The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-12-22
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Virginia, on December 6. ...-..
The Soviet government of Russia
expects to recruit 5000 steel workers
from Ohio this month.
A marriage ceremony performed by
radio is Illegal, according to Attor.
ney General Newton, OF New York.
The British minister to Guatemala
has been recalled on charges of be-
ing mixed up in politics of the re-
public.
Former Postmaster General John
Wanamakcr died at his home in Phil
adelphia last week.
The town hall Mt Norfolk. Mass.
built in 1897. was destroyed, together
with valuable records. by fire on De
cembcr 5.
Women of the United States wear
more than 100000 styles Of shoes,
according to one member of the De.
partmcnt OF Commerce.
The license which authorized the
marriage of Charles Dickens to Cath
crime IIogarth in 1886 was sold in
London recently for $50
The national parks had l.2lG,i90
visitors during the past year, an in
crease Of a .i93 persons over the trav.
81 record OF the previous year.
Decline in the nations birth rate
and increase. in its death rate during
the present year, as compared with
1921. Is predicted by the Census Blu
rCau.
A movement to mako ThN0dOrC
Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy, the next Republican Governor
OF New York has boon launched in
that State.
st. Louis, Mo, was Incorporated
one hundred years ago December 8.
1t then had population of $500. as
compared with approximately 100000
to-day.
Former President Woodrow Wilson
is improving steadily in health, &C
COrding to his physician, and can now
walk without aid for the first time in
three years
China has agreed to pay Japan 80.
OOp 900 yen for the Shantung railroad,
payment to be made in fifteen year
Chinese treasury notes with six per
cent interest.
Major General Leonard Wood has
resigned the OhiC" OF provost OF the
University of Pennsylvania and will
remain governor general of the Phil.
lippuo Islands.
In the twenty years the national
reclamation act has been in operation
government engineers have reclaim.
ed 2TI5,OOO acres OF land. This work
included the construction Of the
Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, ArrnwruCk
Dam in Idaho, Elephant Butte Dam in
Now Mexico. and the Pathfinder and
'Shoshone Dams in Wyoming.
Appropriations agPregatinE S3.07S.,
i9O.S3l for the fiscal year beginning
July next have been asked OF Con.
Cress by President Harding in the
second annual Federal budget
Work on the country's waterways
will require S7l.5l5,il0 in the car be.
ginning July next, according to rec
concentrations submitted To Congress
by the chief OF engineers Of the army
United States pensioners received
$253, SUI .JS3 during the fiscal year
The cost Of maintenance Of the pen
sion system was Sil.39i079 Tho mum
her OF pvnsioncrs on the rolls June 81
was 5i7.0l6,
There is NOR" gold IN Now York
city at III" present tim" than has
ever before been gathered in one
spot. The twelve Federal banks there
hold $4,000 10000 in gold, or forty
per cent Of the worlds supply.
Dead letters to the number Of l6.
5S6,ila remained undelivorcd in the
NJ f,ln a
~ last fiscal year and more than GOT
packages were und"livCrCd because ot
car"IrssuCss in addressing.
An armorcd tank expected to rev
OlutioniZe modern warfare has beer
successfully demonstrated in New
York. whore II swan the Hudson Riy
ar and climbed the forty percent
slope to the rock cliffs on the other
side,
During the year ending June 30 last
the government received as royalty
from oil produced on government
lands the sum of Si76S,397. aud, ii
addition. $4,000 month was being
received from natural gas leases.
Thrc" American relief ships viii
Red Cross supplies have reached thc
port of Athens. The combined value
of the cargoes is $4,000. The las
shipment of Red Cross food supplies
left New York on December Is.
The German government fitted gu
400 parlors, 1000 sitting rooms. 8,
900 dining rooms, 1900 bedrooms
and 1900 kitchens for the forces o
occupation in the Rhineland between
tho fall of 1921 and the last summer
Mine disasters in the United States
during the ten months ending Octob
err 81 last caused the death OF 1873
The year 1922 has thus far shown al
increase in explosions of gas and Goa
dust notwithstanding the fact that {
large part of the coal.minng indus
try was shut down for five months
during the strike.
Friends Of prohibition in the Hous'
made a clean sweep on December
in knocking out amendments to TIL
prohibition section OF the treasur.
, supply bill which they declare wer'
designed to weaken the enforcement
! IF the Volstead law. s.
European requirements for whea
during the current cereal year will b.
about $40 100000 bushels. Easter
European States can furnish abou
z three per cent of this. Before the wa
they supplied about forty per cent o
the requirements.
DR. hansen, Arctic explorer, Is t.
receive the Nobel peace prize-for hi
work as League Of Nations commits