The Snowflake herald., 1921-12-23
FOREIGN

Leonard PiOn, 16 years OLD, OF Wlnu-
sor Mills, Quebec, has confessed to the
police that he murdered his mother,
Mrs. Joseph Pion, by shooting her on
Dec. 2. He had been under arrest as
a material witness.
The interallied reparatiOns commits
sion has authorized $1,000, 100000 in
ternatiOnal loan guaranteed by German
customs, to assist German indemnity
payments, it 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 LoE-
don, but this does not mean that they
become barristers Immediately. They
have to finish their course, so that
they will probably be called to the bar
during next year.
An official decree soon will be is
sued in Mexico establishing modifica-
tons 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
a 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 adj
dress. He also predicted that possi-
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 TO Pat
rick O'Hara and Albert Slade of Ham
ilton, Ontario, convicted of $500
bank robbery Aug. y. Sentenced to
che penitentiary for seven years, the
cOnvicts were 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 q number of merchant ships,
has committed suicide in Hamburg in
a fit of despondency, 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 a humble job, but he
was unable to make both ends meet.
GENERAL
The Grant Memorial Commission
has definitely set April 81, 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 T. 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 it's members wearing elks'
teeth as emblems. This request was
made in a 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 a life term for the murder of Jac-
OBJ Denton in Los Angeles, on the
ground that her conviction by a 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
co.
J. l.. Robertson, Greenwood, Miss. ;
Louis ROmonOlO, Clarksdale, and Jack
GivenS, Clarksdale, were killed, and
]. 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 mail
delivery and collection. Mr.. Briggs
conceived. the idea while working as
clerk in the local postoffice, and was
the first American letter carrier.
The tanker Santa Rita, which left
New Orleans for Italy Oct. 20 with a
$1,000,O00 cargo of OIL has been given
up for lost, agents of the American
Fuel Oil and Transportation Company
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