The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-10-28
GENERAL NEWS
The Shriners, Gnnd raaa

oAuOl AsobieS Oh the Mystic Shrine. IN
on an official visit to Pittsburg. told
Snriners Of that city that the shrine
organization had pledged itself to the
expenditure Of $4,000, 900 for the care
and cure Of crippled children regard
less Of color, creed or sex.
q terrific tornado characterized by
the ships commander, Captain Itsuno
As the worst in 80 years experiece at
sea, struck his ship. carrying among
other passengers the principal dele
safes q the Japanese mission to the
washington arament conference
Prince Tokugawa. head of the delega-
ton narrowly escaped.
Wines and beer, as medicine now
enjoy full legal status through the
unexpected action of the treasury
department in promulgating regula-
tons for that purpose. This ruling
opens big loop holes for users Of
same for beverage purposes.
representative Mondell. the Repub-
lican leader of the lower house of
Congress, is trying to. have Represen-
ta1iye Blanton Of Texas expelled for
printing in the Congressional Record
an affidavit concerning a row in the
government printing office said to
obscene il not obscene it certainly in
excusably profane.
Harry Long, 16 years old, and one
OF the honor pupils in the Mentone
High School, is in Jail at Warsaw.
Ind, charged with numbering his
two younger brothers, Kenneth, aged
5, and Russell. aged 4, by clubbing
them to death with a piece of pipe.
II is believed he had gone suddenly
insane.
Hon James NJ. Cox, late democra-
tic presidential nominee, and party
OF friends are in Texas on a hunting
expedition.
Cotton has advanced five dollars
per bale is announcement issued from
census bureau at New Orleans.
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President Harding during the week
has been on trip through Dixie
land.
William. Grow, of Uniontown, Pa,
has been appointed by Governor
Sproull as United States senator from
Pennsylvania to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senator Knox, ending
March 1928. Senator Grow is law
yer, fifty-one years old, and has been
a member Of the Pennsylvania state
senate since 1907.
The administration bill for funding
S500,000,000 of railroad debts is re-
ported faVorably by the senate inter
state commerce commission, with
amendments by Senator Cummins, re
publican. Iowa, chairman, broadening
the financing operations.
Mrs. George Gusts, of Keller, Va,
announced her candidacy for governor
of Virginia On an independent socialist
ticket. she is as far as can be as
certained the first woman ever to
aspire to the gubernatorial honors il
the Old Dominion.
A special from Houston, Texas, Oct.
%, says that armed guards took patrol
duty at the International and Great
Northern yards there at noon as one
hundred and fifty trainmen abandoned
their work. All switching in the yard
was at standstill but operating Of
ficials said all passenger train crews
would be maintained, and the places
Of the strikers are being filled with
new men.
The army Of former Emperor Char
les, which was marching on Buda-
pest, for the restoration of the ex-
monarch, was defeated with heavy
losses by Hungarian government
forces at Tata Tovaros, 35 miles west
Of Budapest.
with her hair bobbed, sunburned,
wearing a heavy squirrel fur coat
and carrying a stout cane with a
carved ivory lead Of a greyhound,
Mary Garden has returned on the
Cunard steamship Aquatania from
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