,000.0OO due the
 United States, her share of tn Anglo
 French loan fioated during the war
 and due on Oct. IS.
 Edward E. Stowell. a prominent at I torney of New York city, died of ap-
 poplexy while swimming yesterday
 afternoon in the pool at the Univer- . sity club in that city. President Wilson's activities in the political campaign will be confined to the White House, according to latest
 announcements. The president will
 confine himself to making a few
 speeches
 A one-third cut in the price of cot
 ton was announced yesterday by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, of Manchester, N. H. Heavy can- cellation of cotton orders throughout
 the country is given as the reason for tn0 rod Jvrr rn-fo ,t Governor Cox's special train was wrecked yesterday near Peoria, Ariz
 Spreading rails has been given as the
 cause of the accident. No one in the : governors party was injured.
 Italian workers have refused to va. cate the factories which they recently seized in the larger cities. The work , men demand pay for the period ir which they were idle. County Councillor Lynch a promi- } netn Limerick Sim Feiner was sho and killed by soldiers in a hotel ir , that Lynch attempted to resist arrest
 Old H. c. of l.. has received z
 knockout in Pittsburgh, Pa, wher'
 the Allegheney County Fair Pric, Committee has conducted a vigorou.
 campaign against exorbitant price Q being charged by the local hotels ant
 restaurants.
 tj A 50-50 division of the family If = quors is made by the agreement filled l in Brooklyn divorce courts by Mrs . Ella Guthrie Willard who sues he
 husband, Eugene Sands Willard, Q prominent lawyer and real estate maj 6 of that city. n In the recent state primaries fl r Massachusetts, the official recoun if shows that Ponzi of frenzied financ ,- fame, received two votes for stat d