The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-08-18

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lie debt in July has been announced by
the Treasury.
During the past year s4s2 persons
have died In New York as the result
OF accidents.
Dispatches to London from Africa
report the discovery OF a new gold
belt in the TransvaaL
An airpiane factory with a capacity
twelve planes a month is being built
by the United States government at
snicago. III
Miss Alice Robinson. Representative
in Congress from Oklahoma, was re-
dominated in last weeks primary
election in Oklahoma.
President and Mrs. Harding voted
by mail in the Ohio primary Of Aug
ust s. their ballots being forwarded 10
darion from washington.
rolls collected by the Panama Ca
nal authorities during July totaled ST.
0s4. 900. SURPRISING all other months Of
the present fiscal year.
Retail food prices in fifteen out OF
twenty representative cities Of
the United States showed an increase
from June Is to July is.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inven-
tor OF the telephone, died on August
2 at his home near Sydney, Nova SEQ
tia. at the age OF rs years.
British postal agencies will be with
drawn from China by November so.
according to the agreement reached at
the Washington Arms Conference.
Col. William II. Hart has been nom
mated by President Harding to be
quarterniaster general OF the regular
army, with the rank OF major general.
Since The dry laws became effective
twenty-five Federal prohibition en-
forcement officers have been killed
Twelve States are representa- in the
list.
A typhoon which swept over Swan
ow. China, $50 miles north of Hong
kong on August 2 caused loss OF life
estimated at 500 and great property
damage.
Mennislas Charter was guiliotined
at Paris on August 2 for his part in
the only train holdup on record in
France. which took place on August
2. 1921
Emigration OF European Russian
peasants to Siberia and other less
,hickly settled sections Of the country
mas been forbidden by the Soviet Com
missars.
More than $500 autos, containing
$4,000 tourists from every state in the
Union, had been registered up to Aug
ust ! In the public camp grounds at
Denver. Colo.
Fearing seizure, Germans have trans
ferred TO Switzerland and Holland
about 20 O00,00 French francs which
had been on deposit in American ard
other foreign banks in Paris.
Glenn f. Plumb, counsel for numer-
Gus labor organizations and author OF
the Plumb plan" for operating the
railroads of the country. died in
Washington City on August 1.
In a rear-end collision between two
trains at Sulphur Springs, No. on the
night Of August thirty-eight persons
were killed and about thirty seven in
jured. twenty five seriously.
Crown Prince Hirohlto, regent has
officially sanctioned the treaties to
which Japan was a party at the Arms
at Washington. This COM
pletes Japan's action on the treaties
Mrs. Lillian Wenz, for twenty yea,
stenographer at the Japanese embassy
at Washington, has been decorated by
The Japanese government, being award
ID the orde rof the Sanctified Treas
ure
Warning against unofficial promo
tiers OF colonization schemes in South
America has been issued by the Com
merce Department at Washington.
Such promoters have been especially
active in the West.
A German airplane. with pilot, me
chanic. and one passenger. has COM
plted the first nonstop flight from Ber-
lin TO Moscow a distance OF 1880
miles. The journey occupied ten
hours and forty minutes.
New Jersey was the first State in
the Union to reach Its quota in the
for the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation Fund. The total fund In
the nation is to be 100000 OF which
New Jerseys quota was $4,000.
Baron Shidehara, Japanese Ambas- |
sador to Washington, who is In Japan |
on an extended sick leave, is said to |
be improving rapidly, but will likely |
not return to the United States, fear |
Ing that his health might suffer.
Representative Lemuel p. Padgett. |
Of Tennessee, Democrat, who served |
for twenty-five years. died in Wash
lngton, d. c., on August 2. The day
following his death he was renomi- |
mated in the Tennessee Democratic |
primary election.
The meeting in London this week OF |
Premier Poincare. Lloyd George. and
Foreign Minister Schnazer OF Italy |
md Thenus of Belgium for a confer
snce is universally regarded as the
most momentous conference since
peace was concluded.
A school for the blind, the first OF Its
kind In Armenia, will be opened this
summer at Alexandropol by the Near
East Relief. The pupils will be $50
Armenian war orphans from five to
years old, most OF them VIC
inns OF trachoma.
France plans TO invade Germany and
seize and operate the coal and iron
mines In the Ruhr basin II the Berlin
government refuses to pay war debts
md private claims, the French press,
outlining Premier Poincares plan OF
coercion, has announced.
Two hundred Greek maidens reach
ID New York last week, picture brides,
whose wooing had all been done by
lail. They were met by their pros
Dective husbands; and as the Greek
luotas allowed by the Immigration acf