The Holly chieftain., 1922-10-19
FOREIGN

passengers booked for America be-
cause of the cholera epidemic in that
country.
''The British government" it was
stated semi-officially, SIS taking steps
to pay $50,OO0,OOO into the New York
Federal Reserve Bank soon on account
OF this years interest on Great Brit
aims debt TO til, United States.
The Spanish campaign against rebel
lious Riff tribesinen In Morocco, which
has been in progress about two years,
virtually has ended in complete victory
for the Spanfards. General Burgueste,
Spanish commander. reported to the
government.
Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, chan
cellor of the exchequer, has Indefinite
iy postponed his debt funding mission
to the United States, according to the
London Daily Express. This action Is
In consequence of the political situa-
tion in England.
Cable dispatches received by the
Nippu Jill, Japanese language news
paper at Honolulu, state that cholera
is spreading in Toxic and Yokohama,
l27 cases having been reported in To
kio alone. There are said to have been
twenty-eight deaths from the plague
Hungry peasants In Russia are shell
terins their cattle in their houses be-
cause of an epidemic of cattle steal
ing. Extreme shortage of live stock
has put high premium on cattle, with
hn hnt f,,r
to own even one head find it much
safer to keep the animal under the
family roof
Paris. = France will be unable to
meet any part of her debts for the
next four years, as all available re-
ceipts for that period must be devoted
to reconstruction of the devastated re-
gions, according to the Paris Herald,
which quotes 'one of the highest au-
thOrities of the French ministry of
finance"
Berlin.-Another shocking cannibal-
ist crime, similar to those Of Butcher"
Grossman, was revealed recently with
the arrest of Alfred Obendorf, charged
with the murder of his sweetheart, 21-
year-0ld Anna Wroebel. According to
the police, Obendorf, in fit of jeal-
GUS rage, cut the body to pieces, ate
some and sold part as veal.
The problem of the high cost of dy-
ing, which is widely discussed in Ger
man papers, has been solved in Augs-
burg, Bavaria, where the public can
| rent coffins of all descriptions by the
hour. The price of coffins has gone UP
1000 per cent and "what use are they
to any one?" is the Augsburg argu-
| ment. With the usual pomp the coffin
| Is lowered into the grave. but when the
witnesses have gone the coffin Is TAX
| en- out, the corpse clad in paper
shroud and confined to the earth and
| the coffin restored to its rightful own
er for further use.
GENERAL
Andrew Harlaton shook hands so Wig
orously on parting from friend in
Chicago that he dislocated his shoul.
der and tainted.
Julian H. Caudle, 80, farmer, died at
his home near HopkinsvilIe, KY, short
ly after he had been stung over the
heart by a yellowjacket.
A total OF $222,OO4.93 in cash and
bonds was obtained by five bundits
who held up the Hamilton County
Bank of Cincinnati few days ago.
Fatty" Arbuckle soon is to roll
back into the movies with his bag full
Of slapstick tricks, 1t was reported in
| theatrical circles in New York re-
Gently.
A theory that while the physical
body sleeps an "ether body" wanders
the world over, accumulating the stuff
that dreams are made of, met with dis
favor before the Mississippi Valley
| Medical Associations convention at
Rochester, MINI.
1t will cost the l. W. W. $4,000 be-
cause William D. Haywood, their for
mer leader, and eight other Reds
jumped their bonds and went to Rus
sa. That was the amount of the bonds
signed in behalf of the l. w. w.
Plans for discussion at Il dinner In
Washington, April 81. of the newspa-
per Ill llS Telutioh " puDiiS uildiiS uy
men of national and International
prominence We're made at II meeting
| of the board of directors of the Amer
lcan Society of Newspaper Editors in
Cleveland recently.
New York. - Claus A. Spreckels,
president of the Federal Sugar Refin-
ing Company, who declared on his ar
rival from abroad that the price OF
sugar was too high, emphasized his re-
marks by announcing that he would at
once shut down the Federal COmpany's
plant at Yonkers.
New York.-"He kept us out of obes-
ity," is the slogan Of fifty women and
| fifty men-former members of Health
| Commissioner Copeand's reducing
classes-who organized the copeland