Taiban Valley news., 1921-04-22
FOREIGN

Congo last month during which fifty
trading posts were burned, was To-
mented by native pretending to have
discovered a charm making its posses
sor invisible and invulnerable accord
ing to Congo advices received in Brus-
sells.
Four rebels, including the leader of
the band, Augustin Michel, were killed
in sharp battle between revolution
lists and federal troops at Autlan, in
the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Two more
rebel officers were sentenced to death
by cOurtmartial for their connection
with revolt on March "a.
In western Konia Turks have Gre
ated special corps of men aged from
60 to 100 years. Its commander is 80
years old. A Greek destroyer in the
Black sea has captured the pirate
leader, Hassan, aged 90, who has been
burning Greek sailboats and villages
on the Pontius coast.
Russian Bolshevist authorities have
closed the frontier of that country
against immigration from America, ac-
cording to a cablegram received by a
London shipping company from its
agent in Libau. immigrants will be ac-
cepted, however, from steamers al
ready on their way to Russia from
America.
A plot to assassinate ex-EmperOr
Charles of Austria has been discovered
at Lucerne, where he again resides, ac-
cording to a dispatch from the Swiss
city to the Petit Parisien. The alleged
conspiracy was revealed to the police
by a private detective. Several for
eigners who were equipped with pass
ports were arrested The prisoners
had grenades in their possession.
Skirmishing is going on between
Turks and Greeks in the Bardizag re-
gion of Asia Minor, where it is re-
ported neither of the combatants is
respecting the American flag hoisted
over the Near East relief stations,
shots having been fired at the Amer
lean Women's hospital unit Of Mrs.
Mabel Nickerson, Miss Bernice Ever
ett of the Wellesley College unit has
been cut off in Brusa, although the or
phans in her care have been trans
ferred from that place to Bardizag.
GENERAL
An argument for more municipal ten
mis- courts in Philadelphia by William
T. Tilden II, worlds singles champion,
moved the city councils committee on
property and service to report favora-
bly, an ordinance authorizing the spend
ing of $4,000 for building new city
courts and for repairing thirty-twO old
ones.
Concealed in wsds of chewing gum
ten diamonds, valued at more than $8,-
600, were removed from their hiding
place behind a lock on an inside door
of his home by Virgil Helm, former
Rock Island night baggageman, who
is under arrest charged with compile
ity in the recent $4,000 jewelry rob
berry in Topeka.
Penalties for men and women guilty
of crimes violating the moral code,
strict enforcement of prohibition laws,
equal citizenship rights for women and
Standardization of American schools
under federal supervision were among
the issues before the League of WOm-
en- Voters, in it's second annual con-
vention, in session in Cleveland.
Doubt that the Cherokee Indian ma
tion can properly lay claim to 14,0OO,-
600 acres of land in Oklahoma and
Texas, as was done in petition filed
in the United States Supreme Court be-
cause it has no official~er legal status
as a nation, was expressed by S. p.
Freezing, attorney general of Oklaho-
ma. He said, however, 1t might be pos
sible for individual descendants OF
members of the nation to support the
petition.
Because she ate oysters with her fin
gers and couldn't tell brown from blue,
Mrs. Eliza Climer was of unsOund
mind, according to testimony of her
sister, Mrs. Eloise Won Schrader, who
is contesting the will of the dead wom-
an in the St. Louis courts Mrs. Gil
mer's estate, valued at approximately
$5OO,0O0, was left to her nephew, Dana
Won Schrader.
Federal authorities In Jacksonville,
Fla, have taken steps to seize the
Japanese steamship Erie Maru, aboard
which twelve cases of liquor were con-
fiscated after officers had arrested
seven japanese sailors. One sailor was
slightly wounded during struggle
with the officers. Officials said the
ships manifest showed only thirteen
quarts of liquor aboard.
Love for his dog nearly cost the life
of Harold O'Grady, Z, in Chicago. Har-
old and his brother, Ray, 6, live next
door to the Livingston warehouse,
which was burned at loss of $10O, 900.
The father of the boys rushed into his
home and rescued them. Harold re-
membered his dog and rushed back In
to the house after it. AS walls were