Gunnison news-champion., 1922-02-10
FOREIGN

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The new Canadian pariIanen, has
been summoned TO meet Mxrci $ The
date was announced following the
meeting OF the dominion cabinet coun-
ell
The search os Professor Irving Fish
er Of Yale University for -'noonshln.-
gold ended abruptly when be was in.
formed by scIen;is; that the Ger
man who had claimed the discovery of
u synthetic gold process WAS n fraud
and had a prison record
Berlin Is In the midst Of the black
-st period II has known since the kapp
RESOLUTION Despite the mayors re
assuring statement that III. fcod siiu-
alton Is not endangered by the strikes
on the railways and In the municipal
services. th. situation In the poor guar
'ers r.sembled the panic days Of war
tiine fospd shortage.
Three commercial acoords supple
InenunE the Franco Polish military al
llance have been signed by Premier
Polncnre and Count Zanoyski. Polish
minister 10 Paris. The first provides
for a purely commercial accord. tn.
second an agreement regarding private
property interests. and the third an
agreement regarding the naph,ha In.
iustries
One hundred and ten. persons were
killed and numbers OF others injured
| when n railway train was buried by
an avalanche at Itoigawa station. ac-
! cording TO n dispatch received in Toxic
from Nagano. The victims were for
the most part farmers. workm.n and
railway employees who were engaged
| In clearing the snow from the railway
tracks. Medical relief was dispatched
TO the scene from Nngnno
Disturbances in Mexico City and
suburbs accompanied series of
demonstrations staged by chnufteurs
against n recen, order from the gov.
ernor Of the federal district, requiring
all automobile drivers To furnish GER
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 s2.oi6,sD9 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 SS04,ST9.
The total net Indebtedness was re-
duced si.65I.lGG.
Five bandits held up and robbed the
mail clerk OF the Pennsylvania railroad
station AT Whiting, Iud. Five mail
sacks were seized, but the amount OBJ
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 800 patrons OF the
Lyric motion picture theater in New
York, but NIL reached the street The
blaze was put out by firemen after II
had destroyed several thousand feet of
film and damaged the operating room.
Several persons were slightly injured
In the crush al the exits
Ten houses were destroyed by fire
In Kansas City recently, with an esti-
mated loss Of $4,000. Six of the
houses burned In n 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
t~,k iv,.l al - a.
men to check the flames.
Henry Ford formally came into pos
session of the Lincoln Motor Company
of Detroit when Federal Judge Tuftie
confirmed sale Of the property. effect
ed at public auction. Mr.. Ford through
his representatives, bid SS,00O.OOO for
the lincoln holdings, being the only
one to offer q bid. The price was the
lowest that could be accepted, Judge
TuttIe had ruled previously.
Twenty-Five miners are known to
have been killed In the explosion ut
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 half back In the work
ings. has not been determined.
Circuit Judge Edwards OF wauke-
gan. H.. granted the motion for sep
arate trials OF Gov. Len Small and
. Vernon Curtis, Grant Park banker.
charged with conspiracy to embezzle
state funds. The court overruled the
motion filed by the governor and
granted a similar motion filed In he
half Of Curtis. the decision having the
effect Of putting the governor on trial
flrst.
President John Grier Hibben Of
Princeton University. at Princeton, n.
J.. has sent cut letters to parents AMI
guardians Of all students pointinR out