The Ordway new era., 1921-04-01
FOREIGN

least twenty of whom are not expect
ed to live.
The council of ministers of Bel
GUM have decided TO send Burgomas-
ter Max of Brussels to the United
States to tender congratulations of the
Belgian government TO President Hard
ing on his election.
There are 100000 war orphans in
Germany, according to official fig
ures They are being given state and
local care, but it is said they form
IL large percentage of more than l.
100000 children in Germany being aid
ed by foreign relief workers.
The German government has been
notified by the allied reparations com
mission that the total amount of 10
100000 gold marks due under ar
paid by May l or additional penalties
will be inflicted on Germany.
Estimates that 25,000 United States
landseekers will visit western Canada
during 1921 have been made by Walter
johnson of Winnipeg, secretary of the
Farm Lands Settlement Association of
Manitoba. \ very large number of in
quiries about lands have been received
from the states.
Emil Locke, real estate man, left
san Antonio, Texas. for Las Nacas.
Coahuila, Mexico. where he met repre-
Sentatives of Gen. Ignacio Villareal
Mexican secretary of agriculture, to
Of
10000 acres of land south of that city
by Communications.
The million-dollar plant of the Howe
Sound Mining and Smelling Company
at Brittania Beach, b. c.. twenty miles
north of Vancouver. is reported to have
ton by telegraph has been broken and
no details are available as to the eN-
tent of the damage done. The plant
is owned in New York
Sam Lowe of Holland Landing. near
Toronto, Can, was the hero of his
townsfolk all because he had the pres
ence of mind TO pull off a boot and
sock and flag an onrushing passenger
train before it reached washout on
the Grand Trunk railway. The sock
was red and the train stopped. Pas
sengers made up Il purse
Customs officials have found what they
believe TO be a part of the Russian i'm.
perial treasures, including fragment
of the late Cars crown, in the baggage
of the Russian commercial delegation
to Italy, held in the railway station at
Rome, pending examination. BrilliantS
as large as nuts We're discovered. A
collection of 1,290 ancient coins, is de-
clared to be worth several millions.
GENERAL
The Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, operating the elevated and
subway lines in Manhattan, had net
deficit of S2,6s2, T60 for the six months
ended Dec. 81, its annual report
showed, which has just tbeen issued.
Indictment of scores of Chicago
for making false income tax
returns is threatened by Harry w.
Mayer, collector of internal revenue.
Information furnished by tenants
whose rents have been increased, will
be used as the basis of the investiga-
ton Mayer is now making
Larry Mclean, former catcher for
the Cincinnati Reds and the New York
Giants, was shot and killed in Boston
during brawl in soft drink estab-
lishment. Jack Mccarthy, friend,
was severely wounded. The police took
into custody james ]. Connor, the bar
tender, pending investigation.
Although court decisions have gen.
orally been to the effect that whisky
is not property and cannot be stolen,
Judge 2. h Humphries, in the crimi-
nal division of the Superior Court at
Ga, ruled that taking the con-
which in this instance was a
suitcase, constituted theft and SEN
fenced three Negroes to serve four to
six years in the chain gang.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will leave
Seattle April on the steamer Wenat-
chee for Manila, where he will conduct
an investigation relative to Philippine
claims for independence, he notified
the chamber of commerce at Seattle. 1t
had been announced that he
would sail from San Francisco April 2.
The wearing of scant attire in pub
lie has been prohibited in Leavenworth,
Ind, by an ordinance adopted by the
town board Any person more than IA
years old who apears on the street in
a garment which exposes the arms,
shoulders or legs is to be fined under
the terms of the ordinance from So to
SO.
A marked increase since 1910 in the
number of insane in institutions in
all parts of the United States is fea-
ture of census of patients in insane
hospitals, just completed by Horation
NJ. Pollock, statistician of the New
York Hospital Commission, Edith NJ.
Furbish, statistician of the National
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