The St. Johns herald., 1922-07-13
FOREIGN

States has been approved by the pr1Vy council and Japanese prince regent. The treaty fixes the rights of each nation in the island, which is under Japanese mandate.
 Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, formerly chief of the British imperial general staff and lately mill tary adviser to the Ulster government, was assassinated near the door of his home in EastOn place, London.
 Fresh reports from the interior of Kiangsi province are lacking, mis- sionaries and officials at Shanghai be- Iieve the fury of the mutiny has been spent and the pillaging soldiers of the Picking government brought under control either by force or bribery.
 Premier Lloyd George, Colonial Sec retary Winston Churchill and Sir Hamar Greenwood, former chief sec retary of Ireland, have received anony- nous letters threatening them with death if James Connolly and John O'Brien, alleged assassins of Field Marshal Wilson, are hanged, it has been reported.
 A. Bruce Bielaski, former chief of the investigation bureau of the Amer ican Department of Justice, is re- ported to have been Kidnapped and held for ransom near Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos, Mexico, together with Manuel Barcena, an attorney OR Msxicala. The American charge d'af- faires is Investigating.
 Fire of undetermined origin at Mexicali, Lower California, destroyed nearly a city block at an estimated damage of $SOO,OO0. A liquor ware house and a new barroom of the Low CT California Commercial Company, the Monte Carlo gambling hall, par tially constructed boxing arena and other buildings were destroyed.
 A mysterious disease in the south eastern districts of Queensland is pug zling the medical authorities and has forced them to seek aid from the United States in determining its cause and, if possible, cure. The malady is described as being similar to meningi- tis, with the difference that the brain and not the spinal cord is affected. In one town twelve out of fifteen persons afflicted died.
 A report of the national treasurer, Mexico City, shows that there was surplus at the end of the year 1921 of 3,558, ,531 pesos. Receipts from all sources tOtaled 28O, 1902, ,3SS pesos and expenditures amounted to 7,043, 1852 pesos. The largest expense was in cured by the War Department with 136,212, ,263 pesos, the next being the Department of Finance with only ST. 634, ,280 pesos and the Department of Communications and Public Works with 2s,677,77S pesos.
 GENERAL
 F. c. Owen, 36, lumber dealer from Medford, Ore, plunged to his death from a sixth floor window of a Michi- gan boulevard hotel in Chicago, a few days ago.
 William Rockefeller, who with his older brother, John D., built up the family millions in the oil industry, died recently of pneumonia cOmpli- cated by recurrence of kidney trOu- ble, at his country estate overlooking the Hudson river from North Tarry- town, N. Y. He was 81 years old.
 Adoption of a program calling for a nonpartisan political campaign this fall to elect the friends of organized labor, and an overwhelming defeat of the radical forces that favored recog- hilton of the Russian soviet govern ment, marked the closing sesson of the American Federation of Labor con vention at Cincinnati.
 One hundred and seventy-one thou sand dollars was pledged toward na- tional headquarters building to be erected in Washington, D. C., by the delegates to the biennial convention of the Federation of Womans Clubs at Chautauqua, N. Y. Colorado delegates pledged $1,OO0 on behalf of the Colo rado federation. Several Colorado women were prominent in the meet ings.
 William BrOss Lloyd, Chicago mill lionaire Communist, and eighteen Oth- CT members of the now defunct Com munist Labor party, must serve pris- on terms for advocating the over throw of the United States govern ment, it was ruled by the Illinois Su- preme Court.
 Hearst hall and Hearst hall annex were destroyed and the pathology building of the University of Califor- nia was damaged in a campus fire, with estimated loss of $100,0O0 recent ly. The university infirmary was fhroa fonod hv tho flames and ifs Oa-