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1 Established 1891. SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM MANY SOURCES Mrs. Noll Schroder was convicted ill lh<t r*nlnniIkiii rlt v court Tncmluv morning on a charge of reckleiw driving and the recorder Imposed a tine of *100 or 30 days in Jail. Notice of appeal was served on the judge. Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion pugilist of the world, who I crossed the international boundary line from Lower California Tuesday, was taken to Los Angeles Tuesday nlglil from San Diego and lodged in the county jail. He was to leuvc yesterday for Chicago to begin serving a sentence for violation of the Mann act. federal olllcials said. Paul Anderson, 11 years old, of Illvcrdnlc-on-Hudson, N. Y., who was admitted to Ltellovue hospital. New York city, Saturday, has 12 toes and 12 lingers, the small toe Mid small linger having been duplicated by Mother Nature. He was admitted to the hospital to permit of the amputation of the superfluous toes and lingers. (irover Cleveland itcrgdoll, rich Philadelphia draft dodger, who escaped from the army guards in Philadelphia May 21, was captured in Atlantic City at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night, according to a department of J11titicc agent in that city. The federal agent also said that Krwln itcrgdoll. a brother, also wanted for evading the draft, was with drover, but escaped. deports from practically every section of Lexington county indicate that Ihc boll weevil will do considerable damage this year. Farmers report that since tile recent rains many punctured squares arc falling from the stalks. Some of these fallen squares from a Held near Gilbert were sent to Clcmson college for examination and practically evcrv one was found to he Infested with the weevil. Tohneoo markets opened in the Pee Dee seetlon of the State Tuesday. A large volume was offered at the initial sale and |>riees paid were considered favorable. Good quality tobacco was being offered. Prospects lor a Rood crop this year are excellen< thioughout the tolineeo area, although there Is a smaller acreage planted than previously in some portions of the tobacco belt. A life Jacket, silent remembrance of the tragic sinking of the l.usltnniu live years ago. and bearing n strand of faded blonde lialr, was picked up a few days ago in the I?elawnre river near Philadelphia. The name of the ship the Germans torpedoed still remained. clear and distinct, on the wave-beaten canvas, which has been adrift on the sens throughout three years of war and two of peace. Mrs. IOdna IUirgcss. 4 4, shot and killed her husband, Guy Rurgess, superintendent of the signal system of the Atlantic Coast Tdne railway, at their home in Florence Tuesday even. ill IT lit K nVlrw.W Tl... 1- -? w ? - - - ?v... . ,M ? nan boon married only about one year, the ceremony having been performed ir Jacksonvillo last July. They had lived In Florence only a few weeks, going there from Charleston, where I largess was also in the employ of the Atlantic Const I-ine. The body of former Empress Eugenie of France was laid to rest in Farnshorough, England. Tuesday between the tombs of her husband. Napoleon III, and her son, the prince imperial, in a crypt in St. Michaels abbey. Those present at the entombment were King George, and Queen Mary of Great Itrttain, King Alphonso and Queen Victoria of Spain, the Puke of Connuught. the Prince of Monaco, members of the Ttrltlsh roynl family, the Italian. Spanish and French ambassadors and other members of the diplomatic world. ills-death sentence once commuted tc life imprisonment by an acting governor, only to have the governor return, Issue n statement that the records of Ids office did not show n commutation and order him from the State farm hack to the death cell, Charles II. Ivy, 65. Tuesday was hanged In the little red brick jail in Plttsboro. Miss., for the murder of l.ove l'.agwell in 1919. In a last statement Ivy declared he did not regret the killing of llagwell declaring he hail to do It and if the affair hail to he gone over again he would do just as he had done. When M. K. Walker opened in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday a collln sent htm hv the war ilenartment he footwl the boily not that of bis son, J. Walker, but Instead that of .Tamos Walker, consigned to Mrs. Margaret Walker, Sandy Springs, S. C. The death certificates-had been transposed from one box to tlio other, enusing the mistake, both being on the same ship eonting from ltrest, France. The body of the t'olumbos boy Is being tracked. It probably has been sen* to South Carolina instead of Columbus Charges that the Republicans were raising a campaign fund "sufllclont to shock the sensibilities" were made Tuesday night at Columbus. < thlo. by Governor Cox. Democratic presidential candidate, in an address to the Democratic national committee, which perfected organization for the campaign. Governor Cox added: "We enter the campaign. not hopefully but in the absolute contidence of victory, because we deserve to win. Wo are confident because we have fought for progress before and we have met and conquered reaction hefore. The stronghold before us is not new to us. Nor Is there anything new l.i the antagnost before us (Senator Harding) magnificent gentleman that he Is. our friend and neighbor. In 1012 he fought for the cause of reaction. We won because we stood j for progress. And we shall win again." Phe F COUNCIL. NAMES RKCOKDER. Dp. A. Ij. Ott Chosen to Provide Ovop Fort Mill Ptillce Court. At the regular semi-monthly meeting of town council Tuesday evening, Dr. A. L; Ott wns chosen judge of the police court of Fort Mill. For some time council hns hud under con. shlerutlon the recommendation of Mnyor F. K. Ardrey that n recorder he elected by council to relieve him of the work, but not until Tuesday evening was the matter tlnnlly dlspesed of. Dr. Ott was unanimously ejected, the entire membership of council being present at the meeting. It wns said that Dr. Ott had not been consulted as to whether he would accept the olflce ami yesterday In response to an inquiry by The . imes he stated that he wns considering the matter anil would reach a decision within the next day or two. The nope was expressed more or less genernlly that Fr. Ott would decide to accept the office. The election of a police recorder means a financial loss for Mayor Ardrey, who proposed to council that his salary he paid to the new olllria! In lieu of sin appropriation hy council for the purpose. It was with this understanding that council elected the new offleiiil. Wednesday Mayor Ardrey stated that he found the duties of attending to the police affairs of the town annoying and that he was more than willing to give up his salary to lie relieved of the annoyance At the meeting- of council Tucsdav evening members of council expressed the opinion that the town was not getting adequate police service and Mayor Ardrey w,as requested to investigate the matter with the view of Improving the service. Particular at tention was called to the non-enforee n cut of the ordinance against speeding. due. it was claimed, to the failure to bring cases against offenders WAHIHIOFSKR FOIl COTTON'. York County's Facilities for Honshu: Staple Alton! Half Xormal Crop. J. It. Hlair of Sharon, demonstration agent for York county, ' spent scvera! hours in Fort Mill Tuesday in the interest of the cotton meeting to i lie hold hore Friday morning. Whilo ! in town Mr. Blair said ho was hopeful | that the meetings to he hold this weok at Fort Mill. York, Clover and lllekory drove in the interest of hotter marketing of ootton and a county cotton grader woidd do much to stimulate interest in these important subjects. "'With the completion of the warehouse In Fort Mill and the erection of the contemplated warehouses in Clover and Hickory Grove, York county will then bo prepared to store 21,000 hales of cotton, a little more than half the normal crop." said Mr. ltlaio "But we ought to have facilities to cure for several thousand more hnles and I am hopeful that additional warehouse- soon will be erected." Speaking of the coming to York county of the boll weevil, which already is as close by as Kershaw county, Mr. Blair said he was not one of fhe number who thought that the pest would destroy the cotton industry of the county. "I think," said Mr. Blair, "that the weevil will do great damage here, hut if our farmers will ro about the growing of cotton as has been done In other weevil infested sections of the South, the damage will not amount to more than front 20 to 20 per cent." THKY'llK AMF.RICAXK NOW. editor Resents Attempt to Trace Ancestry of Hurtling and Cox. Hetroit News. The Kdinburgh Scotsman has made the happy discovery that Senator iiuriiiiiK x minor is " oi Moot en descent." Governor ("ox repudiates (he statement that he is of KngMsh-Gcrmnn extraction and Scotch descent. Of coarse If the two candidates are going to ran on the records of their 16th century ancestors, they can do so. Rut It is and has heen the general impression of the American public that both candidates' chief and only title of this kind to the White House was American citizenship. Why go beyond that? It is interesting. if true, that both men should he of Scotch extraetion. if only to emphasize the tendency in that hardy race to survive all trials and reach ruling positions. Rut, even if inter vrilUH, II I.- Mill Illl ISSIir 111 Jin rtllll T- ! Wan presidential campaign. So far as this country is concerned Senator Harding can claim distant I 'nship with Julius t'nesar and Governor Cox can prove his relationship to the Sherif of Mecca, hut neither Item would or should help in the election. It Is time this country began to forget this ancestor business. Cox and Harding, and Coolldgc and liooscvelt are Americans. That's why the country's to vote for 'em. S|M*n?iiug IloncynusMi Near Town. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Windle of Yonkers, N. Y., are spending ji ten days' honeymoon at the home of Mr Windle's brother, W. II. Wlndlo. in the Gold 11111 neighborhood of Fort Mill township. Mr. and Mrs. Windle. who was Miss Mat'hla Ncldig of Yonkers. were married on July 12 and immediately canie to Fort Mil! to visit relatives in this section. Mr. Windle was a former well known cltl7.cn of Fort Mill township who left here in 1889. Since then he has lived in various sections of the country, but for the last 20 years hns made his home in and around New York city. He Is an expert printer and proofreader and Is now employed In the latter capacity by the Federal Printing company of [ New York city. iws/r. ORT ] FORT MILL, S. C., THE TROUBLE WITH JAPAN SEEMS ALMOST CERTAIN The Now York Evenln* Qlobo prints a l^os Angeles special dispatch readins: "Troublo Is looming up between the United States and Japan?very serious trouble. The local anti-Japanose sentiment in California Is rapidly rising to a point where action may soon bo taken which will make a con Unuance of the present cordial relations between the two countries Impossible. "The congressional committee on immigration and naturalization, which has opened hearings at San Francisco, is not beginning a moment too soon, in the opinion of thoughtful Californtnns. to call the nation's attention to u most serious threat of ottr peace. California already has a law forbidding any Japanese to own land and Is about to pass a law forbidding the subjects of the mikado even to lease land. The tirst law has been bitterly stalled l?y the Japanese government. What will follow the passage of the tew law?which Governor Stephens has promised will be put through in short order?one can only guess. "Kvcn more menacing, in the >\ Titer's judgment, is the likelihood of riots by Californiums directed gainst the Japanese, in which some of the latter may l?c killed or severely injured. Those who know Japan best say that her ruling class is in no mood 'o tolerate indignities of this sort ami 'hero is also tho fact which must he borne in mind that Japan is having serious troubles at home, to which the solution, according to the orthodox Prussian philisophy, so popular 'i Japan, is to arouse the enthusiasm ol the populace with a thumping big aggression against some foreign pow or. "The writer is far from wishing to lie an alarmist, but after talking to leading men In four rities of the State liul cheeking this knowledge against previous experience in too years' residence in California, lie wishes to state it is belief that the Japanese question is more serious than it has ever been in the past. "The outstanding asjieets are as t? Hows: "The conflict between Asiatic and Caucasian is an economic conflict, in which the Japanese always win. liecause they work harder than we do and have a scale of living far below our own, they secure ultimate control of every industry they enter. "The anti-Japanese "movement is inspired by small land holders and directed against the Japanese agriculturists. It is only slightly a movement of union labor, which was the main anti-Asiatic inucncc ten years ago. The big ranchers who employ large numbers of laborers are not interested in ^t.e light, and 011 the contrary are glad to employ Japanese. "The law forbidding Japanese to own land is a dead letter today. 1 lummy corporations are formed, with white men as the nominal directors, to hold land actually owned by Japanese." t \ i l? ol.' ioiviwo ------ Cheater l'fdjilr Said to Ho IHssatlslied With Present Conditions. Chester Reporter. There is snitl to he serious discontent in certain sections In the eastern purl of the county, and talk of lotiviitK Chester county and annexing to York. How general this talk is. and how serious the disaffection referred tr we don't know: hut it Is a generally known fact that Randsford township was bitterly disappointed by the way the road work turned out, that township receiving nothing li^e its pro rata part of the worWcontemplated and one or two meetings have been held, at which there have been expressions evidencing decided dlssatlsfaction. The area that would leave Chester county and join York, provided this plan should be carried out, includes, according to our understanding, the greater part of I-andlord township, and is the territory included between the York county line ami Rossvllle township, and bounded on the west by Fishing creek. As stated we don't know what this talk means?whether it merely expresses the sentiments of a few Individuals. or denotes community sentiment. At any rate it is further rea son wliy. as Mr. K. \V. Cihson suitsr< sts. flic citizens of Chester county should eotue together in a groat mass meeting anil discuss road conditions the completion of the 2t?l miles originally planned and new roads not included in the original plans Put .just as hadl.v needed its some of those originally ordered. Objected to I loll. A itavelmg salesman, whose homo formerly was in York hut whose head, quartets are now in Columbia, some time ago accepted a position with a Columbia tirm and was getting along very well until one day at noon he heard a hell ring, the sound of which did not please him. Approaching the manager. h?- asked to have explained to him the purpose of the hell. "That bell." said the manager, with considerable gusto, "is to inform the employees of this establishment when they are to begin and leave off work. Its principal duty is performed at * a. in.. 12 noon. 1 p. m. and r?:.10 p. nt. i >ver there you will observe that we also liav e a time clock which you are expected to punch as the instructions attached to it state." "Count me out." replied the York county man. "The black slaves of the South had to work by a bell, but none 01 it for me. 1 would see you nnd your establishment in?well, pay me for the few days I have been here and I'll get out." j VflLL RSDAY, JULY 22, 1980. COTTON MEETING HOUR 10 TOMORROW MORNING The hour for the meeting In Fort Mill tomorrow In the Interest of the grading and warehousing of cotton has been changed from 3 o'clock in the afternoon to 10 a. m. The meeting is to be held under the auspices of the American Cotton association and n number of distinguished South Carolinians, Including former Congressman Anbury F. I-ever, now a member of the federal farm loan board, are en the program to deliver addresses. Others who will speak at the meeting are MaJ. John G. Richards. Ix.wndes Browning, both former candidates for governor, J. A. Kvnns and W. H. Mills. The meeting ndvertlsed for Rock Hill tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock has been cancelled and the speakers will be heard in Fort Mill at that hour. It Is hoped that every Fort Mill township fnrmer as well as the farmers of the eastern section of the rounty generally, will be present to bear the reasons the speakers will give why the cotton association should be supported In Its claim for the necessity of expert cotton graders and for a system of warehouses so that the cotton crop may be systematically marketed instead of passing out of tne hands or the Rrowrr, regardless of price. immediately it Is ginned. there1>y annually costing the South mlllicns of dollars. In its efforts to encourage tho hottor marketing of cotton tho America 11 Cotton association is being supported hy tho State warehouse commissioner. tho extension department of Clemson college and the federal department of agrlculHire. Meetings already have lieen held at n ntimhr o* places In the State and the attendance has lieon large and much interest shown in the plans the speakers have outlined. From Fort Mill the party will go to York, where a meeting will he held ir the court house tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, and Saturday morning at 10 o'clock a mooting Is to l?e held at Clover, followed hy a meeting at Hickory drove at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. There is much interest in the meeting to lie held in Fort Mill tomorrow morning. Aside from the opportunltv it will afford to hear men of Statewide reputation, and the ease of Mr. Hover, a man of nationwide reputation. tho discussion. considered especially timely In the face of the proximity of the boll weevil to York county, will bring out feature*-o; the grading and marketing of cotton worth the serious consideration of every farmer. The meeting will open in Fort Mill promptly at 10 o'clock In Confederate park and one of the largest crowds seen hero In years is expected to he present. In a news article Monday afternoon In reference to the Fort Mill meeting the Hock Hill Rvcnlng Herald prints the following: "ThrouKh mistake. It was announced that the meeting would he held at Hock .Hill instead of Fort Mill. However. the importance of the meeting is so great that it is believed many farmers and business men of the community will tlnd time to attend the meeting in Fort Mill and aid in making the occasion the success it is meant to he. The campaign for cott< n grading and marketing has been conducted for the past week and In all counties visited the enthusiasm has been most encouraging. It is believed that many counties will have an official grader this fall, as a result of the campaign, while plans are being made for many warehouses for the storing of the eotton crop so as to provide for a gradual marketing. It is announced that In Anderson county last year the farmers estimate they saved thousands of dollars through the county cotton grader, which added several cents a pound to the value of their cotton crop. The government agents feel that such a saving would lie effected in York if a grader is secured." Verdict for Mr. .Massey. Yorkvllle Knquircr. Presiding over the court of general sessions for York county Monday morning. Judge Krnest Moore of I,?n. caster directed the jury in the case of Henry Mnwtey of Hook 11111 vs. the Massachusetts Hooding and Insurance company, to return n verdict for the plaintiff in the full amount of the policy involving?fT.SOO together with interest from May SO. 1019. Mr. Massey, who is a farmer and business man of Kock Hill, brought suit through his attorneys Messrs l>unlay A- Dunlap of Itock Hill against the insurance company to collect a nolicy which he held on the life of his son, the late It. Hurton Massey, who wn? killed at Catawba Junction or May 30, 1919. when his automobile collided with a Seaboard Air I due freight train at a grade crossing. Young Massey. according to the testimony, was Insured as a farmer and member of a road contracting firm of Itock Hill. The Insurance company, it is alleged, refused to pav the premium on the ground that Massey was on a pleasure trip at the time of his death and was not within the terms of his policy. John King, a farmer living near Durham, N. C., found two of his cows lying in the pasture In a stupor, apparently suffering from some strange malady. A verterlna-ian was called and after lengthy examination pronounced the animals as merely "beastly" drunk. A search for the cause led to the discovery of a big "moonshine" still in a secluded corner of the pasture. The .cows had eaten a quantity of the mash usod by the Illicit whiskey manufacturers. Time; STANDING TOGETHER. U'lluon mul r/?w In 1 -vw ? - ? *'*? iu i?v\ *? % \?n uunr^ of Democratic Party. Complete agreement on the league of Nations and unity In the policies of the Democratic party was declared by President Wilson and Governor Cox following the conference at the White House Sunday morning. The statement Issued by the president follows: "The Interview was In every respect most satisfactory and gratifying. I found what I indeed already knew and what Governor Cox had let the whole world know In his speeches, that he and 1 were absolutely at one with regard to the great issue of the league of Nations and that he is ready to be the champion In every respect of the honor of the nation and the secure peace of the world. Governor Cox will have the vigorous sup. port of an absolutely united party and I ntn confident also of an absolutely united nation." Governor Cox's statement said: "From every viewpoint the meeting was delightful. The president was at his best recalling any detail and making inquiry into its bearing upon the political situation and enlivened thi conference with a humorous anecdote row and then in old time characteristic way. We are agreed as to the meaning and sufficiency of the ?"?->?? >? c ratio platform and the duty of the I arty In the face of threatened faith to the world in the name of America His thought ? "> of the war and the pledges we gave to those who acritlced. One easily sees that :> - the leader of the nation who asked for our sons and our resources upon e very ri.stinot undertaking and obligation he Is resolved thr.r the faith shall 1> kept. To this his thought and life or< ll-llll-ltlt-U. ? !!.. I Ml' IHIPIIIMMM If elected. ondrnvor with nil r**strenRth to Rive." xrcw kra in wiirc.vr iifix Tractors. Harvester Threshers an-' Trucks K|s-ed l'|i Work. Haste l.s said to ho the motto in th'* year'R harvest of the wheat anil ra* and barley crops in western Kans:> and the newly invented machinery i not only meeting the emergency, he Is now threatening to revolution!*/ farm work in the harvest season. I other yenrs only an occasional traetc was to he seen during harvest; thl year it is said that at least one-thlrof the wheat is hcing cut with th tiactors while the farm horses hraxvs in the pnstnie or eat choice hay I I he shaded ham yard. This year t leaare many farms on which the when' crop has been raised without the ir? ' of a slnRl? horse for a minute for an purpose. Tractors prepared th ground and harrowed and seeded it Now the same tractors are pulling t'* tarvesters which have attached t them the harvester thresher. Truck '...m- ..unit- llm Drill II I irimi (tin irr.-i 1. is in the elevator within an hour fron the time it is cut. The harvester thresher is regardc? hy wheat raisers as the greatest ir vcntion in recent years and it Is do elared that next year will see nian> inure at work. <>ne farmer neaSalina, Kas., raised 200 acres owheat without the use of a horse This machine not only gets the when out of the way, hut It is operated at much less expense than the ordinar thresher and there is not the slighte danger from tire, which has alway hcen the dread of the wheat growe* at threshing time. l-'lood Anniversary Noted. t'harlotte observer. The Oastonla CJazctte of Mondax afternoon devotes considerable space and entertainingly so. to the anni versary of the great Catawba rive flood, which four years ago mad clean sweep of all bridges. railroa< and county, from the upper reaclu. of the river in this State to the st 11* water section in South Carolina. No only were the bridges destroyed, btt' the bottom lands were washed out t< he sand and clay foundations, tin devastation being of such an apallin: character as to make land-owner despair of river bottom crops agaii Hut in many sections there are con lichls where the flood left sand bank .? and on the other hand, some of tin sand beds were piled up so enorimuely as to Invite commercial utilization. and many landowners arc yet receiving minnsomc royiimes i r *? i: i inHitlc of mind. At one point on th Cut awl ?ii. near the crossing of tin Southern railway between Stutesvilh a I'd Newton, a railroad has been Iniil Into the sand beds and a rcgu In* plant of supply has been established The bridges have since been replace all liner and higher structures thin before, and while there may be th' usual ran of minor floods in the tawba the people of this generatiol stand in little a|>prehension of an other visitation of the kind, nnd on of the host safeguards against a re currenee is the retaining reservoir* built by the Southern Power company in the vicinity of Bridgewatcr. A Fort Mill damage suit which wa? expected to come up for trial in coar' at York yesterday was that of Mrs. J. J. Broom against T. <?. Stockton for alleged injuries to the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Broom, who lives in the village of mill No. 1 of the Fort Mill Manufacturing company. It Is alleged that several months ago the child was knocked down and severely injured by an automobile driven In a reckless manner by Stockton. A few hours after the accident Stockton nnd three men who were In the automobile with him were arrested in Chnrlotte nnd brought back to Fort Mill. $1,25 Per Year WORLD TALKS OF PEACE RIITTUCPr IC vn du a rr w a a a aj a % Ms iij IIV/ 1 Although the World war closed nearly two years ago, big wars and little wars, revolutions, lililtuslers. lrtots and intrigues are slill going on in every direction. Some of llieiii have attracted tittle attention; others are fraught with important possibilities to the entire world, as in the case of I'oland's struggle against the might of the Russian soviet. Here Is only an incomplete list of the fostered spots: Poland?The new republic set up by the Versailles peace conference is engaged in a desperate struggle against the lfolshevist hordes of UuksIii. The lied legions are closing in on the Polish frontier and unless the soviet government accedes to the allies' demands for an immediate armistice, P may be necessary for Prance ami Great Itritain to send troops to the aid of the Poles, in addition to supplies of food, clothing and ammunition. Albania?The Albanians have been endeavoring for weeks to drive the Italians, who have taken tbe "mandate" for that unfortunate part of the world, from their country and set up a free government. Pi nine?Guhriele M'Annnn/.io, Italian poet and lire enter, still holds this former Austrian port, the bone of contention between Italy and Jugoslavia. Occasional clashes oc -ur from time to time and both Italy and the kingdom of the Serbs, fronts and Slovenes are engaged in a game of watchful waiting that may break forth into actual hostilities if either makes tin overt move. Turkey?The "sick man of Kurope"' is one of the real problems in the way of world wide peace. The nationalist party has aroused thousands of Turku to resistance to the allied dejnands. Prench. Ilritish. Greek, and Italian troops are all actively engaged it* trying to put an etui to the nationalist revolt, but it persists. Ireland So tense is the situation 'it the Emerald Isle that Great Itritain Is constantly increasing its military forces there. I'lster threatens to tiltpose Sinn Pein domination by resort to arms and police fall victims to Sinn Pein bullets almost every day. There have boon serious clashes in I.ondon. I,....... ..? ! . ..... < in ii?* i* in whs nmi real civil vnr may hreak out at any timo. CJrecce?Aniliitioiis to restore ttic former glory ami might of (5 recce in the AoKPnn, flreece is lighting the Turkish nationalists on tlie one hand and defying Italy on the other. ? ?nI\ yesterday Oreek and Italian troops clashed in Asia Minor, where the aspi rntl(M^? of the two nations are in pftnfff^t." fn addition. Orr"?ro is watch ing the A lhanlan* sit ua t ion with the hope, perhaps of deriving hcnelils should the Albanian rebels lie success, fill against the Italians. Persia?The Itolshevilsi have added another part of the world to their program of revolt ami con<|ue?t. Several thousand lied troops arc holding ports on the Caspian sea. while others are pushing south into Persia, which has been regarded hen tofore as a British sphere of inlluence. The British are fearful of an attempted I tot shevist movement toward India from Persia. Mexico The regime that overthrew fnrranza is hardly settled in power, hut it is facing revolts in several states. In addition. Francisco Villa, handit extraordinary, has made der >ands so impossible to the new government that a further reign of leri or in northern Mexico seems assured. Bolivia- A new government has as samed charge after a brief revolt and the Peruvians are welcoming the "linage as evidence that their neighboring republic will aid in cheeking Chilean aspirations. There has been latter feeling between Peru and Chile ever since the war between the two countries, in wineli the Peruvian province of Africa was wrested away. Siherin?Japan. seeking to establish ? hufl'er state in eastern Siherin. |s oposed h.v the I'.olshevik i. There has heen more or less fighting ever since Japanese troops lirst landed at Vladivostok three years ago. I'lgypt?The nationalist cause in Kg.vpt is growing and tlreat I'.ritain ir administering the affairs of the | country with dillicuitv. The Kgyp iiins want cotn|?letc Independence and only it powerful force of P.ritkh troops under one of their hes| leaders. Alienby, is holding the nationalists In check. China?ISad feeling lie|v.'i'< n the north and south lias heen e- -ideal for some time .and recent troubles in lite cahinet in Peking have led several leaders to the verge of rebellion, r.nndltry and outlawry of all kinds are prevalent and I'.olshevist intrigue is said to he going on. Armenia Kurds, Tartlirs and I'.ol sheviki are making life for the new Armenian republic rvcirdint'lv preen ions. Inslrail of finding fro'-dom and prncc through the Versa ill *s treaty, Ilio Armenians have suffered even greater wrongs. Sontliern Knssia ? tJenernl Wrangel successor to Monokine. h- attempting to overthrow I lie Itolshevlki. lie has had some success in ha tiles fought so far and has penetrated a eonsideraldo distance into the interior. tliiry Acquit* Itawsin. f)liver N. l>awson. loom fixer at the Parhartt mill in I took Hill, charged with the killing of M. S. Ilutler. also a textile worker in lioek Ilill. May 2R, was acquitted hy the jnrv in York last Wednesday evening, following a deliheration of .10 minutes. The tragedy occurred at a market on Kast White street In Work Ilill and followed the exehnnge of a few angry words when Hutler repaid I>awson some change the latter had loaned lhitler's son.