The Holly chieftain., 1921-10-06
FOREIGN

Thirteen men were killed ana many
injured when an explosion occurred In
plant making fertilizer from OLD
shells brought from the battiefieIds at
Udine. Italy.
Admiral Beatty OF the British navy
and his wife will sail for the United
States on Oct. Is, to be present with
Marshal Foch at the convention OF
the American Legion at Kansas City.
Afterward he will join the British
delegation at the disarmament confer
ence.
ZaDjiro Yasuda, known as the Rock
efeller of Japan and one of the three
wealthiest men of the empire, was
murdered at Toxic by an assassin who
secured an audience with him under
the suise of soliciting funds, fasuda
was stabbed to death His fortune Is
estimated at 1,OO0.OOO,00o He was
head of a dozen banks.
| Sir Ernest John, the English plunger
at Deauville, France, is reported to
have lost 2,0OO.OOO francs at baccarat
at the casino last summer, making his
total loss for the year. including that
at the Travellers Club in Paris, 7.OOO,-
600 francs. A Cuban newspaper pro-
prietor is reported 10 be the next
heaviest loser. having dropped more
than 3.0O0,OO0 francs at Deauville.
Federal troops clashed with revolu-
tionists near Moyobamba, in the de-
partment of LOreto, where the govern
ment last month closed the port OF
Iquitos and other harbors, because of
revolts, according 10 meager advices
received. Twenty-three federal sol
diers were killed or wounded and the
bodies of fifty-two insurrectionists
were found after the clash.
GENERAL
George II. Brennan. described by
the police us an owner of racing
stables who once had amassed for
tune on the track, shot and killed his
wife in her apartment in New York
and then committed suicide. Bren-
an, 63, and his wife, IS, had not been
living together for several years.
| ->tN 1oIh Stilt '-l,toc duto
mobiles, or one to every fourteen OF
its residents, according to an an
nouncement by Secretary of State John
j. Lyons, covering the registration fol
the first half of this year That New
York state residents have been buying
that the registration for the first half
of this year exceeds all of last veal
by approximately $4,000 ears.
Police of Chicago are Investigating
the strange case of dual personality OF
Frank Sinnick. chief or police of Riv.
erdale, n suburb, who was arrested
while holding up Chicago saloon
Sinnick has been police chief of the
suburb for thirteen years. His arres
disclosed that, after enforcing the law
during The day. he became n bandit a
night. He was identified by two sa
loonkcepers as the robber who helt
them up, according 10 the authorities
A strange aftermath to the murder
of Patrolmln Daniel Neville, who was
found shot Aug. ~, in Il West Side lot
the haunt Of criminals whom he har
assed, took place in the city morgue il
New York. There Il body was identi
fled by finger prints as that of ,IOhI
Gleason, 81 alias Souphead Gleason
one of the two men sought for the
crime. He had died from an overdose
of drugs, far from The rendezvous OF
his band
Prohibition has made 1t possible fOl
the silk gown of the future to be mad,
in the laboratory, according to chem
lists of the Department of Agricultur,
and the War Department. They hav,
put the senl of government apprOva
on successful experiments in perfect
ing the process for the manufactur,
on commercial scale of syntheti,
silk, developed by Americas new
chemical industry built up during tht
war. According to the chemists tn,
new process laboratory silk will hav,
all the sickness of the original nrticl,
spun by the Asintic silkworm. will b,
more durable and can he produced Al
lower price.
The bulk of her $S5,OO0 estate is left
to Catholic institutions all over the
world by the will of Miss Agnes Mary
Lincoln, filed at Cincinnati, Ohio. The
sum of $4,000 is left to the pope "fol
the advancement of the holy religion
and charity, for the redemption of de
linquent youth, as long as the holy ia
ther shall deem 1t advisable"
Thomas Cassaz, an importer and ex
porter, paid two men $4,000 for thir
ty-five barrels of water believed to b,
whisky, according to his story to thu
New York police. AS result the po
lice arrested Joseph Mantelle, 43 year.
old, who said he was nm importer. ,,nt
anthony Orapollo. ~. chauffeur. ant
they were held in $500 bail on sus
picion of grand larceny.
The first of n series of suits by the
big packers TO recover large sums fol
alleged losses on war contracts, was
started in the Federal Court of Claims
ut Washington. Swift Il Conpnn,
asked damages of Sl.JOo.O00 fol
claimed losses on II four million
pound bacon contract, and it is under
stood by officials that other suits be
ing prepared will push the total MP tc
so 0,O0O.OOO.
Former Judge George Van Fleet of
; South Bend, Ind, who sponsored the
liarding cause in Indiana in the pre-
convention days, has been named by
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