The Ordway new era., 1920-07-23
GENERAL

GENERAL
An agreement has been reached be
tween wholesalers and retailers of
Pittsburg, Pa, ii has been announced
to sell bread by the ounce instead of by
the loaf. Three-fourths OF cent an
ounce was fixed as the standard price
Alex Hedberg. 81 years of age, EN-
ployed ms II teller In the Union Bank
OF Chicago for a number OF years, has
been arrested after he was said TO have
confessed taking 5000 from the bank
within the last three or four years.
John S. Burgill, miner was shot
to death by a posse at Hazard, KY,
when he bnrricnded himself in vacant
house after killing Deputy Sheriff II.
S. Wooten and Robert Gnlbraith, n
negro, while resisting arrest.
Ensign Windsor Fl. Gushing was eI-
onerated of charges of violating Navy
Department orders forbiddlng storage
of liquor aboard naval aircraft, when
his court-mnrtial 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
was advocated by DIR. Jacob Gould
Schurman, former president of Cornell
University, in an address Mt luncheon
of the Council on Foreign Relations
at New York.
Ten armed automobile bandits
robbed the Plainfield State Bank of
$4,000 in cash and government bonds
Mt Joliet, ILL.,, and escaped after sweep
ing the main street Of the town with
rifle fire. wounding seven persons In
nll One of the bandits was wounded
Provisional President de Ia Huerta
of Mexico. has abolished the moving
picture censorship and the censorship
department of the ministry of the in
terror will hereafter be used ito fos.
ter rather than hinder the industry"
Federal inquiry into recent escapes
of aliens from Ellis Island followed
the arrest and holding In $2,50O bail OF
Xavier F. Destefnno, male nurse at the
immigration station there. Sixteet
aliens were reported to have escaped
hut this was denied by Superintendent
Baker. Destefano was charged witt
assisting John Tressey, an Irish stowa
way. to escape. supplying him with ,
rowboat he was said TO have used In
flight to the mainland.
Prime Minister Meighen, Mt Ottawa
Can, announced election of his cab
met containing all the members e1
cept two of the cabinet of Sir Rober
Borden, his predecessor. The new
cabinet officers are II. w. Wigmore
minister of customs and interna
revenue, and f. b. McCurdy, ministe
of public works,
Eight million bottles of champaign,
will be among the items on the list
of the commodities to be placed on sal,
July 2S when the seQuestered prop
erty of Baron Walter de Mumm will
be auctioped off ut his estate men
Rheims. This property was seized ii
1913 subsequent to the baron's re
sumption of German citizenship whel
the war began.
]. B. Norman and his l1-year- r-ol,
daughter were killed, and twelve othe
persons knocked unconscious by light
ming striking schoolhouse az Enville
Fla. as the people were assembling
at the school for religious services
: The building was set on fire.
A report just completed by III
Phelps Dodge MercaDtile Company n
Tombstone ArIz., showing PURCHASE
OF agricultural products which Il mad
in Arizona last year, proves tliat farm
ing and rnnchine in thatstate" ar
steadily becoming the rivals OF minin
and stockraising.