, 1922-03-16
FOREIGN

N'Nb III %OhuO ltCtlllly.
Georges Carpenter will be confined
to his roc for several days in Paris
as a result of an operation for an in
fected condition of the throat.
An official decree issued recently in
Paris confers the MedaI or Honor of
the Municipal Police on fifteen mem
bers of the New York City police force.
A strike of ship officers at Vera Cruz
has been declared against vessels
owned by the Mexican Steamship COM
pany, which is controlled by the Mex
lean government.
Max S. Green, chairman of the Irish
prison board, was shot and killed in
Dublin, a message announces. He was
a son-in-law of the late John Redmond,
Irish Nationalist leader.
A number of American shoe COM
panies and tanneries are establishing
a common sales agency in Hamburg
for dealing with Germany, Czecho Slo-
vakia, Hungary, Rumania and Austria.
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, former
secretary of state for foreign affairs.
underwent an operation recently in
London, for ulcer. Although the oper-
alton was declared successful, the pa
tient is considered to be in quite a
serious condition.
The Daily Herald, London, has de-
Tended the veracity of it's recent re-
port that George Harvey will be re-
called as American ambassador to the
court of st. james. wait and see
what happens" the newspaper ad-
vised its critics.
a party of American treasure seek
ers has reached San Jose, Costa Rica.
and applied to the government for per-
mission to search for gold that is sup
posed to have been buried on Cocos
island. This island, $40 miles south
west of Panama, is the locale of Rob
ert Louis ~Stevenson's Treasure Is
land"
America is the worlds greatest
creditor, Germany the worlds greatest
debtor. Germany owes almost twice
as much as the whole world owes
America. The bureau of statistics OF
the German government has issued an
interesting survey of the worlds in
debtedness. Standing at the head of
the list is Germany's reparation debts,
amounting to 1872 O,O00,O 900 gold
marks, or $31 900, 900. 900.
GENERAL
The Bettendorf Steel Car Company,
davenport, Iowa, through Its presl-
dent, j. w. B~ettendorf, announced a
S1.5OO,O00 contract with the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific railroads.
Three hundred tramps arrived in
New Orleans on a single freight train
from Texas points. Some were enter
tanned at police stations and others
visited points of interest about town.
The New Jersey state boxing com
mission does not look with favor on a
between Jack Dempsey, &orld's
heavyweight boxing champion, and
Harry Wills, stellar negro heavy
weight.
The list of stock brokerage house
casualties in New York touched the
fifty mark recently when involuntary
bankruptcy petitions were filed in Fed
eral Court against Etting & Wall and
L. ID. Mullins " Co.
An examination of candidates at
Springfield, ILL.,, filing for state offices
has presented another puzzle for the
politicians. There are six women can
didates for the General Assembly and
many for lesser county offices.
Louis Weitzel, pioneer barber, who
Presidents Lincoln, Mckinley
and Grant, is dead at the age of rs
years. He was in the business for six
ty years, flfty-four years being spent
in Fond Du Lac, Wis.
The 1921 income taxes will bring the
government $4,000, 10000, which is
about $780, 900 below the total last
year, treasury statisticians estimated.
The first quarterly payments will
no more than $4G0, 900, 900, which
is $100, 900 below the quarterly av-
erage of last year, it is believed.
"Fairvlew," near Lincoln, Neb., fam
GUS as the birthplace of the grapejuice
cocktail and the former home of VIII
liam Jennings Bryan, is to become a
Methodist hospital.
Chicago's largest taxicab company.
in a statement recently, announced
that business for 1921 had been so
good that wage increases totallng
for cab drivers, effective i'm
medlately, had been authorized.
A suit filed by DIR. Samuel N. Nc
Clean. formerly of Detroit. against r..
NJ. Calfee. NJ. A. Bradley and the es-
tate of ]. G. w. Cowles for $4,000
900, claimed to be due the plaintiff as
his share in war profits from the sale
of Lewis machine guns to the United
States government, was called for
hearing In Federal Court at Cleveland,
Ohio, recently.
Mrs. Enrico Caruso, widow Of the
opera tenor, splritedly denies