The Dolores star., 1921-05-27
FOREIGN

Phillippsohn, Cruiser and Company.
Gen. Francisco Murguia, rebel lead
er, was severely injured in recent
clash with federal troops near Mier,
state of Tamnulipas, according 10 war
office reports, and is now recuperatins
on the American side near Las Vegas.
Organization of an airplane force to
fight forest fires in the province OF
British Columbia is to be begun soon,
following the announcement of the
British Columbian government that It
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 60
ing to the Hippodrome TO attend the
races. says dispatch from Madrid.
The accident was due 10 the bursting
of tire.
Canadian police searched the Wei
land canal for l,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,
few miles from Allanburg.
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, ac'
cording TO reports. The soviet au-
thorities are beginning to take a
90 b., 70.
winter.
The British Columbia liquor modcr-
alton act, providing for the govern
ment 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
erument stores June l was given as
the reason for the delay.
Francisco Villa. former Mexican
bandit leader, expects TO harvest n
crop of 10000 bushels of wheat this
year. according to a report from Con
sui J. B. Stewart at Chihuahua, Mex
leo. Villa was said to have equipped
extensively with modern American
farming implements, including tractors
and motor trucks the large tract he is
cutivating with the assistance of the
Mexican government.
An Italian tenor dropped dead on
the stage of the Bellinzona theater in
Geneva while singing in the last act
of Puccini's la Boheme" to Mimi,
who was lying dying on 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
performance ended abruptly on an
nouncement of the actors death.
The time limit for disarmament by
Germany is fixed as June 30, i'll an
allied note received in Berlin. The
note, which concerns execution Of the
recent ultimatum, demands that the
organization of the German army of
! 100000 be brought into conformity
with the peace treaty by June IL, 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 $500 to a
business agent of a plumbers union"
to settle Il 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. b. Woodley, has resigned as a
result of an announcement by the
board of school trustees that next year
"oulu IeuuCtI ~ per cent,
William Randolph Hearst has pur.
chased property in New York on which
Il twenty-five-story building is to be
erected to house his newspapers, the
American and Journal, and his maga,
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 Doolittle boy
became i'll after eating candy he had
bought at a neighborhood store. He
was seized with nausea and convu
sions that resulted in his death.
Rev. Guy Kyle was sentenced to
eighteen years Imprisonment and
fined $4,000 in Federal Court at st
Louis when he pleaded guilty of rob.
bing the mails of S1S9OOO. Loren
, Williamson, partner in garage bust.