The Ordway new era., 1922-12-29

ers We're executed ut Mount JOY pri
on recently by the Irish Free Stat
government. The men executed wer
former railway workers. They wer
arrested near Kildare Tor tearing u
rails and threatening to wreck train:
Twelve persons We're reported MIS-
ing from the French hospital shi
ylnh-Long, which caught fire In III
Sea of Marmora. Earlier in the da.
| the United States destroyer Bainhridg
| which had gone to the rescue of III,
French ship, had reported all on boar,
saved.
GENERAL
\ slight earthquake shock Was fell
In SHssoula, Mont. recently. Resident:
were awakened, pictures shaken from
walls and dishes raitled. No damage
Was reported.
-Four persons were Instantly kiiet
and another was slight injured al
Port Arthur, TeNus, when L street cal
struck The truck in which they wer,
riding. All Of the parry were en- route
To their work
Between GO and 700 persons, com
prising the spectators in two moving
picture theaters, were forced 10 run rot
safety when fire destroyed the Repub,
lie and damaged the Garden theaters
in Annapolis, Md.
Twenty-Five civilian employees of the
Brooklyn naval base We're arrested by
Department of Justice agents from
New York city in connection with
grand jury indictments charging more
than Sl,0O0,00O worth of goods have
been stolen from the base since the
war. Goods stolen from the naval
base included clothing. oil and other
materials, according TO the federal
agents.
The Transportation Brotherhoods
National Bank, the sixth of its kind in
America, opened for business in Min.
neapolis recently with initial deposits
OF more than $4,000 during the first
hour of business. The bL.lk is capl.
talized at 100000, and will be oper-
ated on plan similar to the Engineers
Cooperative Bank of Cleveland. The
stock is held by members of the four
transportation brOtherhoods of the
Northwest.
According to the annual report OF
the U. S. forest service, large part
of the danger to the national forests
from man-caused fires is due to the
seasonal influx of tourists, campers,
hunters, and fishermen, and other Wis
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parts of the country. \ national cam.
paign of public education on the sub
ject of forest fires is demanded IL the
task of protection of the vast area of
the national forests, from Maine and
Florida to California and Washington
is to be successfully performed
Twenty-three of the twenty-seyen
persons who have been missing since
the tug Reliance struck on the rocks
off Lizard Island, near Sault Ste Ma
rie, Ont, have been saved, according
to reports from the tug Grey, which
said that all hope for the lives OF
twenty-seven vanished with the find
ing of two overturned lifeboats known
to have carried the party.
Soldiers bonus and highway i'm
proyement account for approximately
So per cent of the S316.6S5, 5,11512 au
So per cent of the S376,6S512 au
thorized Indebtedness of thirteen Mid
die West and Northwest states, ac
cording to reports of state treasures
from g.p ne
amount S1S1, 1,735,115 is represented II
bonds or certificates of Indebtedness.
already Issued. Voters of Illinois
Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio hav,
authorized the payment of s207. .7O5. .0O'
to veterans Of the world war, por
ton of which already has been dis
tributed. Illinois, Michigan and Mis-
souri, have provided for system o
good highways representing an ex
penditure Of $115.0O0,OOO.
May Walker Ollie Homestead, Hol
stein COW owned by the Minnesot
Holstein Company at Austin, MINI
has broken the world record for
years production of butter, her ngur
for 385 days being 1,217.27 pounds o
butter fat, the equivalent Of 1,521J
pounds Of butter, according to A. L
Eberhart. president of the compan
and manager Of a packing plant Il
Omaha.
Ismet Pasha has announced tha
the American colleges and institution
in Smyrna will be permitted to reope
under the Angora regime.