The Snowflake herald., 1922-02-17
FOREIGN

! Ihe new Canadian parliament has
been summoned to meet March s. The
date was announced following the
meeting Of the dominion cabinet coun
Gil.
Berlin is in the midst of the black
est period it has known since the Kapp
revolution. Despite the mayors re-
assuring statement that the food stu
alton is not endangered by the strikes
on the railways and in the municipal
services, the situation in the poor quar-
ters resembled the panic days of war
time food shortage.
Three commercial accords supple
menting the Franco Polish military al
lance have been signed by Premier
Poincare and Count Zamoyski, Polish
minister to Paris. The first provides
for a purely commercial accord, the
second an agreement regarding private
property interests, and the third an
agreement regarding the naphtha in
duStrieS.
PrOlongation of the time-now ten
dayS-between the demise of the pope
and cOnvening the sacred college for
the election of a new pope to period
not yet definitely decided on, but
which will permit not only the United
States but Canada and South America
to be represented, is the first question
to be discussed at the first consistory
called by Plus XI
The severe winter which the whole
of Central Europe is experiencing, has
seriously handicapped the navigation
of the Danube. The cold wave was
so sudden that more than sixty yes
sells belonging to several nations have
been caught in the ice and will be
forced to tie up for the whole winter
unless an unlocked for thaw comes in
the meantime
One hundred and ten persons were
killed and numbers of others injured
when a railway train was buried by
an avalanche at Itoigawa station, ac-
cording to a dispatch received in Toxic
from Nagano. The victims were for
the most part farmers, workmen and
in clearing the snow from the railway
tracks. Medical relief was dispatched
to the scene from Nagano.
GENERAL
An explosion, followed by fire,
spread panic among 500 patrons of the
Lyric motion picture theater in New
York, but all reached the street. The
blaze was put out by firemen after it
had destroyed several thousand feet Of
film and damaged the operating room.
Several persons were slightly injured
in the crush at the exits
Twenty-Five miners are known to
have been killed in the explosion at
the Gates mine of the III. G. Frick Coal
and Coke Company at Gates, Pa. Thir-
ty men were working in the section
where the explosion occurred The
cause of the explosion, which occurred
a mile and a half back in the work
ings, has not been determined.
Mrs. Eva Saduski and her 4-year-
old child were taken to Brooklyn pO-
lice headquarters following the fatal
shooting of her husband, Vincent, in
the Saduski home. She said her hus-
band a member of a wealthy Balti-
more family, had shot himself acci-
dentally after flourishing a pistol in
her face and threatening her life
]. Freeland Johnson of Wichita,
Kan, has filed suit in the Shawnee
county District Court against the
Union Pacific railroad for $2,995 DAM
ages Johnson charges that the con-
ductor of a passenger train refused to
stop the train at his request when his
wife, Mrs. Ida Olive Johnson, leaped
from the window of the train near
Newman, Topeka. He says that he
was carried to Perry, five miles farth-
er on, and that he spent the entire
night hunting for his wife, who was
found the next day a mile north of
Topeka, where she had drowned in a
small creek, nine miles from the point
where she jumped from the train.
Ten houses were destroyed by fire
in Kansas City recently, with an esti-
mated loss of $4,000. Six of the
houses burned in row on Norton ave-
nue., and before the firemen had the
flames under control fire broke out on
Agnes avenue in another part of the
city and four houses were burned A
high wind combated efforts of the fire
men to check the flames.
Henry Ford formally came into pos
session of the Lincoln Motor Company
of Detroit when Federal Judge Tuttle
confirmed sale of the property, effect
ed at public auction. Mr.. Ford through
his representatives, bid $S,000,000 for
the Lincoln holdings, being the only
one to offer bid. The price was the
lowest that could be accepted, Judge
Tuttle had ruled previously.
President John Grier Hibben of
Princeton University, at Princeton, n.
j., has sent out letters to parents ami
guardians of all students pointing out