Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-10-29
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strikers in Cork jail. is dead. His death
followed Mayor AacSwiney only one
day. Murphy was a member Of the
Irish Volunteers, and was well known
as an athlete
An increase of S1.15 n day in the
wages of Alberta coal miners, granted
by operators in conference with repre-
sentntives of the United Mine Workers
OF America, has been announced In
Calgary, Alberta.
Total value of fish and fish prod
ucts marketed In Canadn during 1919
was 500, $40, compared TO SOC, ESQ,
544 in 1918. These figures were an
nounced at Ottawa by the dominion
bureau of statistics.
Incontrovertible evidence, II was
said, has reached the Spanish and
Portuguese authorities that the rail-
road strike In Portugal was the be-
ginning of an attempt by the Bolshe-
visit elements to seize power.
The imports into France for the
nine months ended Sept. 80 were H.
1S9,0OO,ooO francs, ms compared with
"a. .567 ,0o0. 900 for the same period of
1919. The exports were 1851 600 900,
as compared with 6,7o4, 100000
An undated dispatch received In
London reports a twelve-hour battle
between the Spaniards and the Moors
in Morocco, In which the Spaniards
lost twenty-five men killed and 105
wounded, the majority of these being
native troops. The Moors are said to
have suffered severe losses.
Action by the French government
to recover $1,372, 100, alleged to be the
value of war equipment which went
down with the steamship North Cam
bria Aug. 2, 1918, has been instituted
in Admiralty Court in Brooklyn against
the Commonwealth and Dominion Line,
Limited, of London.
Panama maintains sovereign rights
over the territory upon which AmerI-
can wireless stations have been erect
ed, Secretary OF Justice Alfara ruled
in ordering the arrest of n wireless op-
orator at Puerta Obaldio on a charge
of wounding a citizen of Panama The
operator will be tried under the Pan
anna laws.
A general strike throughout Poland
has been proclaimed as protest
against the proposed creation Of an
upper parliamentary house under the
new constitution, on which a commits
sion has been working for more than
a year. In Warsaw the street cars
ceased running and restaurants and
many stores were closed.
GENERAL
The convicts, George Stivers and
Marcus Bassett, who escaped from
Sing Sing prison, were captured in
the woods at Warner, N. II.
Sale of the s,541 deadweight ton
steamer Westmead to the Standard
steamship Company Of New York for
81, ,412, ,467 has been announced nt the
Shipping Board.
New York trucking companies
adopted resolutions refusing recent de-
msnds of their $1,000 employees for
shorter hours and Increased pay, and
notifying them that they must work
ten hours for the present nine-hour
wage.
Current production of anthracite
coal Is well up TO normal and distribu-
ton from the mines is proceeding
without Interruptions which prevailed
last spring and recently. according TO
q statement issued by the anthracite
bureau Of information at Philadelphia.
Three treinmen were killed, five
other injured and five or SIX pas
sengers shaken up in n head-on col
lision between two Norfolk 4 West
ern passenger trains at Rural Retreat,
Va, according to an official announce
ment at the railway headquarters at
Roanoke, Va. The trains met on a
siding.
The. Philadstphia 4 Reading railway
has announced reduction of its woYk-
ing force approximately 1000 men and
that NIL employees have been put on an
eight-hour basia-
A farm survey TO eradicate the COM
mon bnrberry MS a defensive measure
agninst wheat rust has been started
by the Department of Agriculture In
portions Of thirteen states In the West
and Middle West.
Testimony taken at the New York
hearing of the Joint Legislative com
mittee investigating the alleged build
ing trust, relative to the payment Of
S25, 900 by e. b. Levy, real estate
owner md builder, to have strike
settled on one of his building projects,
will ho sf,hrnIttod fo tho ssprouar
prosecuting authorities for immediate
action"
Mrs Milia d. Shonts, widow Of
Theodore p. Shonts, former president
of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, was given permission in the
Surrogatss Court at New York to sue
the executors of her husbands estate