The Dolores star., 1924-08-22
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in the Mons basin. the men refusing to
accept wage cut Of 10 per cent.
The French air pilot Burri. at Bon,
nieres established a world record for q
seaplane. Burri covered 500 kilo
meters at the speed Of l23 kilometers
946 meters an hour. The previous
record was held by Lieut. NJ. A. Schur
| The London Evening Standard says
that Tommy Gibbons, the American
victor over Jack bloomfield in recent
prize fight has started legal proceed.
ings to attach 1900 alleged TO be due
him for the encounter. Gibbons has
already received $4,000
The claim of some economists that
France is the ''iron-master of the
world" is disputed by recently pub
lished figures. These show the pro
duction OF iron to be $4,000 tons a
month and OF steel $4,000 tons. These
figures are Is per cent less than the
1913 output.
II is reported that Bulgaria has or
dered all Greeks to leave the country
within twenty days or face expulsion.
The Macedonian nationalist com
nlittee has established headquarters
AT Vienna to foment a movement for
separate Macedonian state In the
Balkans. according to reports.
Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed
and nine wounded In collision with
British troops at Atbarn. following
disturbances in which Egyptian troops
attacked the British with bricks at
their barracks, says dispatch from
Cairo. The British government has
sent battalion OF troops to reinforce
the garrison in the Sudan as the re
suit of the clash.
An old submarine chaser-No. /
sold by the United States government
recently to private interests, is said
to have carried TO China quantity
of arms and ammunition stolen from
the government stOrehOuSe at Manila
Shanghai advices say an attempt was
made to land the munitions for
delivery to Chinese revolutionists.
Authorities Mt Manila decline TO state
the amount of munitions stolen. The
arms were concealed in n tank aboard
the submarine chaser, which was said
to contain fuel oil.
An Interesting fraud based on clan
destine emigration to North and South
American countries has just been dis
covered by the police at Naples. 1t
is alleged that Gugielmo JacchiO and
Ferdinando Spalice organized what
they called an artistic tour 10 North
and South America, mapping out II
program with a list of artists. includ-
ing a Roman boxing champion and n
number of dancers, and succeeded IL
rounding out the company" with
many would-be emigrants who paid
large sums of money for what they
supposed would be an opportunity to
enter the countries across the sea.
GENERAL
According to a report, F. Childers
was killed and his wife knocked un.
conscious for several hours when n
tornado near Hinchley, Neb., wrecked
their farmhouse. AT ranch, In the
vicinity, thirty-four head of cattle
were scoOped up by the wind and
dropped in pile and short distance
AWAY, twenty-five cattle and two
horses were killed.
DIR. Louis Arensberg or Uniontown
Pa, was elected commander in chief OF
the Grand Army Of the Republic by
the encampment at Boston. Grand
Rapids, Mich, was selected as next
years meeting place. A resolution was
adopted instructing a committee TO pre-
sent to the next Congress a bill TO in.
crease the pensions of all Civil war
veterans to SD month; every widow
who married prior to 1910, $50 a
month army nurses, $50 a month: sol
diers totally disabled, S155 a month.
and soldiers disabled. 500
One of four bandits who held UT
the Schuyler State Bank at Pana, Ill
was fatally shot by "A railroad fire,
man, and the entire loot of $4,000
was recovered.
Fifty miners were trapped in the
lriyama coal mine, Fukushima prov
ince, Japan, when "A gas explosion oc.
CURED. 1t is feared that all are dead
Nine bodies have been recovered.
William Wrigley, Jr. chairman of
the board of directors of the Chicago
National League Baseball Club, has
purchased the Crbs' park for cash
price given as s295.OOO The Chicago
Cubs have eighty-eight years of a
leasehold on the park yet to run.
A potato crop 100000 bushels
smaller than that in 1923 Is forecast
for 1924 by the United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture, basing estimates
upon the condition of the crop on
August l, according to an announce
ment by statisticians at the crop re-
porting service station. Basng esti-
mates on condition of S54 Der cent
of normal, the crop will be 1893, 900. 600
bushels, compared with 4l2,OOO.OOO
bushels harvested in 1923, and the
hve-ycar average Of 391 900 90 bushels
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