Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-06-04
FOREIGN.

house relief system and Its successful
work was expressed to the Hoover
committee in Berlin by Chancellor
Mueller
The Arpenians have accepted an in
vitatlon from the Russian Bolslievists
TO send delegates 10 Moscow, according
to information received by the French
foreign office.
The dowager countess of Granard,
mother of the present earl of Granard,
who married Beatrice, daughter of Og-
den Mills of New York, is dead at Cas-
tleknock, Ireland.
The Japanese cabinet has voted to
reduce the naval budget from $4,000
600 to 500. 100000. The original pro
gram of extension will not be inter
fered with, authorities said.
Field Marshal Szetozar Boroevic,
commander of Austrian forces on the
Italian front from late in 1918 until
October, 1918, is dead, his death being
caused by a stroke of apoplexy.
An explosion during experiments In
the chemical laboratory Of Muenster
University resulted in the death OF six
students, says a wireless message from
Berlin Several others were seriously
injured
Germany has submitted a statement
10 the allied control commission de-
claring that 23.0OO pieces of German
artillery remain to be destroyed and
that 800 have already been broken up,
according to the Echo de Paris.
Il. II. Beasley, managing director of
the British Columbia Union Steamship
Company, was killed when the airplane
in which he had flown over Vancouver
crashed to the ground from height
of $500 feet Major A. Il. Baker, his
companion, was seriously injured.
Feeling is growing that the Russian
Bolsheviki are directing their armies
toward Persia, as they have concen-
nuted about 60,0GO troops in the vlcin-
ity OF Baku. These troops have not
participated largely in the fight
against the Georgians and ArmenfAns.
Concern Is felt In commercial mar
kets throughout France because OF Il
rapid decline In prices of stable COM
modties In the past thirty days, cot
ton has declined 244 francs per fifty
Kilograms in the Havre market, while
coffee has fallen seventy-six and wool
thirty-five points in the same time.
The well-known Swiss aviator Tad
doll fell into Lake Constance and was
drowned while flying seaplane in
contest at Romanshorn. Taddioi WIS
h.a irct o,ria tar to. IN Inc
complshlng the feat in July, 1910,
when he flew from Sesto Calande,
Italy, to Geneva in two hours.
GENERAL.
Fire destroyed a section of pier at
Galveston owned by the Morgan Steam
ship line. The loss, including pier,
warehouses and their contents, was es-
timated at $2,000,000
Sweeping denial that Great Britain
was seeking TO monopolize the worlds
by Sir Auckland Geddes, British am
bassador, speaking ut the Pilgrims
dinner.
Indictments against seven persons,
including three women, charging that
they violated the income tax law by
the alleged failure to mark prices on
theater tickets which they sold, were
returned at Chicago by the federal
grand jury.
Mrs Fred A. Yost of Crivity, Wis.,.
was called TO Bushnell, Ill, by the Sc
rious illness of her daughter, Mrs.
Ernest Neunaker. Before she could ar
rive her daughter died. On viewing
the body in an undertaking establish
ment the shock was SO great to Mrs.
Yost 1t killed her.
The Lincoln hotel fire in Seattle in
which four lives We're lost was proba-
bly, the work of an incendiary, Fire
Marshal Harry w. Brnghurst as
serted. Ten fires in that city during
| the last month were of like origin, ac-
cording to the fire marshal, and six OF
these were set in the basement of ho-
tells.
Ten leaders of the railroad strike in
New Jersey were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at'Newark under the
Lever act. They We're charged with
consplring to obstruct interstate com
merce.
Franklin X. Lane, former secretary
of the interior. was elected a director
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. Mr.. Lane retired from the
cabinet March l, nfter twenty-one
years of public life.
A gift of $4,000 to their retiring in.
ternational president, Charles c. Shay
of New York, was made by members
of the International Alliance of The
atrlcal Stage Employees and Motion
Picture Operators of the United States
and Canada at the closing session OF
their annual convention at Cleveland
Ohio.
The United States is in no danger OF