The Ordway new era., 1922-12-15
FOREIGN

created CONSERVATION in the 1orelgI
colony.
President Obregon is expected to Is
sue decree at cnce lifting the impor
duty on beans, corn, wheat and othel
cereals into Mexico, according to {
Telegram received ut FL Paso from Chi
huahua City.
President Cosgrave announced to the
Irish Parliament that Deputy Scar
Hales had been shot and killed, anc
Deputy Patrick O'Maille, who was dep
uty speaker, had been wounded whii,
they were on their way 10 the Parlia
| ment session.
Federal troops of Mexico have res
cued H. X. Wereker, superintendent OF
the Aguila Oil Company's camp at
| Tiacolula, Vera Cruz, who was kid
naped and held for 10000 pesos ram
som, according TO II war office an
nouncement. He is British subject.
American tobacco buyers are being
held up and ROBBED in western Thrace.
The latest robbed are Il. j. Workman
of Henderson. \. c.. who was deprived
of money and jewelry while travelling
by automobile from Drama to KavaIa,
and j. j. Huntington of Rocky Mount
y. c., who was robbed on road from
Seres to Saloniki.
At the opening OF the disarmament
conference in Moscow. Maxim l-ltvin-
off. Russian assistant commissioner OF
foreign affairs, definitely proposed IL
reduction of the Red army to 2Uo.OOd
men. He made this conditional, how
ever, on "a corresponding reduction IN
the Standing armies of the states on
RussIa's western boundaries
The prohibitonist of Schoenbeig, Il
suburb of Berlin, having been prevent
ed by the police from holding an open
air meeting engaged Il flock OF sand
wich men to parade the streets with
pIucurds denouncing the evils OF uIco-
hol. This Il oused the ire of the sa-
luunkeepers and distillery employees,
who gave the s,Indwtsh men a severe
beating.
The American doughboys IN the
Ehinelund are uaSins up purse Of
many million of marks with which TO
give To German youngsters ii real
Christmas. The Rhiueland post Of vet
tItllN tNI ANlNlll NJ tl NhtAl tN'A AA'N l'''t
Wltn 3UU,UUU marks and every soldier
in tbe American furces is giving al
least the equivalent Ut ST. which IS
.aufg tuun 5000 marks. Top ser=eults
are entrusted with the TASK of seeing
that none OF the soldiers forget to CON
tribute. Relief work already las be-
gun among the German poor.
Rafet Pasha is trying TO lind hus-
bands for loo members of the former
sultans harem. The women range in
age from Il to 80 years. All OF them
are pennlless. tafet also Is anxious
to solve the fate of the former mon
arcll's numerous progeny, MS well AS
that of twenty princes and princesses
of the royal blood. 1T ought not to be
difficult to find husbands or helpmates
for these women" said a palace func-
tlonary. They all were selected for
their beauty, youth and figure. Most
of them were gifts to the sultan from
governors of the provinces. They have
matchless compilations, dark eyes and
long chestnut colored hair"
GENERAL
Members of the ku KluX klan were
barred from serving on Cook county
grand jury by Chief Justice NJ. l.. Nc
Kinley of the Criminal Court In Chi
cago.
More than 1000 reserve, National
guard and regular army officers gath
cred recently at Baltimore and effected
the organization of the third zone of
Il
pledged themselves to the principle of
lone army"
A campaign to enlist 10000 minis
tiers and through them 40,0o0,000
church members to take an active part
in the 1924 presidential election was
announced by the Rev. j. Glover Mons
ma. editor of the Minister'S monthly in
Chicago.
-Four students Of Colby College, Wa
tervllle, Maine, We're burned to death
when fire destroyed one section of
North college, the original college
building erected in 1920.
High school fraternities scored VIC
tory in the Missouri Supreme Cou.t at
jefferson City, when the court held
that studentc have the right TO become
members of secret societies and en-
Joined school boards from enforcing &
the rule against such organizations.
Hundreds of the worlds fine cattle
were led into the arena at the Inter
national Livestock Show at Chicago
for Judging, under the direction of j.
| NJ. Strickland of Yorkshire, England
Glen Phares of Shelbyville, Ind, won
the sweepstakes in the junior corn
contest at the hay and grain show held
in connection with the live stock ex-
position. Region winners were: Re
gion /, Donald Stoltz, Park City
/ sfo.. ID oo,;ap Dat,I Hnffpnay, nice