Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-06-10
FOREIGN

arovsk, capital of the maritime prov
ince of Siberia, shot 100 political Of
tenders in Jail there.
The first submarine ever construct
ed in Spain was launched nj Carriage
ma The vessels displacement is T13
tons and her calculated speed sub
merged is nine miles an hour and sur
face speed sixteen miles
The naval ministry OF Japan has or
dered the withdrawal of the garrisons
in the islands of the South Pacific, in
Guiding the Island OF zap. leaving the
protection of the islands. including the
wireless installation in Yap. TO the po-
lice force attached to the civil admin
istra tion.
A link with the old days of the
Hawaiian monarchy was broken re-
Gently when the death occurred of
Mrs. Emily C. Judd, widow of Charles
Hastings Judd, chamberlain to King
Kalabaua. the last king of Hawaii
Mrs. Judd wns born in Portsmouth,,
N. H.. March 10, 1910. and went to
Hawaii in 1883
Major General Joseph Hummel, for
meriy OF the Austrian army, and eIev-
en- other ex-officers. who were placed
on trial before u special court In Vi
enna on the charge OF having commit
ted treason In connection with the re-
cent attempt of former Emperor
Charles to regain the Hungarian
throne. have been acquitted.
Drastic steps have been taken in
Kattowitz. Silesia, by leaders of Pol
ish insurgents to prevent plundering
Firing squads have been busy every
morning and several times recently six
men have been executed at one time
for various reasons. In spite of the Sc
we're discipline. the Poles continue riot
ing, and are reported to have robbed
food conveys.
Lieutenant Neumann of the German
navy, charged with sinking the British
hospital ship Dover Castle, in which
many lives were lost, has been aSquit-
ted in Leipzig by the special courts
trying Germans accused of violating
the rules of warfare. Admiral Scheer,
who commanded the German fleet in
the battle of Jutland, had maintained
that Neumann. a U-boat commander
was merely obeyins orders In sinking
ship in a part OF the Mediterranean
which Germany had declared closed to
craft OF that class
GENERAL
Denzel Chester has been acquitted
by jury in Kansas City. Mo, of the
murder of Miss Florence Barton. The
jury was out only twenty minutes.
The former German passenger liner
Kaiser Wilhelm II, has been renamed
President Harding, 1t was announced
at New York by officials of the United
States Mail Steamship Company
Two young men forced two clerks
and customer of the Citizens State
Bank at Priest River, Idaho. into the
vault and escaped with about $1,000
in currency that lay on the counter.
Two Mexicans and three negroes
have been arrested in Des Moines by
Sheriff Robb as suspects in the mur-
der of Miss Sara Barbara Thorsdale
One of these was Tom Willis, 4O-year-
old negro, who had been camping on
the Raccoon river near where the
teachers body had been found.
Offering of cigars at election polls
by candidates was held to be viola
tion OF the corrupt practices act by the
District Court after Jacob Beck, town
ship treasurer of Granite Falls, Minn.,
was removed from office on petition of
forty residents because he had given
away cigars at the polling place in his
townshihp.
great meeting of the representa-
tives of all the railway unions affected
by the wage cut decision of the rail-
way labor board to be held in Chicago
June 81 and 2S 1t has been announced
At that meeting the unions viii give
their answer to the S40O, ,00O. 900 wage
cut and in all probability the question
of strike or work will be decided there
Progressive rediscount rates now in
effect lin the st. Louis and Kansas
City reserve dis;ricts-described by
President Harding recently as penal
izing rates"-probably will be removed
by the federal reserve board soon.
Anders Gustaf Nelson, son-in-law of
Senator Knute Nelson. charged with
shooting to death Joseph Middleton, a
farm hand, in March, 1920, was found
guilty of manslaughter in the first de-
gree by jury at Fergus Falls, MINI.
With thousands gathered along the
beach, Jnck Murphy OF Haverhill.
known as Daredevil Jack" jumped
with a parachute from his airplane at
Salisbury Beach. Mass. landed in the
ocean considerable distance from
shore and was drowned in the view of
big crowd.
Resumption of building activities in
Chicago, which have been halted for
many yyeeks by waoa dfsnt+ax hatuaan