The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-09-08
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Sanford B. Mann died at Herrin Ill.
last week at the age of one hundred
and three years.
Sweden has awarded to an Ameri-
can firm contract for a 81 100000
wireless station to be erected In Swed-
en-.
Hotel employees at Budapest pro-
claimed general strike last week
when denied the right to accept tips
from patrons.
Park Benjamin. widely known pa
tent lawyer and father-in-law of the
late Enrico Caruso, died in Connecu-
cut on August 81.
The honorary commission to the
Brazilian Centennial Exposition, head
ed by Secretary Hughes sailed from
New York on August 20.
Coal mines of the United States
produced 4S,59600O tons OF coal In
1919, valued at S1.5l0,061.707, the Gem
sus Bureau announced.
Illegal immigration. particularly
Chinese from Cuba, constitutes one OF
the most serious problems now before
the Labor Department
Inadequacy of bids on the 2S6 ships
offered for sale by the United States
Shipping Board has resulted in de-
cision to permit further bidding. n
One thousand postal trains have
been withdrawn from service since the
beginning of the railway strike ac-
cordinS TO the Post Office Department.
The American Red Cross has appro-
pria ted $4,000 from its national funds
to assist in work being done at Swa-
tow, China, among the flood victims:
Rene Viviani has resigned as the
French representative to the League
of Nations, on account of differences
with his fellow delegate, Leon Bour-
geois. 49, ."..'.-" ''.: d."
Believing himself a reincarnation OF
the sculptor Of the winged Victory "
Walter Undaris, an unsuccessful sculp
| tor committed suicide in Chicago last
week. -. ~. ..~.-
. The Chinese republican cabinet has
announced that President Ii Yuan
! Hung is willing 10 resign in favor OF
{ Sun Vat Sen, provided Parliament APP
| proves such action. ~ 49,.
1 Because fthe shortage in coal
Henry Ford has adopted oil burners in
/ his plant at Detroit, The change was
/ made without loss Of time to any Of
the $4,000 employees. r. -. ..-. 80. r.:
Sending messages. by radio costs the
T Post Office Department about half
[ what a leased telegraph wire service.
would. according to announcement of
the department. @'s.:s' .1.:..
! Germany submitted plans for five
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which were thought would be accept.
able to the Allies. but which were in
stantly rejected by France.
/ Michael Collins, chief OF the Irish
provisional government and cOmman-
der in chief of the Free State army,
was assassinated at Bandon. county Of
Cork, Ireland on the night of August
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| New Orleans is preparing TO enter
tain $50 900 members of the American
I Legion and other visitors at the Le-
giOn's national convention TO be held
in that city October 1920.
France reverted to war bread on
September in an effort to meet the
i nations bread requirements out of the
domestic wheat crop and without the
aid of foreign grain.
The enlisted strength of the regular
army has been reduced to $4,000 men.
as provided by the War Department
Appropriation according to an Official
bulletin issued August 16.
The French government has agreed
to an allied meeting in Venice to dis
cuss the difficulty between Greece and
Turkey, and has asked Great Britain
i to fix a date TO rthe roposed confer
i ence.
Governor Miller of New York called
an extra session of the New York Leg
islature to meet on Monday, August
2S, to enact emergency measures to
\ handle the fuel shortage.
A German engineer has completed a
4 process for coloring living trees, by
which a whole tree, fro mthe end of
its roots to the topmost branch can
be permanently colored within forty
eight hours.
A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress Proposing a government reward
of 81 100000 TO the person who dis
covers successful cure for tubercu-
losis, pneumonia. cancer, epilepsy, or
dementia praecox.
II On August "a first class coach Of
a train at Batum was forcibly entered
y by bandits who robbed the chief of
the American relief organization Of
$50 900 which had just been received
from America.
. Wood alcohol caused one hundred
and thirty deaths and twenty-five ca
ses OF blindness in twenty one States
during the first half Of 1922. according
to the National Committee for Preven-
ton of Blindness.
What is said to be the first training
camp for farm women in the United
States is in progress near Jackson
, Mills, w. Va, where eighty-five wo-
men from eighteen counties of the
State are registered.
. Two men were sentenced in New
J York last week to twenty five years
! in the Atlanta penitentiary in connec-
ton with holding up and robbing a
mail truck Of S2,40o,o00 on the night
, of October "a last in New York City
Rev. Nenry Noble couden chaplain
of the United States House of Repre-
: sentatives from 1895 to 1921 and
[ known MS the Blind CHAPLAIN" died