The Holly chieftain., 1922-01-26
FOREIGN

| Jias in Mexico City.
During 1921 tourists and climbers to
the number Of l0T were killed in the
central and eastern Alps, mostly from
falls, according to official statistics
Just published. Eight persons have
been killed in the last few days by
ayalanches
Foreign Minister Minchitch charac-
terized as unfountIed rlimOrs OF the
possible return TO Budapest of fusIner
Empress Zita Of Austrin- Hungary, who
has been in Switzerland. where she
was permitted TO 20 10 attend al op-
GRAFTON on her son. Robert.
Freight loss and damage claims in
Canada and the United States during
1920 itotaled $125,S38,94S, Joe Marshall.
special representative of the freight
claim prevention committee of the
American Railway Association, told
the Canadian Railway Club ut Mont
real
With only approximately S25O,000,-
900 In notes, backed up by one OF the
biggest gold reserves in the world.
4 AoSti OttuDlcc bnC VI titS
est financial positions in the world, ac-
cording to Sir Henry Braddon. former
commissioner for Australia to the
United States.
The expenditure of the United King
dom must be reduced by f2OO,OOO, 600.
Austen Chamberlain. government lead
er in the House of Commons, told the
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conference of Scottish Unionists in
Glasgow. This reduction is necessary
to ''mnke both ends meet" and will not
take into account any proposed reduc-
tion In taxation.
The fingerprint system has been
adopted by leading dressmaker of
Paris to prevent her customers from
copying her models and selling them.
Every model that she produces will
hereafter bear her signature, her fin
gerprint and number that Avlll enable
the model to be traced to the person
who purchased it.
| A nurse in the employ of the Amer
lean Red Cross at Goldingen, Latvia,
lost ten sons In the war, her husband
was shot by the Bolsheviki and her
three daughters died last year. Still
she goes about her work with smile.
'Nitchevo," is her consolation, which
means, among Il million other things.
"It can't be helped"
GENERAL
Fur buyers In the Adirondacks de-
clared the present season would be
marked by the largest harvest of pelts
on record with the trappers receiving
Approximately S1,5OO,00O for their
catch.
Construction projects aggregating
$40, 600, 100000 have been planned for
the United States in 1922, w. o. Win
ston, president, declared at the opening
Of three-day conference of the Gen
eral Contractors of America at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Total expenditure fdr building
throughout the country for the year
1921 was sl,595, ,l85, 1872, gain of 14.9
per cent over the record year of 1920,
Bradstreet's announced Reports from
$50 cities showed that $12O, ,994, ,839 had
been expended for building in Decem-
ber, gain of 1928 per cent over De
cember, 1920.
Convicted Of annoying women, but
saved from a straight Jail sentence by
the pleadings OF his wife and children,
August Shomeberger of West Hoboken
N. j., was sentenced to spend the next
twenty. week-ends In cell. Re
corder Walter arranged for the mash
er to be locked up every Saturday ut
noon and released on Monday.
Railroad rates are being slowly but
steadily forced downward by economic
laws, Daniel Willard, president Of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, argued be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion when that body resumed Its In
quiry into the general level Of trans
portation charges. There is no need,
but considerable danger, he added, in
forcibly decreasing them by govern
ment edict at present.
George Baldwin Selden, inventor of
the first gasoline propelled vehicle, and
q pioneer in the present automotive in
dustry, died at his home In Rochester,
N. Y. He was president of the Selden
Motor Company of this city and was
n years old.
Arthur o. Meininger, cashier of the
!. Night and Day Bank of st. Louis, who
disappeared after the closing Of the
J bank by the state bank examiner, who
. discovered shortage of $754, 900, was
: arrested In Belleville, Ill. He was re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
When n teller momentarily left his
cage In the Union Trust Company at
Providence, r. l., an unidentified man
, reached through the wicket, stole a
$4,000 Liberty bond, bill of lading
covering a carload Of cotton and bun.
die of checks, and escaped before an
, alarm could be given.
: Gatesville, Texas.-H. G. Twyman
) former military instructor at the
[ Texas juvenile training school here