The Ordway new era., 1921-09-09

Spanish warship Bonface, according
to message from Chafinas island, off
the Moroccan coast. The fire from the
warship also caused numerous casual
ties and forced the Moors to flee 10
rhe interior.
Fire worshippers have inaugurated
headquarters of their own in London.
Generous donations from rich Indians
have secured for the Parsee Associa-
tiou Of Europe large house in the
west end, where ZoruaStrian religious
ceremonies are to he conducted and
where bodies of dead PurseeS may find
resting place before burial.
GENERAL
Mrs. Betty Brennan and Jacob Pain
were killed Mt ST Louis when the
speeding automobile in which they
were riding overturned at a sharp
curve. Three other occupants of the
car We're seriously injured.
one dead. two dying and ten others
for whom physicians hold out little
hope, and TWO more with only n des-
perate chance for recovery, are vic
tins of toadstools eaten by mistake
for mushrooms at La Porte, Ind.
Edward Barnes. A.. merchant, was
found shot and killed in ward at the
rear of his home at Cape Girardeau,
Mo His wife said $1,000 he had was
missing Mrs. Barnes is held by police
pending nm investigation. Fred Foeste,
%, son-in-law, is sought by the po-
lice
The largest crowd that has attend
ed memorial service for returned SOL
dier dead gathered on the army piers
mt Hoboken. y. j., To honor the bodies
of j.I95 soldiers that arrived recently
on the transport Wheaton. More than
10000 attended the ceremonies, It was
estimated.
Los Angeles was selected as the
1922 convention city for the mrerna-
made by the board of directors In ses-
sion nj Chicago, after strong invi-
tation had been presented by William
Stephens. president of the Los Angeles
Rotary club.
An attempt to fasten an electric
light bulb into a socket while she was
dressed in wet bathing suit, caused
Ter, Il. at her home on City Island \
pool of water collected about her feet
and when her wet hand came in con
tact with The current she received 81
shock wIs proved fatal
+ Dirigible balloon Dc. the largest
American naval aircraft of its type,
and the kite balloon AP We're de-
stroyed by fire which also razed the
hangar AT the Rockaway Point naval
air station. An explosion of gasoline
from an unknown cause, started the
blaze. Although a number of men
We're in the hangar. only one man was
slightly burned.
Petroleum expectations from Tam
pico, Mexico, totaled during the month
of July approximately 100000 bar
rels, or one-fourth the amount shipped
I during the month of June. according
/ to information given out by oil COM
i panieS. 1t was stated that August ey-
portations will show decrease from
/ those of July, despite that drilling is
almost as active as early in the year
The death Of Miss Mary Louise
Graffam, - missionary of the Ameri-
can Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions, at Sivas. Asia Minor,
was announced in cable message
Miss Graffam, the only American at
Sivas much of the time during the
World war, incurred the displeasure
of Turkish officials at times and an or
der for her execution was signed in
one instance.
An estimate that $4,000 900 was paid
by life insurance companies in death
claims from automobile fatalities dur
ing 1920 is published by the Insurance
Press. Statistics are quoted to show
that during the year the automobile
caused 1900 fatalities and 1,5OO,OOO
nOn-fatal injuries.
L. d. Merrill, former lieutenant in
the United States aviation service, and
jack Rodeheaver, 18 years old, Of Win.
ona Lake, Ind. were instantly killed
when an aIrplane in which they were
takinga pleasure ride at Winona Lake
crashed to the ground.