The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-17
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
Cwssteru Newspaper UuI.u News Service,
WESTERN

Approximately 100000 silver dollars are being made daily at the San Fran cisco mint under recent instructions to speed up production, according to Su- perintendent M. J. Kelly.
 Frank Lemen, "A years old, believed one of the oldest circus men in the country and who was credited with having taken the first circus to Aus tralia, is dead at Kansas City.
 Farmers of Stockton, Kan, have or ganized with an agreement to burn corn this coming winter instead of coal, on account of the difference in price between these two commodities
 Four armed bandits robbed the Ho- diamOnt Bank, just outside of St. Louis, of $7,1S0. Six employees and one customer were compelled to lay face downward while the men scoOped the money into sacks. The robbers es capped in an automobile.
 Packing house employees of Des MOineS, Iowa, voted to accept a per cent wage cut declared recently by the packing companies. Officers of the union said that there will be no strike by the employees unless it Is declared by the national officers.
 The S-mOnths-old baby of Mrs. Signe Swanson of Spokane, Wash, was smothered in a lounge whcih painters had closed, believing 1t contained only bedding. The child was dead when Mrs. Swanson opened the lounge five minutes after 1t had been closed.
 Mrs. Louise L. Peete, convicted of the murder of J. c. Denton, was de- nied by the District Court of Appeals a rehearing of her appeal upon which the court ruled several weeks ago. Her attorneys announced the case would be taken to the California Supreme Court.
 Seventy-year-Old Carl Rueble, a re- tired Iowa farmer, shot and slightly wounded Mrs. Gabe OlesOn, the wife of a neighbOr and then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Rue ble'S attention to the 55-year-Old wife of his younger neighbOr has been the subject of jest for some time.
 WASHINGTON
 The War Department announced that 1000 seats, about One-fffth of the total seating capacity of the memorial amphitheater, at Arlington Armistice day had been reserved for gold star mothers or other nearest relatives of men who died in the World war. Not more than two seats will be given any application.
 The appointment of Capt. Jesse F. COttrell, representative in Washing ton of several Tennessee newspapers for many years, as U. S. minister to Bolivia is being hailed with satisfac- tiOn by the newspaper fraternity. Captain Cottrell, who left his prOfes- sion to serve the country during the war, has won an enviable reputation.
 The new revenue law to be enacted next year to take the place of the one which Congress will soon pass, will contain the chief provisions of the Shoot bill, providing for manufactur- ing or sales tax on commodities. Agreement to this effect has been reached among Senate leaders of the eastern bloc, representing the indus trial sections of the country.
 Persons paying federal taxes under protest cannot bring proceedings to re- cover such taxes against a successor of the collector to whom the taxes were paid, the Supreme Court held in deciding a case brought by the Indi- ana Steel Company.
 Suit to test constitutionality of the Capper-Tincher bill passed by Con gress to regulate grain exchanges and put them under direction of the secre- tary of agriculture was filed in federal District Court by John Hill, Jr., member of the Chicago board of trade
 Approval of a loan of $1,OOO,OOO to a financial institution for credit ex- tensions on live stock in Montana and Wyoming, was announced by the War Finance Corporation. The corporation did not make public the name of the institution nor the terms of the loan.
 The governments annual report on mortality statistics for 1920 soon to be issued, shows 1,142,578 deaths within the death registration area, represent ing rate of 13.1 per thousand, as compared with 12.9 in 1919. Fatalities from automobile accidents and injuries increased from 9.4 to 1o.4 per hundred | thousand.