The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-11-04
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Flour reached the lowest price In SIX
years on October 10,
General Pershing has sailed frsna
France for New York.
Three thousand tons OF German tsys
reached Boston last week.
spain has lost $4,000 men in the
Moroccan war, which broke out IN
Morocco last July
Sir Eric Geddes. Minister OF Trans
portation In the British cabinet, has
resigned.
MARQUIS Okuma known as "Japans
grand old man." is reported to be ser
iously ILL.,
Smallpox has appeared in the wake
OF cholera typphus, and famine in the
Russian volga region.
Gen. Armando Diaz, VINO led the
armies of Italy in the great war reach
ed New York on October 10.
President Harding has been given
the honorary degree OF doctor OF laws
by William and Mary College.
Cambridge University. in England.
has again voted against granting wo-
men membership in the university.
The government OF Portugal has re-
sined as the result of a successful mil
itary movement without bloodshed,
Former Premier venizelos, of Greece,
and his bride reached America on oc-
tober 81 for an American honeymoon.
! J.. III. Cowles. OF Louisville, has been
elected Sovereign Grand Commander
| of the Southern Jurisdiction Scottsh
Rite Masons.
| A prairie fire in Nebraska last week
swept strip ten miles wide and sew
enty miles long from North Platte to
| the northeast.
The American troops which took
part in the ceremonies incident 10
| General Pershing's visit to London last
week have returned to Coblenz.
King George has announced that ow-
| ing to the great need of economy he
will not fit out the royal yacht Britain
MIA for the yacht races next year.
Admiral Earl Beatty. OF the British
navy, landed in New York on October
! u on his way to attend the American
Legion Convention in Kansas City
| A German airman has just made
successful flight OF twenty minutes
with motorless airplane. The ma
chine rose $50 feet and sailed twelve
miles,
DIR. Arturo Atria chief baeteriologist
of the Chilean Institute OF Hygiene, has
announced his discovery OF method
or iuolating the bacteria of smallpox,
Governor sproui. OF Pennsylvania,
/, has appointed William Z. Crow OF I'm
iontown, Pa, as tinted states Sena-
tor to succeed the late Philander c.
Knox, -
Secretary Of Labor Davis himself
registration law for all aliens includ-
ing those already here and those to-
come.
The government at Vienna is pre-
pairing TO reestablsh complete control
over grain Farmers will be compelled
to deliver their entire crops to the gov
ernment.
A general reduction in freight rates
on hay, grain, and feed in Western
and interrnountain territories has been
ordered by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Gold production In the United States
during the fiscal year OF 1920 fell on
by Ss.I46.5oo as compared with 1918.
while silver production was less by
l,32o,s72 ounces.
The four Socialist ministers in the
Belgium cabinet have resigned as re-
suit Of the crisis precipitated through
the resignation Of M Deveze, Minister
of National Deense.
Ludwig III, former king of Bavaria.
who abdicated In November. 1916. died |
in Hungary last week, according to
dispatches from Vienna. He was 10
years of age.
A billion more cigars. almost two
billion fewer cigarettes. and fourteen |
million pounds less OF manufactured
tobacco were produced in this country |
in 1920 than during 1919.
DR.. Livingston Farrand for two
years chairman OF the American Red
Cross and formerly President OF the
University of Colorado. has been made
President of Cornell University.
Mrs. George curtis, OF helier, Va.
has announced her candidacy for Gov
ernor of Virginia on an independent
Socialist ticket. She has adopted the
slogan, Help us purify politics"
To attract manufacturing enterprise
Is and foreign capital. Ecuador has
passed a law exempting from duties
and taxes all raw material and ma
chinery brought into the country for
that purpose.
Department OF Justice officials charge
that construction programs all over
The country have been retarded and
the unemployment situation aggravat-
ed by high prices OF cement exacted
by combine.
Forty one feeding kitchens OF the
Relief Administration In
Russia are now furnishing food to ia
900 children in the Kassam district.
Children in twenty -one institutions are
also being fed.
An attempt on the life of Ambassa-
dor Myron T. Herrick was made last
week when a bomb, which had been
sent through the mail, exploded in his
apartment in Paris. No one was in
jured. 1t is thought the bomb was sent
by French Communists as protest
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