The Ordway new era., 1920-05-14
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND AsouT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
coNpENsEo FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN.

As the result of secret .investiga-
tions, four large breweries are facing
prosecution at Chicago for manufacture
ing and selling large quantities of beer
containing or 8 per cent of alcohol.
Six persons were seriously injured
and twelve others suffered lesser in
juries when tornado passed through
the northern part of Eureka, Kan. The
high school building and fifteen resi-
dences were badly damaged.
Ruth Taylor, aged s, and Ruby Mo
ger. Z, school girls, were struck by
lightning and killed at school house
in the country near Dunning, Neb. The
school building was demolished, but
none of the other occupants was in
jured.
The lOngshoremen's union has de-
clared n general strike along the Seat
tie waterfront to enforce demands that
the employers select crews from Il list
prepared and displayed by the union.
1t was announced
The steamship Cody, named in hon
or of the late Buffalo Bill'' Cody, IA
nous scout and Indian fighter, viii be
launched at Hog Island, Pa, May 31st,
according TO work received ut Mime
apolis by Mrs. Mary Allen, daughter
of Cody, who Is ON n visit in that city.
One of the largest verdicas ever Civ
en- railroad employe injured while on
duty was handed down when jury in
Chicago court awarded Joseph t.
Bush, switchman for the Pennsyl-
vnnia railroad, $2S,S66 for perma-
nent injury to his left foot, which was
crushed between two cars.
Thomas Morris. 12G years old, is
dead at the home of Charles Mitten,
ranchman, eight miles northeast of
Ansley, Neb. He was born in Berren,
North Wales, January 10, 1894. The
aged man never married and followed
the profession of cobbler for 100
years. He came to this country in
1871, locating at Strentor. H., and
moved to Custer county, Nebraska, in
1886.
United States District Attorney
Burkhart of New Mexico has an
nounced that as II result of a confer
ence with wholesale sugar dealers of
the state, the dealers had agreed to
sell sugar ut maximum profit of one
and one-half cents per pound and to
make no sales of present stocks at re-
placement values. Present stocks will
he offered mt S14.50 per hundred,
whereas S19.25 has been charged He
said there would be no prosecutions in
not violated.
WASHINGTON.
Japan has withdrawn all objections
to the Chinese consortium and has pre-
terms as agreed upon by the United
States, Great Britain and France. the
State Department has been informed
by the American embassy at Toxic.
Government loans of 100000, 900 In
addition to the S30O,O00,000 revolving
fund provided in the railroad law and
2S per cent increase in freight rates
will be required to put the country's
railroads on their feet, railroad execu-
lives told the Senate Interstate COM
merce committee.
Spokane, wash, ranking as forty
eighth city of the country in 1910, had
decrease of 10S in population in the
last ten years and now has 1O4, ,2O4
people, the Census Bureau announced.
Farm loans aggregating more than
$4,000, 900 have been held up by the
litigation over the validity of the farm
loan act, 1t developed at the confer
ence of farm loan officials at Wash
ington.
Mrs. Samuel Gompers, wife of the
president of the American Federation
of Labor, died at her home In WASH
ington, D. c., after n long Illness. She
was 60 years of age and had been mar
ried for more than half II century.
Freight rate Increases of 3O.4 per
cent for Eastern railroads, 800 for
Southern roads and 30 for Western
lines, have been proposed to the Inter
state Commerce Commission by the
Association of Railway Executives.
BY vote OF 259 TO 30 the House
adopted the conference report on the
water power development bin Similar
action remains to be taken by the Sen
ate before the measure, which has
been before Congress ten years, goes
to the President.
After forty years of congressional
discussion of the advantages of bud.
get system, the Senate has passed Sen
ator McCormlck's budget bill without
roll call or n dissenting voice. The
House has also passed II budget bill,
and with 1t the Mccormick bill will
now go TO conference. There is con-
siderable difference between the two
measures,
President Wilson has signed the