, 1922-05-18
FOREIGN

After an hours fighting 100 federal
soldiers near San Pablo del Monte,
Mexico, captured fifty-two Indians,
who are suspected of having taken
part in a train holdup near Jalapa
when a number of persons were killed
and wounded.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Dublin pictures the outlook for
an agreement by the peace conference
rather hopelessly. 1t says that as far
as could be learned, the two parties
to the conference are as far from
agreement as ever.
France" said a high official of the
government, will not recognize the
Russian soviet government until the
United States does. France has kept
n free hand in this matter, and it
makes no difference what action the
Genoa conference may take"
The German reply to the repara-
lions note of April -, which has been
received by the reparations commits
sion In Paris, protests the good will of
the German government, but pleads
the material impossibility of imposing
sixty billion marks new taxes before
May 81, or complying with all the con-
ditions laid down on March 81.
Recent Inauguration by the Mexican
government of the continental system
of telling time, by which u midnight
becomes "twenty-four o'clock" has not
met with favor, except in a few gov
eminent offices. There has bcen Il
general reversion to the old system of
dividing the day into two parts Of
twelve hours each.
Pilgrims from the four corners of
the world visited the quaint little viii
lage of Oberammergau to look on
while the simple Christian towns
people redeemed their age-old vow to
God. For the first time since 1910
the Passion play-the famous dramati-
zation of the life of Christ-was en-
acted. The war prevented intervening
! production.
King George and Queen Mary, with
n suite including Field Marshal Earl
Haig and Admiral Lord Beatty recent
ly left London for Belgium to be the
guests of King Albert and Queen Ellz-
abeth. Troops lined the breakwater
at II eastern pier in Dover as the roy
nj party embarked on the yacht Alex
andra, which was escorted across the
channel by nine ~destroyers.
GENERAL
Recognized on the street of Seattle,
Wash, as an escaped life termer from
the Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet,
John Il. Koetters is being held for IL
linois authorities.
Flood backwaters of the Mississippi
and tributary streams have inundated
1859 square miles In nine Louisiana
parishes. leaving 25,00O persons who
will need assistance, according to a
statement issued at Baton Rouge, La,
by Joseph C. Logan, assistant man.
ager Of the southern division, Ameri-
can Red Cross.
Several of twenty-five persons re-
Gently indicted by n federal grand jury
at Omaha on a charge of conspiracy
to use the mails to defraud in connec-
ton with promotion of the Guaranty
Securities Company of Omaha, Des
Moines and Denver, have furnished
bond. They included T. II. Matters,
Omaha attorney, and the Rev. Charles
III. Rogers of Lincoln.
Eli Du Puy, manager of Hotel Mar
garet in Brooklyn Heights, New York,
and Albert Bradich, n vermin exter-
minator, were held in $1,000 bail on
warrants of suspicion of homicide by
Magistrate Geisrnar, as the result of
the deaths at the hotel recently Of Mr..
and Mrs. Fremont NJ. Jackson, who are
alleged to have been killed by fumlgat-
ing gas. Du Puy and Brndich are al
legged to have caused the deaths by
negligence in not properly sealing the
rooms In which the f%umigatlng gas was
used.
Senator Borah demanded in the Sen
ate that Boris Bakhmeteff, so-called
Russian ambassador, appear before a
Senate committee instead of hiding
behind his diplomatic immunity" and
attempting through communications to
the State Department to clear himself
of the serious charges made against
him.
Hundreds of delegates and visitors
TO the quadrennial conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South. be-
Ing held in Hot Springs. Ark, left
their beds to watch the "Old City Hall'
building burn to the ground, with an
estimated loss Of $4,000. For n lime
the entire heart Of the business dis
trict was threatened. The plant of the
Sentinel-Hecord, a morning newspaper,
was located in the destroyed building.
One Of the most %far.reachlng deci-
sions ever reached by the United
States rnilroad labor board came in Il
ruling that places q ban on the CON
tract system which many roads are al
legged to have been eyadlng the boards
orders MS to wages, working conditions