The Holly chieftain., 1921-12-01
FOREIGN

VI
For the first time In history negro
institution was admitted TO the Car
negie foundation when the trustees
voted to receive Fisk University, Nash
Vile. Tenn, into the foundation.
Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, lis, negress,
of Fort Erie, Ont, is dead. She claimed
to have been an eye witness of the
burning of the village of Buffalo by
the British troops in 1914. Her father
was killed in that engagement.
A bronze turkey, mounted on mar
BILE pedestal from the Cathedral of Mi
Ian, the Thanksgiving gift of the Ital-
ian-American Society of Italy to Presi-
dent Harding arrived in New York on
the steamer Taormina from Genoa.
Jesse r. Johnson of Berryville, Ark,
prohibition enforcement agent, was
shot while he and G. e. Thompson, an
other prohibition officer, were attempt
ing to arrest several moonshiners near
Bland, Saline county, Ark. All the
suspects escaped.
Egypt this season will have 5S2. .915.-
according to figures furnished by the
American consul stationed at Alexan-
dria. This amount is about normal
supply. In 1920 the supply amounted
TO 556,027 900 pounds, and in 1919 to
$40, ,962, 900 pounds
Major General Crowder has informed
the French ambassador in Washington
that he will be unable to go there to
receive the Grand Cross of the French
Legion of Honor which, ii was learned
has been conferred on him for his
services during the war. The decora-
tion, it is expected, will be given him
by the French minister in Cuba.
Convicting home brewers is ii costly
job for Uncle Sam. Twenty-Five per-
sons were fined $40 TO $25 each by
| Federal Judge Carpenter in Chicago
for violations of the dry law. 1t was
estimated that 1t cost the government
$50 for each case. This amount is used
in marshaps fees, grand Jurors pay.
overhead expenses and commissioners
fees. Fines of S25 cover about half
the cost, 1t was stated.
The government of British Columbia
made a net profit of S54l ,6OG on liquor
sales during the first three and one
half months of operation under the
provincial liquor sales board, ending
Sept. 30, according to balance sheet
filed in the Legislature by ]. w. Deb.
Farris, attorney general. This amount
does not include S121,000 received from
sales of permits to purchase liquor.
Half the profits of the board are to
be divided among municipalities of the
province on the basis of school popu-
lation.
GENERAL
Officials of the Association of Rail
way Executives announced In New
York that further freight rate reduc-
tons amounting TO $300,0000OO would
be put into effect in the event the rail-
way labor board accedes to the re-
quests of the roads for lower wage
scale.
An accident occurred every twenty
minutes on the streets of New York
last year. There We're 1850 vehlcular
accidents, which killed S64 persons
and injured II 1873 men and 6,146 wong
en-. Private cars We're in 7,60S of the
mishaps, business automobiles In g.
523 and taxicabs In 1,231.
X. Matsukata, Japanese shipping
magnate, has made gigantic art raid
on Europe. In the last few years he
has bought about 1000 works of art
and now proposes to found u gallery
on the famous plateau of Toxic for the
benefit of the Japanese people, at a
cost of about $5,000,0OO.
Elbridge Gerry Snow, financier, who
soon will be so years old, and Mrs.
Fanny Joyce Marsh, 45, of st. Angus
tine, Fla, were married at New York.
Mr. Shows first wife, whom he mar
ried in 1865, died in October, 1920. Mr..
Snow has been president of the Home
Insurance Company since 1893.
A hip pocket was held to be "joint"
or Illicit liquor resort within the mean
ing of the Washington "jointist" stat
ute, when John NIisertrich was con-
victed in Supreme Court at Monte
sano, Wash. Sentence was deferred,
but under the verdict penitentiary
sent &c is mandatory. Witnesses had
testiued Misertrich went about selling
whisky from flask.
OF the 1886 passenger automo-
btles exported from the United States
during the first ten months of 1920,
the United Kingdom is listed with 49,
154 cars; British India, 10,S4S; Canada,
1890; British South Africa, $50; Gu
ba, 5,2S6; New Zealand, 5000; Brazil,
4,96s; Sweden, 4,sS7; Dutch East In
dies, 3,439; Argentina, 3,372; Uru-
quay, 3,2s7; Norway, 5000.
Phoenix, Ariz.-W. II. Oliver of Los
Angeles, engineer of the Grand divi-
sion of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway, assistant to the chief en-.
glneer Of the coast lines of that rail-
way, and four division officers of that
railway We're killed when motor in