The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-05
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gentina.
At the end OF three weeks of the
coal strike in this country 6s5, 900 mi
ners were still out.
Some half dozen corn ships from
America have arrived at the Black Sea
port OF Novorossisk, (
The House adopted the naval appro-
priation bill amendment on April 10
providing for a personnel OF $4,000
men.
Mr. Otto Ludwig wiedfeldt, the new
German ambassador to the United
States, sailed for New York early this
week.
Typhus has broken out at Burken-
head, near Liverpool England, thir-
teen cases being reported there with
three deaths.
Prof. E, Newton Harvey, OF Prince
ton University, claims to have discoy-
cred continuous cold light, which he
calls "Luceferin."
The Free Masons OF New York state
dedicated on April 22 the new million
dollar Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Hospital at Utica, N Y.
DR., Einstein will go to Japan in Au-
gust TO deliver lectures for one month
on the theory of relatively.
The beet sugar production for 1921.
according TO Secretary Wallace was
l.o2O,4Ss short tons. This was $3.50
tons less than the production for 1920.
Lord Athelstan, proprietor OF pa
per at Montreal, Canada, is to give
| 100000 for cancer research and $780,
600 for the discovery of a cure for
] cancer.
President Harding has signed the
Langley bill appropriating St70O0,00Oe
/ for additional hospital facilities for
disabled veterans OF the World war.
| An oat kernel which became lodged
In the ear OF New Haven, Conn.,man
two weeks ago sprouted aud brought
on meningitis, from which the man
| died.
| Levying of additional taxes probably
will be necessary TO meet the deficit OF
more than $3.50 100000 forecast for the
fiscal year OF 1928 by Secretary Mel
lon.
A recent poll OF convicts in s22 PEN
al institutions on their stand In regard
to prohibition resulted in a vote OF
| 133.413 to 9Os in favor Of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment.
AHS Va q ltNtt on llll-
nois River near Carrollton, Ill.on April
20 completed the flooding OF $4,000
| acres OF reclaimed farm land along a
2s-mile river front.
The first lap OF a new trans ATTAIN
tic cable which will have a capacity
of $4,000, 900 messages year will be
completed next summer. when the line
from New York to the Azores will
have been laid.
Mrs. Frederick NJ. Paist, OF Phila-
delphia, was reelected President OF
the Young Women's Christian Assoc
citation at the convention held in Hot
Springs last week.
Four million sandbags were shipped
by special train from Schenectady, n. |
T., on April 20 to points along the Mis-
sissippi River for use in reinforcing
the levees.
Six thousand tenants OF Chicago
apartment houses have pledged them |
selves to refuse to move on May l, |
Chicagos semi-annual moving day, |
and to refuse to pay Increased rents.
Secretary Hughes Is urging as
point OF honor" the extension Of the
SIS 100000 loan to Liberia promised in
1918, since Liberia entered the war at
the insistence Of the United States.
In 1921 $4,000 burglaries were COM
mitted IN Berlin. according to official
statistics. During the same period /
1000 murders were committed, while
hoidups averaged twenty day
The nutritive value OF natural cat
tie fodder. such as wild and cult
waited hay, Is said to be approximately
doubled through the use OF an cleo
trical device now being used in Sweed-
en-.
Pocomoke City, Nd, was swept by
IRE on April is. in which ten acres in
the heart OF thea city were burned
oyer, causing property loss of more
than million dollars.
An anti Christian movement, said to
have started with twenty such organ
izatlons in Picking University Is
spreading rapidly over China. accord
ing to reports from Annoy. China.
A brother OF Talaat Pasha was as
sassinated in Berlin on April IS. Ia
laat Pasha, former Grand Vizier of
Turkey, was himself slain by an Ar
menian student in Berlin about a year
ago.
With 1900 dead out of a total OF
1880 the first Russian refugee convoy
on record mas arrived at the Polish
border. Many died of typhus, and
starvation and exposure claimed scores
of others.
The American Foreign Debt Refund
ing Commission has formally notified
the nations owing the United States
s11,000000,000 in war debts that 1t is
ready to proceed with the refunding
of these obligations.
Hadji Tagiev, Baku's former oil |
king, who was ruined by Soviet ma
tionalization of his property and who
is one hundred and one years of age |
has started to rebuild his fortunes
where he began--as stonemason
The Portuguese aviators attempting |.
flight from Portugal to Brazil wreck
ed their hydro airplane in landing at
st. Paul's Rocks, few hundred miles |
short OF their goal. 1t will be two
weeks before another plane can be sent |
them from Portugal
Under the new compulsory labor law
Of Bulgaria every woman under thirty |
years Of age must give at least ten /
days OF her time each year In useful |
work to the community. Royalty is |
included in this requirement.
The Department of Agriculture esti-
mates that the gross wealth produced |
" 40 70 In. LaI - "a