The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-03-17
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England and France have agreed t
postpone the Genoa Conference t
April 10.
Nineteen stock brokers failed IL
New York City during the last twt
weeks of February.
Unemployment in Canada at presen
IL FIVE to six per cent greater than a
tais time last year.
Mohammedans are building mos
que In Paris, which will be the center
lf a Moslem colony.
A world prohibition congress to b'
he'd in June is being planned by the
Anti Saloon League.
Montreal's city hall, built 80 years
ago at a cost of enc million dollars
was destroyed on March 8.
Canada's present Parliament of 23i
members will be increased to 245 as !
result of the new census.
The conference in Washington be-
tween Representatives of Chile and
Peru on the Ancon treaty will open
april rs.
The American Federation Of Labor
has announced trat 1t will place Its
own candidates in the race for Con-
gress,
A new kind of influenza, with com
piications of jaundice has appeared in
Poland. The mortality rate is high.
The zap treaty was ratified without
reservation or amendment on March
by the Senate, the vote being 81 to
. .
For the first ti,de in the city's his
tory New York's gross receipts and
expenditures both exceed 100000
0c0 in 1921.
The House Appropriation Commit
tee has cut the requested appropria-
ton for navy fuel from s12000,000 to
s6.2S2.6S5.
The New Jersey Assembly has Just
pa ssed five bills designed to provide
hibition laws.
A Japanese, Masahara Kondo, has
Just secured from Mexico great fish
ing concession on the Pacific Coast
and the Gulf of California.
Abandonment of the Great Lakes
laval Training Station is being con.
sidered as a result of the Disarma-
ment Conference in Washington.
DR.. Wellington Koo, Chinese dele-
gate to the Armament Conference in
Washington, and Mrs. Koo have SAIL
ed from New York for Europe.
Assistance to the disabled veterans
of the World War cost the American
Red Cross approximately s10,000,OOO
during the calendar year 1921.
Hubert Work. First Assistant Post
master General, has been nominated
and confirmed as Postmaster General
10 succeed Will H. Hays, resigned.
Mrs. Emily N. Blair, Democratic
national committee woman from Mis-
suori, has been appointed to the ma
tional headquarters staff and will De
associated with the Bureau of Or
ganization, the woman's bureau being
as separate unit.
The city of Lemberg. Poland, is to
erect monument to commemorate the
American relief work by the Hoover
the Red Cross, and other well
fare Organizations.
Forty-five years after the invention
of the telephone the United States,
with only one-sixteenth Of the popula-
ton of the world, has two-thirds Of
the worlds telephones.
The Bulgarian government has been
able to recruit only 5000 men for the
volunteer army of $4,000. which the
Allies have stipulated must be Bull
garia's only military force.
An increase of more than $4,000, 900
in the public debt during February
has been announced by the Treasury.
The increase was largely due to the
issuance OF Treasury notes.
Government revenues collected in
January, the first month of operation
Of the revised tax law, showed a de-
crease in receipts of nearly s65,000,00O
compared with January, 1921.
A state Of civil war exists between
the Croats and the Italians at Fiume.
There has been III feeling between the
two nationalities ever since the Gre
alton OF the free city of Fiume.
German soldiers who died and were
buried on Belgian and French battle
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