The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-09-15
AHXE WIS


The use of coke as domestic fuel
is being urged by the Bureau of Mines.
A treaty of alliance between Czecho-
Slovakia and Jugo- Slavia has been
signed. "
The E'ilipfnos paid to the United
States in 1920 an income tax of APP
proximately s2,766,ooO.
The Canadian wheat crop, which is
now being threshed, is estimated at
s5O,OOO 600 bushels.
Sixty-seyen. people were killed in
New York City during August by au-
Itomobilcs and auto trucks. j.
Secretary of the Navy DENLY reach.
ed San Francisco, Cal, on August 81
from a trip 10 the Orient
The Senate passed the Fordney
I McCumber soldiers bonus bill on Aug
ust 81 by a vote of ~ to %. u.
Augusta County, Va. suffered se-.
we're hail storm on August 81, the hail
being piled in drifts like snow.
Mrs. Nellie Grant sartqris Jones.
daughter of President Grant died at
her home in Chicago Ill., on August
so. ~.
Thomas Lee Woolwlue, District At
torney at Los Angeles, Cal. IS the
Democratic nominee for governor of
that State. 49, ~...
More than Si,siu UU0 U10 has been
responded by the government on be-
half of former service men through
{ The Veterans Bureau. r. ,..' ..
Concentration Of Hungarian forces
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explained by Hungarian newspapers
TO be due to uprisings. -. ...." ....' :
! The Japanese cruiser Nitaka was
/ lost in a typhoon of the coast OF
/ kamschatka on August 70 with a loss
of three hundred lives.
The birth rate is declining and the
death rate increasing in the United
! States, according to statistics of the
Census Bureau. ''"- ..'.s 49,
| The Chiiian steamship Itata sank on
August 30 of the coast near Coquim-
bo. Only SO of the $50 passengers and
| crew OF ~ were saved. ~.
| Senator A, A, Jones of New Mex
| leo. was renominated for the Senate
| by reclamation by the Democratic
/ convention Of that state last week.
| Great Britain is shipping gold to
this country in preparation for the in
/ terest payment due on her war debt To
/ the United States in October.
! Mcmillan the explorer, is expected
I to reach this country on September
1 IL, returning from his Baffin Land
1 expedition in the schooner Bowdoln.
On September l6 the farthest north
I rpIIaua ~ this con tho. "a
agricultural College and School of
/ Mines, will be opened nj Fairbanks.
I Alaska.
! Belgium's compromise plan for a
short-term German moratorium has
| been accepted unanimously by the
! Preparations Commission as solution
of the present crisis e.
Representative Manuel Herrick OF
| Oklahoma, has purchased twenty
( eight airplanes which he proposes to
| use for political purposes in Okla
I homa and other States.
/ In accordance with the Washington
naval agreement Great Britain has or
dered six large capital ships from the
/ most famous warships of her navy
| scrapped. '.t.~
g. ne NAVY LttpdI VIII lutH
to Walter Hinton a seaplane at PEN
I sacOla. Fla; TO replace the wrecked
| plane with which he was flying from
New York to Brazil.
1 American soldiers received l7.7S7,
| foreign decorations for acts of BRAY.
ny in the World war, while the Unit
ed States bestowed on its officers and
/ soldiers Z 109 decorations.
Federal Reserve Banks would be
prohibited from establishing branch
banks or branch places OF business
under a bill introduced by Represen-
tative MilIspaugh, of Missouri.
The administration bill for the con
troll and distribution of coal during
the mining and transportation emery
ency was passed by the House on
| August 81 by a vote of PA to 81.
Frau Cos!ma Wagner, widow Of the
famous composer and the moving
spirit in the yearly festivals at Bay
reuth, at which all her husbands OPP
eras are presented is reported to be
critically III.
Princess HIssanu, who was Miss
QUE, of New York, and whose hus
band is a nephew Of the ex-khedive
OF Egypt. has been received into the
Moslem faith at the Moslem mosque
at Working England
A Pullman conductor and three Pull
man porters were arrested by prohi
bition agents last week when the Pam
anna limited train reached Chicago
and suit case said TO contain whisky
was seized.
The United States government on
September obtained a temporary
Federal order at Chicago restraining
striking railroad shopment from in
terfering in any way with the opera
ton of the railroads.
The king of Siam was married on
August ~ TO his cousin, Princess
Laksm Lavan. The king is forty two
years old and is the first of his line to
renounce a harem. His father had
three hundred wives.
Albert Bartel while digging cellar
on his farm, near Ontarioville, Ill UNI
earthed ninety-seven diamond rings
worth approximately $4,000, strung
on a badly decayed string II is be-
lieved they were hidden by thieves
reduction of $4,000 bales in the
prospective cotton crop of this year
since the forecast a month ago is