The Ordway new era., 1921-12-23
FOREIGN

measure legalizing in Great Britain a
marriage between a man and his
brothers widow, it is estimated that
more than 5000 people have been mar
ried under it.
Leonard Pion, 16 years old. of Wind
sor Mills, Quebec, has confessed to the
police that he murdered his mother,
Mrs. Joseph Pion, by shooting her on
Dec .. He had been under arrest as
material witness.
The interallied reparations commits
sion has authorized S1.O0O,0O0,0O0 in
ternational loan guaranteed by German
customs, to assist German indemnity
payments, 1t has been announced. The
loan will pay per cent and run fifty
years.
Four women have just passed their
final examinations for the bar in Lon
don, but this does not mean that they
become barristers Immediately. They
have to finish their course, so that
during next year.
An official decree soon will be is
sued in Mexico establishing mOdifica-
tions of import duties. according TO
word received. The tariff on luXuries
will be made twice as much as here
tofore, the reports said. The tariff on
tobacco, cigarettes, candies, silks, jew
elry and matches will be increased.
Within ten years India will speak as
coequal partner with Canada and
Australia in the British empire. the
Right Hon. V. S. Strinwasa Sastri In
dia's representative in the British
arms delegation, predicted in an ad-
dress. He also predicted that posi-
bly, recent Irish developments would
quicken even his estimate of ten
years"
The lash, deemed by dominion au-
thorities one of the greatest deterrents
to crime, was ordered applied 10 Pat
rick O'Hara and Albert Slade of Ham
ilton, ontario, convicted Of a $500
bank robbery Aug. IL. Sentenced to
the penltentiary for seven years, the
convicts We're ordered lashed seven
times on beginning their terms and
seven times upon completion.
Capt. Hans Berg, who commanded
the German sea raider Appam, which
put into Newport News, Va, after
sinking number of merchant ships,
has committed suicide in Hamburg in
n fit of dependency, said dispatch
from that city. Berg returned to Ger
many two years ago to find his home
land, Schleswig. had been awarded to
Denmark He returned TO Hamburg,
where he secured humble job, but he
was unable to make both ends meet.
GENERAL
The Grant Memorial Commission
has definitely set April -, 1922, as the
date for dedication of the imposing
Grant memorial at the extreme north
east end of the grounds of the Botanic
Garden, in Washington.
Whisky valued at more than $4,000
was removed from the 7. b. Ripy dis
tillery, near Tyrone, KY, by twenty
armed men, who held up the superin-
tendent and three guards. Ten barrels
and 104 cases of bottled in bond whis-
ky were removed by the bandits, who
used three touring cars and two trucks
to haul the liquor away.
The Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks have been asked by the
American Game Protective Association
to forbid its members wearing elks'
teeth as emblems. This request was
made in resolution adopted after
photographs had been shown picturing
elks shot for their teeth alone. Speak
ers included Governor Cary of Wyo-
ming.
An order directing the warden of
San Quentin state prison to appear
and show cause why he should not re-
lease Mrs. Louise Peete, who is serv-
ing life term for the murder of Jac-
OBJ Denton in Los Angeles, on the
ground that her conviction by Jury
on which thirteen members served was
in violation of the United States con-
stitution, was issued by the United
States District Court at San Francis
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]. L. Robertson, Greenwood, Miss. {;
Louis Romonolo, Clarksdale, and Jack
Givens, Clarksdale, We're killed, and
J. L. Shipp of Helena, Ark, was seri-
ously injured when Yazoo & Mis-
sissippi Valley locomotive backed into
an automobile driven by Givens.
DR.. Wilmer Amos Hadley, former
army surgeon and ranchman, was put
to death in the electric chair in the
state penitentiary at Richmond, Va.
for, the murder of his wife, Mrs. Sue
Tinsley Hadley, in November, 1918
Prison attendants declared Hadley
went to his death calmly and stoically
A tablet was unveiled in the custom
house at Cleveland, Ohio, in memory
of Joseph William Briggs, author OF
the present system of free city mai
delivery and collection. Mr.. Briggs
conceived the idea while working a!