The St. Johns herald., 1922-12-14
FOREIGN


 was unanimously elected leader of the National Liberals at the party meet ing recently, in London.
 Thirty-four lives were lost in a col lisiOn between a launch and ferry boat in the Parana river near Zarate, northwest of 3uenOs Aires.
 The House of Commons without di- vision passed the second reading of the Irish constitution bill, after a de bate in single sitting without strik ing incidents.
 Lord Curzon, the British foreign sec retary, recently authorized an official statement to the press that England supports the American "open door" policy in Turkey and regards the San Reno agreement for division of the MosuI oil district as null and void.
 The marriage of Princess Dagmar, youngest sister of King Christian, to Lieut.. JOergen CastenskjOld, was cele- brated at Copenhagen. The ceremony was performed in the church at the Castle FredensbOrg, one of the sum- mer residences of the Danish king.
 Miss Mary MacSwiney, who has been hunger striking in Mount Joy prison, has been relef sed. Her release came on the twenty-third day of her strike. She had refused to take food since her arrest, when she was seized during a raid on house in Aylesbury road by nationalist troops who were seeking EamOnn de Valera.
 Richard Washburn Child, chief American spokesman at the near east ern conference at Lausanne, amazed the other delegations by reiterating the insistence of the United States upon the open door policy in Turkey. He read the ai6e-memoire delivered on Oct 30 to Great Britain, France and Italy, and said that the American gov ernment and public supported this pol icy.
 Ismet Pasha and his associates of the Turkish delegation to the confer ence at Lausanne appear less cOnfi- dent than when they arrived and the feeling is growing that they will re- duce their program materially in the hope of restoring peace and re-estab- fishing trade relations with the out side world. It is becoming evident that they are beginning to realize that it was Greece and not the great pow CTS of Europe that they defeated in their recent successful campaign about Smyrna.
 GENERAL
 Eighty-four lives were lost and sixty persons were injured as result of an accident and explosion in Dolomite No. 8 coal mine of the Woodward Iron Co. at Birmingham, Ala.
 Another series of earth tremOrs has shaken a very considerable area along the Chilean coast, covering largely the zone which suffered most from the earthquake of two weeks ago.
 Miss Anna Lentz, who lives on a farm near Chiffon, Wis, confessed that she had mailed the poisoned can- dy which caused the death of Mrs. Frank Schneider, a mother of eight children. She has been arraigned on a charge of murder. The confession was made and signed before Federal Postal Inspector Niles of Fond Du Lac.
 Another sensational angle in the marital relations of Prof. John P. Tier nan and Mrs. Augusta Tiernan, princi- pals in the Poulin paternity case, de veloped when the professor, whose de- cree of divorce from Mrs. Tiernan was Invalidated by the South Bend, Ind, Superior Court following his marriage to Mrs. Blanche Brimmer, returned to South Bend and effected recOncilia- ton with the first Mrs. Tiernan.
 Approximately 400 employees left their jobs in the Pennsylvania rail- road shops at Dennison, Ohio, follow ing the posting of an order that 35- cent charge will be made for each meal received in the cOmpany's res taurant. Since the beginning of the shopmen's strike July l the company | has furnished free lodging and board | , the employees. The men who quit | are said to have taken the places of | strikers.
 Thirty-one persons were injured, | several seriously, when Wabash pas senger train No. 20, bound from St. | Paul and Minneapolis to St. Louis, was derailed at Willard, near Kirksville, Mo. A broken rail was ascribed as the cause.
 Fifteen convicts, four of them serv- ing life terms, made their escape rom the Marquette, Mich, branch prison. Later two of them were captured, the | searchers being impeded by a hea-. snow storm. Crawling through steam |