The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-09-29


/ tor of the telephone, who died recent
nv, left his entire estate TO his wife.
! Dr. Floyd Heck Marvin, the new
4 president of the University OF Arizona,
was newsboy at the age OF twenty.
The American Red Cross has ap-
| propriated S25O,0OO for relief OF Sut-
ifering among refugees gathered in
Smyrna. ..~ ~' w.: ..
Evangeline Booth, Commander of
/ the Salvation Army in America. is to
be retired as Commander at an early
date.
| All the moving picture shows in
Berlin are to he closed after Septem-
Der 22, owing TO the excessive amuse-.
ment tax. =.
Smyrna, the eye Of Asia" has been
taken, pillaged, and burned by the
/ Turks and thousands of It's iuhabi-
! tants massaCred.
The political committee Of the Lea
] que OF Nations has voted unanimously
to admit Hungary to membership in
the League.
! Fire destroyed wharves and ware
/ houses along the Mississippi river
/ front in New Orleans on september !
] valued at S5,OOO.OOO.
I According to the Department of AG-
. riculture the consumption Of eggs In
this country averaged one half an egg
a day to each person.
The British mission to negotiate for
funding Great Britatn's war debt TO
the United States will reach this C0un-
try early in october.
During the last year in Japan nine
aviators were Killed and twenty five
wounded in 1881 flights, the gross
mileage OF which was Sl2.960.
A flock of storks estimated to num-
( Der 300, 900 has invaded Oenhausen.
Germany. From two to twelve Of the
birds roost nightly upon the roof OF
each house.
Seven million rubIes to the dollar is
the new rate set by the Soviet gov
eminent stock exchange commission.
This is the lowest point the ruble has
yet reached.
British manufacturers and eXpOr-
ters have been rushing huge ship
ments of fine goods to the United
States in anticipation OF increased rates
under the new tariff bill.
The scarcity OF paper currency thru
out Germany is causing the Krupp
works at Essen TO issue its own mon .
ey in denominations OF two hundred
and a thousand marks. ..
A monument to David Crockett. Ten
nessee's great hunter and picturesque ]
statesman, who lost his life defending
the Alamo, was unveiled at Lawrence
burg Tenn. .
Five members of a crew engaged in
fumigating a Japanese steamer at san
Francisco last week were killed by the
fumes. Three members OF the crew
were public health officers. ..
The Argentine government has ask
I'd its Congress for authorization to
lend to the Soviet government O0O.-
900 pesos to he repaid when circum-
stances permit, and without interest"
The question as to how many Jews
should be allowed to matriculate in
Hungarian universities has brought a
bout a challenge for a duel between
TWO prominent Hungarian educators.
The tariff bin. which has been near 1
ly two years in the making is the
most amended measure in the history
Of the American Congress. approx
b
made to 1t. -..- @
The government has sold its fleet OF
rs war built wooden ships for $780,
900. This leaves only ten of these
wooden ships on the governments
hand. The ships sold represent cost
of S300,OO0,OOO. .... .... Il
Additional silver vaults are to be
built at the Denver and San Francisco
minis, made necessary by the coinage
of silver dollars under the Plttman act
70 replace silver sold to Great Britain
during the war. ...
California fruit growers are saving
the peach stones from the drying
peaches for use in place of coal this
winter, some Of the farmers having
discovered that the stones will give as
intense heat as the best coal. .I
George Sutherland. the new member
IF the United States Supreme Court,
mas just returned from Norway. where
ne has been representing the United
States in the suit which Norway in
stituted to collect S1T.OOO,OOO claimed
for the seizure of Norwegian ships
during the war: .'..
A seven-foot coal vein has been
iouIu On IIit campus Oh lIc rose lOlS-
technic Institute at Terre Haute, Ind.
Students of the college are to work
the mine, and the coal is to be used to
heat the college buildings.
Rev. Lorin s. Gates. Of the Ameri-
can mission in India, was slain by
Mohammedan at Bijapur on Septem-
Der g. Mr. Gates was II years old and
had been a missionary to India for a
years,
Official figures of Belgian losses
during the war, just compiled, show
that the nation suffered about half the
casualties of the American army. This
does not include the losses Of the civ
ilian population. which were consid-
cradle.
Hungarys largest lake, Lake Bala-
ton, covering about $50 square miles.
is slowly drying up, having receded a
mile from the old shore line in the
last few years Biologists attribute the
shrinkage to volcanic changes in the
lake bed.
NJ. Belriot, famous French aeronaut.
has offered prize of 5000 francs for
an airplane competition, the prize go-
ling to the plane making the flight a
cross the English Channel and back