Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03
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Indian Relics Found


Indian Relics Found
Discovery of relics, believed to be of the
extinct Susquehannock tribe of Indians, is
announced by Professor frank c.. Speck, of
the department of >anthropology off the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. His excavations
were r2ade four miles from Port Deposit,
A--, N = field near the Susquehanna river.
Remains of tomahawks, wigwams and arrow
heads are included in the collection. The
Susquehannocks are probably the least known
Indians ON the continent, according to DR..
Speck, although a neighboring tribe, the
Nanticokes, survive today in a community in
Virginia, including more than 200 persons.
Theater Cough ..
Paris actors have decided to organize a
campaign against the ''theater cough
Coughs. they said, have a habit of occurring
at dramatic moments in the play and spoil
ing thine effect intended by the playwright. ,
There is little excuse for rs per cent of the
"theater coughs" according to French spe
cialists who say moments concentration
when the cough is felt to be coming on will
usually prevent it. There have been instances
of actors threatening to stop performances
due to coughing in the audience
Kipling's SON
Rudyard Kiplng's son, John. was one OF
the thousands of soldiers lost in the --orld's
war whose fate is not officially recorded. He
Joined the army when barely Is years old
and was reported wounded and missing in
northern France in October, 1915.
When the war ended efforts were made to
trace him and it was learned he had Joined
the British force bound to the Gallipoli PEE
ninsula.
The vessel on which he sailed arrived in
time for him to have taken part the dsas-
trous fighting on the peninsular, but there
is no record of him. ~ II
In the hope that he might have been cap.
tured by the Turks Charles M. Dickinson,
former consul general at Constantinople, took
up the search. Now he announces that a
thorough hunt through the Far East, in
Whlch he was aided by many Turkish authori.
tles has proved unavailing. a
Women Hoboes ~
The town of Pasco, Wash, at the junction
or the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific rail.
roads, Is suffering from an influx of women
noDoes, according to the chief of police there
An average of two women daily, dressed az
men, have been taken from freight trains
Bolivian Federation
Formation of Bolivian federation" to
be composed of Panama, Venzula, Colombia,
Peru, Bolivia and Evuador, was advocated by
Jose santos Chocano, poet laureate of Peru,
in an address at the celebration Of Panama's
one hundredth anniversary of independence
from Spain. He urged that this group join
with the Mexican fedration in the adoption
OF uniform monetary and metric systems.
He prophesd that, with the natural resources
at their disposal, the groups thus united
would becom Independent Of tn Unitd States
in all respects.
Senator Chocano's address was recivd
with hearty applause. He Explained that he
chose the name bolivian fedration," be-
cause all the prospctiv membrs were coun-
tries which had been liberatd by GenraI
Bolivar.
Homicide Record
Homicides in the United States during
1920 totaled approximately 5000, decrease
Of 500 from the 1919 record, according to a
computation by Frederick L. Hoffman, third
vice president and statistician of the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Company Of America
The figures, made public through the 7ps-
tator, showed, Memphis, Tenn, still in the
with killing record of 63.4 persons for
every 100000 of population. The safest of
thirty-one cities for which figures wer tabu-
lated was Rochester, N. Y, wher tn rate was
but 1.3 for every 100000
In the genral, the tables showed that south
ern states, with large ngro populations, had
the highest homicide rat, and that the pro-
portion Of negroes slain was from three and
one-haH to sewn Tins that of whites. The
average was slightly in excess of four to one.
Tabulations for the period 1918-1919
grouped geographically showed the New Eng
land states to be most law-abiding so far as
homicide was concernd, with a rate of 2S
for each 100000. The southern group had
the highest rate, 1913. In the middle Allan
tic states the rate was ST.; central states,
6.2; Rocky mountain states, "a, and Pacific
coast states, 49,
OF the larger cities, Boston had the lowst
rate, 81; New York was second, wits So.
The Chicago rate was 1913; San Francisco,
TO; st. Louis, 1885, and Cleveland, 12.5.
Jap Plot
The Japanese police are Investigating a
nationwide bombing plot. In front Of the
Toxic railway station, where PRIMER Hara
was assassinated, bomb was exploded
few minutes before Prince Saionil boarded a
train for his Okitsu residnce, just after the
regency announcement had been made No
damage was done by the explosion.
bomb was planted in the driveway OF
the Osaka mansion of Baron X. Sumitomo,
a millionaire banker, and presidnt Of the
Bessh Copper Smelling works The bomb
was exploded by stumbling cart horse, ten
minutes before the barons arrival from his
Kyoto villa, wher he had been living in re-
tirement since last October, when he re-
ceived number of threatening letters from
discharged women.
Boris Grey, Russian, claiming British
citizenship, is beng dtained by the YOko-
ham police charged with distributing soviet