The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-08-26
|NEB OF THE
WORLD in BRIEF

Chil Justice Taft has purchased a
home washington City.
Sectary Hoover celebrated the 47th
annivbary OF his birth on August 10.
Ad1al Wilson has lifted the ban,
and 1ishipmeD at Annapolis are a.
gain lowed to smoke.
Th@Duildings and land at Camp
Tayld KY, recently sold at auction
nettekhe sum of $902.09s.
Sedtary of State Hughes is to head
the herican delegation at the dis
armaent meeting in November.
Hahii pays the largest per capita
| incou and miscellaneous taxes in the
nauoi not excepting New York.
Thkpanish cabinet resigned on Au- 1
gust in a crisis brought about by
the deat OF Spanish troops in Mo-
rocco
| Ruiia has agreed to control by the
lAmetan Observation-Disclosures of food
disruption in the famine districts OF
Russ III
| Nd battling ocean currents are
blam for the loss of the steamer
Alaa and forty-seven lives on the
Calitnia coast recently.
| A bft OF $4,000 has been made to the
I. 1 c. n. BY the emperor and en-
pred of Japan in recognition Of SER
vicejto troops in Siberia.
VIII an annual allowance OF 1885,
000l he royal family of England is
| spelling approximately 100000 year
ly pre- than its income.
"hssyfoot' Johnson left England
for hdia August II in response to nu-
metls invitations from temperance
orgaizations, in India.
Announcement is made from the OBJ
| serttory at Heidelberg, Germany, that
thearth passed through tail OF a
cont on August s.
| Ne Army Chaplains' Service School,
inciding all personnel and equipment,
haFeeH moved from Camp Grant. H.
to Imp Knox, KY.
Te body of DR.. w. E. Stone, Presi-
denof Perdue University, who lost his
lifdin an attempt to climb Mount
Eabn on July Is, was found August
Is.
Hr the first time in its history Green
LAM Is entertaining royalty the Dam
ish king and queen having reached
thu country recently for a visit.
hmbership OF the Boy Scouts OF
AItrica has reached 52S.1l9. This is
sal to be larger than the total men,
beihtp of Scouts in the rest OF the
w0d.
Jpanese, Chinese, and American ed
ucfors were gathered in Honolulu on
Aust IL for the opening OF the Pan
PaIfic Educational Conference
The strength OF the army is now APP
pfximately $4,000 men. Applications
fa discharge already on record are
sufficient to bring 1t down to 100000.
| Federal Judge Landis has granted
To police OF Chicago permission to
dInp into the Chicago River liquor
vSued at 100000 seized in recent
reds.
Unanimous approval of the peace
/ solution adopted by the UnitedStates
Cngress early in July has been voted
y the Hungarian National Assembly.
| Charles r. Crane. former American
Minister to China, has reached Riga
| ater seven thousand mile journey
tom Picking across Siberia and Soviet
Iussia.
| Col John NJ Martin, believed to be
he last surviving member OF the Con-
ress of the Confederate States OF
.merica died at his home, in ocala
fla, August 10,
An appropriation OF s5,000.O00 to be
Used by the President in Russian relief
8 provided for in bill introduced In
Congress by Senator King, Democrat
III Utah.
The bill for remission of further pay
nents by China to the United States
under the Boxer rebellion indemnity
treaty was passed last week by the
Senate and sent to the House.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee, in revising the tax law. has
voted to increase from $4,000 to $500
the exemption allowed married mer
having an annual income OF $4,000 and
less.
Jackson Barracks, at New Orleans
which has been garrisoned continu-
ousiy for more than hundred years OIL
virtually ever since the battle of New
orleans, has been ordered discontinu.
ed.
The United States Shipping Boart
steamer Black Arrow sank August i
off the west coast of Spain. The crew
and passengers were saved. The Blacl
Arrow was formerly a German steam
err.
The three Germans convicted of en-
gaging in a plot to foment revolution
in India during the war have been TIA
ken to Leavenworth penitentiary t,
serve three-year terms in lieu of pay
ing $4,000 fines
Treasury officials are considering
the assembling of an international con
gress of financiers at Washington, pos