The Winslow mail., 1923-02-09
FOREIGN

Great Britain formally accepted the
American terms for funding of the $4,-
5OO,OOO,000 debt owing to the United
States.
Andre Maneyrol French pilot, broke
all world gliding records at Cherbourg,
France, with a flight of eight hours
and five minutes.
A former British soldier, suffering
from shell shock, attempted to attack
King George with his crutch at the st.
Pancras railway substation. The ex-
soldier was arrested.
The telegraph and telephone sta
ton employees have gone on strike in
Dusseldorf They took this action in
protest against the presence of
French soldiers.
With the arrival at Manila of the
steamship Paris, a belated member OF
the fleet of Russian refugees, it was
learned that her sister ship had been
sunk off Formosa last week with the
loss of twenty lives
The residence of Sir Horace Plunkett
at Fox Rock, Dublin, was destroyed
by fire. The final destruction of the
residence was due to a second attack,
the previous explosion having only
partly wrecked the building.
Captain Coyne of the Irish National
army was shot dead and three soldiers
were wounded when party of troops
were ambushed by irregulars between
Abbeyfeale and Brosna, on the Liner
ick-Kerry border. The attacking par
ty Is said to have left the captains
body at the roadside, stripped of all
clothing.
The Free State government still is
confronted with grave task, as shown
by the intensified compaign of destruc-
ton and incendiarism that is being
carried ON by the irregular forces.
These acts are considered proof of the
determination of the Republicans to
resort to every possible means to pre-
vent the government from functioning
and to break the countrys morale.
Late advices from Essen indicate
rigorous procedure on the part of the
French and Belgians throughout the
occupied zone, where wholesale arrests
of German officials are taking place,
which are promptly followed by strikes
in all branches of the governmental
service The telegraph, telephone and
postal employees at Essen walked out
in body as a protest against the ar
rest of six officials who declined to ac-
cede to French orders.
GENERAL
Restoration of the eight-hour day by
the United States railroad labor board,
with time and one-half pay for over
time to $4,000 railway signal men, has
been announced at Chicago.
The sinking of the Lusitania was an
act of war, the court of appeals at
Albany, N Y, held in deciding the case
of the estate of Alfred G. Vanderbilt
against an insurance company.
Three Boy Scouts were killed and
several injured in a dynamite explo-
sion in the Everglades, according to u
telephone message at Miami, Fla The
troop had gone on camping trip, 1t
is understood, and is believed to have
accidentally touched off quantity Of
explosives left by stump blasters.
A retrial of the divorce suit brought
by w. E. d. Stokes, wealthy realty op-
orator, against Helen Elwood Stokes,
formerly of Denver, and the counter
suit for separation was ordered by Su-
preme Court Justice BLUR of New York
in September, 1921, when his wife was
granted a decree of separation.
The explosion of a storage tank of
the Springfield, Mass, Gas Light Com
pany caused at least three deaths, in
jured forty persons and caused confu-
sion and wreckage in the business Sec
ton. Office workers and persons in
the streets were struck down by
debris. Workers in the plant were re-
ported seriously hurt. Automobiles in
the streets were hub deep in the
wreckage.
Patrick Cunningham, William Con-
roy and Colin Kelley, all Of Tullsmore,
were executed at Birr, Kings county.
Ireland, for possessing arms and am
munition and for thefts from resi-
dences.
The second train holdup in two days
occurred when nine armed men held
up Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
freight train at Limestone, six miles
from Peoria, and escaped with ten
barrels of alcohol, valued at $4,000,
shipped from the American Distilling
Company at Pekin.
Mrs. Alvin p. Anhert, 80 years old,
lost $4,000 damage suit against the
United States Cremation Company of
New York City for the alleged mixing
of the ashes of her first two husbands
The court directed verdict holding
Mrs. Anhert had failed to substantiate
her claim that the cremation company
carelessly handled the ashes.
Fred Lundin, former Illinois con-
ond lynox1Y, bo c;Iop+