The Holly chieftain., 1921-10-20
FOREIGN

! 1se VIZ RoPNA AhAAiH'
Wholesale suspension OF business by
stores and factories in the city oe
Puebla, Mexico, was reported In pro-
test against alleged excessive taxation
by the state government.
The Colombian Senate, after three
sessions during which there was much
discussion, ratified the treaty which
the United States by which Colombia
is to receive $25.OO00O0.
According to the latest statistics the
German casualties in the war were L.
sos. .545 killed and 4,247,143 wounded.
including cases returned on the
wounded list more than once.
A Spanish cabinet council has ap-
proved new naval program for the
construction of fifty-eight warcraft Of
various classes during the next six
years. The vessels to be built are four
fast cruisers, six destroyers, twenty
gunboats and twenty eight submarines.
A desperate situation which al-
ready has cost two lives from violence,
is reported at Puebla, Mexico, where
demonstrations against the state gov
ernment's allegedly excessive tax laws
continue. Many of the stores have
been closed, bread and milk supplies
are said to be exhausted and food
scarce.
The feature of the reichstag bank
statement for the week ending Sept.
30. Issued at Berlin, is an Increase in
the paper currency circulation by A.
205 100000 marks to S6,SS4, 800, 900
marks. During the week ending Sept.
30 new bank notes and loan bank notes
to the amount of 4,213,7O0,0O0 marks
were issued.
A r0bber who was fOiled in an at
tempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton,
Ont, after pistol duel with an off
cial of the institution, tried his for
tunes again with better success. He
walked into the Union bank, said to
a clerk: "They stopped me yesterday
but won't today" pointed pistol at
him, grabbed $1,000 and escaped.
The American freIghter West
Comak, bound with cargo from San
Francisco for Glasgow, rammed the
Laird liner Rowan, Glasgow Dublin
night passenger boat, in thick fog
off Corsewallpoint, Scotland, near the
mouth of the river Clyde While the
Comak was lowering its boats to aid
the stricken ship, third steamer, the
Clan liner Clan Malcolm, from Glas-
gov for Natal, South Africa, sped out
of the fog in answer to an S. @. S. call
and crashed amidships of the Rowan.
which sank u minute later. Thirteen
members of the Rowan's crew and
three passengers were lost.
GENERAL
!. Liberty bonds valued at $4,000 are
missing from the Beaver Falls State
bank. and Emil Feeblekorn, 80 year,
old, manager Of the foreign depart
ment, is being held by the police fol
investigation. Feeblekorn Claims ,
stranger held him up.
The State Bank of Muncie, Kansas
was robbed recently, and in an e1
change of shots between the robbers
and bank officials, 1t is reported, L. e
Worthington, cashier Of the bank, was
shot. Telephone wires between Kan
sas City and Muncie were cut, pre-.
sumably by the robbers.
| Word was received at the New Yorl
navy yard that the Japanese cruisers
1dzumO and Yakima, under command
of Vice Admiral Tetsutaro Sato, direc
tor of the Japanese naval college, and
carrying class Of more than 600
naval cadets on world cruise, would
arrive Oct. % for weeks stay.
One person is known to have been
killed and two were injured seriously
by an explosion that wrecked whole
sale grocery in Detroit. Police began
a search of the debris in the belief
some Of the occupants of apartments
In the upper floor might have per
ished. Joseph Caruso, proprietor Of
the grocery, was unable to explain the
explosion or give the police clue.
Ray v. McGraw. formerly vice pres
ident and general manager of the Mis-
souri, Valley Cattle Loan Company of
Omaha, which was declared bankrupt
some time ago, has surrendered to the
sheriff on indictments, one of which
charged embezzlement of 100000 OF
the company's funds.
Capt. A. B. Randall, master of the
steamship Hudson, has been cleared of
a charge of violating one Of the most
sacred laws of lie seas in that he
failed to give aid to seamen In dis
tress Il. A. Sargent and ]. E. Wilson
federal steamboat inspectors, decided
that his failure to pick up three men
adrift in disabled motor boat off
New York harbor recently did not con-
stitute willful neglect of duty.
Mrs. r. ]. Rocker, 33, has been ar
rested In Memphis by federal officers
on n charge of being fugitive from
Justice, she being under Indictment in
Dallas, Texas. the officers said, In con-
nection with the embezzlement of $1O,-
900 from the West Side National Bank
In that city. According to the officers,
Mrs. Rocker, for whom search has
been under way for six months, was
friend of James Lyons, now serving
a seven-year sentence In a bank fraud.
or the 1926 passenger automo.
biles exported from the United States
during the first ten months of 1920,
the United Kingdom is listed with 49,
154 cars: British India, 1O,S4S; Can.