The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-09
FOREIGN

| Attempts to establish trade between
 Italy and Russia have failed, according
 to the BOlsheviSt representative who
 asked for his passports at Rome.
 A number of persons are reported to
 have been killed or wounded during
 fighting at Buenos Aires in the port
 zone when union laborers attempted to
 prevent nOn-uniOn workers from un-
 loading ships.
 Rebels have adopted new method
 for attacks on police barracks in Ire
 land. Travelling by train, they com pelled the trainmen to stop the train at Ballagh aghaderreen, where they opened
 fire on the barracks. The police re- piled, wounding one passenger in the train.
 According to reports in labor circles, Bunji Suzuki, the president of the Yuai-Kai, Japan's labor confederation, will soon resign from his office. Among the various rumors, that which stands out prominently is that Mir. Su- zuki is not in harmony with the more radical elements in his organization.
 An Italian tenor dropped dead on the stage of the Bellinzona theater in Geneva while singing in the last act of Puccini's La Boheme" to Mimi, who was lying dying on a bed. The actress, unaware of the tenor's death, continued singing her role until a phy- sician appeared on the stage and or dered the curtain rung down.
 American forms of spelling have been barred from official documents in the high court at Melbourne. The federal chief justice has announced that he will not allow their introduc- tion and ordered the spelling of the words program" and "center" changed to programme" and centre" He remarked that English spelling was good enough for him.
 While digging for water on his farm a short distance from Calgary, Alberta, William Embree stopped work for a moment to light his pipe, and in stoop- ing down to do so ignited gas coming from the well. The flame shot sev- eral feet in the air and was only put out by the use of sods and earth. This strike of natural gas was made at a depth of 130 feet, and is said to be a wet gas, indicating the probability of oil.
 Sudden death claimed Theodore Lut- tof, the "COssack Hercules" after per forming feats of strength in the Ma tiOnal theater at Havana during a wrestling carnival the other day. He had twisted iron bars and supported upon his shoulders a steel rail to which eighteen persons were hanging by their hands, without apparent i'll effects, but after the performance he dropped dead while emerging from a shower bath.
 GENERAL
 After slashing his wife's throat with a razor, R. B. Eaton, 45 years old, a farmer residing near SilOam Springs, Ark, shot to death his I3-year-old and then ended his own life with the same weapon. The bodies wer found on the floor of the living room at Eaton's home.
 Rev. Guy Kyle was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment and | fined $3,OO0 in Federal Court at St. | Louis when he pleaded guilty of rob- ping the mails of $189,OOO Loren partner in a garage busi- | ness at Mount Vernon, H., was found | guilty by jury previously and given the same sentence.
 Flames which shot from a stove and | burned Mrs. Alfred LEcuyer's arm when she replenished the firebox with ,oal which had been stored in the basement, resulted in the discovery of )il seeping into the excavation beneath he L'Ecuyer home in the heart of Spokane's residence district. Several gallons of the fluid were baled from he basement in a day, according to Hrs. L'Ecuyer's account, conveyed by leighbors.
 MT. and Mrs. Ton Christian of Can ou, Mo, are happy again. Their iourth set of twins arrived to greet i've singles. wen welcome the fifth pair of twins" says Mir. Christian, who S a Christian.
 One large Chicago brewery and two 'ther smaller ones in Illinois have been eized by agents from the internal avenue office, it was announced on ormal complaints charging them with making and selling beer containing nOre than One-half of one per cent of lcohol.
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