, 1920-12-02
FOREIGN

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Madrid and Its immediate ~neighbor-
hood is again in the grasp of an acute
bread shortage. In the poor districts
bread lines half a mile long have been
formed and the people remain for
hours outside the bakeries despite the
sharpness of the weather.
Hundreds of prisoners have been
taken in Dublin in a great roundup OF
Sim Fein leaders. In addition to Ar
thur Griffith, head of the Sim Fein,
and John Mcneil, commander of the
Irish volunteers, police and military
took many lesser officials to Jail.
Following the refusal of the election
authorities to permit women to vote
In the municipal election, Buenos
Aires women conducted n separate bal
lot under the auspices of two suffrage
organizations. The women voted on
the same candidates as did the men.
A tremendous explosion occurred at
Vergato, near Milan, Italy. Several
persons Were killed or injured and
great property damage resulted. The
explosion is attributed to the extract
ing of charges from airplane bombs.
There was a shell factory at Vergato
during the war and an ammunition
dump still exists there.
An official report issued from Toxic
says that Japanese troops have burned
the Christian school neal Changtea, it
having been said that it was found TO
be a nest of Korean outlaws. The Jill
Shimpo reports that the Japanese have
arrested five Koreans at Vladivostok
and sent them into Korea. They were
charged with purchasing arms. 1t is
alleged that they confessed.
Answering an Interpolation in the
%reichstag regarding the expulsion of
300 Germans from Samoa, the govern
ment declared the blame rested on
England. Several notes sent to Eng
land, 1t said, had not peer answered.
The ~questioner asserted that those ex-
PEELED had been allowed only 800
marks each, though many of them were
wealthy. From the nature of the in
terpellation it was gathered that the
belief had prevailed that the ex-
p%ulsions occurred at the instance of
the American government.
GENERAL
Bonus checks ~aggregating more than
100000 for employees of the Ford
Motor Company are now being written
and their distribution will start Jan. l
next, according to announcement at
Detroit by Edsel b. Ford, president of
the Ford Motor Company.
The hog markets of the country
have been practically demoralized by
the continued sharp decline in quota
lions. Heavy receipts caused by dump
ing of poorer grades of hogs on the
markets by growers and lack of pur-
chasing has caused the continued de-
cline.
Constructing the will of the late
Marshal Field cost the estate of the
multimillionaire merchant prince $780,
600 for attorneys fees alone, when
Judge Charles M. Foell of the Supe-
rior Court at Chicago allowed that
amount to attorneys for the parties In
the suit to contest the will.
Two more North Dakota banks have
closed their doors as n result of de-
pleted reserves, bringing to fifteen the
number of financial institutions that
have shut down for similar reasons in
the last few weeks. Those that closed
are the Farmers and Merchants Banh
Mt Sherwood and the Farmers State
Bank at Rhame.
Mrs. Charles Garland of New Bed
ford, Mass, agrees with her husband in
his determination to refuse his inner
itance of 81, 100000. She said so, smil-
ing che%erfully, this afternoon, and add
ed: 81 am quite willing TO be a poor
mans wife, and If my family in Ded-
ham leave me any ~money-they have
plenty of i'll will turn 1t down" Nor
do the couple have any fear hat they
are doing an injustice to their baby,
Margaret, just a month and n half old.
Prospective builders were given no
ray of hope for lower lumber prices
by lumbermen of the Pacific North
west, discussing market and price con-
dltions at Portland, Ore. The con-
sensus of opinion among both whole
sale dealers and manufacturers was
that higher instead of lower prices are
the prospect.
II. ID. Edwards, n Methodist minister,
was convicted In Federal Court at
Harrisburg, Va, Of bigamy and viola
ton Of the Mann act and sentenced to
four years Imprisonment in the Fed
eral penltentlary at Atlanta. Edwards,
married and the father OF two chill
dren, eloped with Ruth Bailey of
Staunton, Va, last August. They were
married in Cincinnati some time later.
The Chicago police have made an
investigation into the death OF D..
Harris Cook OF Plattsmouth, Neb.,
who dropped dead after n fraternity
initiation. Officials of the coroner's
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