Williams news., 1922-08-18
FOREIGN

grlp or wave Of extreme heat RroS-
 trations averaged twelve daily.
 The London Mirror recently quoted
 an arrival at Liverpool from Cork as
 saying that Ramon de Valera has been
 wounded in Cork.
 The ratified copy of the Washing. | ton treaties Sxas signed by King
 George few days ago. It is now en
 route to Washington for the exchange | of notifications.
 Officers and crews of inter-island
 vessels who struck recently against
 proposed wage reductions have flatly | refused to accept government arb$tra- | tion. Foreign steamers are using spe- l c1al permits and supplying a limited passenger and freight service. | violent clash between Socialists | and Fascist caused a suspension of | the session of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, said a Central News dis | patch from Rome recently. Anger rose
 to fever heat. Revolvers were drawn
 and there were threats of killing. Deaths in the typhoon of Aug. ? at | SwatOw, a seaport 200 miles northeast of Hongkong, now are estimated at 5O,OOO, the American consul at Swatow has reported to the American legation. | The consul added that 100000 were homeless and relief was needed urg- ently.
 A law to enforce the prohibition of absinthe by shutting the lid equally on all absinthe substitutes has been passed by the chamber in Paris. In
 the course of debate the United States
 was cited as a country where "mor- phine and cocaine have replaced al- cohoI.''
 All the villagers of Baddeck, N. s., trudged to the peak of Beinn Bhreagh mountain and stood in reverence at sunset while the body of Dr. Alexan- der Graham Bell was laid tenderly to rest after life of seventy-five years, in which he gave to the world the tele- phone and other inventions.
 The congress of the International Federation of Miners recommended that a message be sent to every na-
 ional organization of miners urging them to contribute $1O,O00 apiece for the support of the coal strike in the United States. At the same time the congress decided not to cut down pro- duction of coal in Europe as a means of assisting the American strikers.
 News of the approval of a tariff rate of 2.2 cents a pound on sugar by the Senate at Washington has been received with jubilation by Philippine planters. The protection they constd- CT the figure affords them has put damper on political agitation against continuance of free trade relations. Opponents of free trade have charged that 1t Is designed to make the islands economically dependent on the United 1 States. GENERAL
 William B. Stewart, assistant clerk of the Senate finance committee and for many years a familiar figure at the | capitol, died suddenly at his home a few days ago.
 Earl P. Burman, %, of Detroit was killed in a collision on the Jackson | (A1ich.) speedway. Robert Burman, brother of Earl, was killed in 1916 at | Corona, Calif., in a similar accident.
 Once the bright-eyed Carmen, whose | voice thrilled opera lovers forty years | ago, Minnie Hauk, now the Baroness | von Hesse-Wartegg, is totally blind at | her home in Lucerne, Switzerland
 Maj. Harry M. Kenoerdine, 80 years | old, died at his home at Elwood, Kan, recently. He was reputed to be the | last survivor of Gen. w. T. Shermans staff on the march from Atlanta to the sea.
 Two men are dead at Stevenson, Wash, as the result of a raid on 8 still. w. B. Rorison, dep- uty sheriff of Vancouver, Wash, and Paul Hickey, moonshiner, are the vic tims. J. A. Morgan of Tacoma, fed eral prohibition officer, who conducted the raid on Hickey's camp in the hills, was seriously wounded.
 George l.. Hossfield of Paterson, N. J., won an all-American typewriting speed contest at the pageant of prog ress in Chicago against field of 16O entrants by writing 126 words a min ute for thirty minutes.
 Efforts are being made to learn the identity of blackmailers who placed poison in the food of Dr. w. T. Statler, veterinary surgeon of Lanark, Ill.,, and his wife, after an effort had been made to eXtort money from him.
 The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fs railroad has submitted a proposition to other transcontinental roads to re- duce regular one-way passenger fares BIO and sleeping car charges $2 be- tween Chicago and California, 1t has been announced.
 Fourteen-year-Old Helen Krawgoff tailed off alone from New York on the ast lap of 12,OOO-mile journey that will take her to country she has nev-