Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-02-07

brakeman on Pennsylvania railroad
freight train, fell 20 feet off railroad
bridge near Richmond, Ind, without
injury
Foreign
Montevideo dispatches state that the
revolution in the state of Rio Grande
do Sui, Brazil, is assuming unexpected
violence. The movement, which for
merly was localized, is now general.
Newfoundland is marooned by ice
bergs and st. Johns is entirely shut
off from the sea, according to Capt
Rhude of the steamship Stanley, which
arrived at Louisburg, N. S.
Because of the refusal of the Paris
the budget until it his been balanced
by the chamber of deputies, the bud
gets cannot be voted on until March l.
Premier Hughes having resigned,
Stanley M. Bruce, nationalist, has ac-
copied an invitation by the governor
general to form ministry.
The Siberian district duma, an anti
Bolshevik organization, is planning a
army of 5000 men, already organized,
a Tokyo dispatch says.
Because the captain Of the steamer
Adriatic refused to permit a landing
until the American consul had certified
that there was no menace of conta-
gious diseases, 1000 Omerican turists
were detained five hours in Piraeus
harbOr.
Foreign Minister Litvinoff at Mos
COW has sent a note to Secretary of
State Hughes, stating it has been
learned Admiral Stark has reached the
Philippines with the fleet with which
he sailed from Vladivostok, and ex-
pressing confidence the United States
will prevent their registration. Rus
sia claims ownership of the ships.
One hundred and fifty miners are
dead as the result of an explosion Of
fire damp in a mine at Beuthen, Polish
Prussia Six hundred men were en-
tombed at first.
The French consulate at Koenigs-
burg was wrecked by a German mob,
while members of the allies control
commission stationed there were at
tackled by students. Colonel Blan-
chard, Frenchman, was badly beaten.
The soviet government at Vladivos-
tok has issued deportation orders to
eight thousand Russians, most of them
former officials and czarist sympa-
thizers. They will be sent to Euro
pean Russia.
BY a vote of 4S5 to 81, the chamber
of deputies at Paris expressed conf
dence in Premier Poincare's policy.
This vote supports the premier in his
announced determination to take any
measures he deems necessary.
Fourteen persons were killed and
more than forty injured, it is estimat-
ed, in a street battle at Mexico City,
in front of labor headquarters. The
fight followed the sniping of passing
street cars by reds who resented
the maintenance of street car traffic
by men who agreed with the tramway
company TO end the strike.
Walter Tatam, a gardener, has been
arrested at London, charged with
sending candy to Sir William Har
wood commissioner of Scotland Yard,
who ate some of the candy and be-
came seriously i'll.
The French occupational authorities
began confiscation of the large ware
houses containing general merchandise
and foodstuffs in Duisburg and Dussel-
dorf
William Morris Hughes, premier and
minister of foreign affairs for Aus
tralia, has resigned, says disparcn
from Sydney.
The French shut off Rubr coal sup
plies for Germany by clamping on
rail blockade. They also seized the
customs.
A head-on collision Of two trains on
the National railway in the outskirts
of Mexico City caused the death of
six persons and the injury of twenty