The Ocala banner., 1921-08-12

Ambassador Harvey is attending the
supreme council at Paris. Loyal Ameri-
cans are afraid that he may make an
other fool speech.
Owing to the hasty shipment Of
food Petrograd and Moscow were
saved from starvation.
Representative Keller, Independent
Republican Of Minnesota, made an
attack on the administration Satur-
day. He claims the party is under
the domination of Wall Street.
The widow Of Enrico Caruso, who
died in Naples, received more than two
thousand messages of coincidence
from friends and admirers of the
great singer
An immense deposit of BLACK Gran
ite," said to be the finest monumental
stone in America, has recently been
discovered in Jones county, just ten
miles from Macon.
A jeweler on a Pullman between
New York and Chicago was robbed
Monday night of jewels valued at
$4,000. He had them in case un-
der his pillow.
A special from Welch, Va, says
that G. e. Lively says that he killed
Sid Hatfield and Ed. Chambers in
self-defense. Il regret he says, hav-
ing had to shoot either one of them"
Fuller Freeman Confederate veter-
an, died at the age of 104 years in
Nashville, Tenn, on August 9Th. He
is supposed to have been the oldest
person in Tennessee.
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Does prohibition prohibit? Mayor
George Bright of Delaware City, Del
aware, announced last week that the
village jail is for sale. The police
force is idle, as there has not been
single arrest since the passage of the
Volstead act.
A government powder magazine at
Hiroshima, Japan, caused the death
of 124 persons. It reported also that
great floods are raging throughout
some parts of Yamagata.
The republicans to man voted to
seat Truman Newberry while the dem
ocrats to man votet against seating
him. Newberry was guilty of flag
rantly violating the corrupt practice
act in his race for the U. S. Senate
against Henry Ford
The K. X. K. Disbanaea in north
Carolina
Major Bruce Cameron of Greens.
boro, N. c., claiming to be the SUI
preme head of the Ku Klux Klan of
North Carolina has abandoned and
disbanded every organized club in
that state and released every Klans-
man from his connection, responsible
lity and obligations His action he
claims is based on dissatisfaction with
the purposes of the organization. VIM.
J. Simmons, the Imperial Wizard. of
Atlanta claims that Craven is not
an officer of the organization and
that his order disbandoning the Klans
In North Carolina is to be disregarded
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The Steamship Alaska Sinks
A special from Eureka, Cal, under |
date of August says: Twelve bodies
have been brought here out of a list |
of thirty-six passengers and twelve of /
the crew missing in the wreck of the |
coastwise steamer Alaska, which |
struck rock in Blunt's Reef, forty |
miles south of here and sank last /
night.
Ninety-six passengers and seventy
Of the crew were brought here by the
steamer Anyox, which arrived at the |
scene of the wreck in time to pick
these survivors up from drifting life
boats and from among the wreckage.
The Alaska was bound from Port
land, Ore, to San Francisco.
A golf expert met mysterious death
On the streets of Atlanta Tuesday.
Was found unconscious in front of
his home. Had been dropped from
IN automobile with the man with
whom he had been playing golf. His
nat was found ten feet away and one
shoe had been torn away. He died
about the time an ambulance got to
him.
What is believed to be the longest
continuous canoe VOYAGE eyer mada