The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-02-24
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Sleeping sickness is appearing in
Russia, Moscow having over one, hun
bred cases.
England is not TO object to Ireland's
exchange Of ministers with the United
States.
Ten thousand persons (about half
the population) Of Uniontown, Pa, are
i'll with influenza.
The German government made its
third payment OF 100000 gold marks
to the Allied Preparations Commission
on February s.
That the Central American Fedora
ton has collapsed is evidenced by the
fact that Salvador and Honduras have
resumed their sovereignty.
The bill making provision for the
Z conversion of the s11,000,00o Allied
debt TO the United States was signed
by President Harding on February 3,
A third party has been launched
in New York with the objective OF
rescuing the long suffering middle
class and organizing it for political
revolt. @
The dispute between Costa Rica and
Great Britain over oil land conces-
sions is to be submitted to Chief JUS
tice Taft, Of the United States, for
arbitration.
The differences between the manage
ment and employees Of the Irish rail-
way, which threatened to bring about
a general strike February is, have
been settled.
on February 4 the first train made
a trip on the government railway in
Alaska from Seward, on the coast, to
Nenana, on the Yukon River, In the
middle Of Alaska,
~ BriEadier General Bruce, who will
head this years Everest expedition,
has left England for India to organ
lie for the expedition. The actual as
cent will begin in June,
Five army and navy engineers, az
ter an investigation OF the recent
Washington theater disaster reported
that the falling Of the roof was due TO
defective construction. .l
Poland has offered to transport free
of charge from Danzig to the Russian
border fifteen thousand tons Of corn
monthly arriving from America for
Russian famine relief.
The government has purchased two
hundred acres of land near San Fran
cisco upon which 1t will construct a
$4,000, 900 hospital for the treatment OF
4tnhercular ex-service men.
severe dust and wind storms which
swept across Central and Western
Kansas last week did great damage to
the wheat crop, blowing the wheat out
of the ground in many places.
A Gobelin tapestry, depicting the
departure of American troops from
Philadelphia, is being made for pre-
sentation by the French government
to Philadelphia. 1t will take two years
to finish.
Secretary Hughes will. take two
weeks vacation in Bermuda to rest up
from his labors during the Arms Con-
ference. Members of his family are
wintering in Bermuda.
Curtailment of s24O,OO0,OOO in the
expenditures of the British govern
ment during the next fiscal year has
been recommended by the government
economy committee headed by Sir
Eric Geddes.
A memorial 10 Theodore Roosevelt
is being built on Ancon Hill, Panama,
consisting Of the letters ''T. r." In
stone and cement, each letter fifty
feet high and forty-five feed wide.
with periods FIVE feet square.
The wife Of an American banker in
Germany advertised recently for a
secretary. She has received more than
sixteen hundred applications, which
include three princesses nine baroness
SEES. and thirty countesses.
Hearings on applications for increas
es or decreases in wages for all rail-
way employees, except those in train,
engine, and yard service, win be start
ed in Chicago March by the United
States Railroad Labor Board.
President Harding has nominated A.
b. Houghton, of New York, as ambas-
sador to Germany; Judge Theodore
Brantano, Of Illinois, as minister to
Hungary; and Albert H. Washburn, Of
Massachusetts, as minister to Austria.