The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-24
FOREIGN

! SI1P Ol d WdNS Ol OAlIOluG uGdl. GTO6- trations averaged twelve daily.
 pr. Wang Chung Hui has accepted the acting premiership of China, after the customary three refusals, it has been announced.
 The London Mirror recently quoted an arrival at Liverpool from Cork as saying that Ramon de Valera has been wounded in Cork
 Maj. W. T. Blake has completed an- other lap of his airplane journey around the world, arriving at Delhi, India, few days ago.
 Death by shooting of thirty of the social revOlutionists on trial at Mos COW, including four women, was de- handed by the prosecutor, NJ. Kryle- kO, in summarizing the evidence against the defendants. The prisoners shouted their defiance in answer to his accusations.
 HoratiO Bottomley, former publisher of the anti-American publication, "JOhn Bull," was expelled from the House of Commons, London, by unanimous vote BOttomley recently was sentenced to seven years impris- onment for embedding funds from pa triotic organizations he organized
 Locusts have become so numerous in Luzon that their bodies covered the railway tracks, causing the driving wheels of the locomotives to slip, and prevented the movement of a passen. ger train from Manila to Calamba, twenty-five miles from Manila. An ex- tra engine was called before the train could be moved.
 The Prussian minister of the in- teriOr issued decree ordering the re mOval of all monarchial emblems from the interior and exterior of all com punal and state buildings, besides signboards, milestones, frontier stones, etc, which bear similar emblems. The decree thus carries into effect threat made several months ago.
 The whole Chilean cabinet resigned recentl~ following the retirement of ArmandO Jaramillo, minister of the in- terior, and Angel Guarillo, minister of justice. The resignations were precip- itated by disagreement with the gov ernment's policy concerning the recent prototol signed in Washington with Peru, for settlement of the Tacna-Ar- ica controversy.
 President Obregon has gone to Ocot- Ian, a resort near Guadalajara, for Sev- eral weeks to recuperate from his ill- ness, it was learned recently in reliable quarters. His condition is improving steadily. The president intends to re- turn to Mexico City as soon as pos sible in order to consult with depart ment heads relative to his message to congess when it opens early in Sep tember.
 GENERAL
 In a letter to the Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children, Mall den woman protested vigorously against permitting Mary Agnes Voches- tain, 14 years old, to preach in Bos- ton. The woman writes that the girl would be serving herself and the com munity much better by playing in- stead of preaching.
 Surface and elevated railway em- ployes at Chicago voted 9,022 to 5,086, to accept 1O-cent an hour slash in wages and return to work, thus ending a strike which paralyzed the city's electric transportation system. Shortly after the result of the vote was an nounced, the first elevated train was pounding toward the Hoop"
 Police believe the swindlers who sold a pawnbroker a gold brick in San Francisco recently are the same men who sold a Juarez merchant a brass brick with the Mexican mint stamp on 1t for $1, 200 last summer. The Juarez man took his brick to an assayer and succeeded in capturing the swindlers and getting his money back. The gang, said to be composed of Mexicans and 1 Arabs, had been working in various parts of Mexico and managed to es- cape to the United States.
 Fifteen persons were killed and | twenty-five injured, more or less seri- Ously, when two Cincinnati, Lebanon | 6 Northern passenger trains crashed | together head on at Lester road cross ing in Pleasant Ridge, near Cincinnati. One of the engines was driven back wards telescODinQ the first coach he | hind it and killing everyone inside.
 Earl B. Patterson, teller in the Lum- bermen's Trust Bank at Portland, ar rested recently charged with embezzle- ment of $34,6O0, has made a comics sion, according to the police, admitting