Taiban Valley news., 1920-06-25
FOREIGN

umns.
The Polish army has evacuated Kiev
owing to the continued menacing ad-
vance of the Bolshevist army which
threatened to cut off the Polish line of
retreat.
Two hundred miners have been
killed by an explosion of fire damp in
the Yuhari coal mines at Sappero, on
the island of Yezo, according to dis
patches received at Toxic, Japan.
A has relief in memory of Edith Ca
veil, the English nurse who was exc
cuted by the Germans during their oc-
cupaton of Belgium, was unveiled at
Paris in the Tuilleries gardens. The
simple ceremony was presided over by
Andre Magnet, minister of pensions.
Losses estimated at 81 100000 were
caused by fire which destroyed the
plant of the Santiago Electric Light,
Railway and Power Company at Ha-
vana, according to dispatch from
that city. Virtually all the rolling
stock ana electrical supplies of the
company were burned.
w. A. Reimert, American missionary
of the Reformed church at Yo Chow,
Human province, was shot and killed
when forces under Gen. Ching Chin
Yao, governor of Human province, at
tackled the mission, according to relia-
BILE information reaching the American
consulate at HankOw, China.
An attempt to assassinate Arturo
Alessandri, presidential candidate of
the liberal alliance, occurred at Santi-
ago, Chile. Three shots were fired at
him but he was uninjured. He was
speaking from the balcony of his house
when the shots were fired His son,
rushing at the assailant, disturbed the
wOuld-be assassins aim.
Alarming confidential reports of an
intended uprising in India in the au-
tumn are reaching the government,
according to the STAR in London,
which says that Bolshevist literature
is known to be behind the movement.
The India office when questioned with
regard to the Star reports declared
that it had received no such informa-
ton
Heroic work by the officers and
crew of the American steamer West
Jester outside YokOhOma harhor re-
suited in saving. the Japanese steamer
Kiyo Maru, with seventy passengers
from South America on board, from
possible total destruction by FIRE, it
is announced in advices received from
Kobe, whittier the kiyo Maru was
bound.
GENERAL
Frank NJ. Silva of San Francisco has
been given Il recess appointment by
President Wilson TO be United States
attorney for the northern district of
California.
Canada, like Ireland, is going to
declare herself Independent of Great
Britain within a measurable period of
time" according to Lindsay Crawford,
editor of the Toronto New Statesman,
who spoke at the banquet in commem-
OratiOn of the battle of Bunker Hill at
the Jefferson Club in Boston.
The second largest bridge span ever
produced at Gary, Ind, requiring a
score of cars to transport, weighing
thousands of tons and 564 feet in
length, has been shipped by the Amer
lean Bridge Company to Fairmont,
Alaska. 1t will be reassembled- there
to bridge the Susitna river, connecting
Fairmont and Seward.
With the city councils 1920 budget
already overappropriated by $4,50O,-
600, new wage schedules of members
of union crafts employed by the city
have been presented to the finance
committee of Chicago. Increases asked
average 20 per cent above the present
pay, and if granted would add nearly
100000 to the budget. The commit
tee also considered the report of the
city wage arbitration commission rec
Ommending wage increases totaling
100000 for city employees.
Three national political conventions
will be held in Chicago the week of
July 10. The Single Tax party, through
Robert c. Macauley of Pennsylvania,
has issued call for it's convention.
The committee of Forty-eight and Ma
tional Labor party have already issued
their calls
The Public Utilities Commission at
Chicago has granted the Peoples Gas
Light and Coke Company an increase
to $1.15 per 1000 cubic feet for gas,
with minimum charge of 60 cents.
The present rate is. So cents. The or
der of the commission says II costs the
company 96.5 cents to make each 1000
feet of gas, and that the loss Of 11.5
per 1000 under the present rate
amounts to $4,000 per day.
Election of Officers, approval Of con-
dItions of gift of $2,000,000 to the
Lutheran synod for the care Of in
capacitated pastors and teachers and
plans for reorganized synodical finan-
ces wound up the convention Of the
Lutheran Laymen's League at Detroit.
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