The Dolores star., 1921-07-08
FOREIGN

for the purpose of ending hostilities
between them and Greeks in Asia
Minor.
Violent disorders in which five per-
sons were killed and ten wounded,
broke out at Fiume, following the
downfall of the Giolitti cabinet A
dispatch from Fiume says that chaos
reigns and that the Fiume legion has
been dissolved.
After meeting between the coal
mine owners and the miners in Lon
don, virtual agreement on the wages
question, the chief cause of the strike
in the mines. which has been in pro-
gress for some months, was reached.
The agreement is subject to the gov
ernment's granting subsidy to the
miners.
Woman suffrage advocates of
Havana, Cuba. lost their fight in the
Senate, which defeated provision of
the constitutional reform bill giving
Congress the right to determine under
what conditions women would be al
lowed to vote Another motion, giving
women unrestricted suffrage by strik
ing out the word male" from the con-
stitutional provision defining who shall
vote, was also defeated.
Great Britain has asked japan for
three months delay in renewing the
alliance. The reason advanced in
note asking the postponement was that
the conference OF the British premiers
is just beginning to consider the ques-
ton. Britain, it said, desires the pre-
miers shall reach n decision before a
new treaty is signed. No mention was
made of the American attitude
toward the alliance.
Proposal of Premier Lloyd George
for conference in London on the
Irish question between representa-
tives of southern and northern ireland
and the British government is impossi.
BILE of acceptance in its present form.
This declaration is made by Eamonn
de Valera, the Irish Republican lead
er, to Sir james Craig, the Ulster pre-
mier, in reply to Sir James notifica-
ton that he cannot meet Mr.. De
Valera in preliminary conference in
Dublin.
Official American participation in the
Rio de Janeiro in 1922 in celebration Of
International exposition, to be held ut
the centennial OF Brazilian independ-
ence has been recommended to Con-
gress by President Harding and Sec
retary Hughes. A message by the sec
retary of state, transmitted by the
| ,,-ith IA is tpI ia
the American ambassador at Rio de
Janeiro had been advised that Japan
and Belgium had intimated their in
tention Of participating and that
Great Britain and other European gov
ernments undoubtedly would take part
also.
GENERAL
Twelve persons were seriously In
jured recently in the collapse of a
three-story building in Denison, Texas.
1t is understood that more than TWEEN
ty-five persons were in the structure
at the time. 1t is not believed that
any lives were lost.
Gov. f. f. Morgan of West Virginia
has reaffrmed his declaration of mar
tial law in Mingo county and COM
manded the assessor there to enroll
all persons liable under the law for
military duty. He also ordered the
sheriff to draft 13O men, or to accept
l3O volunteers, who are to be mus.
tered into the service of the state for
sixty days, to enforce all orders pro.
. | m lpo ta6 hy tho upyarpnr
Several weeks of intimacy with this
solar system have had such an effect
on the Pons-Winnecke comet that it
has changed its itinerary and departed
from its orbit, the Harvard observa-
tory at Cambridge has announced. The
change in the comets plans have been
caused by planetary influences, and as
a result the predicted meteoric show
ers are not likely to fall, Solon l. Bal
ley, acting director of the observatory,
said
John J. Mitchell, Jr., scion of one
of Chicago's leading families, and his
bride, formerly Lolita Armour, daugli.
ter of millions, are spending their
honeymoon in Santa Barbara, Calf.
They We're married at Melody farm,
near the magnificent country estate of
J. Ogden Armour, multimillionaire
father of the bride.
Bodies of five adults and six chill
dren were found in the charred ruins
of the home of Ernest Lawrence, far.
mer near Mayfield, Kentucky, which
was destroyed by fire. According to
the authorities, there were Indications
that eleven may have been the VIC
tins of foul play, and non -committal
verdict was returned by the coroner's
jury.
Charges that the packers kept their
percentage of profit down to Is In
1920 by charging losses on inventory
against the years earnings, when they
should have been charged against sur
plus, were made before Judge Samuel