, 1922-02-09
FOREIGN

accepted except the United States,
Reuter-, Ltd, learns. So far as Brit
ish and Italian circles are concerned,
it is believed the conference will meet
as fixed, March s.
The search of Professor Irving Fish
er of Yale University for 'moonshine"
gold ended abruptly when he was in
formed by n scientist that the Ger
man who had claimed the discovery of
a synthetic gold process was n fraud
and had a prison record.
Practically the entire population of
Batoum, including thousands of
famine refugees from inland Armenia,
turned out TO celebrate the arrival of
the steamship Allagasha with 5000
tons of food, said a cablegram re-
ceived in New York by the Near East
relief. Flags and banners of welcome
were strung throughout the city.
Disturbances in Mexico City and
suburbs accompanied a series of
demonstrations staged by c%hauffeurs
against a recent order from the gov
ernor of the federal district, requiring
all automobile drivers to furnish GER
tificates of good conduct before secur-
ing licenses. The order followed pro-
tests that numerous chauffeurs were
in reality robbers, who piled their
trade while driving taxicabs.
A dispatch to Berlin from Gleiwitz
says several French soldiers and Ger
man civilians We're killed or wounded
ut Petersdorf, Silesia, as a result of an
exchange of shots while French SOL
diers were searching houses for arms.
The dispatch adds that it is believed
two Frenchmen were killed and hat
some Germans also met death. The
allied commission has ordered n state
of siege each night between s o'clock
and 5 O'Clock in the morning.
Paul Loebe, president of the Reichs-
tag. addressing u mass meeting of
Rhinelanders in Berlin, demanded re-
moval of the allied armies of occupa-
ton. He attacked Premier P%oincare
of France for making frivolous utter
~ances." Marcel Cachin, Communist
member of the French Chamber of
Deputies, came to Berlin to address
the German Communists. He protest
ed against the indemnity policy of the
French government, declaring that the
Poincare cabinet was trying to pre-
vent the reconstruction of the devas-
tnted areas of France by German
workmen.
GENERAL
A surplus of S2,046,S 800 In the treas
ury of the city of Boston was an
nounced by Mayor Peters in his retir-
ing address to the city council. When
he assumed office -four years ago, he
said, there was a deficit of SS04,S79.
The total net Indebtedness was re-
duced S4,651, 1G6.
Five bandits held up and robbed the
mail clerk of the Pennsylvania railroad
station at Whiting, Ind. Five mail
sacks were seized, but the amount OBJ
tanned will not be known until postal
authorities ave an opportunity to
check on the contents of the bags. All
of the bags are said TO have contained
registered mail.
Twenty-Five miners are known to
have been killed in the explosion ut
the Gates mine of the Ii. C. Frick Coal
and Coke Company at Gates, Pa. Thir-
ty men were working in the section
where the explosion occurred. The
aus of the explosion, which occurred
n mile and n half back in the work
ings, has not been determined.
Ten houses We're destroyed by fire
in Kansas City recently, with an esti-
mated loss of $4,000. Six of the
houses burned in "A row on Norton ave
nue., and before the firemen had the
fIannaG fn1n- annfpn1 ffpa- hrnla ane On
Agnes avenue In another part of the
city and four houses We're burned. A
high wind combated Efforts of the fire
men to check the Flames.
Sixty patrolmen, armed with riot
guns. battled more than an hour
against Iienzy Murray, Il negro. who
barricaded in his home in Boston,
Mass. shot and seriously wounded two
patrolmen, a negress and a negro, and
set fire to n bed in which an infant
lay. Murray surrendered, uninJured,
when n dozen policemen broke down
the door of the house.
Gifts for the furtherance Of educa-
ton totaling S33, 1876, 7O6 were made
during the fiscal year 1921-1922 by the
general education board of the Rookie
Teller foundation, it was made known
In the annual report made I'm New
York. Up TO date, the board has dis
tributed $40, 1872, 442. plus the income
of the total Sl26,TSS,094 given the
board by John d. Rockefeller.
Circuit Judge Edwards Of Wauke-
gan. ILL.,, granted the motion for sep
arate trials Of Gov. Len Small and
Vernon Curtis, Grant Park banker.
charged with conspiracy to embezzle
state funds. The our overruled the
motion filed by the governor and
granted II similar motion filed In be-
half Of Curtis. the decision having the