The Ordway new era., 1922-06-30
FOREIGN

Japanese mandate.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes
Wilson, formerly chief of the British
imperial general staff and lately mill
tary adviser to the Ulster government.
was assassinated near the door of his
home in Easton place, London.
A Central News dispatch from
Copenhagen received in London.
quotes the Berlingske Tidende as say
ing that terrible pogrons have taken
place in Ukrainia and thar the Jewish
populations of four towns are reported
TO have been massacred.
A mysterious disease in the south
eastern districts of Queensland is puz-
zling the medical authorities and has
forced them 10 seek aid from the
United States in determining its cause
and. If possible, n cure. The malady is
described as being similar 10 meninSi-
It's. with the difference that the brain
and not the spinal cord is affected In
one town twelve out of fifteen persons
afflicted died.
Gen. Chen Chung Ming, formerly
civil governor of Kwantung province,
whose troops seized Canton. an
nounced that the south China. or
Canton government, has been termt-
mated and that henceforth Canton
would unite with the north in recog-
nizing the old republican parliament.
Dispatches from Canton describe the
collapse of the southern government
as complete. Suns military forces
crushed and the former Canton pres
ident himself a fugitive.
Quereshi. the noncooperationist
leader in British India, who sue
ceeded Mohandas Gandhi when the
latter was arrested and imprisoned
on charges of sedition, has been SEN
fenced to a years rigorous imprison-
ment and to pay fine of 500 rupees.
with further three months impris-
onment in default of payment.
Quereshi was arrested after publica
tion of alleged seditious articles in
the newspaper, Young India. The
publisher and printer of Young In
dia received similar sentence.
GENERAL
Forty-four persons, two of whom
were union coal miners. We're killed
when 5000 armed striking miners at
tncked the Lester Strip mine, near
Heron Ill. which was being oper-
ated by imported workers and guards,
William Bross Lloyd. Chicago mil
lIonaire Communist, and eighteen oth-
er members of the now defunct Com
I uh Dri G.
on terms for advocating the over
throw of the United States govern
ment, 1t was ruled by the Illinois Su-
preme Court.
Col. Marcellus II. Thompson, vice
president and active head of the Auto
Ordnance Company of New York, has
been indicted by the federal grand
grand jury at Trenton on the charge
of conspiracy to ship arms to Ireland
in violation of the neutrality laws.
The announcement was made by As
sIstant United States District Attor
ney Thomas V. Arrowsmith.
Herself slightly crippled from birth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Laniger Howell, who
for many years conducted fashion
able boarding house in Newark, n.
J., left $3.50, 900 of her 100000 es
tate to the Newark Home for
Crippled Children, her will, probated
recently, disclosed. Her husband
was a cripple for many years and
her mother also was crippled.
More than 100 pieces of firearms
have been turned in to the National
Guard by strikers in the Carbon
county, Utah, coal district. Women
took most of the guns to military
headquarters. Some of the women
called members of the guard to their
homes and gave them weapons, while
others called at headquarters and
asked that militiamen be sent to
their homes.
Eagle Boat No. 81, which went
ashore on a reef near Cattle Point,
San Juan island, arrived at Seattle,
having pulled off the reef under her
own power. She escaped serious dam
age. The boat was officered and
manned by members of the Seattle and
Tacoma naval militia units.
The administration is considering
the matter of decreasing second
class postal rates, it was said at the
White House Considerable discussion
was given 10 the subject at the cabi-
ret meeting. and President Harding
and Postmaster General Work are in
clined TO believe that at least part
of the increase in the second-class
rates made during the war should now
be removed.
At New York City. Norwich, hailed
as the successor of Man O. War, met
his master in Whiskaway. a colt that
he defeated last year. 1t happened
in the Carlton stakes at AQueduct be-
fore a monster crowd that was
amazed tn see BENJAMIN Blocks won