, 1921-09-01

S%hantung.
Fire started in the most tlickly pop
ulated part Of Moscow several days
ago and burned several days, 1t Is as
serted by the Helsingfor correspond
ent Of the Central News. Several nun
dred houses have been destroyed. the
correspondent says.
Whisky valued at several thousand
dollars was seized at the mouth Of
the Fraser river, near Vancouver, B.
c., when provincial police officers
seized a party of men who had deliv-
cred two truckloads of liquor to be
loaded on Il scow. Officials believe
the whisky was to have been exported
to the United States.
GENERAL
Juliu NJ. Hansen, wanted In Lewis
town, Mont, for the alleged embeZzlc-
ment of $4,000 from the Empire Bank
and Trust Company, was arrested at
Shreveport, La. He has been sought
since October, 1917. Preparations are
being made to return him to Lewis
town.
Edwin II. Stephenson. n preacher,
who shot and killed the Rev. James e.
Coyle, pastor of st. Paul's Catholic
church. Aug. IL, at Birmingham, Ala,
was bound over to await action of the
county grand jury, after a preliminary
trial at which the defense offered no
testimony. Bond was not allowed.
Jay S. Gehan, Sioux City air pilot.
was probably fatally injured and his
brother, John G. Gehan, an occupant
of the plane, was seriously injured
when the airplane in which they were
doing circus flying failed to come out
of a tail spin md sent them crashing
to the ground. 800 feet below on the
flying field at South Sioux city, Neb.
Chief of Police Fitzmorris has of
ficially barred public exhibition of the
Dsmpsey-Carpentier fight pictures in
Chicago. Fitzmorris announced that
police would stop any attempt of Tex
Eickard. the New York promoter, or
any other person to exhibit the pic
lures before a paid audience. He said
he would not interfere with exhibit
tiOns before wounded soldiers.
The first day of the John Bailey
murder trial at Mount Vernon, KY,
growing out of the Balley-White noun
tain feud. was productive of nothing
more thrilling than the searching for
weapons of every person who entered
the courtroom. Soldiers and deputy
sherlffs stopped each clansman as he
entered the doorway. None resisted
the search and no weapons except a
few pocket knives were found. Even
the women were not exempt.
Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
the northern hemisphere, issued by
the International Institute of Agricul-
ture, show that 1t will be approximate
ly $4,000 o tons, compared to 81, 3OO,-
600 tons in 1920. The crop in Europe,
leaving out of consideration Great
Britain, France and Germany. is esti-
mated Mt 100000 tons, compared to
l0.500.000 last year The United States
and canada are expected to produce
2S,500,0O0 tons, against 2S,6OO,OO0 tons
in 1920, and India, Japan, Algeria, Mo-
rocco and Tunis will, it is said, yield
100000 II against 100000 tons
harvested last year.
Jim Nesbit, nimble negro, turned a
moved trick on the bloodhound seat out
to trail him in South Carolina. Serv-
Ing life sentence for murder on the
chain gang. Nesbit escaped. A blood
hound was sent on his trail. The ne
vn, avsnHtAI W-.NI a.. N-
cnught up, tied the animal to a tree
and continued his flight. He was cap
tured later. however.
Arkansas famous family Of "moun-
tain dew distillers has changed
trades by decree of juries. Horace
Cox, fifth member OF his family to be
found guilty of 'moonshining.' has en-
tered the high walls of the Arkansas
state prison to do a period of penal
servitude. He is 10. His father and
three older brothers preceded him to
"the city Of silent men"
Two steam yachts. the Venice and
the Trnnqunlo, conflscated by local
authorities for alleged whisky run
ming between Canada and Cleveland,
Ohio, will be sold as soon as legal
formalities can be arranged. Federal
Prohibition Agent Fred Counts an
nounced upon his return from n secret
mission In connection with the ships.
The estimated value of the crafts was
placed at $4,000 each.
Andrew Little, dlshonornbly dis
charged soldier. has learned to salute
the American flag. II took a good
flogging to teach him the lesson. Fol
lowing the burial at Benton, m, OF
Stanley McCollum, who was Killed IN
the Argonne, Little, according TO mem
hers of the American Legion. refused
to salute the flag. The Legion men
flogged him. Now he salutes.
The national assembly at Budapest
ratified organization OF the Hungarian
army In conformity with the Trianon
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