The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-09-16
FOREIGN


will be employed on the company s
Southampton-New York service.
The governor of the state Of Vera
Cruz threatened penalties for any man
ufacturers who close their plants be-
cause of the new profit-sharing law
their profits to the workers In Mexico.
Marshal Foch has received AMI ac-
cepted an invitation from Elbert II.
Gary, chairman of the board of the
United States Steel corporation. to be
a guest at a dinner given by the Iron
and Steel institute in New York City
at which, 1t is understood. there will
be great gathering of financiers and
industrialists.
Baden authorities announced that
they had ascertained the names of the
murderers of Matthias Erzberger They
are Heinrich Tillessen, student, and
Heinrich Schulz. merchant Both
men were members of the brigade of
General Erhardt. which was promin-
ent in the Kapp insurrection. Neither
has been arrested.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood announced
his acceptance of the post of governor
general of the Philippines offered him
by President Harding. He notified
Secretary of War Weeks that ne would
retire from the army to accept the gov
ernorship. He said he believed it to
he his patriotic duty to accept the posi-
fhn mi .f tI,6,
situation in the Philippines.
Payments made by various oil com
panies in compliance with President
Obregon's export tax decree of June Z
last were returned by the government
in accordance with an agreement said
to have been reached with the five
American oil company heads. Such
taxes as were paid were proportionate-
ly small as compared with the usual
payments, as the larger companies had
postponed payments.
GENERAL
Two persons We're killed. three
seriously hurt, and many others slight
ly injured in an accident to car in
the Rubin and Cherry carnival train
over the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad at Noroton. Conn.
Two through Florida passenger
trains, the Dixie Flyer and Seminole
Limited, running between Jackson
vile and Chicago, met in rear-end
collision at Sumner, Ga. on the Allan
tic Coast Line railroad. Several pas
sengers were injured.
Three armed bandits held up the
Beech Grove State Bank at Beech
( Grove, suburb of indianapolis, forced
three employees and two customers of
the bank into back room and escaped
in an automobile with approximately
~ 5000. A fourth bandit remained al
n wheel Of the automobile while ths
iho,uup was committed.
A mine three feet in diameter, coat
ed with barnacles and oysters and pro
yided with an electrical firing device
washed ashore at Ocean View, and has
given rise in marine circles TO the the
DRY that. number of ships reported
lost off the Virginia coast might have
been struck by one of these derelicts
The mine bore the letters XII
If either of the two sons of the lat,
f. H. Atwood, Chicago attorney, us,
4 tobacco or alcoholic drinks during th,
life of their mother they will forfeit
an inheritance of S4OO,OOO under thei
fathers will. If the widow remarries
she will be deprived of her bequest
according to the will. No restrictions
were placed on a daughter.
The German mark fell TO the loves
price in its history. Its value on tn
foreign exchange market at New
York was less than l S0O93, t,
be exact. Disquieting, unconfirme,
rumors of the possibility of moratoi
ium being declared in Germany wa
responsible for the decline. The pre-
war value of the mark was about .
cents.
Gilmon Holmes, a negro, arreste,
on a charge of numbering Sidney Man
helm, station agent at Columbia, La
was hanged by mob, the body thel
being rdded with bullets and Sc
afire. Holmes was alleged to hav
confessed to the posse that capture,
him.
, Masked men numbering more thai
one hundred overpowered the nigh
jailer at Collinsville, Okla, and afte
taking from Jail f. Scott, charge,
with automobile theft, and Roy Hol
lingsworth, who attempted to secur
Scott's release, conveyed the pair b.
automobile to a lonely spot eight mile
east of Tulsa and lashed them will
whips.
A thug went to the home of A. J
Peterson, postmaster at Tornillo, Tex
first made friends with the watch dol
and tied him securely in shed, theI
went to the porch, where Mr.. Peterson
and his wife We're asleep and Stable,
the postmaster over the heart Afte
choking Mrs Peterson and hitting he
in the face with Il gun, the man es