, 1922-01-12
FOREIGN

wire IN New YORK CITY In July, 1913.
Mrs. Joseph Perron, wife of a col
onist Mt LaMothe, fifteen miles from
Amos, Quebec, and five of her chill
dren We're burned to death in their
home Saturday. An oil lamp exploded.
The Greek ministry OF finance an
nounces that the British government
has authorized completion of a.loan TO
Greece of 15,O00,OO0 pounds sterling on
condition that the greatest part of the
amount possible be used in the pur-
chase of English products.
Eliseo Pho Rodriguez, when he was
rounded up in II police raid on the beg
ging pests of Madrid, proved to be a
capitalist with $4,000 to his name in
a provincial bank, while he also pos
sesses n farm with thirty cows. This
fortune is the result of man. years Of
mendicancy.
Fifty bodies have been recovered
from the Greek torpedo boat destroyer
Leon, anchored in the harbor of Pr
neus, which was wrecked by an explo-
sion of II torpedo. The explosion dam
aged nearby warships and caused
houses ashore to collapse, killing II
number of the inhabitants.
A dispatch from Innsbruck says that
the Tyrol Diet Mt Geneva, after n SEES
sion of thirty-three hours. broke down
the Socialist obstruction and voted the
1922 budget, amounting to 1880, 100000
kronen. When the vote was taken n
number of the Socialist members fell
asleep. Other Socialists had gone
home.
The men who served under Gen.
Francisco villa, former revolutlonist,
are o to receive from the govern
ment tracts of land in accordance with
the agreement made with Villa by the
Huerta government at the time of his
surrender in July, 1920. The Depart
ment of Agriculture has appointed a
commission of engineers TO divide the
land.
General Frunze, chief of the Ukra-
MAN mission, will leave Angora, seat of
the Turkish Nationalist government,
soon with the draft of an agreement
for consideration by the Kiev soviet.
1t is reported that the treaty provides
for military assistance to the Turks by
Ukraine against Rumania in the event
the Rumanians manifest an intention
of assisting the Greeks in Thrace.
1t is possible to prevent a river from
freezing over by supplying a small
amount of heat, the American Associ-
alton for the Advancement of Science
Mt Toronto was told by John Murphy,
engineer of the Canadian Department
of Railways and Canals. The Rock
river in Illinois, a %navlgable stream,
has been kept from freezing for five
winters over thirteen miles of its
length by splitting tepid water into 1t
ut the rate of two barrels a second.
GENERAL
Madison Square Garden, New York.
yielded to the federal and state gov
ernments from Aug. 3, 1920. to Dec. %.
last. S535,317 in property and nmuse-
ment taxes, according to a compilation
made by Tex Richard, lessee OF the
building.
Three firemen were hurt, several
families were made homeless and $780,
900 damage was done in the first two
big fires of h year in Chicago. A
garage and e~ighty-five automobiles
were destroyed and a mem house
adjoining was burned, forcing n score
of persons to flee from the building.
The second blaze destroyed the inter
lor of a %seven-story factory ana office
building.
P~sychopathic experts will examine
Stanley Oliver, Jr., % years old, held
by the police, charged with being the
author Of more than 100 letters to
wealthy ChicagOans. Police declare the
object of the letters was blackmail. A
request for ST. contained in a letter to
DIR. George S. Isham. which Isham
turned over 10 the police, resulted in
divers arrest. Oliver Is said to have
confessed and to have declared he
wrote the letters ms a Joke"
Fifty persons within 2OO feet of a po-
lice station In New York saw Il negro
prisoner shoot and kill Acting Detec-
tive Sergeant w. A. Miller aud MORTAL
ly wound Detective Francis J. Buckley,
after they had arrested the negro for
%felonious assault. In the confusion
which followed the negro escaped.
Business failures In the United
States during 1921 number 1862, with
an Indebtedness Of S627, 4Ot.SS3, rs
compared with s,SSl defaults In 1920,
involving $205, 121 sos, according to a
report made public by X. G.. Dun and
Company. Failures last year ranked
next to the 1915 total of 1900 and the
Indebtedness was the heaviest on rec
ord. Banking suspensions and person
al bankruptcies were not included.
Two Chicago banks with resources
of more than s 100000 were sold aft
err the Chicago clearing house commit
tee had conducted nm examination and
found their assets had been impaired
by bad loans and investments. After