Elbert County tribune., 1921-11-04
FOREIGN

rock In n tunnel one mile east of Pal
iiser. b. c., according TO sdvices re-
ceived.
Because the war cost France so
much blood and MANNED so many Of
her sons, dueling must be severely re-
pressed, declares NJ Bonnevay, French
minister of justice, in a circular ad-
dressed to public prosecutors all over
France.
Three vessels, including an unidenti-
fled masted schooner. were ashore on
the Nova Scotian coast as the result
of terrific gale at Sydney, n. S. The
gale, which Is said to have been the
worst that Cape Breton has expe-
rienced since 1875, did considerable
damage.
The Novy Put, BoIshevist organ at
Riga, reports that an American bank.
with a capital of $4,000. 600 is being
opened In Hardin, Manchuria, with
branches at Chita, BIagovestchensk
and Khabarovsk. The newspaper as
serts that the bank Intends to assist
American trade In Siberia.
Local authorities have placed the
port of Petrograd under military con-
troll In an effort to prevent pilfering.
smuggling of liquors and intoxication.
Offenders will be punished by court
martial. This step was made neces-
sary by workmen conceaIing quantities
OF grail, flour and other products in
the,1 clothing when they left work.
A dispatch to La Nacion from
Asuncion says that President Gondra
ton to DIR. Felix Palva. the vice presi-
dent, owing to revolutionary move
ment by the followers of ex-President
Schaerer. The revolutionaries are re-
ported to have the support of all the
troops and police in the capital, and
country districts.
GENERAL
A negro was killed In a battle with
Baltimore police at Humphrey station,
a suburb of Baltimore, following
threatened race riot. The riot was
precipitated by an assault upon a
white girl by a negro.
Miss Cecil Leitch, woman golf cham
pion of Great Britain, France and Can
ada, defeated Miss AIexa Stirling, for
mer United States champion, by up
before a large gallery at the Pelham
Country Club, New York.
A live South Carolina opposum and
a bushel of sweet potatoes were given
President Harding when the presiden-
tial special stopped at Greenville, s. c.,
20
Christian accepted the gifts for the
President, who had retired.
Sam Gordon, 35, negro, was
hanged by mob near Winnsboro, La,
following the shooting of Joe kim
ball, a white farmer. The shooting
followed quarrel over a bag of pc
cans, it was said. 1t was reported the
negro's father was taken into a woods
and whipped.
Seven persons, including Miss Mary
Green of Denver were slightly injured
and scores We're shaken up when the
Duluth Chicago express of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad was derailed
near Arlington Heights, Ill. A broken
rail is believed by railroad officials to
HuNe Deen TeSpOlslDle.
Although blind since he was 10 years
old, Albert BARNARD has been award
ed the degree of eagle scout by Bloom
ington Normal Council Boy Scouts of
America, satisfactorily passing the
twenty-one severe tests necessary to
qualify. Albert is said to be the first
blind boy TO attain the eagle scouts
degree.
Federal prohibition agents raided an
attic above Greenwich village res
taurant in New York. Their haul in
cluded fifty casks, 1000 bottles and
100 jugs of wine valued at $4,000.
The smell of nearby barrel of mash
mingled with odors from stored cheese,
the officers said, but the attic was
used as sleeping quarters for three
persons.
Mrs. A. o. eagle, wife of farmer,
and her 6-year-old son We're burned to
death at their home near Jonesboro,
Ark, when the child's tricycle., to
which he had rigged can of fire in
imitation of his fathers tractor. over
turned, the fire igniting his clothing
and that of his mother when she went
to his aid.
Police have discovered "well' of
whisky in a residential section of
Knoxville, Tenn. A small copper pipe
from a copper tank sunk ten feet un-
der the ground enabled the owner to
keep a supply of moonshine whisky on
tap at all hours. The whisky was
forced through faucet by a hand
pump. The outfit was confiscated and
the owner arraigned In Police Court.
Twenty sticks of dynamite wrapped
in brown paper on which had been
drawn a diagram of the Atlanta, Bir-
mingham & Atlantic and Southern