The Ordway new era., 1921-10-28
FOREIGN

uG A,Sha'Ss 49,
sessions during which there was much
discussion, ratified the treaty which
the United States by which Colombia
is TO receive $25.0OO.OOo.
The international relief committee
of Constantinople sent 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
drawal of the American Red Cross
unit
Regular white slave auctions have
been discovered and ended by the
Vienna police. In one instance IL
year-old girl was sold by her mother
for the equivalent OF one dollar. The
girl got pair of stockings. The
mother was sentenced 10 three months
at hard labor.
Philipp Scheideman, former secre-
tary OF foreign affairs, was fired upon
during Il meeting of the German Peo-
pies party in Ludenscheid. Westpha-
liza. The bullet went wild, and Herr
Scheideman was uninjured. Five per
sons were arrested for the attempted
assassina ton.
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 laws
continue. Many of the stores have
been closed, bread and milk supplies
are said to be exhausted and food
scarce.
A British mission will soon proceed
to AnatoIia TO sound the Nationalists
regarding peace. The Ansora 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 LuculIus, 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 Wraugel and
Baroness Wraugel We're ashore.
A robber who was foiled in an at
tempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton,
Ont, after Il pistol duel with an Off
cial of the institution, tried his for
tunes again with better success. lie
walked into the Union bank. said to
a clerk: "rhey stopped me Yesterday
but won't today" pointed "a pistol at
him, grabbed $1,000 and escaped.
GENERAL
Thirty-fiVe horses and mules and
three motor trucks of the garbage and
street cleaning departments of the city
of Little Rock were lost i'll fire that
swept the city stables, in the east part
of the city. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. Only one of the thirty-six
animals in the stable was saved.
The railroad brotherhoeds have 81
strike fund of s2,OOO,000, which is in
sufficient for a general strike of any
length, John Grunau, president of the
United Association of Railway EN-
ployes of North America and leader
of the so-calIed ''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 II. 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 1886 passenger automo.
biles exported from the United States
the United Kingdom is listed with 49,
154 cars; British India, 1O,S4S; Can
ada, 1860; British South Africa, 5,51O +;
Cuba. 5,2SG: New Zealand, 5,099; Bra
zil, 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-
ren, fifty-three t-grandchildren
and five great-great- grandchildren.
Mrs. II. G. Rocker. arrested at Mem
phis, Tenn, several days ago on a fu-
gitive from Justice warrant issued in
Dallas, Texas, where it is alleged by
federal officials she is under indict-