Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-12-17
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
REcoRp OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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WESTERN

WESTERN
mob of 100 men swooped down or
Sonoma county jail at Santa Rosa
forclbly seized George Boyd, Terence
Fits and Charles Valento, alleged slay
ers of Sheriff James A. Petray, Miles
jackson and Lester Dorman, and
hanged them from the limb of a tree In
a cemetery.
Forty-one fraternitIes and sororities
Of the University of Nebraska at Lin
coin, whose membership includes 1000
students, have agreed to boycott all
soda fountains, theaters, cafes and
banquet halls who do not reduce prices
to scale fixed by a fair-price COM
mittee.
Friendly suit 10 determine whether
the signatures of Jacob Charles Den
ton, wealthy mining promoter. upon
two checks for sums totaling $3.50,
cashed for Mrs. Louise L. Peete, his
alleged murderess, were genuine, was
filed In the superior court at Los An
geles against the Farmers and Mer-
chants National bank by Judge Russ
Avery. special administrator of the
Denton estate.
One man was killed and two were
wounded In n gun battle between of
ficers and blockade runners near
Uvalde, Texas. Mounted Customs In
spector Nat Malone and Ranger Cap
tain Miller. whose headquarters are at
Del Rio, commanded the occupants of
an automobile to hale. A volley of
bullets was the answer and the Off
GERS returned the fire. The car was
occupied by one American and two
Mexicans, one of whom was killed.
The city administration of Yoncalla,
Oregon. is being entirely directed by
women. Mrs. Mary Burt is the new
mayor, and the members of her council
are Mrs. Edith Thompson, Mrs. Jennie
Lasswell, Mrs. Bernice Wilson and Mrs.
Nettie Hannah. The women, who were
elected Mt the recent election, would
have regularly assumed their official
duties Jan. 1, but Mayor Lasswell, hus-
band of one of the councilwomen, and
his aldermen resigned so that the new
officials could start their contemplated
civic Improvements Immediately.
WASHINGTON
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has stirred up hornets net In
Congress with its notice that the prac-
tice of permitting senators and repre-
sentatives to send messages from any
office in the country with the govern
ment settling for the bill monthly
would be abandoned on Jan. 1.
Credit for saving the lives of 1900
Austro- Hungarian prisoners of war in
eastern Siberia, during the fall of 1918,
is given to officers of the Twenty
seventh United States infantry by
Lieut.. Col. Ferdinand Reder of the
former Austro. Hungarian army, In an
open letter to the press of Austria and
Hungary. Colonel Reders letter, for
warded to the state department by the
American mission at Budapest, says an
epidemic of influenza had threatened
to convert the camp into vast cem-
etery" when personnel of the Ameri-
can regiment took charge.
Cork, Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, has pre-
sented to the commission of the com
mittee of 100 investigating the Irish
question her story of the hunger strike
In Brixton prison, London, of her hus-
band. and of his death and the de-
tails, as she had witnessed them of
attempts by the Irish republicans to
gain freedom for their country.
Peter ]. Dooling, son of Congress-
man Peter Dooling of New York city.
was killed by the accidental discharge
of a rifle that was being shifted In
an automobile near Fresno, Calf, ac-
cording to verdict of coroner's
jury. Dooling was driving an automo-
bile on the last lap of a trip from New
York to San Francisco with Hugo
Engle and Joseph @. Farrell.
Nearly one-half of the nations rec
ord breaking overseas commerce In the
past fiscal year was carried in Ameri-
can ships, Secretary Alexander shows
in his annual report. The overseas
trade reached the unprecedented total
of S11 1,S75. .4o+.OoO and S5.o71 ,905. 900 of
~ Nho Niititu utu NSS-
sells as against S36S. S.359,000 carried in
American bottoms the year before the
war.
The government of Holland has
served formal notice that 1t has
large financial interest IN the former
German Pacific cables aud will appeal
to the League of Nations IL Japan in
sists on keeping them. This fact de-
veloped at session of the interna-
tional communications congress at
BY such action Holland
becomes an ally of the Unit
ed States in her controversy with