Williams news., 1921-05-20
FOREIGN

discovery of natural gas in Central
 America. ..
 Three small private banks in Ha
 vana have suspended payment and an
 other in the city of Cana guey, eastern
 Cuba, closed it's doors. All the institu
 tions had sustained runs by depositors
 and some of the oldest and strongest
 institutions in the city are affected | Outlaws have captured q British mis-
 sionary named Stevens near Fengh-
 sien, in the province of Shensi, it is
 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 2OOO B. c.
 Gems Lucio Blanco, Eduardo Her nandez, Ireneo Villarea1 and Pablo 1 Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains, | who have been reported to be starting | q revolution against the Mexican gov ernment from the United States side, have made an appeal to President Ob- l regon for leniency if they surrender, according to official advices.
 The Argentine government, under an agreement reached with representa- tives of the labor organizations, will not permit nonunfon labor in the port area Work in the major section of the port which has been at a StandStill for some time as result of the boycott declared by the port workers is ex- pected to begin shortly.
 A mule is not a horse according to an opinion of the Manitoba Court of Appeals, which awarded S1OO and costs to Thomas Pople, mule dealer, against the city of Dauphin, Man. Pc pie sold twenty mules there last sum- mer, and was forced by town officials to pay $5 head tax, which is levied on horses brought to the town for sale. He sued to recover the amount.
 Maj Gen. Leonard Wood and W. Cameron Forbes, former governor, composing President Harding's special mission to investigate conditions in the Philippine islands, settled down to i'm vestigation work immediately upon ar rival at Manila. After a popular dem onstration in the shape of parade of
 
 Mayor Fernandez, in honor of the com the mission started action. GENERAL
 Miss Idell Roland, IT years old. of chose death to blindness. She ended her life with poison when she knew her sight was fading
 T. G. Brown and J. W. Creole were l 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 | in importation or exporta- ion of goods, have been issued by the federal reserve board.
 Gus Groener, S4, an Inmate of the county poor house in Mis- souri, is an uncle to General Groener, newly appoiRted German minister of telegraph and transportation. Over aken by poverty and old age, he has ,een in the poor house for several Tears.
 An unidentified negro was lynched 1t McGenee, Ark, for alleged partici- ,ation in an attempted attack on T. P. SlInS, a Tu1lTO0Q DlackSmlIn ana d | Toung white woman while they were iding in an automobile along a coun- ry road. Sims reported three negroes topped his car and demanded he leave he young woman. He opened fire and he trio fled.
 Fire, causing a loss of more than a million and a half dollars, destroyed , So. breaker of the Lehigh Coal ana Navigation Company at Coaldale, Pa. . The structure, together with much val able machinery, is entirely in ruins. \ I Nearly 200 years ago a thoughtful oy printer. named Benjamin Franklin, 4 an away from Boston to Phila delphia. recently a bronze statue of Franklin yas acclaimed by thousands in the city f his birth it was exhibited in a $ arade. The statue, in reaching Bos- 6 on had reversed the route taken by | rankin to Philadelphia. I The United Brotherhood of Main ( enance of Way Employes and Railway [ hop Laborers, with its membership of bout 100000, cannot be reinstated in 8 ne American Federation of Labor un- I Il it has turned over to the building l -ades union its members now engaged | station construction work This de- T lsion was made by the executive c ouncil of the building trades depart f lent of the federation. The Railroad T hop LaborerS' Union was suspended T