The Holly chieftain., 1922-06-29
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States has been approved by the privy
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
stary adviser to the Ulster government.
was assassinated near the door Of his
home in Easton place, London.
Fresh reports from the interior of
Kangsl province are lacking, mis-
sionaries and officials at Shanghai be-
lieve the fury of the mutiny has been
spent and the plllaging soldiers of the
Peking government brought under
control either by force or bribery.
Fire of undetermined origin at
MeXIcall, Lower California, destroyed
nearly city block at an estimated
damage of 100000. liquor ware
house and new barroom Of the Low
er California Commercial Company,
the Monte Carlo gambling hall, par
TALLY constructed boxing arena and
other buildings were destroyed
A mysterious disease in the south
eastern districts of Queensland is puz-
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.
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 2SO,G02, 1888 pesos and
expenditures amounted to 2T7,O43, ,s52
pesos. The largest expense was in
Cured by the War Department with.
1922, ,263 pesos, the next being the
Department Of Finance with only ST.
634.2S0 pesos and the Department of
Communications and Public Works
with 2s,677,77s pesos.
GENERAL
Forty-four persons, two of whom
were union coal miners, were killed
when 5000 armed striking miners at
tucked the Lester Strip mine. near
Heron, H., which was being oper-
ated by imported workers and guards.
William Bross Lloyd, Chicago mil
liOnaire Communist, and eighteen 9th.
er 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, 1t was ruled by the Illinois Su-
preme Court.
Eagle Boat No. 81, which went
ashore on reef near Cattle Point,
San Juan island, arrived at Seattle,
having pulled off the reef under her
own power She escaped serious dam
age. The boat was officered and
manned by members Of the Seattle and
Tacoma naval militia units.
William Rockefeller, who with his
older brother, John D., built up the
family millions in the oil Industry.
died recently of pneumonia cOmpli-
Gated by a recurrence of kidney trou-
Bile, at his country estate overlooking
the Hudson river from North Tarry-
town, N. Y. He was 81 years old.
Immediate enactment by Congress
of legislation for the construction Of 8
dam and reservoir at Boulder canon
for the control of the flood waters OF
the Colorado river. was urged In
Washington by Secretary of Com
merce Hoover before the House com
mittee on irrigation Of arid lands con.
sldering the Swing bill.
Col. Marcellus H. Thompson, vice
president and active head of the Auto
Ordnance Company Of New York, has
been indicted by the federal grand
grand jury at Trenton ON the charg
of conspiracy to ship arms to ireland
in violation of the neutrality laws
The announcement was made by As
sistait United States District Attor.
ney Thomas v. Arrowsmith.
| Adoption Of a program calling fol-
a nonpartisan political campaign this
fall to elect the friends Of organized
labor, and an overwhelming defeat Of
the radical forces that favored recog
milton Of the Russian soviet govern.
ment, marked the closing SESSION Of
the American Federation of Labor con
vention at Cincinnati.
The administration ia considering
the matter Of decreasing second
class postal rates, 1t was said at the
| White House Considerable discussion
was given 10 the subject at the cabi
pet meeting, and President Harding
and Postmaster General Work are in
clined to believe that at least part
of the increase in the second-clasi
rates made during the war should now
be removed.
Two hoboes were killed outright and
George Welch. a third knight of the
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