Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-07-15

Is estimated at 100000 crates, valued
Mt $4,500.000, by port officials, who
base their figures on recorded ship
ments from Havana. More than 5O0,-
600 crates have been exported over the
ferry ships running between Cuba and
Florida. while about 100000 crates
have been shipped to New York.
Lieut.. Gen. Karl Stenger, charged
by the French government with hav-
ing ordered troops under his command
to rake no prisoners and kill wounded
men during the fighting OF August.
1914, has been acquitted by the Ger
man Supreme Court at Leipslc. en-
gagged In the trial of cases against al
Crusus, tried on similar charge,
was given sentence OF two years in
prison and forbidden to wear the Ger
man uniform.
GENERAL
John Collins is under arrest in Chi
cago because he is alleged to have
stood by while Annie Holdt, 10 years
old, drowned in shallow water with
out offering assistance.
George Johnson, 40, and Jerry Elan
nagan, %, coal miners at Riverton.
seven miles northwest of Springfield,
ILL.,, were killed when they fell 200
feet down the shaft of the mine when
the scaffolding on which they were
working gave way.
When blind pedestrians cross n
street In New Orleans hereafter, they
will blow police whistle to let traf-
they are coming The suggestion,
made to Superintendent of Police Ma
loney, has been adopted.
Five prisoners escaped from the
Essex county jail at Newark, N. j., but
one of them was captured by the po-
lice before he had been free an hour.
The men, who were all imprisoned for
minor offcnses, secured their liberty by
prying hole in the metal ceiling with
silver spoon.
A system of model nirways, covering
the entire continent, is planned by the
army air service for the use of all
operators or owners of aircraft. 1t
contemplates various chains of we'll
organized landing fields, supplemented
by frequent emergency fields and iden-
tification markers connecting the prin-
cipal cities.
Approximately 1000 coke workers
in the Independent plants of the Com
nellsville. Pennsylvania, coke region
were affected by 10 per cent reduc-
ton In wages, the second announced
this year. The new rnte is about 33 1-3
per cent below the rate paid Jan. l.,
but, accoi ding to coke men, 10 per cent
Only about Z per cent of the independ-
ent ovens are in operation.
w. II. Bailey is believed to have set
a worlds record at Louisville, Ky,
whnn he leaped 300 feet into the Ohio
river from an airplane. The feat may
cost him his life. Bailey shot through
the air in beautiful dive until about
thirty feet from the water. He turned
slowly and struck on his back De-
spite the internal injuries, he was
swimming when boat reached him.
Before leaping he asked that n photo
graph be given to his mother "If 1
don't make it,
Proclaiming a strike against the
high price of ice cream sodas, more
than 1000 Bronx boys and girls pa
raded In New York with the hope of
bringing their favorite drink down to
the old-time nickel price. They
marched to the office of Borough
President Bruckner, who operates u
large soda water plant.
Harry Woodard, good swimmer,
drowned while Roy Rhodda, minus his
two cork legs, which became loosened
when boat occupied by five men over
turned in Ely lake, near Gilbert,
AIlnn., swan 800 yards to shore. The
others in the boat also reached shore
safely. Rhodda told friends that two
of his companions utilized the floating
cork legs to aid them to reach the
shore.
Fred Taylor, an 'ex-service man OF
Wichita, Kan, is hero. When an
ammonia pipe in grocery store near
Taylor's place of business broke he re
membered his army training, rushed
home, donned his gas mask and
stopped the flow of poisonous fumes
before serious damage was done. A
number of customers were nearly suf
focated by the fumes. but all recov'
cred following rescue by Taylor.
With the vote of the railway shop
men overwhelmingly opposed to accep
tance or wage reduction from So to
II cents an hour. as ordered by the
United States Railway Labor Board
railway circles are apprehensive that
the nation may be confronted with a
serious railroad crisis within a fort
night.
Eleven persons were killed and
twenty-five injured, when a train en-
route for Tampico from San Luis