, 1920-07-15

Keeping pace with the times, the
London Daily Mail has Installed its
own wireless receiving plant for the
receiving of news dispatches on the
roof of Carmelite house, home Of the
Northcliffe papers.
Police Inspector Turner of BARGE
Iona, Spain, was killed in a saber duel
with Police Captain Toro, according
to advice from that city. The quarrel
arose over a question of service in the
police force, 1t is said.
Dumb for three years as the result
of shell shock, Trooper w. Hart SUI
denly recovered his speech in the ex-
element of a bowling match. He was
playing with the Davisville military
team at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
President Wilson has accepted the
invitation of the League of Nations to
call a meeting of the assembly of the
league early in November, it was IN
nounced in the House of Commons in
London by Cecil NJ. Harmsworth, IN
dersecretary for foreign affairs.
The french Chamber of Deputies
voted an additional 10000 francs a
year for cabinet ministers INT 1906
francs for secretaries of state, in rec.
ognition of the increased cost of liv-
ing. The vote, which was taken by the
raising of hands, was almost unani
mou
A dispatch to the Vossiche Zeitune
from Tilsit says that after fighting
the Bolshevists have broken through
the Polish northern front and crossed
the Beresina river at three points. The
dispatch adds that panic has broker
out in wilma, from which the Polish
occupation authorities have fled.
Marie Anne Boude Gagnon, under
sentence of death at Quebec for the
murder by cruelty and neglect of hei
stepdaughter, Aurora, gave birth to
twins, a boy and a girl in the Jail in
Urinary. The father, Telesphore
Gagnon, is serving a life sentence in
st. Vincent de Paul ~penitentiary for
completely in the murder Of his laugh.
ter. .
Fire has swept the entire fishing
district on the western shore of the
sea of Okhotsk, which was leased to
Japan under the treaty Of Portsmouth.
The area burned includes the city OF
Okhotsk, according to u wireless report
received by the Hokkaido Fisheries
Company from the steamer Kan.
chatka. The financial loss is esti.
mated at $4,OOO,OOO.
GENERAL
The estate left by Ohio G. Barber,
the late match manufacturer, was ap-
praised at $5,OS1,115, in an inventory
filed in Common Pleas Court at Akron,
Ohio.
Six dead and twenty-four injured is
the toll in Chicago from accidents
caused indirectly by Fourth of July
celebrations. The accidents varied
from automobile collisions to aero
plane mishaps. No fatalities are at
tributed by the police reports to fire
works.
A report just completed by the
Phelps Dodge Mercantile Company at
Tombstone, Ariz., showing purchases
of agricultural products which it made
in Arizona last year, proves that farm
ing and ranching in that state are
steadily becoming the rivals of mining
anu S"lOckralSlnS.
Newcomb Palmer, a young farmer OF
Momence, ILL.,, is being held Mt Chica-
go, and Byron Caldwell, q former EN-.
plOye of Palmer, is in Jail ut Kanka.
kee, ILL.,, charged with an attempt to
extort $4,000 from Lem Small, eandI-
date for the Republican nomination for
governor of Illinois.
Sam Cardinella, alleged ringleader
of a gang charged with the murder
of Arthur p. Bowman, a Chicago
saloonkeeper, has been sentenced to
hang. Three other members of the
band already have been sentenced to
death and a fourth found guilty and
awaiting sentence.
The Big Four Railroad Company suf-
fered n loss estimated at between
100000 and 100000 at Elkhart, Ind,
when fourteen freight cars piled up on
a curve. The cars contained coal and
merchandise. No one was injured.
In a pistol duel at Spartanburg, s.
c., William p. Cooper, a blacksmith,
and Oscar Godfrey, a horse trader,
killed zach other. Each mar emptied
the six chambers of his weapon and
when the police arrived Cooper was
dead and Godfrey, though dying, was
still swapping his empty gun at the
body of the dead a
Georges Carpenter, the French
champion, has returned to New York
to make preparations for sailing home.
Jack Curley, who has been in charge of
| four. "annOuncpd that Car