The St. Johns herald., 1921-12-29
FOREIGN

 bank had a deficit of 345,OOO,OOO marks
 Since the passing of July last of the measure legalizing in Great Britain marriage between a man and his brothers widow, it is estimated that more than 5000 people have been mar ried under it.
 Leonard PiOn, Is years old, of Wind sOr Mills, Quebec, has confessed to the police that he murdered his mother, Mrs. Joseph Pion, by shooting her on Dec. 2. He had been under arrest as material witness.
 Four women have just passed their final examinations for the bar in LOE- don, but this does not mean that they become barriSterS immediately. They have to finish their course, so that they will probably be called to the bar during next year.
 The Cunard company announces it will build six new oil-burning steam ships of an aggregate tonnage of 1OO,- 900 and extend the services which IapSed during the war. There also will be resumption of direct service for all types of travellers between Eng land and Canada.
 ! An official decree soon will be is- sued in Mexico establishing mOdifica- tions of import duties, according to word received. The tariff on luxuries will be made twice as much as here tOfore, the reports said. The. tariff on tobacco, cigarettes, candies, silks. jew elry and matches will be increased.
 Three carloads of dinosaur bones have been taken from the Red Deer fossil beds in Canada this season. Twenty-Five specimens went to the University of Alberta, fourteen to the University of Toronto, and eigheen to the Geological Survey which will be added to the government collection at Ottawa.
 The lash, deemed by dominion au- thOrities one of the greatest deterrents to crime, was ordered applied to Pat rick O'Hara and Albert Slade of Ham iltOn, Ontario, convicted of a $2,8O0 bank robbery Aug. 12. Sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years, the convicts were ordered lashed seven times on beginning their terms and seven times upon completion.
 GENERAL
 One man was killed, two others were probably fatally injured and three more seriously burned by gas explO- sion in the Southern Anthracite Min ing COmpany's mine number two at Russellville, Ark
 The Grant Memorial Commission has definitely set April 27, 1922, as the date for dedication of the imposing Grant memorial at the extreme north east end of the grounds of the Botanic Garden, in Washington.
 Wellington, Ohio, a community of 5000 inhabitants, is thinking of aban- doning the jail and giving the marshal vacation. A survey shows only two arrests were made during the past ten months and that both prisoners, men, later were discharged.
 A bill suspending immigration for three years has been introduced in the House by Representative Johnson, Re publican, Washington, chairman of the House immigration committee. The measure is intended to supplant the 8 per cent restrictive immigration law now in force.
 Dr. Wilmer Amos Hadley, former army surgeon and ranchman, was put to death in the electric chair in the state penitentiary at Richmond, Va, for the murder of his wife, Mrs Sue Tinsley Hadley, in November, 1918. Prison attendants declared Hadley went to his death calmly and stOically.
 A tablet was unveiled in the custom house at Cleveland, Ohio, in memory of Joseph William Briggs, author of the present system of free city mail delivery and collection. Mir. Briggs conceived the idea while working as a clerk in the local postoffice, and was the first American letter carrier.
 A charter was filed at the State De partment in Delaware for Great | Southern Steel Company, capitaliza- tiOn one hundred and five million dol | lars. The concern is authorized to | manufacture iron, steel, copper, coke, lumber, etc, and to acquire lands con taining the same. A state tax of $5.- $50 was paid.
 Whisky valued at more than $SO,0O0 | was removed from the T. B. Ripy dis tillery, near Tyrone, Ky, by twenty | armed men, who held up the superin- tendent and three guards. Ten barrels and 104 cases of bottled in bond whis- |