The Ordway new era., 1921-03-18
FOREIGN

ported SuSpeIiucu.
The Russian revolution is rapidly
attaining the proportions of the 1871
coup which overthrow cZardom. ac-
cording to messages delivered to for'
mer Premier Kerensky.
Col. Angel Gaxiola, chief clerk in
the Department of the Interior of Mex
leo, and chief of staff under former
Provisional President Adolpo de la
Huerta, has been assassinated in Mex
leo City.
Madrid WAS Mortified when ii be-
came known that Eduardo Dato. pre-
mier and minister of marine, had been
assaSsinated while returning TO his
home from Il late session of the Span
ish Senate.
japanese troops in Siberia have
practically assumed the role of an
army of occupation and are daily in
creasing their activities, according to
reports in the possession of the State
Department at Washington from its
Representatives there.
The allied forces AT Dusseldorf will
comprise 5000 men, 5000 Of whom will
occupy the barracks, the remainder be-
ing distributed throughout the town. A
proclamation has been issued forbid
ding the overcharging Of the soldiers
and declares that lack of proper re-
spect will subject citizens to court
martial.
According TO the Reval correspond
ent of the Rotterdam Maasbode, Rus
sian radicals recently deported from
the United States are playing Il promi-
nent part in the new revolution in Rus
sia Deported Russians had great ex-
pectations of Russia, but were bitterly
disappointed when they found that the
communistic regime represented moth
ing but n sentence to an indefinite
term of hard labor without adequate
food"
Preparations are in progress for the
erection of chain of military block
houses TO indicate the new boundaries
of the Ulster area in Ireland under
dispatch. Government surveys have
commenced in North Monaghan coun-
ty near the Fermanagh border, the
dispatch adds. Sites are being selected
for new stations for thirty thousand
troops in the six-county area. The sta
tions will be two miles apart.
French. British and Belgian troops
occupy three German cities, Dussel
dorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort. Less
than 25,0O0 troops used to effect occu-
patton. No opposition offered by Ger.
mans. Populace orderly. German Of
ficials of occupied cities left in power.
Customs frontier established 1914
sadors summoned home from London,
Paris and Brussels. American troops
remain at old positions in Coblenz.
Harding announces they will not be
withdrawn at present.
GENERAL
Falling off i,ooO-foot bluff, Jack
Stewart, foreman ut the New Kenka
Hill silver mine in the Mayo district,
Alaska, landed on snow-covered shelf
200 feet below and escaped with three
broken ribs.
Street Commissioner Leo of New
York completed summary of the cost
of the recent snow storm in that city.
1t cost 81 100000 to rid the streets of
Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn of the
fall of 1906 inches.
A bust of Samuel L. Clemens Mark
Twain) was stolen from in front Of
the authors home in Hartford, Conn.
The pedestal was found in Park river,
but no trace of the bust has been dis
covered. A money reward has been Of
fered.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company adopted a rese@u-
ton directing the executive officers
ito give, as promptly as possible, prop
er notice that it is the intention of the
company to reduce the salaries and
wages of officers and employees to ac-
cord with economic conditions"
Effective fire fighting in New York
City thwarted repetition of the dis
astrous oil fire that swept the Some
and Fleming works of the Standard
Oil Company in Brooklyn in Septem-
Der, 1919. FLAMES that for time threat
ened to lay waste scores of 25,0OO-g gal
Ion tanks broke out but firemen re-
stricted the conflagratiOn to five tanks
and stopped its spread.
A concurrent resolution, introduced
in the lower house of the Michigan
Legislature at Lansing, by Representa-
tive Walter HenZe of Iron Mountain,
would call upon Congress to divide
Michigan into two states, the lower
peninsula to retain the present name
and government, and new common
wealth to be known as Superior" to
be created of the upper peninsula.
Union printers went on strike at
Binghamton, N. Y, to enforce de-
mands for increased wages and re-
duced hours. AS result of the strike,
evening newspapers and the Morning