The Colorado statesman., 1922-12-02
GENERAL

GENERAL
Another series of earth tremors has
shaken a very considerable area along
the Chilean coast, covering largely the
zone which suffered most from thl
earthquake of two weeks ago.
His fighting blood up, the Tiger of
France turned from the abstract to
the specific while in Boston, answered
his critics at Washington with barbed
phrases and declared that what he
really came to America for was to seeA
to draw the United States into the con
ference at Lausanne for the settlemen,
of the eastern crisis.
Seven of the fifteen convicts wht
escaped from the state prison at Mar
quette, Mich, have been captured, &C
cording to prison officials directing
the search. Three of the convict,
were found hiding in an abandoned
brewery four miles from the prison
and four were trapped in the hold Of
"a tug beached at Portage lake.
Fifteen convicts, four of them serv
ing life terms, made their escape ron
the Marquette, Mich, branch prison.
Later two of them were captured, the
searchers being impeded by Il hear.
snow storm. Crawling through steam
pipe tunnel, which runs under the pris-
on yard and one of the cell blocks, the
fugitives made their way into the base
ment under the warden's residence by
digging under three concrete walls and
u steel door.
Three men are seriously wounded
the First National Bank . wrecked
telephone and telegraph wires are all
cut and $4,000 is missing from the
bank safe Ct Callatin, Mo, as the re
suit of activities of six desperate rob
bers. The bandits were discovered al
work by John Chamberlain, town mar
shal, while robblng the safe. Binding
him. the bandits set off two powerful
explosions of nitroglycerin, wreckinl
the bank.
Miss Anna Lentz, who lives on
farm near Chiffon, Wis, confessed
that she had mailed the poisoned can
dy which caused the death of Mrs
Frank Schneider, mother of eighl
children. She has been arraigned OIL
a charge of murder. The confession
was made and signed before Federal
Postal Inspector Niles OF Fond Du Lac.
New York and New Jersey cities are
being flooded with liquor from the Ba-
hamas, Scotland and England, accord
ing to Frank j. Hale, an investigator
for the prohibition department In New
York City. He declared that steam
shin had cleared from Scotland recent
ly with 24,OOO cases of whisky bound
for the "whisky armada camping
ground" four miles off the American
coast
Another sensational angle In the
marital relations of Prof. John p. Tier
nan and Mrs. Augusta Tiernan, princi-
pals in the Poulin paternity case, de-
veloped when the professor, whose de-
cree of divorce from Mrs. Tiernan was
invaIidated by the South Bend, Ind,
Superior Court following his marriage
to Mrs. Blanche Brimmer, returned to
South Bend and effected reconcilia-
tion with the first Mrs. Tiernan.
A plan for direct action by France
as n solution of the reparatlons ques-
ton has been submitted to full cab
met meeting in the Elysee palace, with
President Millerand presiding. The
plan provides for seizure of the state
coal mines and collection of the ex-
port taxes in the Ruhr district, togeth-
er with absolute control Of that sec
tion of the Rhine
Eighty-four lives were lost and sixty
persons were I2jured as result of an
accident and explosion In Dolomite No.
2 coal mine of the Woodward Iron Co.
at Birmingham, Ala.