The St. Johns herald., 1922-02-23
FOREIGN

 in succession to the late Benedict XIV. He has taken the name of Plus XI.
 The new Canadian parliament has been summoned to meet March s. The date was announced following the meeting of the dominiona cabinet cOun- cil.
 The search of Professor Irving Fish CT of Yale University for ''mOonshine" gold ended abruptly when he was in- formed by a scientist that the Ger man who had claimed the discovery of a synthetic gold process was a fraud and had prison record.
 Berlin is in the midst of the black est period it has known since the Kapp revolution. Despite the mayors re- assuring statement that the food situ- atiOn is not endangered by the strikes on the railways and in the municipal services, the situation in the poor quar- ters resembled the panic days of war time food shortage.
 Three commercial accOrds supple menting the FrancO-POlish military al- liance have been signed by Premier Poincare and Count ZamOyski, Polish minister to Paris. The first provides for a purely commercial accord, the second an agreement regarding private property interests, and the third an agreement regarding the naphtha in- dustries.
 One hundred and ten persons were killed and numbers of others injured when a railway train was buried by an avalanche at Itoigawa station, ac- cording to dispatch received in TokiO from Nagano. The victims were for the most part farmers, wOrkmen and railway employees who were engaged in clearing the snow from the railway tracks Medical relief was dispatched to the scene from NaganO.
 Disturbances in Mexico City and suburbs accompanied a series of demonstrations staged by chauffeurs against a recent order from the gov ernOr of the federal district, requiring all automobile drivers to furnish cer- tificates of good conduct before secur- ing licenses. The order followed pro- tests that numerous chauffeurs were in reality robbers, who piled their trade while driving taxicabs.
 GENERAL
 A surplus of $2,O46,SO9 in the treas ury of the city of Boston was an- nounced by Mayor Peters in his retir- ing address to the city council. When he assumed office four years ago, he said, there was deficit of $S04,S79. The total net indebtedness was re- duced S4,657, ,166.
 Five bandits held up and robbed the mail clerk of the Pennsylvania railroad station at Whiting, Ind. Five mail sacks were seized, but the amount Ob- tained will not be known until postal authorities have an opportunity to check on the contents of the bags. All of the bags are said to have contained registered mail.
 An explosion, followed by fire, spread panic among 300 patrons of the Lyric motion picture theater in New York, but all reached the street. The blaze was put cut by firemen after it had destroyed several thousand feet of film and damaged the operating room. Several persons were slightly injured in the crush at the exits.
 Ten houses were destroyed by fire in Kansas City recently, with an esti- mated loss of $75,OOO. Six of the houses burned in a row on Norton ave nue, and before the firemen had the flames under control fire broke out on Agnes avenue in another part of the city and four houses were burned. A high wind combated efforts of the fire men to check the flames.
 Henry Ford formally came into pos session of the Lincoln Motor Company of Detroit when Federal Judge Futile confirmed sale of the property, effect ed at public auction. MT. Ford through his representatives, bid $S,000000 for the Lincoln holdings, being the only one to offer bid. The price was the lowest that could be accepted, Judge Futile had ruled previously.
 Twenty-Five miners are known to have been killed in the explosion at the Gates mine of the H. c. Prick Coal and Coke Company at Gates, Pa. Thir- ty men were working in the section where the explosion occurred. The cause of the explosion, which occurred mile and a half back in the work ings, has not been determined.
 Circuit Judge Edwards of Wauke- g; n, H., granted the motion for sep arate trials of Gov. Len Small and Vernon Curtis, Grant Park banker, charged with conspiracy to embezzle