The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-16
FOREIGN

enburg, owing to the flood of the mine by the Erlenbach river.
 Caribou and native reindeer are re- ported ranging the hills like droves of sheep in full view of Dawson, Y. T.. AS it is calving time, the herds are not allowed to be molested, and instead of shooting with a gun the citizens of Dawson are shooting" with a camera.
 Electrically operated trains on the mountain lines at GOtthard and LOetschberg are making part of the current they consume. On down grades where gravity is the motive force, cleo tricity is generated so successfully that there is an estimated saving of 25 to 30 per cent in current.
 Two hundred and four tenements, stores and other buildings in Honolulu, declared unsafe and insanitary, have been torn down since the beginning of the building cleanup campaign in augurated last year by city officials, according to a recent official report on the progress of the drive.
 A link with the old days of the Hawaiian monarchy was broken re gently when the death occurred of Mrs. Emily c. Judd, widow of Charles Hastings Judd, chamberlain to King Kalabaua, the last king of Hawaii. Mrs. Judd was born in Portsmouth, N. H., March 19, 1840, and went to Hawaii in 1858
 Pursuit of the mirage of religious | freedom has been taken up again by 30,000 MennOnites. For four centuries the sect has followed the phantom. Ar engagements were completed for the transportation of the colony now resid- ing in Canada to land in Mexico, pur- chased from the Obregon government for $5,OOO,OOO.
 A conference of the foreign minis ters of Lithuania, Letvia and EsthOnia will be held in Riga in June, according Ito advices. It is understood that the conference originally was suggested by Finland with the view to organization of league of Baltic states. Although Finland and Poland are not expected to participate it is believed that the league, if it comes into being will have the support of both countries.
 GENERAL
 Letters and documents signed by royal persOnages of former centuries brought only S1 to $14 each in an auc- tion sale at Philadelphia, while Benja- min Franklin's essay on "Hygrome- ters" went for $270.
 There is a great increase in the number of bankruptcies which have been gazetted by the Board of Trade during the last three months, 753 hay ing been listed against BIO for the cor responding period in 1920.
 State police headquarters at Will liamson, w. Va, received reports that West Virginia state trooper and a Kentucky national guardsman were killed at Nolan, when fighting in the Tug river battle zone was resumed.
 Governor Stephens of California signed a bill which provides that all male alien residents of California over 21 years of age shall be registered and shall pay an annual poll tax of $10 into the school fund of the county in which they reside.
 A. S. Embree, self-acknowledged l. W. W. leader, was sentenced from one to ten years in the stare penitentiary after having been found guilty of crim- inal syndicalism by a jury at Wallace, Idaho. On the witness stand Embre declared he filled the place of William D. Haywood as supreme officer of the I. w. w. for two months in 1918.
 Sidney J. Catts, former governor of Florida, was indicted for peOnage at Pensacola, Fla, by a federal grand jury. The indictment charges that Catts, after obtaining pardOns for two negro convicts, forced them to work on one of his farms in west Florida. The former governor recently was indicted by the Bradford county grand jury for accepting $700 for a pardon for pris- oner serving 6 life term for murder.
 It was announced at the Union Ma tiOnal bank in Newcastle, Pa, that the five bandits who held up the bank had secured $eO,3O0.. It was also stated that the bandits failed to take $418,- 900 in securities which was within their reach.
 The Board of Regents of the Univer- sity of Oklahoma adopted resolution prohibiting students from maintaining automobiles while attending the insti- tuition. Possession of motor cars was declared to be detrimental to the best interests of the students.