The Snowflake herald., 1922-01-20
FOREIGN

A D1gam1St at "A, Paul Bloom, gray
Of head and bent of figure, entered
plea of guilty at Ottawa, Ont, and was
given a one to two-year sentence in
the Ontario reformatory. Bloom said
he left his first wife fifteen years ago.
Ned VanVorhies, 7, was killed and
his brother, Peter, 8, was perhaps fa
tally injured when a three-inch shell
said to have been brought from France
by their father, Edwin M. VanVorhies,
of the Forty-fifth infantry, exploded at
Fort Mckinley, near Manila, p. /.
Marquis Okuma, former premier Of
Japan, is dead, according to cable
message received by the Nippu Jiji, a
japanese vernacular newspaper In
Honolulu, from Toxic. The Mikado
conferred certain decorations on Oku-
ma posthumously, the cable message
said.
A young woman in Paris jumped to
her death from the top of the Arc de
Triomphe. Her body fell among a
crowd of mourners who were carrying
flowers to decorate the grave of the
unknown soldier" The woman had
cation marks.
A young woman recently jumped to
her death from the top of the Are de
Triomphe, Paris. Her body fell among
crowd of mourners who were carry
ing flowers to decorate the grave of
the unknown soldier" The woman
had removed from her clothing all
identification marks.
America is given full credit for her
part in the World War in a book de-
voted to the struggle written by Adol-
for Agroio of Montevideo One of the
prominent French commanders quoted
in the book is General Sarrail 1.-THE
Americans won the war;" he is quoted
as declaring. Had the United States
not interviewed in 1917, we would have
been lost"
Joseph Oliver, 20 years old, grand
sire of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, died at Toronto, Ont, after
an illness of three months. He was a
member of the Odd Fellows for many
years and was head of the grand lodge
in Canada before being chosen to the
highest office in the order in North
America. He also was a past master
of the Masonic fraternity.
GENERAL
Four men were reported killed when
an engine on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Northern overturned near WheelerS
Mills, Ohio.
Four children were instantly killed
and score seriously injured when a
Pennsylvania fast freight crashed into
bus carrying the children to school,
three miles east of Van Vert, Ohio.
Crime judged by the number of pris-
Oners sent to state institutions has in
creased during the last year in New
York, according to a report made pub
lie at Ossining, n. Y, by John Kenne-
dy, chairman of the State Prison Com
mission. More prisoners were put to
death and there was great increase
in drug addicts admitted.
Two unidentified negroes in New
York held up Jacob Belkin, real es-
tate operator, and Charles Johnson, a
negro janitor who accompanied Belkin,
shooting and killing Johnson when he
refused to obey an order to "hOld up
your hands and hand over your cash."
Belkin told the police he obeyed the
bandits's command and was robbed Of
$500 in cash.
Charles Garland, who more than a
year ago announced his refusal to ac-
cept a legacy of $1,000,O00 willed to
him by his father, the late James A.
Garland of Boston, has reconsidered
his decision and will accept the money,
according to the Boston Post. His bro
ther, Hamilton, who likewise declined
legacy of equal proportions, has ac-
cepted his share of the family fortune,
the Post declares.
Crimes are decreasing in Chicago,
according to figures made public by
Charles Fitzmorris, chief of police. He
gave the number in 1921 as 1866,
against 1907 in 1920 and 1866 in
1919.
Exports of American coal, excluding
shipments to Canada and Mexico, in
creased by 100 per cent in 1921, as
compared with 1913, according to a
statement by the Commerce Depart
ment Much of this increase, the de-
partment said, was due doubtless to
the British coal strike.
Thomas Cosgrove and Charles Bor-
shell, Jr., both Of Iowa Falls, Iowa,
were found asphyxiated in private
garage. When found their car was
still running. The supposition is that
they drove into the garage, closed the
door and tarried few minutes to visit
and were overcome by the fumes from
the exhaust.
Foreign ships are carrying the bulk
of the cargo between this country and
the east coast of South America and