The Raymer enterprise., 1922-02-09
FOREIGN


date was announced following the
meeting Of the dominion cabinet coun-
ell.
All countries Invited to the Genoa
economic conference have definitely
accepted except the United States.
Reuter-. Ltd, learns. So far as Brit
ish and Italian circles are concerned.
II Is believed the conference will meet
as fixed, March g. t u
President Ebert, on his eIghty-first
was again thrown out Of the
saddlemakers' union. A general meet.
ing of the union al Cologne voted 200
to 8 In favor Of his expulsion on thu
ground that his actions had been dam.
aging TO organized labor.
The search Of Professor Irving Fish.
er Of Yale University for ''mOonshine"
gold ended abruptly when he was in
formed by scientist that the Ger.
man who had claimed the discovery OF
a synthetic gold process was fraud
and had prison record.
Practically the entire population OF
Batoum, including thousands OF
famine refugees from inland Armenia.
turned out to celebrate the arrival Of
the steamship Allagasha with 5000
tons Of food, said cablegram re-
ceiyed In New York by the Near East
relief. Flags and banners of welcome
were strung throughout the city.
One hundred and ten persons were
killed and numbers Of others injured
when railway train was buried by
an avalanche at It0igawa station, nc.
cordlng to dispatch received In Toxic
from Nagano. The victims were for
the most part farmers, worklDen and
rnilway employees who were engaged
In clearing the snow from the railway
tracks. Medical relief was dispatched
10 the scene from Nagano.
Disturbances In Mexico City and
suburbs accompanied series Of
demonstrations staged by chauffeurs
against recent order from the gov
ernor OF the federal district. requiring
all automobile drivers to furnish GER
tificat.s Of good conduct before secur.
Ing licenses. The order followed pro-
tests that numerous chauffcurs were
In reality robbers. who piled their
trade while driving laXicahs.
GENERAL
Provoked because the operator
would not return his nickel for Il call
he said h" had lulled Ia gel, Charles
!. MacEcigiI of Newark, \. j., Is nj.
legged to have gone TO telephone head
quarters and thrown brick through
through the window. He WIS arrested
and held In $500 bail on charge Of
malicious mischief.
Five bandits held up and robbed the
mail clerk of the Pennsylvania railroad
station AT Whiting, Ind. Five mail
sacks We're seized, but the amount OBJ
tained will not he known until postal
authorities have Hn opportunity to
check on the contents of the bags. All
Of the bags asr said 10 have contained
registered mall.
Twenty-Five miners are known to
have been killed In the explosion ut
the Gates mine Of the II. c. Frick Coal
and Coke Company at Gates, Pa. Thir-
ty men were workin: In the section
where the explosion occurred. The
cause Of the explosion, which occurred
a mile and half back In the work.
lngs, has not been determined.
Ten houses were destroyed by fire
In Kansas City recently, with an esti.
mated loss Of $4,000. Six OF the
houses burned In n row on Norton ave-
nue., and before the firemen had the
flames under control fire broke out on
Agnes avenue In another part of the
city and four houses were burned. A
high wind combated efforts of the fire
men to check the flames.
Henry Ford formally came into pos
session Of the Lincoln Motor Company
Of Detroit when Federal Judge ruttlr
confirmed sale Of lie property, effect
ed at public auction Mr.. Ford through
his Representatives, bid SS,W0tDn for
the Lincoln holdings, being the only
one To offer n bid. The price was the
lowest that could be accepted, Judge
Tuttc had ruled previously.
A surplus of S2,0i6,So9 in the treas
ury Of the city Of Boston was an
nounced by Mayor Peters in his retIr-
ing address TO the city council. When
he assumed office four years ago, he
said, there was deficit OF SS04,ST9.
The total net Indebtedness was re.
duced Si,Gj1 ,l6G.
Circuit Judge Edwards of Wanke-
gan. H., granted the motion for sep.
arate trials of Gov. Len Small and
Vernon Curtis, Grant Park banker.
charged with conspiracy to embezzle
state funds. The court overruled the
motion filed by the governor and
granted similar motion filed in be.
half of Curtis, the decision having the
effect of putting the governor on trial
first.
Concessions were made by the city
council of Chicago TO those citizens
who oppose the daylight savings ordi-