The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-08-18
FOREIGN

an arrival at Liverpool from Cork as
saying that cannon de Valera has been
wounded in Cork.
Maj. w. T. Blake has completed an
other lap of his airplane journey
around the world, arriving at Debit,
India, few days ago.
All the villagers of Baddeck, N. s.,
trudged to the peak of Benin Bhreagh
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.
Locusts have become so numerous
In Luzon that their bodies covered the
railway tracks, causing the driving
wheels of the locomotives to slip, and
prevented the movement Of a passen-
ger train from Manila to Calamba,
twenty-five miles from Manila. An ex-
ira engine was called before the train
could be moved.
The Prussian minister Of the In
terror issued decree ordering the re-
moval Of all monarchiai emblems from
the interior and exterior of all COM
munal and state buildings, besides
signboards, milestones, frontier stones.
ETC.. which bear similar emblems. The
decree thus carries into effect a threat
made several months ago.
The whole Chilean cabinet resigned
recentlv following the retirement OF
Armando Jaramillo, minister of the in
terror, and Angel GuarillO, minister OF
justice. The designations were precip-
itated by disagreement with the gov
ernment's policy concerning the recent
prototol signed in Washington with
Peru, for settlement Of the Tacna-Ar-
lea controversy.
The congress of the International
Federation of Miners recommended
that a message be sent to every ma
tional organization Of miners urging
them to contribute $1,000 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 means
Of assisting the American strikers.
President Obregon has gone to Ocot-
Ian, a resort near Guadalajara, for sew
eral weeks to recuperate from his Ill.
ness, 1t was learned recently in reliable
quarters. His condition is improving
steadily. The president intends to re-
turn to Mexico City as soon as pos
sible in order to consult with depart
ment heads relative to his message to
congess when it opens early in Sep
TENDER.
GENERAL
Surface and elevated railway en-
ploy3s at Chicago voted 9,022 to 5,OS6,
to accept a 10-cent an hour slash in
wages and return to work, thus ending
strike which paralyzed the city's
electric transportation system. Shortly
after the result Of the vote was an
nounced, the first elevated train was
pounding toward the "loop."
Fourteen-year-old Helen Krawgo1
sailed off alone from New York on the
last lap Of 12,0O0-mile journey that
will take her to country she has new
er seen, and where she knows no one.
She Is bound for a convent in Ger
many, where her father, Serge Kraw-
goff, a Vladivostok merchant, is send
ing her to safety from Siberian BAN
dts, who, he declares, have slain or
carried off thousands Of children.
Police believe the swindlers who sold
a pawnbroker gold brick in San
Francisco recently are the same men
who sold a Juarez merchant a brass
brick with the Mexican mint stamp on
it for 81 200 last summer. The Juarez
man took his brick to an assayer and
succeeded in capturing the swindlers
and getting his money back. The gang.
said to be composed of Mexicans and
Arabs, had been working in various
parts of Mexico and managed to es-
cape to the United States.
Fifteen persons were killed and
twenty-five injured, more or less seri-
ously, when two Cincinnati, Lebanon
& Northern passenger trains crashed
together head on at Lester road cross
ing in Pleasant Ridge, near Cincinnati.
One of the engines was driven back
wards, telescoping the first coach be-
hind it and killing everyone inside.
Earl E. Patterson, teller in the Luna-
bermen's Trust Bank at Portland, ar
rested recently charged with embezzle-
ment of $4,000, has made confes-
sion, according to the police, admitting
shortages extending over a period of
eighteen months and had said y. @.
Osler, an automobile dealer, received
the proceeds" A warrant was issued
for Osler.
The wet and dry issue played the
major role In political activity in pre-
paration for Ohio's primary election.
In some sections of the state, while
ministers from their pulpits were urg-