Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
FOREIGN


agency. 1t will include most of Rus
sin's big paper mills.
Wholesale suspension of business by
stores and factories In the city of
Puebla. Mexico, was reported in pro-
test against alleged excessive taxation
by the state government.
The Colombian Senate, after three
sessions during which there was much
discussion, ratified the treaty which
the United States by which Colombia
Is to receive $25,000.0O0.
According to the latest statistics the
German casualties In the war were L.
sos, 545 killed and 4,24T,143 wounded,
Including cases returned on the
wounded list more than once.
A Spanish cabinet council has ap-
proved n new naval program for the
construction of fifty-elght warcraft of
various classes during the next six
years. The vessels to be built are four
fast cruisers. six destroyers. twenty
gunboats and twenty-eIght submarines.
Regular white slave auctions have
been discovered aud ended by the
Vienna policei In one instance a 10
year-old girl was sold by her mother
for the equivalent of one dollar. The
girl got pair of stockings. The
mother was sentenced to three months
at hard labor.
A desperate situation which al
ready has cost two lives from violence,
Is reported at Puebla, Mexico, where
demonstrations against the state gov
ernments allegedly excessive tax laws
continue. Many of the stores have
been closed. bread and milk supplies
are said to be exhausted and food
scarce.
The feature of the reichstag bank
statement for the week ending Sept.
so. issued at Berlin, is an increase in
the paper currency circulation by a.
100000 marks to S6,3S4, 100000
marks. During the week ending Sept.
30 new bank notes and loan bank notes
to the amount of 4,213,700,0O0 marks
were issued
The yacht Lucullus, on which Gen.
Baron Wrangel, former head of the
anti-Bolshevist government in South
Russia, was making his home in Con
salntinople, was struck at the en-
trance of the harbor by the British
steamer Adrla and sunk with the loss
of two lives General Wrangel and
Baroness Wrangel were ashore.
A robber who was foiled in an at
tempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton,
Ont, after a pistol duel with an Off
cial of the institution, tried his for
tunes again with better success. He
walked into the Union bank, said to
clerk: "They stopped me yesterday
but won't today" pointed pistol at
him, grabbed $1,000 and escaped.
GENERAL
Mrs. Myrtle Greenlee fell dead in re-
vival meeting in Paris, ILL.,, while plead
Ing with her husband to join n church
The cause Of death was described by
physicians as heart disease aggravated
by religious excitement.
Thirty-five horses and mules and
three motor trucks Of the garbage and
street cleaning departments of the city
of Little Rock were lost in fire that
swept the city stables, In the east part
VI thC Nilys ht loSS Is tSlilliiltu Ut
$4,000. Only one of the thirty-six
animals in the stable was saved
Decisions of lower courts holding
that irrigation companies can fore,
close on farmers for failure to pay
water rent were in effect upheld when
the Supreme Court declined to review
appeals of John II. Martens and 9TH
Of I..I.. ~.
Oakley Land and Water Company.
One person is known to have been
killed and two We're injured seriously
by an explosion that wrecked whole
sale grocery in Detroit. Police began
n search of the debris in the belief
some of the occupants of apartments
in the upper floor might have per.
ished. Joseph Caruso, proprietor of
the grocery, was unable to explain the
explosion or give the police a clue
The railroad brotherhoods have
strike fund of S2,0O0,OOO, which is in
sufficient for general strike of any
length, John Grunau, president of the
United Association of Railway EN-
ployes of North America and leader
of the so-called "outlaw" strike of
last year, declared in Chicago.
Capt. A. b. Randall, master of the
steamship Hudson, has been cleared OF
a charge of violating one of the most
sacred laws of lhe seas in that he
failed to give aid to seamen in dis
tress. r. A. Sargent and j., e. Wilson
federal steamboat inspectors, decided
~ 1t g.. til
adrift in disabled motor boat off
New York harbor recently did not con
stitute willful neglect of duty.
Mrs. II. ]. Rocker, 33, has been ar
rested in Memphis by federal officers