The Ordway new era., 1921-12-09
FOREIGN

sidering two invitations to visit Texas.
One is from the American Legion post
at San Antonio and the other from
Gov. Pat Neff of Texas.
A soviet delegation is on the way
to Buenos Aires to negotiate for the
reopening of trade relations between
Argentina and Russia, La Razon
learns from diplomatic sources.
The Russian ruble is still depreci-
ating. 1t now requires 20O,0o0 of them
to purchase dollar. In one day the
dollar has jumped from 100000 to
100000 rubles, which is the most vio-
lent fluctuation since the free trade
policy was inaugurated.
A carpenter at Bologna, Italy, who
was left about 100000 by a brother,
who died in America, is continuing at
his bench. He is not quite 40 years
old. He says he understands carpen-
try and intends to stick to it and TO his
humble shop.
Major General Crowder has Informed
the French ambassador in Washington
that he will be unable To 20 there to
receive the Grand Cross of the French
Legion of Honor, which, 1t was learned
has been conferred on him for his
services during the war. The decora-
ton. it is expected, will be given him
by the French minister in Cuba.
The missing suitcase containing the
passports of the wives of eightytwo
American soldiers, who left Coblenz
for Antwerp on their way home, was
found by the military police. Discov-
cry that the satchel was missing was
made just before the train pulled out.
The military police who found the doc
uments expressed belief that the satch-
el had been taken from the train by
jealous woman.
Steam and sailing vessels totally
lost or condemned last year numbered
561 of G45.603 tons, according TO sta
tistics published by LloydS' register of
shipping in London. OF these 255
were wrecked, sixty abandoned Mt sea,
eighty foundered, forty-three missing,
fifty-two burned, thirty-siN lost in col
lision, nine broken up and twenty-siN
lost" The United States lost ten yes
sells of 159,69+ tons; Great Britain 163
of 1OO5O3 tons.
El Sol, in Madrid, published a semi
official declaration, which also ap-
peared in Barcelona newspapers, stat
ing that all ammunition acquired in
the United States for use in the Nor
ocean campaign was found to be unfit |
for use. An authoritative source is
for the statement that the
Spanish army purchase commission in |
the United States acquired discarded |
stocks with full knowledge of their |
quality and that Spanish inspectors
passed them.
GENERAL
Elbridge Gerry Snow, financier, who
soon will be so years old, and Mrs.
Fanny Joyce Marsh, 10, of st. Angus
tine, Fla, We're married at New York.
Mr.. Shows first wife, whom he mar
-ied in 1865, died in October, 1920. Mr..
Snow has been president of the Home
Insurance Company since 1898.
The Masons of Wisconsin, at the
close of the general session at NIilwau-
lee, voted to build n hospital larger
than any existing institution of the
kind. The building will be started in
the spring and will be built and |
equipped entirely with funds raised by |
the $4,000 members in the state
Frederick J. Kelly, formerly depu-
ty collector of internal revenue,
pleaded guilty at New York to a
charge of embezzling $4,000 in treas
ury certificates received in payment
of income taxes, and was sentenced
by Federal Judge Augustus Hand to
serve a year and a day in the Atlanta
Operation of a counterfeiting plant
was halted in Chicago when federal
agents raided a basement shop and ar
rested Henry ]. Brechong, said to be
an ex-convict. Photographic plates of
81, So and $40 federal reserve notes
and other equipment were seized.
Brechong was held to the grand jury
in $1,000 bonds.
Thirty-siX persons, including wom-
en- and children, We're rescued by fire
men from a four-story building in
New York. The flames destroyed the
stairway, cutting off the escape of
families living above the first floor.
Damages of 81, 400 for the death of
Charles F. van de Water, congressman
elect of Long Beach, on Nov. 20, 1920,
against the owners of the truck into
which his automobile crashed, have
been entered by stipulation in the Los
Angeles Superior Court.
An accident occurred every twenty
minutes on the streets of New York
last year. There were 27,550 vehicular
accidents, which killed S64 persons
and injured 17,133 men and 6,146 wom-
en-. Private cars were in 1908 of the
mishaps, business automobiles in g.