The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-04
FOREIGN

wounded when $50 trucks of ammuni-
ton exploded at Fort Rudmei, a Ru-
manian arsenal and fortification.
Three thousand tons of German toys
Iarrived in Boston on the American
steamer Deranof Capt Thomas Cart
wright of the Derals5f said he counted
sixty iron steamships under construc-
ton as he passed up the river Elbe.
Prime Minister Lloyd George has de-
cided definitely to leave for Washing
ton Nov. on the liner Aquitania, ar
irving In time, it is expected, for the
lafternoon session of the ornaments
conference on its opening day, Nov. IL.
Because the war cost France so
much blood and manned so many of
her sons, dueling must be severely re-
lpressed, declares NJ. Bonnevay, French
minister of justice, in a circular ad-
dressed to public prosecutors all over
France.
On the morning of the explosion OF
the bomb in his Paris home, Myron r.
HerricR, American ambassador took
out an accident policy for the en-
ployes and also against damage to his
residence Under his contract he must
make good to the Due de Broglie the
$4,000 damage done to the house and
furniture.
A bald eagle with wing spread OF
seven feet, attempted TO carry away
a 9-year-old girl named Gibbs, from the
g I~<~
&c. Struggles of the child and her
mother prevented the bird from get
ting away and it was finally beaten to
death by Mathew Semple. The girl
suffered flesh wounds.
The Munich correspondent of the
London Times is informed that the
Germans have perfected triple-bar
relied machine gun, electrically oper-
ated, weighing twenty-five pounds and
capable of spreading 1000 rounds per
minute in a circle. The three barrels
could be operated by a gunner a half
mile distant
The government at Peking has ap-
pointed commission to investigate
the opium situation in the Fukien
IprOvince. An appeal has been made TO
fort to stop poppy planting in the
province. An appeal has been made to
DR.. X Wellington Koo, minister to
Great Britain, for foreign assistance
and cooperation.
A British mission will soon proceed
to AnatOlia to sound the NatiOnalistS
regarding peace. The Angora gover.-
ment has already advised the British
embassy that the delegates would be
welcome. The feeling in Constantine
pie is that the cessation of the long
drawn out conflict in Asia Minor may
passibly be in sight.
GENERAL
John Christmas, negro, of Cham
paign, was hanged at Urbana, III. 1t
was the first hanging in this county
for more than forty years. Christman
killed his wife with razor last sum-
mer.
Miss Annie Stone, 103 years old, the
Oldest woman voter in Massachusetts,
if not in the United States, and a per-
sOnal friend of President Harding and
Vice President Coolidge, died at the
Mount Pleasant home in Roxbury,
Mass. She had been ill only week,
cold developing into pneumonia.
Nathan Loar, Mexican war veteran,
celebrated his one hundredth birth
day at LeayenwOrth, Kan. He was
born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper court
house, Virginia. His wife, with whom
ne lived seventy-twO years, died six
years ago. They were parents of ten
children. Loar has forty grandchild-
rem, fifty-three great-grandchildre
and five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. r. G. Rocker, arrested at Mem
phis, Tenn, several days ago on fu-
gitive from justice warrant issued in
Dallas, Texas, where it is alleged by
federal officials she is under indict-
ment in connection with the embezzle-
ment of $4,000 from the Southwest
ern National Bank, was released when
she gave bond for $4,000 for her APP
pearance in the Federal Court in Dal-
las.
Emma Richardson Burkett, Fills
dale, Ind, was sentenced TO from six
months to three years in the peniten-
tiary by Judge Alfred j. Talley for
forging the name of the late Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt to a fake note.
Citations directing James A. Still
man, divorce suit plaintiff, to show
cause why Mrs. Stillman shoNld not he
appointed general guardian of their
sons, James and Alexander, were is
sued by Surrogate Cohalan. They
were procured by Mrs. Stillman's coun-
sel
Thirty-five horses and mules and
three motor trucks of the garbage and
street cleaning departments of the city
of Little Rock were lost in fire that
swept the city stables, in the east part
of the city. The loss is estimated at
$25, 900. Only one of the thirty-six