The Dolores star., 1921-07-15
FOREIGN

The city's power supply was cut off
and the city was in darkness. Houses
were unroofed and several sinull YES
sells in Manila bay were driven ashore.
Representatives of soviet RUSSIA
have been feeling out the ground IN
trade circles in France, with the view.
they indicated, of placing orders for
automobiles and other articles of com
merce, but reports from commercial
quarters are that they have met with
little encouragement.
More than 800 nf the visiting Rotary
| Club delegates and their wives Went to
| the grave of the unknown soldier in
the Plate d'Etoile in Paris and stood
| by silently while DR. Crawford Y. Me
| Cullough of Fort william. Ontario.
president Of the international Rotarian
organization, laid wreath on the
tomb.
The Cabinet of Premier Allen de
Salazar Of Spain has resigned. There
hns been dissension in the Cabinet for
some time. The situation eliminated
in Manuel Arguelles. Minister OF
Finance, rendering his resignation on
the ground that the new tariff law and
the commercial treaties were inimical
to the interests of labor.
Several persons have been arrested
and held for examination in connec-
tion with the fire which destroyed vir-
tually the entire northwest wing of
the government house at Lima, Peru.
Among those detained are two paint
ers. said to have been at work in the
office of the presidents secretary
shortly before the fire. II is said the
fire broke out simultaneously in three
places in the presidential suite.
Lieut.. Gen. Karl Stenger. charged
by the French government with hav-
ing ordered troops under his command
to take no prisoners and kill wounded
men during the fighting of August,
1914, has been acquitted by the Ger
man Supreme Court at Leipsc. en-
gagged in the trial of cases against al
legged war criminals. Mai Bruno
Crusius, tried on a similar charge,
was given a sentence of two years in
prison and forbidden to wear the Ger.
mnn uniform.
GENERAL
Approximately 1000 coke workers
in the independent plants of the Con-
nellsville, Pennsylvania. coke region
were affected by 10 per cent reduc-
ton in wages, the second announced
this year The new nate Is about 33 1-3
per cent below the rate paid Jan. l,
but, according to coke men, As per cent
higher than the prevailing rate In 1912
Only about I per cent of the independ-
ent ovens are in operation.
Carl Wanderer, triple murderer, ex-
hausted his last trick in his efforts to
dodge the gallows when the Chicago
jury that has been hearing his plea OF
insanity, decided in less than one hour
that he was sane and must hang.
After the decision had been handed in,
Judge David set the date of execution
for Friday, July %. The sole hope
now remaining for Wanderer is that
Governor Small will intervene.
An alleged unauthorized strike by
200 pressmen in the printing shop Of
the Cuneo Henneberry Company. pub
fishers, OF Chicago, resulted in the fill
ing OF the praecipe of IL $4,000 suit
against the Chicago Printing and
Pressmen's Union No. 3 and eight of
ficals and agents of the union Tro,l-
BILE is said to have started over the
printing of the western edition of
weekly magazine, at whose plant
there was pressmen's strike.
Mrs. Eta b. He'll, the millionaire
maid" of Chicago, was placed on pro-
baton for one year after she pleaded
guilty to four separate charges of lar
ceny. Mrs. He'll, the wife of a wealthy
broker, was arrested and confessed
that she had looted a dozen North
Shore homes while posing as maid"
Her loot ran above 100000. but resti-
tuition was made to all her victims by
her husband. The probation sentence
was decreed by Judge Kerston in Grim
inal Court after attorneys for the
woman had appealed for clemency.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Ne
braska Potash Company ut Antioch,
eighteen miles east of Alliance. Neb.
1t is owned by Denver concern and
was valued at approximately S5O0, 900.
The Catholic church and several 9th
er buildings caught fire from the
flames which were famed by a wind.
Miss Jennie Fullers of Humboldt,
Neb., was awarded $1,000 dollars in
her suit for breach of promise against
Louis Henry Howe, also of Humboldt,
by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Miss
Fellers claimed she had waited twen-
ty-two years for Howe on his promise
to marry her. She previously had
been awarded $4,000 by District
Judge TrOup of Douglas county, Ne
braska.
Fred Taylor, an ex-service man of
Wichita, Kan, is hero. When an
ammonia pipe in grocery store near
Taylor's place of business broke he re-
membered his army training, rushed
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