The Winslow mail., 1923-09-28
FOREIGN

land. 1t is understood that SwitZer
land feared growing riots IN Germany
might lead to civil war.
Five thousand persons are reported
to have perished in the floods which
followed upon the typhoon at Tottori
northwest of Kobe, Japan, according
to an Osaka dispatch to the Central
News in London.
Al Spencer, notorious bandit of the
Usage, is dead. He was killed by Alva
Macdonald, United States marshal for
the western district of Oklahoma.
Spencer's spectacular career of crime
ended in the Usage hills.
Seventy Brazilian state troopers
were killed or wounded when their en-
campment at Cruz Alta, in the state
of Rio Grande do Sui, was attacked by
revolutionaries who made a furious
surprise attack.
Gen. Miguel Primo Rivera, Marquis
de Estella, head of the revolutionary
movement which overthrow the Alluce-
mas ministry, took the oath of office
as president Of the council of ministers
Home Minister Goto of Japan has
announced he will have theaters and
motion picture houses built in the de-
wasted region to provide free enter
tainment for the people this winter as
means of diverting their minds from
the earthquake and of relieving the
mOnOtOny of their lives.
Chinese soldiers who attacked the
Ichang Maru IN the Yangtse river
have demanded a million yen ransom
for the release of their captives, dis
patch from Shanghai stated a few days
ago. They served warning they
would kill their captives if the amount
is not paid A Japanese gunboat has
arrived for the purpose of rescuing the
captives, the dispatch added.
A telegram received at the foreign
Office at MontevideO from the Uru-
guayan consul in Zuarahy, near the
Brazil Uruguay frontier says the town
was taken by force of 800 Brazilian
| rebels. There was a sharp fight, in
| which seven men were killed and twen-
| ty-seven wounded on both sides. Twen-
| ty members CT the government force
were drowned as they attempted to es-
cape by swimming the River Cuareim.
| Their commander and fifteen men
were captured.
The Japanese foreign office in Toxic
has advised foreigners that, because of
the differences in language and GUS
oI0o
| the devastated area, except in case of
| absolute necessity. They also are re-
| Quested to refrain from taking photo
| graphs. The japanese consider photo
| graphing the dead a sacrilege. Amer
| ican hospital assistance is welcomed,
particularly as 100 leading hospitals
and 1000 offices of physicians we're
destroyed.
GENERAL
Jack Dempsey admitted in New YorA
City after his victory over Luis Angel
Firpo that he never had received such
a socking in his life.
Governor Walton climaXed his spec
tacular fight against the Ku Klux
entire state of Oklahoma.
Nearly all morning newspapers in
New York failed to appear a few days
ago as a result of strike of members
of Web Pressmens Union No. %.
In long fight, the street railway of
Birmingham has finally won over the
jitney as a public carrier in Birming
ham, and the people are now riding for
z cents cash, a reduction of l cent in
schedule that had existed for three
years. When tickets are purchased,
the new fare is cents. School chill
dren ride for PA cents.
The tank wagon price of gasoline
New England and eight Atlantic sea-
board states by the Standard Oil Com
pany Of New Jersey and the Gulf Re-
fining Company. The new price
ranges from 18 cents in Washington,
D. c., to q cents in Virginia, where
there is a state tax of three cents a
gallon.
Capt. Berec Shepperson of London,
England, aviator, fell on the Hermitage
property, twelve miles east of Nash
Vile, after he had completed flight
in the service of a sky-writing adver
tising company. He was burned to
death.
Howard NJ. Gore of Clarksburg, w.
Va, has been appointed by President
Coolidge as Assistant Secretary of Ag-
riculture to succeed G. w. Pugsley,
who resigned to become president of
the South Dakota College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanical Arts.
Anthracite miners, representing
union workers throughout the Pennsyl-
vania hard coal fields ratified the new
two-year wage agreement drafted by
their officers and operators represen-
tatives in Harrisburg, Sept. 8. They
returned to work September 20.