, 1920-07-22
GENERAL

An agreement has been reached be-
tween wholesalers and retailers of
Pittsburg, Pa, it has been announced
to sell bread by the ounce instead of by
the loaf. Three-fourths of n cent an
ounce was fixed as the standard price.
Alex Hedberg, 81 years of age, en-
ployed as a teller i'm the Union Bank
of Chicago for a number of years, has
been arrested after he was said TO have
confessed taking $4,000 from the bank
within the last three or four years.
John s. Burgill, a miner was shot
to death by a posse at Hazard, Ky,
when he barricaded himself in a vacant
house after killing Deputy Sheriff r.
S. Wooten and Robert G%albraith, a
negro, while resisting arrest.
Ensign Windsor Fl. Gushing was ex-
onerated of charges of violating Navy
Department orders forbidding storage
of liquor aboard naval aircraft, when
his c~Ourt-martial ended at the New
York navy yard. The court found that
specifications against him had not
been proved.
Appointment of a Japanese-Ameri-
can joint high commission by the two
governments to study the question of
Japanese immigration to this country
vas advocated by DIR. Jacob Gould
Schurman, former president of Cornell
University, in an address at a luncheon
of the Council on Foreign Relations
at New York.
Ten armed automobile bandits
robbed the Piainfield State Bank of
$4,000 In cash md government bonds
Mt Joliet, ILL.,, and escaped after sweep
ing the main street of the town with
rifle fire, wounding persons in
all. n of the bandits was wounded.
Provisional President de la Huerta
of Mexico, has abolished the moving
picture censorship and the censorship
department of the ministry of the in
terror will hereafter be used "to fos-
ter rather than hinder the industry"
Federal inquiry into recent escapes
of aliens from Ellis Island followed
the arrest and holding In $500 bail of
Xavier f. Destefano, male nurse at the
immigration station there. Sixteen
aliens were reported to have escaped,
hut this was denied by Superintendent
Baker. Destefano was charged with
assisting John Tressey, an Irish stOwa-
way, to escape, supplying him with n
rowboat he was said to have used in
flight to the mainland.
Prime Minister Melghen, at Ottawa,
Can, announced election of his cab
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cept two of the cabinet of Sir Robert
Borden, his predecessor. The new
cabinet officers are II. w. Wigmore,
minister of customs and internal
revenue, and f. b. McCurdy, minister
Of public works.
Eight million bottles of champagne
will be among the items on the lists
Of the commodities to be placed on sale
July 2S when the sequestered prop
erty of Baron Walter de Mumm will
be auctioned off ut his estate near
Rheims. This property was seized In
1913 subsequent to the baron's re-
sumption of German citizenship when
the war began.
j. b.. Norman and his ~17-year-old
daughter were killed. and twelve other
persons knocked unconscious by light
ming striking a schoolhouse at Enville,
Fla, as the people were assembling
at the school for religious services.
The building was set on fire. .v
A report Just completed by the
Phelps Dodge Mercantile Company at
Tombstone, Arlz., showing purchases
of agricultural products which 1t made
in Arizona last year,, proves that farm
ing and rnnchlng in that state are
steadily becoming the rivals of mining
and stockraising,