The Ordway new era., 1921-05-27
FOREIGN

Gen Francisco Murguia, rebel leau-
er, was severely injured in recent
clash with federal troops near Mier,
state of Tamaulipas. according 10 war
office reports, and is now recuperat'nS
on the American side near Las Vegas.
Organization of an airplane force to
fight forest fires in the province or
British Columbia is to he begun soon.
following the announcement of the
British Columbian government that Ii
had appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
pose
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of
Spain escaped injury when their auto
mobile overturned while they were GO
ing to the Hippodrome TO attend the
races. says a dispatch from Madrid
The accident was due TO the bursting
of tire.
Canadian police searched the Wei
land canal for 1.400 pounds of dyna-
mite, stolen from the government
stores near Allanburg. Several years
ago an attempt to wreck the canal by
explosives was made at Thorold, a
lew luiltS HUN
The peasants of Russia have thus
far failed TO respond to the appeal of
the Bolshevist government To SOW
grain TO enrich this years harvest. ae-
cording to reports. The soviet au-
thorities are beginning to take a
gloomy view of the prospects for next
winter.
The British Columbia liquor moder-
alton act. providing for the govern
mcnt control and sale of liquor within
the province. will become effective
sometime after July l, instead of on
June l. as had been originally planned.
Inability of the provincial liquor board
TO prepare for the opening of the gov
ernment stores June 1 was given as
the reason for the delay.
Francisco Villa. former Mexican
bandit leader. expects To harvest
crop of 10000 bushels of wheat this
year, according to report from Con-
sui ]. B. Stewart at chihuahua, Mex
leo. Villa was said 10 have equipped
with modern American
farming implements, including tractors
and motor trucks, the large tract he is
with the assistance of the
Mexican government.
An Italian tenor dropped dead on
Geneva while singing in the last act
of Puccini's La Boheme" TO Mimi,
who was lying dying ON a bed. The
actress, unaware of the tenor's death,
continued singing her role until a ply
sician appeared on the stage and or
dered the curtain rung down The
ended abruptly on an
nouncement of the actors death.
The time limit for disarmament by
Germany is fixed as June 30, in an
allied note received in Berlin. The
note, which concerns execution of the
recent ultimatum. demands that the
of the German army of
100000 be brought into conformity
with the peace treaty by June Is, su-
perfluous munitions and unauthorized
fortress equipment surrendered by
May 81, and all arms in possession of
civilians by June 10.
GENERAL
Six men, comprising the crew of the
barge MiZtec, are believed to have
been lost in the blizzard which tore the
Miztec and the barge Peshtigo loose
from the steamer Zillah off Whitefish
Point, in Lake Superior.
Testimony that he paid 1850 to
business agent of a plumbers union"
to settle strike called by the wreck
ers when construction of the Woods
theater was started was given before
the DALEY legislative committee at
Chicago by George A. Thomas of the
Longacre Construction Company of
New York. Thomas declined to name
the man to whom he paid the money.
Every public school teacher in Hat
tiesburg, Miss, including Superintend-
ent F. 3. Woodley, has resigned as a
result of an announcement by the
board of school trustees that next year
salaries would be reduced 10 per cent.
William Randolph Hearst has pur-
chased property in New York on which
a twenty-five-story building is to be
erected to house his newspapers, the
American and Journal, and his maya
zines, news services and film COM
panies. The building will be ready
for occupancy in about year.
Raymond Doolittle, 4, is dead and
several other children are seriously i'll
as result, physicians believe, OF eat
ing poisoned candy. The Dooiittle boy
became in after eating candy he had
bought at neighbOrhood store. He
was seized with nausea and convul-
sions that resulted in his death.
Rev. Guy Kyle was sentenced to
eighteen years imprisonment and
fined $1,000 in Federal Court at st.
Louis when he pleaded guilty of rob-