Taiban Valley news., 1921-01-28
FOREIGN

General Caviglia, commander of the
italian forces along the Adriatic, has
ordered the raising of the naval block
ade of Fiume, and also the land block
ade
The German treasury department
has announced that foreign govern
ments hold 100000 German marks in
paper money and have credits OF 25,-
000,000,000 marks in German secur-
tiles.
King Alfonso, with Archduke Fred
erick of Austria, in hunting expedi-
ton in the forests near San Lucar
brought down seventy-six Wildcats and
one deer King Alfonso shot more
than half.
Canada's wheat yield for 1920 to-
tailed 263, 1S9,300 bushels from S.232-
374 acres, an average gain of fopr
and one-half bushels an acre over
1919, the Dominion Bureau of Statis-
tics announced at Ottawa.
Twenty-Five Japanese sailors, sur
vivors of the Japanese steamer Sakura
Maru, wrecked off the northern coast
of Luzon island, landed at Aparri,
Luzon, in two llfeboats. 1t Is believed
| the entire crew was saved. The Sa-
kura Maru was coasting freighter
of 239 tons.
A communication isued at Doom by
DR.. Haehner, the physician attending
the former Empress Augusta Victoria
rof Germany, who is i'll with heart dis
ease, said. "The former kaiserin's
heart attacks are less frequent but her
general state of weakness and or wear
ing away is increasing"
A call for special session of the
Mexican Congress, beginning Feb. z,
has been issued by President Obregon
Among the projects to be considered
are the new banking law, article 27 of
the constitution, which governs petro-
leum deposits, a new labor law, army
reconstruction and international COM
merce.
Fifty persons were arrested in To-
kio, Japan, charged, with disturbing a
court in which thirteen Socialists, ar
rested when the Japanese Socialist
leader was inaugurated, were being
tried. Employees of an engineering
works have smashed the fixtures in
the plant following the dismissal of
seventy-five strike agitators. Ten men
were arrested.
GENERAL
Rent reductions averaging about 20
per cent were ordered made by seven
Milwaukee landlords, by ruling of
the local rent bureau. Among the land
lords affected Was the owner of twelve
flats.
, A reduction of 20 per cent in the
price Of farm implements has been an
nounced by A. V. Burch, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
Blount Plow Company at Evansville,
Ind.
Col. William II. Baker, 90 years old,
said to be the Oldest member of the
order of Elks in the United States,
died at Springfield, Ill. He was said
to be a boyhood chum Of Abraham
Lincoln.
The Singer Manufacturing Company
makers of sewing machines, employ
ing 5000 workers at Elizabeth, N. j..
announced an immediate reduction in
wages of 20 per cent. 1t will not affect
salaried employees.
, An appropriation of $250,000 for the
relief of needy unemployed was voteC
at Detroit by the city council. The
fund, made Immediately available, will
be disbursed by the city welfare com
mission. Applications for relief, ac
cording to the commission, average
about 200 daily.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
: Company will install wireless outfit:
soon at New Orleans, Mobile, Pensa
cola and Louisville for the transmits
t sion of railroad business, according tt
/ an announcement made at New Or
I leans by r. r. Hobbs, telegraph super
e intendent for the company. Train dis
patches will not be handled, however.
t Three men posing as policemen IL
! Chicago stopped an automobile driver
: by Mrs. Sigmund G. Livingston ant
e robbed her of jewelry which she valued
y at $4,000. Included was a pearl neck
|, lace which she said was worth $4,000
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, VIII
/ inherited the bulk of Mrs. Frank Les
: lies 100000 estate, made settle
ments with two heirs to avoid con
n test of the will, it was disclosed whe
4 the referees report was submitted 4
, Surrogates Court. Mrs Leslie
niece, who was bequeathed the incom
i from a $4,000 trust fund, was give
= 100000, and another prospective col
u testant was paid 100000 by Mrs
:, Gait.
=. Ole Hansen, former mayor of Sea-
J. tie, disrupted Socialist meeting q
Racine, Wis, when, under auspices G
a the Racine Constitutional Defens
Il League, he invaded the meeting, 0
If which Irwin st. John Tucker, indicte
n under the espionage act, was the pril
s.-.t o,.ooIyo,. aud N lon rod him IN