The Ordway new era., 1921-05-20
FOREIGN

FOREIGN
Discovery of valuable oil and gas
territory near Puerto Limon. on the
eastern coast of Costa Rica, is report
ed. 1t is believed that this is the first
discovery of natural gas in Central
America
Three small private banks in Fla
vana have suspended payment and an
other in the city of Camaguey, eastern
Cuba, closed its doors. All the institu-
tions had sustained runs by depositors,
and some of the oldest and strongest
institutions in the city are affected.
Outlaws have captured British mis-
sionary named Stevens near Fengh-
sien. in the province of Shensi, it is
said In advices to the British legation.
Dispatches indicate the object is TO
bring pressure to bear on provincial
authorities TO abandon oppressive
measures.
Ruins of prehistoric city have been
discovered by Prof Carl Blegen of the
American Archaeological School at
Athens The city was situated between
Corinth and Mycenae. In southeastern
Greece, and pottery and fragments of
statuary unearthed fix the date of its
prosperity at about 1000 Il. C.
Gems. Lucio Blanco, Eduardo Her
nandez, Ireneo Nillareal and Pablo
Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains,
who have been reported to be starting
a revolution against the Mexican gov
ernment from the United States side,
have made an appeal TO President OBJ
RECON for leniency if they surrender,
according to official advices.
The Argentine government, under
an agreement reached with representa-
tives of the labor organizations, will
not permit nonunion labor in the port
area. Work in the major section of the
port which has been at IL standstill for
some time as a result of the boycott
declared by the port workers is eX-
pected to begin shortly.
a mule is not a horse according to
an opinion of the Manitoba Court of
Appeals, which awarded 500 and costs
TO Thomas Pople, mule dealer,
against the city of Dauphin, Man. Po-
pie sold twenty mules there last sum
mer, and was forced by town officials
to pay 81 a head tax, which is levied on
horses brought TO the town for sale.
He sued to recover the amount.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and w.
Cameron Forbes, former governor,
composing President Harding's special
mission TO investigate conditions in the
i.l 40 tn,
vestigation work Immediately upon ar
rival at Manila. After Il popular dem
onstration in the shape of parade of
all civic organizations, headed by
Mayor Fernandez. in honor of the COM
missioners, the mission started action.
GENERAL
Miss Idell Boland, II years old. of
Chicago, chose death to blindness She
ended her life with poison when she
knew her sight was fading.
T. G. Brown and ]. w. Creole were
burned to death and several persons
were injured in fire which destroyed
boarding house at Richardson La.
Regulations permitting federal re-
serve banks TO purchase bankers ac-
ceptances, maturing up to six, instead
of three, months, which grow out of
transactions in importation or exporta
ton of goods, have been issued by the
federal reserve board.
Gus Groener. 81, an inmate of the
Montgomery county poor house in Mis-
souri,, is an uncle to General Groener,
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telegraph and transportation. Over
taken by poverty and old age. he has
been in the poor house for several
years.
An unidentified negro was lynched
at McGenee. Ark, for alleged partici-
patton in an attempted attack on ]. p.
Sims. a railroad blacksmith and a
young white woman while they were
riding in an automobile along a coun-
try road. Sims reported three negroes
stopped his car and demanded he leave
the young woman. He opened fire and
the trio fled.
Fire, causing loss of more than
million and half dollars. destroyed
No. breaker of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company at Coaldale, Pa.
The structure, together with much val
uable machinery, is entirely in ruins.
Nearly 200 years ago a thoughtful
boy printer, named Benjamin Franklin,
ran away from Boston TO Philadelphia
Recently bronze statue of Franklin
was acclaimed by thousands in the city
of his birth as IL was exhibited in n
parade. The statue, in reaching Bos-
ton had reversed the route taken by
Franklin to Philadelphia.
The United Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way Employees and Railway
Shop Laborers, with its membership of