The Ordway new era., 1921-10-21
FOREIGN

Puebla, Mexico, was reported in pro
test against alleged excessive taxation
by the state government.
According TO the latest statistics I'M
German casualties In the war We're /.
sos. S.545 killed and 4.247,143 woundea,
including cases returned on th'
wounded list more than once.
A Spanish cabinet council has ap
proved a new naval program for tn.
construction of fiftyeight wareraft o.
various classes during the nexr 81,
years. The vessels TO be built are foul
fast cruisers, six destroyers, twenty
gunboats and twenty-eight submarine, !
The feature of the reichstag banl
statement for the week ending Sept
80. issued at Berlin. is an increase ii
the paper currency circulation by l..
POS, 100000 marks TO S6.3S4 800. .0tr
marks During the week ending Sept
30 new bank notes and loan bank notes
to the amount of 4.2l3,T00,oo0 marks
were issued.
The American freighter West
Comak, bound with cargo from San
Laird liner Rowan, Glasgow Dublin
night passenger boat, in thick fog
off Corsewallpoint, Scotland, near the
mouth of the river Clyde. While the
Comak was lowering its boats to aid
the stricken ship, third steamer. the
! Clan liner Clan Malcolm, from Glas-
Cow for Natal, South Africa, sped out
of the fog in answer to an s. o. S. call
and crashed amidships of the Rowan,
which sank a minute later Thirteen
members of the Rowan's crew and
three passengers We're lost.
GENERAL
Mrs. Myrtle Greenlee fell dead in a re-
vival meeting in Paris, Ill, while plead
Ing with her husband to join Il church.
The cause of death was described by
physicians as heart disease aggravated
by religious excitement.
The State Bank of Muncie, Kansas,
was robbed recently, and in an eN-
change of shots between the robbers
and bank officials, it is reported, L. E
Worthington. cashier of the bank, was
shot. Telephone wires between Kan
sas City and Muncie We're cut, pre-
sumably by the robbers,
Ray v McGraw, formerly vice pres
ident and general manager of the Mis-
souri, Valley Cattle Loan Company of
Omaha, which was declared bankrupt
some time ago, has surrendered to the
sheriff on indictments, one of which
charged embezzlement of 100000 of
the company's funds.
One person is known to have been
killed and two were injured seriously
by an explosion that wrecked whole
sale grocery in Detroit. Police began
a search of the debris in the belief
some of the occupants of apartments
in the upper floor might have per-
ished. Joseph Caruso, proprietor of
explosion or give the police a clue.
Directors of the Associated Dress
Industries of America bowed to the
decision of Partisan designers and in
dorsed the longer skirts. This means
that manufacturers of dresses over
the country will take up the matter In
their respective organizations for indi-
vidual action" said David ]. Noses
sohn, executive director. at is be-
lieved that by spring the new length
will be considered established and pub
licity approved
Mrs. R. ]. Rocker, SO, has been ar
rested In Memphis by federal Officers
on a charge of being a fugitive from
justice, she being under Indictment in
Dallas, Texas. the officers said, in con-
nection with the embezzlement of S10,-
900 from the West Side National Bank
in that city. According to the officers,
Mrs. Rocker, for whom a search has
been under way for six months, was
a friend of James Lyons, now serving
d seven-year sentence in bank fraud |
More than 100000 a week was
spent on the highways in Ohio during
the past summer, beginning the latter
part of June. Vouchers for total of
s., ,161, ,504 were paid out by the Ohio
Highway Department for work done
between June Is and July L. This Is
the largest amount ever spent in that
short period of time since the depart
ment was organized.
A broken engagement and the an
nouncement that her promised fiance |
was preparing to marry another girl,
led to the fatal shooting of Boyd Rid
niger, 81, farmer, of Bradley's Ferry,
near Lead Hill, Ark. Miss Allie Stin-
nett, 81, his former sweetheart, in the |
scuffle for the gun, was shot in the |
thigh. Ridinger died four hours after |
the shooting. Miss Stinnett surren. |
dered to the police.
Capt. A. B. Randall, master of the |
steamship Hudson, has been cleared OF |
a charge of violating one of the most |
sacred laws Of Inc seas in that he
failed to give aid to seamen in dis |