The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-10-01
NEWS OF THE
WORLDN BRIEF

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Japan is TO take her first census be-
ginning October /.
Y The Poles and Lithuanians resumed
hghtingf last week near the German
kre.
iovernmental expenditures in Au-
Yet were s45o,oOo.00O lower than II,
July.
Roumania has ratified tho Versailles
treaty. being the twenty sixth nation
10 ratify.
II is estimated that fifty thousand
women voted in the election in Maine
recently,
Mexican Independence Day was cell
ebrated In Mexico with great ceremony
on September 16.
one child was killed and several in
jured in sham battle at Camp Meade
Sept II.
The Council OF the League OF Ma
lions held three days session In
Paris, beginning Sept. i6.
American railroads handled a great
or amount OF traffic during August
than ever before during that month.
Owing 20 a decrease In freight Offer
lngs. the Shipping Board has announce
cd the tying up OF seven steel vessels.
Approximately one million dollars
worth of oil and property was destroy
I'd by fire nj Tampico. Mexico. Sept II.
II IL estimated that Americans will
spend tb.000,000.000 for cigars, ciga-
.rettes, chewing tobacco and snuff this
year.
J. Tuberculosis is on the increase in
Japan. latest reports indicating the
atotal number at more than one million
olses
Colonel House OF New York, who
lsAe lust returned from Europe, is to
dlke an active part In the Democratic
campaign.
Tlina has levied an income tax effeG-
tiNo In January. This is the erst effort
inIfhnt direction 10 obtain funds disable
for Educational purposes.
~ i've Socialist assemblymen ex-
( ne!idd from the New York State Legis-
IatufN last spring on charges OF dis
lcyaity have been reelected.
Y Provisional President de Ia Huerta
d makIhg a tour OF Mexico for the
ton asl 70 the result OF his pacifcation
policy,
Federul agents working out OF Ashe-
VILE. N c.. have captured and de-
atroyed hso hundred and eighty dis
tiileries 0ttween January i6 and Sept
ember Is
the Cannectlcut Legislature last
week ratified the suffrage amendment.
Governed Holcomb, doubling the legal
ity Of tn ratification. refused 10 cer-
tify the pction.
Tho ANNUAL report Of the superinten-
dent OF Irnai Institutions In Washing
ton City fshows that crime Is rapidly
decreasi1g there under the reign OF
prohibition.
For the first time an automobile was
driven 1892 feet up the cog railroad
10 the summit OF Pixies Peak on Sep
TENDER 10, II took three hours and
I nifty AVE minutes
French radio officials announce that
the Lafayette wireless station at Bor-
deaux has established a world velocity
record Ia sending message circling
the globe In one-seyenth OF a second.
Gov. Alfred +. smith has been re-
nominated by the Democrats for gov
error OF New York. Nathan L. Miller.
former Judge OF the State Court OF
Appeals. is the Republican nominee
for governor.
Capt. James Cantrell Barlow. be-
Iieved TO have been the last OF the
commissioned officers under Gen. Ma
than Bedford Forrest died In Helena.
Ark, Sept. II. aged IS years.
A famous old mulberry tree In Lon
don. under which II is said that one
hundred and forty-four years ago the
American Declaration OF Independence
was first read in England, has fallen
under the weight Of its age,
More than seventy-hvc per cent OF
the narcotic drug addlcts In the Unit
cd Statea are boys and girls approx
mating sixteen years of age, according
to Chairman Weber. OF the Committee
on Narcotics and Crime OF the Ameri-
can Institute OF Criminal Law and
Criminology.
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