The Dolores star., 1921-10-28
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ton exploded at Fort Rudmei, Ru.
manian arsenal and fortification.
The Colombian Senate. after thres
sessions during which there was much
discussion, ratified the treaty which
the United States by which Cclombis
Is to receive $25.0O0.0O0.
The international relief committee
of Constantinople sent a wireless ap
peal to the civilized world on behalf OF
thousands of destitute and homeless,
Russian refugees who have been abso
lutely helpless since the recent with.
drawai Of the American Red Cross
unit.
Regular white slave auctions have
been discovered and ended by the
Vienna police In one instance a Is
year-old girl was sold by her mother
for the equivalent Of one dollar. The
girl got pair OF stockings. Ths
mother WAS sentenced to three months
at hard labor.
Philip Scheideman, former secre
tary Of foreign affairs, WIS fired upon
during meeting Of the German Peo,
pies party in Ludenscheid. westpha.
lin. The bullet went wild, and Herr
Scheideman was uninjured. Five per.
sons were arrested for the attempted
aasa sassinatiou.
A desperate situation which al.
ready has cost two lives from violence
is reported at Puebla. Mexico, where
demonstrations against the state gov
ernment's allegedly excessive tax lawi
continue. Many Of the stores have
been closed, bread and milk supple.
are said TO be exhausted and food
scarce.
A British mission will soon proceed
to Anatolia TO sound the Nationalist.
regarding peace. The Angora govern.
ment has already advised the British
embassy that the delegates would be
welcome. The feeling in Constantine.
pie Is that the cessation of the long
drawn out conflict in Asia Minor may
passibly be in sight.
The yacht Lucullus. on which Gen.
Baron Wrangel, former head of the
anti-Bolshevist government in South
Russia, was making his home in Con
stantinople, was struck at the en-
trance Of the harbor by the British
steamer Adria and sunk with the loss
of two lives. General Wrangel and
Baroness Wrangel were ashore
A robber who was foiled in an az.
tempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton,
Ont. after a pistol duel with an off.
ei NJ ha ir- IL t,t. g.
tunes again with better success. He
walked into the Union bank, said to
clerk: They stopped me yesterday
but won't today" pointed pistol al
him, grabbed $1,000 and escaped.
GENERAL
Thirty-fiye horses and mules and
three motor trucks of the garbage and
street cleaning departments of the city
Of Little Rock were lost in fire that
swept the city stables. in the east par,
Of the city. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. Only one of the thirty-si1
animals in the stable was saved.
The railroad brotherhoods have a
strike fund Of $1,000, 600, which is in.
sufficient for general strike of any
length, John Grunau, president of the
United Association of Railway En-
| ployes Of North America and leader
Of the so-called OUTLAW" strike of
last year, declared in Chicago.
Decisions Of lower courts holding
that irrigation companies can fore.
close on farmers for failure to pay
water rent were in effect upheld when
the Supreme Court declined to review
appeals of John H. Martens and 9th.
ers Of Idaho against the Twin Falls
Oakley Land and Water Company.
A resolution calling upon Congress
and President Harding to enact legis-
lation and amend the national prohi-
bition enforcement act to permit the
manufacture Of light wines and beer.
in order that the breweries might be
reopened, thereby relieving the unem-
ployment situation. was presented in
the meeting Of the city unemployment
commission at st. Louis.
OF the 1896 passenger automo
biles exported from the United States
during the first ten months of 1920
| the United Kingdom is listed with 49,
154 cars; British India, 1O.S4S; Can.
ada, 1860; British South Africa, $50
Cuba, 5,2s6; New Zealand, 5000; Bra
I'll, 4,96S; Sweden, 1887; Dutch East
Indies, 3.439; Argentina, 1872; Uru.
quay. 3,2S7 Norway. 5000.
Nathan Loar, Mexican war veteran,
celebrated his one hundredth birth.
day at Leavenworth, Kan. He was
born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper court
house, Virginia. His wife, with whom
he lived seventy-two years. died six
years ago. They were parents of ten
children. Loar has forty grandchild.
rem, fifty-three great-grandchildren
and five great-great-grandchi
Mrs. r. G. Rocker, arrested at Men,
phis, Tenn, several days ago on a fu-
gitive from justice warrant issued in
Dallas, Texas, where it is alleged by