Williams news., 1922-10-20
FOREIGN

ference.
 4he Japanese government has or
 dered thorough examination of all
 passengers booked for America be-
 cause of the cholera epidemic in that
 country.
 l The British government" it was
 stated semi-officially, ''is taking steps
 to pay $5O,OOO,OOO into the New York | Federal Reserve Bank soon on account
 of this years interest on Great Brit | aims debt to the United States.
 The Spanish campaign against rebel | lious Riff tribesmen in Morocco, which | has been in progress about two years, | virtually has ended in complete victory l for the Spaniards, General Burgueste, l Spanish commander, reported to the | government.
 1 Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, chan 1 cel1or of the eXchequer, has indefinite | ly postponed his debt funding mission | to the United States, according to the | London Daily Express. This action is
 in consequence of the political situa- | ton in England.
 Cable dispatches received by the Nippu Jiji, Japanese language news paper at Honolulu, state that cholera is spreading in Tokio and Yokohama,
 127 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 sheI- tering 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 the result that those fortunate enough 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-old Anna Wroebel. According to the police, Obendorf, in a fit of jeal- ouS 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 collins 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 talk en out, the corpse clad in a paper J the coffin restored to its rightful own CT for further use. GENERAL
 Andrew Harlaton shook hands so wig orously on parting from a friend in Chicago that he dislocated his shoul- | der and tainted.
 Julian H. Caudle, 32, farmer, died at l his home near Hopkinsville, Ky, short | ly after he had been stung over the | heart by a yellowjacket.
 A total of $222, ,OO493 in cash and | bonds was obtained by five bandits | who held up the Hamilton County | Bank of Cincinnati a few days ago.
 Fatty Arbuckle soon is to. roll | back into the movies with his bag full | of slapstick tricks, it 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, accommodating the stuff that dreams are made of, met with dis favor before the Mississippi Valley Medical Associations convention at Rochester, Minn.
 It will cost the I. w. w. $29,OOO be- cause William D. Haywood, their for mer leader, and eight other Reds" jumped their bonds and went to Rus sia That was the amount of the bonds signed in behalf of the I. w. w.
 Plans for discussion at dinner in Washington, April 21, of the newspa- per in it's relation to public affairs by men of national and international were made at meeting of the board of directors of the Amer ican 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