The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-17
FOREIGN

iured when a Canadian Pacific rail- way freight train was caught by falling rock in a tunnel one mile east of Pal liser, B. C., according to advices re- ceived.
 Three thousand tons of German toys arrived in Boston on the American steamer DeranOf. Capt. Thomas Cart wright of the DeranOf said he counted sixty iron steamships under cOnstruc- ton as he passed up the river Elbe.
 Prime Minister Lloyd George has de- cided definitely to leave for Washing ton Nov. 5 on the liner Aquitania, ar irving in time, 1t is expected, for the afternoon session of the ornaments conference on its opening day, Nov. Ii.
 Because the war cost France so much blood and maimed so many of her sons, dueling must be severely re- pressed, declares M. Bonnevay, French minister of justice, in a circular ad- dressed to public prosecutors all over France.
 On the morning of the explosion of the bomb in his Paris home, MyrOn T. Herrick, American ambassador took out an accident policy for the em- plOyes and also against damage to his residence. Under his contract he must make good to the Due de BrOglie the $5,OOO damage done to the house and furniture.
 A bald eagle with a wing spread of seven feet, attempted to carry away a 9-year-Old girl named Gibbs, from the veranda of her home at VanderhOOf, B. c. Struggles of the child and her mother prevented the bird from get ting away and it was finally beaten to death by Mathew Semple. The girl suffered flesh wounds.
 The government at Picking has ap- pointed a commission to investigate the opium situation in the Fukien province. An appeal has been made to fort to stop poppy planting in the province. An apeal has been made to Dr. K. Wellington KOO, minister to Great Britain, for foreign assistance and cooperation.
 The king and queen of Italy have just celebrated the silver anniversary of their wedding. The city was dec Orated with flags and all schools were closed. In connection with the celebra- tion the Italian government granted amnesty to participants in the recent political disturbances between the Fas- cisti and Socialists, as we'll as to Fi- uman leglonnaires who participated in recent disorders.
 GENERAL
 John Christmas, negro, of Cham paign, was hanged at Urbana, Ill. It was the first hanging in this county for more than forty years. Christman killed his wife with a razor last sum- mer.
 4 negro was killed in battle with Baltimore police at Humphrey station, suburb of Baltimore, following a threatened race riot. The riot was precipitated by an assault upon white girl by a negro.
 Citations directing James A. Still man, divorce suit plaintiff, to show cause why Mrs. Stillman should not be appointed general guardian of their sons, James and Alexander, were is- sued by Surrogate COhalan. They were procured by Mrs. Stillman's coun- sel.
 Sam Gordon, 35, a negro, was hanged by a mob near Winnsboro, La. following the shooting of Joe Kim ball, a white farmer. The shooting followed a quarrel over a bag of pc cans, it was said. It was reported the negrO's father was taken into a woods and whipped.
 Twenty sticks of dynamite wrapped in brown paper on which had been drawn a diagram of the Atlanta, Bir- mingham & Atlantic and Southern railway lines were found by school lanta, according to reports to the pc lice. Since the inception of the gen. eral strike on the Atlanta, Birming- ham & Atlantic railroad last March, several wrecks have occurred, appar- ently the result of dynamite explO- siOns.
 Federal prohibition agents raided an attic above a Greenwich village res taurant in New York. Their haul in- cluded fifty casks, 2,0OO bottles and 100 jugs of wine valued at $15,OO0 The smell of nearby barrel of mash mingled with OdOrs from stored cheese, the officers said, but the attic was used as sleeping quarters for three persons.
 Police have discovered a "welT' of