The Winslow mail., 1923-08-24
FOREIGN

a motor bus accident recently at Saint
Sauveur, Pyrennes resort about
twenty-five miles south of Tarbes,
France.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, American
| draft evader, said that he had expect
| ed to return to the United States with
his mother on Sept. 27, but that the
recent effort to kidnap him made him
| hesitate about doing so.
Two Italian Catholic priests were
! kidnapped when bandits pillaged the
| district near SunghO, China, according
| to reports. The town of TSaoShih was
| looted and the Catholic church burned.
Eighty Chinese captives were taken.
| TWenty-six persons were wounded in
encounters between Fascist and Com
munists at Molinelia following the ex-
| plosion of bombs, which were thrown
against the Fascist headquarters and
| the home of the local Fascist leaders.
Tidal waves, combined with a severe
| storm, have submerged 25C00 homes
along the Yalu river and on the west
| coast of Korea. No estimate of the
| loss of life has yet been received, but
it is said the damage to crops and the
| lumber industry will be heavy.
The police of Berlin have forbidden
| the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung to
publish for three days, presumably in
| consequence of an attack made by the
newspaper on Chancellor Stressemann.
| hn ni S
| owned by Hugo SHINES, the great Ger
man industrialist.
| Twelve thousand persons attending
the annual Welsh festival, or Eistedd-
fod, at Mold, Wales, heard former Pre-
mier Lloyd George speak of the late
President Harding as zone Of the
| strongest men who ever governed a
country" Later Mr.. Lloyd George, as
president of the Eisteddfod for the
day, dispatched a message to the
White House expressing sympathy to
Mrs. Harding and the American peO-
pie.
| Jesus Salas, the member of the Du-
range (MeXicO) Legislature, who is in
| Jail following his voluntary confession
| that he led the band which killed Fran
cisco Villa, has announced that he will
| donate the rewards offered for the
| death of the former bandit leader to-
| wards the establishment of cnar1ta-
| BILE institution for the families of Vii
| las numerous victims. 1t is said that
| the reward of 100000 pesos offered by
| hI1o cstn TO of nff
the United States as a result of the
| Columbus raid have not been with
| drawn.
GENERAL
| Fire in the flour mills of the Dutch
| Colony" Amana, Iowa, twenty-five
miles southwest Of Cedar Rapids, did
damage estimated close to half mil
lion dollars before it was put under
control.
| Joe Huff, known along the Pacific
coast as the tailOr-aviatOr, and Edwin
| Dihall, a negro, q years old, were
killed when the airplane in which they
| ice, Calf.
| Officials of the United Mine Work
ers of America gathered in New York
for wage negotiations with anthracite
operators, appropriated $4,000 to re-
| lieve the distress of members in the
mine explosion at Kemmerer, Wyo.
Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed a large portion of the busi-
ness section of Edgewood, Texas.
Eight buildings were wiped out by the
fire. The town, with hardly any fire
protection, was helpless as the fire
spread to adjoining structures.
Germany is on the brink of a revo-
| luton, Senator Reed Smoot Of Utah
declared on his return from tour of
Europe on the Leviathan. Everywhere
in Germany, he added, he had heard
sinister rumblings. Senator Smoot
who, as chairman of the senate fl
nance committee, has been studying
financial conditions in England, Ger
many and the Scandinavian countries
for more than a month, returned with
pessimistic outlook.
Fred Stacey of Kansas City and Will
liam Fuller, who refuses to tell where
his home is, are in Jail at Bethany,
Mo-, accused of robbing the Redding,
Ia, Savings Bank of cash and bonds
totalling $4,000, when they blew the
banks vault. The men were captured
by posse of farmers near New Hamp-
ton, Mo-, and $4,000 in bonds and cur
rency was found on them.
Three persons are dead, the current
in the Chicago river was reversed, an
airplane was brought down, a dam in
the Des PLANES river was bursted,
two houses were toppled over and tel
ephOne and electric light wires and ele'
waited and street car traffic were Grip
pied as a result of a terrific electrical
storm which visited Chicago a few
days ago.
Thirty-six thorobred horses, the re-