The Holly chieftain., 1921-11-03
FOREIGN

ceived.
Because the war cost France go
much blood and manned 80 many OF
her sons, dueling must be severely re-
pressed. declares n. Bonnavay. French
minister of justice, In circular ad-
dressed TO public prosecutors all over
France. I Hrs
Three vessels. Including an un!denti-
fled masted schooner. were ashore on
I the Nova Scotian coast as the result
of terrific gale at Sydney, n. s. The
gale, which Is said to have been the
worst that Cape Breton has expe-
rienced since 1878, did considerable
damage.
The Noyy Put, Bolshevist organ ut
Riga, reports that mn American bank.
with capital of S10,0O0,0OO, is being
opened in Hnrbin, Manchuria. with
branches at Chita, BlagOvestchensk
and Khabaroysk. The newspaper as
serts that the bank intends to assist
American trade In Siberia.
Local authorities have placed the
port of Petrograd under military CON
troll in an effort to prevent pflfering,
smuggling Of liquors and intoxication.
Offenders will be punished by a court
martial. This step was made neces-
sary by workmen concealing quantities
OF grain. flour and other products in
their clothing when they left work.
A dispatch to La Nacion from
Asuncion says that President GOndra
of Paraguay has handed his resigna-
ton to DR. Felix Palva, the vice presl-
dent, owing to a revolutionary move
ment by the followers of eX-President
Schaerer The revolutonaries are re-
ported to have the support of all the
troops and police In the capital and
country districts.
GENERAL
A negro was killed in battle with
Baltimore police at Humphrey station,
q suburb OF Baltimore, following q
threatened race riot. The riot was
precipitated by mn assault upon a
white girl by negro.
X
plon of Great Britain, France and Can
ada, defeated Miss Alexa Stirling, for
mer United States champion, by up
before large gallery at the Pelham
Country Club. New York.
A live South Carolina opposum and
a bushel Of sweet potatoes were given
President Harding when the presiden-
tial special stopped at Greenville, $. c.,
en- route to Washington. Secretary
Christian accepted the gifts for the
President, who had retired.
Sam Gordon, B5, negro, was
hanged by a mob near Winnsboro, La,
following the shooting of Joe Kim
ball, a white farmer. The shooting
followed quarrel over a bag of Pc
cans, 1t was said. 1t was reported the
negro's father was taken into q woods
and whipped.
Seven persons, including Miss Mary
Green Of Denver, were slightly injured
and scores were shaken up when the
Duluth-C Chicago express of the Chicago
& Northwestern raIlroad was derailed
near Arlington Heights, Ill. A broken
rail- is believed by railroad officials to
have been responsible.
Although blind since he was 10 years
old. Albert Barnhard has been award
ed the degree of eagle scout by Bloom
ington Normal Council Boy Scouts of
America, satisfactorily passing the
twenty-one severe tests necessary to
qualify. Albert is said to be the first
blind boy to attain the eagle scouts
degree.
Federal prohibition agents raided an
attic above Greenwich village res
taurant, in New York. Their haul in
cluded fifty casks. 1000 bottles and
100 jugs of wine valued at $4,000
The smell of nearby barrel OF mash
mingled with odors from stored cheese.
the officers said, but the attic was
used as sleeping quarters for three
persons.
Mrs. A. o. eagle, wife of farmer,
and her 6-year-old son were burned to
death at their home near Jonesboro,
Ark. when the chiId's tricycle., to
which he had rigged can Of fire In
initiation of his fathers tractor, over
turned, the fire igniting his clothing
and that Of his mother when she went
to his aid.
Police have discovered well" Of
whisky in a residential section OF
Knoxville, Tenn. A small copper pipe
from copper tank sunk ten feet un-
der the ground enabled the owner to
keep supply of moonshlne whisky on
tap at all hours. The whisky was
forced through faucet by hand
pump. The outfit was confiscated and
the owner arraIgned In Police Court.
Twenty sticks Of dynamite wrapped
In brown paper on which had been
drawn diagram of the Atlanta, Bir-
mingham 4 Atlantic and Southern
railway lines were found by school
children In an abandoned sewer at At
lanta, according to reports to the po-
lice. Since the inception Of the gen
prnl strike on tho Atlanta pirryn a.