The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-10
FOREIGN

wounded when 150 trucks of ammuni' ton exploded at Fort Rudmei, a Ru- manian arsenal and fertilization.
 Three thousand tons of German toys arrived in Boston on the American steamer DeranO9. Capt. Thomas Cart wright of the DeranOf said he counted sixty iron steamships under cOnstruo- 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 Aqultania, ar irving in time, 1t is expected, for the afternoon session of the armaments Iconference on its opening day, Nov. II.
 Because the war cost France so much blood and maimed so many of her sons, dueling must be severely re- pressed, 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 T. Herrick, American ambassador took out an accident policy for the em- ployGs and also against damage to his residence Under his contract he must make good to the Due de BrOglie the s, 900 damage done to the house and furniture.
 A bald eagle with a wing spread of seven feet, attempted to carry away 9-year-old girl named Gibbs, from the veranda of her home at VanderhOof, B. 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 a triple-bar- reled machine gun, electrically Oper- ated, weighing twenty-twO pounds and capable of spreading 2,OOO rounds per minute in a circle. The three barrels could be operated by a gunner a half mile distant.
 The government at Picking has ap- pointed a commission to investigate the opium situation in the FukIen province. An appeal has been made to fort to stop poppy planting in the province. An apeal has been made to Dr. K. Wellington KOo, minister to Great Britain, for foreign assistance and cooperation.
 A British mission will soon proceed to AnatOlia to sound the NatiOnallsts regarding peace. The Angora govern ment has already advised the British embassy that the delegates would be welcome. The feeling In COnstantinO- 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. It was the first hanging in this county for more than forty years. Christman killed his wife with razor last sum- mer.
 Miss Annie Stone, 1O9 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 i'll only a week, cold developing into pneumonia.
 Nathan LOar, Mexican war veteran, celebrated his one hundredth birth day at LeavenwOrth, Kan. He was born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper court house, Virginia. Ills wife, with whom he lived seventy-twO years, died six years ago. They were parents of ten children. LOar has forty grandchlld. ren, fifty-three great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
 Mrs. R. c. Rocker, arrested at Mem phis, Tenn, several days ago on a fu- gitive from justice warrant issued in Dallas, Texas, where 1t is alleged by federal officials she is under indict- ment of $2O,OO0 from the Southwest ern National Bank, was released when she gave bond for $2,000 for her ap- pearance in the Federal Court in Dal- las.
 Emma Richardson Burkett, Hills 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 should not be appointed general guardian of their sons, James and Alexander, were is- sued by Surrogate COhalan. They