The state herald., 1920-10-08
FOREIGN


a movement TO secure control of finan.
cial institutions in that country, says
Il dispatch from Rome.
Wireless communication between
Ruenos Aires and Nnnen, Germany,
was inaugurated with the transmission
of n message from Nauen saluting
President Irigoyen.
Countess Buyermineure, formerly
Miss Daisy Polk of California. was
made n member OF the French Legion
of Honor mt Paris. The countess wns
recognized because of her work, during
the war.
Capt. X. w. Schroeder OF McCook
field, holder of the world altitude
record, will retire from the air serv-
ice as soon as he returns from
France, where he flew in the Gordon
Bennett race.
A violent earthquake is reported Ia
have occurred in Ginrre, Sicily, nt thr
base of Mount Etna, according to
Rome dispatch. The quake lasted ter
seconds. One village was destroyed
and many persons were injured.
Mrs. Sarah jackson. found guilty of
murder in the first degree for shooting
her husband on their homestead nj
! Swan river, Alberta, on Christmas
night, 1919. has been sentenced to be
hanged on December 21st. This is the
first woman ever sentenced to death in
| Alberta province.
/ The yearly production by paper mills
| thruout Japan is roughly given as l6S,
! 700 tons. of which $4,000 tons are used
for newspaper printing, 1900 tons by
| the government monopoly bureau for
/ cigarettes, 100000 tons for the printing
Of school teI tbooks, and 10000 tons for
the printing OF magazines.
Two thousand peasants took Part in
! the seizure of royal estates near
Naples As they marched toward the
kings property they carried shotguns
and sang the "workmen's hymn The
! property seized was called the "Car-
dlclio" and was one of the largest be-
longing to the royal house.
Twenty-Five persons were Killed In
rloting ut Gensan. Korea, when Korean
students attacked and destroyed or
! damaged branches of the Korean In
! dustrlal bank and the Oriental Devel-
opment company and seven Japancse
! houses. The following night there was
/ further shooting with additional cas-
uaiitics.
SLOW moving landslides covering con-
! siderable territory are doing consider
able damage in the Sanhing Alps OF
/ Upper Austria. The entire mountain
/ Surfnce apparently is settling into the
/ Lcisling valley. Many huts have been
destroyed and hamlets, forests and
fields are moving bodily, accompanied
by tremendous noises.
/ In order TO make hoarders of gold
coin bring them In to the treasury. the
French finance minister has announced
that when gold coinage II resumed
those which were In circulation before
the war Will not be recognized The
announcement, the legality of which Is
contested, has given the French gold
louis II new value In the eyes of col.
lectors.
GENERAL
Former U. s. Senator W. MURRAY
Crane, who has been seriously III for
several weeks. died suddenly at his
home in Dalton, Mass.
Four armed robbers escaped with
/ $4,000 after holding up the cashier
and bookkeeper of the American
I Cigar Company In New York.
Twenty-Five hotel owners In Chicago
have agreed to cut their restaurant
prices from - TO 50 l-3 per cent.
Vegetables. fruits aud cereals viii hc
rut the most
The largest shipment Of gold -Sif,.
ij0,0oO-cvcr transported across tie
Atlantic, WINS brought 10 New York on
the White star liner Battle. which left
Liverpool September 22nd.
\ bill approprlntlng S3,OO0,O0o for
the construction OF n thousand-bed hos
rital for the care Of sie states World
War veterans who have become men.
tnlly disabled, has been signed by Gov.
tfhof Siith nt New YORK.
The Santa Fe railroad handled "a
By per cent more business IN the first
eight months OF this year. represented
by carloads, than II did In the CORE
spending period last year and ILL., per
cent more than for the same period In
iDiS, according TO bulletin Just IT,
Topeka, Kan.
japanese troops are TO be Withdrawn
from Nikolnievsk this winter. Minister
OF War Tanaka has informed the gov
,rnors of the empire. This. however
does not necessarily mean n permanent
evacuation. he added. lie explained
that insufficient preparations had beer
! tnuIa IN Nylufar tba fraana hat that