Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-11
FOREIGN

persons killed ut La Paz. Bolivia, In
street fighting between Liberal and Re
publican factions. Business was re-
ported suspended.
A bill prohibiting the importation of
rice and fixing maximum selling
price of 3 cents per pound wholesale,
hns been signed by Gov. Gen. Francis
Burton Harrison at Manila, z. l.
Rights of women in japan were ad-
vanced when the House adopted the
bill giving women the right TO attend
inented upon as an important advance
toward the emancipation OF Japanese
womanhood
-Four members of a snowplow crew
on the Canadian National railway
were smothered to death by an ava
lanche In the Canadian Rockies. The
accident became known when the bod
les arrived for inquest ut Edmonton,
Alb. The accident occurred forty sig
miles west OF Jasper. near Mount Re
splendent.
Preparations are in progress for the
erection of chain of military block
houses to indicate the new boundaries
of the Ulster area in ireland under
the new home rule act, says Belfast
dispatch. Government surveys have
commenced In North Monaghan coun.
ty near the Fermanagh border. the
dispatch adds. Sites are being selected
for new stations for thirty thousand
troops In the six-county area. The sta.
tions will he two miles apart.
The Introduction of German labor to
help rebuild the war-devastated dis.
tricts of northern France. one of the
suggestions made by the Berlin govern.
ment during the reparatIons discus
sions, will be violently opposed by
French workers. The annual congress
of French building workers voted
against the admission
of German laborers, though no objec-
tion was made to the use OF German
Professor Bonl. archaeologlst and di-
rector of excavations on the Palatlne,
is going TO make another effort to grow
sweet potatoes In Italy. He has Just
received lot of seed potatoes from
the United States Agricultural Depart
ment. Whenever sweet potatoes have
been planted In Italy, they have re-
verted TO ordinary potatoes after few
years. Professor Boni hopes to be able
to keep them true to their type. He
says that old manuscripts prove that
the ancient Romans grew them.
GENERAL
Frantic with pain from an attack of
appendicitis, Earl Wilson, an S-year-
old boy, shot and killed himself at
Bonner Springs, Kan.
When tank filled with molten glass
burst at GAINESVILLE, o., fire started
which totally destroyed the Kearns-
Gorsuch Glass plant there, with loss
estimated at 100000.
The New York Central locomotive
repair shops at Elkhart, Ind, employ.
ing about 700 men, and those at Col.
linwood, both of which were closed
week ago, VIII resume operations at
once
Fire destroyed the interior of the
Cathedral of SITS. Peter and Paul, caus-
ing damage estimated at 100000. 1t
is one of the Oldest and best known
edifices In Chicago, dat.
ing back to Civil wartimes.
A block of business buildings In the
heart of Breckenridge, Texas, an oil
town, was destroyed by fire with
loss of S500,000 The fire started in
a filling station and was stopped by
firemen who dynamlted buildings In its
path.
Plots which involved the planned as
sassination of Cleveland citizens con-
nected with the Loyal American
League, the destruction by dynamite of
downtown buildings and an intensive
campaign of anarchistc propa-
ganda throughout the city. are
believed now to have been nipped by
said to be members of an anarchlstic
group.
Lieutenant J. Il. Lawson, "A, of Hart.
ford, Conn, and Private Joseph Read,
81, of Norwood, n. j., were dashed to
death at Camp Knox when an army
aeroplane which failed to right itself
during a tail spin, fell nearly 5000
feet
The Senate OF the Washington Leg
islature passed the anti-alien land bill
by vote of 80 to 2. The bill prohibits
aliens ineligible to citizenship from
owning or leasing land in the state.
1t was passed by the House nnd now
goes to the governor.
Macon, Gu, city council has refused
to permit Donal O'Callaghan, lord may
or of Cork, to speak In the city audi
torium. The city council also passed
an anti-flirting ordinance, making 1t
unlawful for man to converse with or
make signs at school or college girls.
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