The Raymer enterprise., 1921-10-20
FOREIGN

Wholesale suspension Of business by
stores and factories In the city Of
Puebln, Mexico. was reported In pro-
test against alleged excessive taxation
by the state government.
The Colombian Senate, after three
sessions during which there was much
discussion, ratified the treaty which
the United States by which Colombia
is to receive $25.OOO.0OO. E-
According to the latest statistics the
German casualties In the war were L.
s0S.545 killed and 4,247,143 wounded,
including cases returned on the
wounded list more than once.
A Spanish cabinet council has ap-
proved a new naval program for the
construction Of fifty Eight warcraft Of
various classes during the next SIX
years. The vessels to be built are four
fnst cruisers. six destroyers, twenty
gunbOats and twenty-eight submarines.
A desperate situation which al.
ready has cost two lives from violence,
is reported at Puebla, Mexico. where
demonstrations against the state gov.
ernment's allegedly excessive tax laws
continue. Many Of the stores have
been closed, bread and milk supplies
are said to be exhausted and food
scarce.
The feature OF the relchstag bank
statement for the week ending Sept.
30, issued at Berlin, Is an increase In
the paper currency circulation by t..
20, 10000 marks to S8,3S4, ,3O0. .O0l
marks. During the week ending Sept.
30 new bank notes and loan bank notes
to the amount Of 4.2l37OO,OOO marks
were issued
A robber who was foiled In an at
tempt to rob the Bank Of Hamilton,
Ont. after pistol duel with an off.
cinl OF the Institution. tried his for
tunes again with better success. He
walked into the Union bank, said tt
clerk: ''They stopped me yesterday
but won't today" pointed a pistol at
him, grabbed $1,000 and escaped.
The American frelghter Wesi
Comak, bound with cargo from San
Francisco for Glasgow, rammed the
Laird liner Rowan, a Glasgow Dublin
night passenger boat, In Il thick fos
Off Corsewallpoint, Scotland, near the
mouth Of the river Clyde. While the
ConIak was lowering Its boats to mid
the stricken ship, third steamer, tn,
Clan liner Clan Malcolm. from Gas
cow for Natal. South Africa. sped 0u,
of the fog In answer to an S. o. S. call
and crashed amidshIps of the Rowan
which sank II minute later. Thirteen
members Of the Rowan's crew and
three passengers were lost.
GENERAL
Liberty bonds valued Mt $4,000 art
missing from the Beaver Falls Stat,
bank, and Emil FeeblekOrn, 80 year
old, manager OF the foreign depart
ment, Is being held by the police foi
investigation. Feeblekorn claims
stranger held him up.
Tie State Bank Of MuncIe, Kansas
was robbed recently, and in an TX
change Of shots between the rObber
and bnnk officials, II is reported, l.. Il
WOrthlngt0n, cashier Of the bank, was
shot. Telephone wires between Kan.
sas City and Muncie were cut, pre-
sumably by the robbers.
Word was received at the New Yorl
navy yard that the Japanese cruiser,
Idzumo and Yakima, under commant
Of Vice Admiral Tetsutaro Sato, drec
tor Of the japanese naval college, ant
carrying a class Of more than co.
naval cadets on a world cruise, would
arrive Oct. % for weeks stay.
One person Is known to have been
killed and two were injured seriously
by an explosion that wrecked whole
sale grocery In Detroit. Police begar
search Of the debris In the belief
some Of the occupants Of apartments
In the upper floor might have per.
ished. Joseph Caruso. proprietor Of
the grocery. was unable to explain the
explosion or give the police n clue.
Ray V. McGraw, formerly vice pres
ldent and general manager OF the Mis-
souri, Valley Cattle Loan Company OF
Omaha, which was declared bankrupt
some time ago. has surrendered to the
sheriff on indictments, one OF which
charged. embezzlement Of 100000 OF
the company's funds.
Capt A. b. Randall, master Of the
steamship Hudson, has been cleared Of
a charge Of violating one of the most
sacred laws Of lie seas In that he
failed to give aid to seamen In dis
tress, Il. A. Sargent and J. T.. Wilson
federal steamboat inspectors, decided
that his failure to pick up three men
adrift In a disabled motor boat off
New York harbor recently did not con-
stitute willful neglect Of duty.
Mrs. n. J. Rocker, 80, has been ar
rested In Memphis by federal officers
on a charge Of being a fugitive from
Justice, she being under Indictment In
Dallas, Texas. the officers said, In con.
nection with the embezzlement OF S1O,-
900 from the West Side National Bank