The Holly chieftain., 1922-02-23
FOREIGN


demned or Nov 80, in Paris, for the
murder of ten fiances and boy, per-
ished when the chief justice of the Su-
preme Court of Appeals threw out the
French Blueheard's request for new
trial.
The uniforms of the Irish Free State
SOLDIERS Will lie entirely Irish made.
They Will he of gray-ereen material.
lGrders have been placed with the Irish
lCo-Operative Clothing Manufacturing
Society. Shirts, socks and all other
general equipment also will be wholly
Irish products.
The Assam government in British
India has informed the India officers
that there was riOting at Jamunsmukh,
between caliphate volunteers and
|Sylhet tribesmen. The dispatch adds
that prisoners who had been convicted
were forcihly released from the jails,
and late train was held up and
stoned. The police in the region have
been reinforced
Generals Antonio Pruneda and An.
tonic Ruiz and Capt. Lugardo Perez
OF the Mexican army We're executed
by firing squads for completely in revO-
lutionary plotting. General Ruiz and
Captain Perez were surrendered to
the authorities by Pancho Villa, the
former bandit chieftain who caused
the Mexican authorities so much trOu-
BILE. All three officers were convicted
of having plotted against the Obregon
government in favor of General Muir.
guia.
With reference TO II recently circu-
lated rumOr that Cardinal Gaspalri
was to be replaced as papal secretary
of state by Monsignor Cerretti, now
pnpal nunci0 at Paris, semi-official
vatican statement said at is super
fluous to state that such report is
absolutely unfOunded. Cardinal Gas
parri has not displayed any intention
of leaving his high office and he en-
joys the complete confidence of Pope
Plus, as he in the past enjoyed that of
Pope Benedict"
The basis upon which the heads of
the American oil companies last Sep
tember reached an agreement with the
Mexican government relative to the
payment of export taxes under the de-
cree of June Z, were divulged in the
outline of decree given out by Min
lister of the Treasury De La Huerta
The decree lacks only the signature of
President Obregon to become effective
The project contemplates the payment
OF 40 per cent of the tax as originally
imposed by the June decree, and means
the payment to the Mexican treasury
of approximately 13,50O,0OO pesos.
GENERAL
The price of cement was lowered 10
cents per barrel by large cement
manufacturing concern in st. Louis re-
Gently, reducing the present scale to
$3.50 per barrel in carload lots to deal
ers
In accordance with plans made at
the national convention of the Greeters
of America held in New Orleans last
year, national home for aged and
disabled members of the organization
has been established in Denver
A mans education is usually closely
related to his natural intelligence and
the grade at which he ends his school
ing is in most cases the limit to which
his intelligence will carry him, accord
ing to Prof. Forrest A. Kingsbury of
the psychological department Of the
University of Chicago in announcing
the results of tests among employees
~ a lor1a rbipouo hopl
A spirited and unusual contest for
control of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Company In which the 10000 en-
plOyes have taken the side of the
president Of the corporation, has devel-
oped. In the scramble for proxies for
the annual meeting on March 10 the
employees voted to purchase 10,0OO
shares of the stock out of the funds
In their Cooperative Welfare Associa
tion and throw them to the support
of Thomas E. Mtten, president of the
company.
A spectacular fire destroyed between
five and ten acres of pens In the stock
yards district at Kansas City, Kan,
and threatened to spread to the main
plants before being placed under con-
troll after a two-hOur fight. Officials
estimated the loss at between S50,00O
and 100000. The origin of the fire is
undetermined.
The bandit career of Eva Daley, %
years old was ended recently in Chi
cago when she entered a grocery store
an attempted to hold up the proprietor,
according to the police. The grocer
grabbed her gun and held her until a
customer called the police. The police
say they believe that she is the girl
who has been leading band of rob
bers in holdups and burglaries here for
several days.
Contracts for the building of sixty
miles of new railroad from Satanta,