, 1921-05-19
FOREIGN


America.
Three small private banks in Ha.
vana have suspended payment and an.
other in the city of Camaguey, eastern
Cuba, closed its doors. All the institu-
lions had sustained runs by depositors,
and some of the oldest and strongest
institutions in the city are affected.
Outlaws have captured a British mis-
slonary named Stevens neal Fengh-
Sien, in the province of Shensi, II ls
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 a 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 b. c.
Gems. LuiO Blanco, Eduardo Her
nandez, Ireneo Nillareal and Pablo
Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains,
who ave been reported to be starting
Il revolution against the Mexican gov
eminent from the United States side.
have made an appeal to President Oh
RECON for leniency If they surrender,
according to Official advlccs.
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 beer at II standstill for
some time as n result of the boycott
declared by the port workers is ex-
pected to begin shortly.
A mule is not u horse. according to
an opinion of the Manitoba Court of
Appeals, which awarded 500 and costs
TO Thomas Pople, a 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 So a head tax, which Is levied on
horses brought to the town for sale.
He sued to recover the amount.
htuJ. peH. lseOHdru NOOu anu w.
Cameron Forbes, former governor,
composing President Harding's special
mission to investigate conditions In the
Philippine islands. settled down to in
vestigatlon work Immediately upon ar
rival at Manila. After a popular dem
onstration in the shape of a parade of
all civic organizations, headed by
Afarnr EnrnnnIaz In hnnAr % thn a1.,
missioners, the mission started action.
GENERAL
Miss IdeIl Boland, II years old. of
Chicago, chose death to blindness. She
ended her life with poison when she
knew her sight was fading.
Il. G.. Brown and J. w. Creole were
burned to death and several persons
were injured in a fire which destroyed
a 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, nm inmate of the
Montgomery county poor house In Mis-
souri,, is an uncle to General Groener,
newly appointed German minister OF
telegraph and transportation. Over
taken by poverty and old age, he has
been in the poor house for several
years.
An unidentified negro wns 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 n 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 n loss of more thur a
million and n half dollars. destroyed
No. 8 breaker of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company at C~oaldale, Pa.
The structure, together with much val
liable machinery, is entirely In ruins.
Nearly 200 years ago a thoughtful
pos prlhler' nhIneu benjamin frhnklln,
n away from Boston to Philadelphia.
Recently a bronze statue OF Franklin
was acclaimed by thousands In the city
OF his birth as II was exhibited In a
parade. The statue, In reaching Dos
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
about 100000, cannot be relnstated in
the American Federation of Labor IN
I'll II has turned over to the building
trades union its members now engaged
In station construction work. This de-
clslon was made by the executive
council of the building trades depart
ment of the federation. The Railroad
Shop Laborers' Union was suspended