The Raymer enterprise., 1922-04-13
FOREIGN

A 0-year-Old child was killed recent.
ly In the New Lodge road. near Bel.
fast. A swarm Of children were play.
ing In the street when rifle shot rnng
out and the child fell dead. There Is
no clue to the ASSASSIN.
The University Of Pennsylvania s
quartet OF diminutive mile runners fin.
ished second to the Cambridge team in
the three-cornered relay race between
oxford, Cambridge and Pennsylvania
In England's first relay carnival at the
Queens Club In London.
II. Jeannes, betrnyer of Edith Cavell,
British war nurse. was found guilty In
Brussels and sentenced to death for his
act. Miss Cavell was executed by the
Germans during their occupation at
Brussels. on the ground she was a spy
and revealed secrets to the allies.
A cabinet bill authorizing the gov.
ernment TO raise forced loan Of L.
500, COZ, 600 drachmas tnow about $751;
5OO,O0O) was introduced In the nation
al assembly ut Athens. The measure
provides that all persons possessing
paper currency must lend 80 per cent
to the state.
An expenditure Of approximately
$35, 600, 600 for construction OF port
works and auxiliary railways In Chile
Is authorized in bill that has just
been passed by the national congress
at Santiago. Bids will be asked for In
Chile and abroad, first for the yalpar-
also project, and later for the other
ports.
The remarks Of Alazon B. Hougi-
ton, American ambassador to Germany,
on the occasion OF the farewell dinner
rendered him recently prior to his de-
parture for Berlin, are gwen unusual
prominence by the German newspa-
pers Sine Of the newspapers hail Mr..
Houghton as n peace ambassador "
whose sentiments accord him n hearty
welcome"
Exhaustion OF the Mexican oil
fields Is a matter connected with the
very remote future and present con.
templated developments are such as to
guarantee large, continuous production
for long time" said Edward L. Do
heny, president of the Mexican Petrol
cum Company, prior to his departure
from Mexico City for the United
States.
GENERAL
Employment in California has de-
creased within the last three months
from 5000 to 10000, according to a
by John S. Blair, deputy Ia.
Dor commissioner.
Seventeen persons are reported dead
and more than eighty injured as re-.
suit Of tornadoes and raInstorms which
swept from west Texas east into Okla.
homa toward Arkansas.
Mexican laborers now stranded in
the Colorado beet territory, will be the
last to be repatriated, except In cases
where the original movement from
Mexico to American labor centers was
advised by the Mexican government,
Mexican Consul General Luis Monies
DE Oca said In FL Paso recently.
A bold attempt to rob the Merchants
Bank, block from the United States
treasury, was. made by three bandits
recently. The three men snntched a
big pile Of bills containing $4,000 and
dashed for the door. The cashier fired
three shots at them. One Of the ban
dts was captured when a guard In
football fashion brought him down
with flying tackle. The money was
recovered.
MlschIevous boys playing near the
New York Central tracks at Ludlow,
New York. almost wrecked the VOL.
VERNE, express from the west by OBJ.
structing the tracks with heavy planks
and galvanized pipes. A possible seri.
Gus accident was averted by the en-
gineer, who saw the danger In time and
clamped on the emergency brakes,
bringing the train to stop just as the
engine pilot touched the barricade.
Several thousand railroad employees
--mcl,bers Of coal crews-found them
selves out Of employment as II result
OF the coal mine suspension. In the
lkes-Barre, Penn, district, alone, q
600 railroad men were idle.
The Alice theater at Hope. Ark, said
to he one Of the most magnificent In
the Southwest and valued at S4OO,0OO
was destroyed by fire along with sew.
eral other buildings which will bring
the total loss to over $4,000.
1--WE find that Col. Paul Ward Beck
came TO his death by a bullet fired
from revolver in the hands Of Jean
7, Day. And we further find that
Judge Day shot ih defense of his wife,
his home and her honor" was the find
ing of the jury at the inquest In Okla
homa City.
Herbert Clayton, IL years old, under
arrest in Portland, Ore. has confessed
twenty-five successful forgerles, police
detectives say. BY representing him
self as caddy at times and at other
times as Il newsboy, he found It an
easy matter TO induce merchants to
cash checks ranging from $3.50 to $40
each. His twenty-five checks aggre.