Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-08-14

Ohio, on August Z, of Governor James
NJ. Cox of his nomination for the
presidency and his speech of accept
ance was witnessed by thousands Of
cheering Democrats.
Two persons are known TO have
been killed, five are missing and sew
eral reported injured in railroad
wreck on the Lexington division of
the Chesapeake & Ohio, near Ashland,
Kentucky.
Charles Ponzi of Boston, who claims
to have made millions in manipulation
of international reply cupons, was a
clerk in the office of a Wichita Falls
Tex, motor company here two years
ago AT II salary of $1,000 a week
WASHINGTON.
Bodies of 1891 American soldier
dead have been returned from over
seas, the war department announced
August Z, and those of 1893 others are
en- route. Requests have been re-
ceived for return of approximately
10000 bodies from France and Eng
land.
Increased freight and passenger
rates will mean the adding of more
than $l per day to the cost of living
OF the average American family, ac-
cording to the latest computation of
statistical experts. This figure is based
on the rule laid down by Walker ID.
Hines, former director general of rail-
ways, that to add cents to the freight
rate means an addition of % cents to
the cost of the commodities which
must move by freight.
|. Recommendation that a minimum
age of 10 years be set for the entrance
of children into industry is made at
| Washington, ID. G., by the permanent
committee ON standards of physical
fitness for children entering employ
ment.
Officials at Walter Reed hospital
at Washington, ID. c., Monday insti-
| tuted search for relatives of Mrs. Lila
May Cavey, who died in the institu-
ton. She was the widow of DIR. Oc-
tave sCavey, surgeon of the Greeley
arctic expedition, who died in the arc
tic in 1884.
FOREIGN.
The situation in Poland has de-
veloped into military catastrophe
and there is an internal collapse, says
a Warsaw dispatch to the Cologne
Gazette.
General j. Ramon Romero, former
rebel commander, has arrived at Villa
Hermosa, Tabasco, with 600 men, to
await orders of the war department,
says newspaper dispatch.
Every one of the hundreds of vol
umes of Madame Bessarabo, of Paris,
who shot and killed her husband and
then shipped his body to Nancy in
trunk, was sold within twenty four
murder became public.
Supplies of food, clothing and
merchandise from the United States
are being distributed to Jews in
Russia.
Warsaw will be evacuated by the
Polish government and representatives
of the allied nations, according to a
Berlin dispatch to the London Times,
under date of Saturday. The report
adds that the Polish government will
retire to Cracow.
Great Britain is planning to spend
nearly $600,000,O00 on war veterans
during 1920-21, according to men,
orandum of expenditures submitted to
parliament.
Fighting is going on between the
Mexican federal forces and those of
Colonel Esteban Cantu, according to
a report from Lower California, re-
ceived at Vera Cruz.
Captain Road Amundsen, Norwe-
gian explorer, will leave Nome to re-
sumo his attempt to reach the north
pole, he announced Friday. He plans
to steer his vessel, the Maud, for
Wrangell island, off the northern
coast of Siberia, and from that point
to drift with the Arctic ice pack.
A workman on the Welland canal
Wednesday at Thorod, Ont. found the
body of 4-year-old Margaret Boucock,
one of the two children who disap-
peared in May and July. The girls
clothing was torn and the body had
been covered with weeds and tree
branches.
Telephone service throughout the
island at Porto Rico stopped at 8
O'Clock Tuesday morning. when opera
tors and other employees walked out
after rejection of their demand for
so per cent increase in wages.
The strike of linotype operators,
which began as protest against pub
blished assertions in the three Amer
lean newspapers at Manila, Z. l., that
the Filipinos were not ready for In
dependence, spread Monday.
Pope Benedict received in private
audience Sunday, at Rome, Monsignor
Enpr hfShon If Nafchay Miss