Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-07-13
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT couN-
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts OF The
Globe And Told In Short
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Three Methodist mission chapels, be-
tween Changshui and Kiangsi, prov
ince of Kiangsi, China, we're looted
and destroyed during the recent mutiny
of troops in that province, according
to advices received in Shanghai from
Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. One
pastor is reported missing. No for
eign missionaries were stationed at
these places.
Word has reached Cork, Ireland, that
the cable station Of the Commercial
Cable company of New York at Water
vile, Ireland, the terminus Of the
transatlantic cables, has been threat
ened by the irregular forces who have
seized property of the company and
its employees, terrorized the families
of the employees and have demanded
the key to the school quarters, to be
used as general headquarters of the
Irish forces On July l, the first di-
rect operations began against the Com
mercial Cables quarters when the
Irish threw up sandbag barbados at
the coast guard station. The next day
irregulars seized a large number of
motor cars and motorcycles. They
also established censorship for let
ters and kilograms.
GSermany's notorious bluebeard, Karl
Erossmann, committed suicide by hang
ing, half hour before he was to have
been taken to the criminal court where
he was undergoing trial for murder. He
had admitted his guilt, in the case of
four women, but was suspected OF muir
dering twenty, who either mysterious
ly disappeared or were found horribly
mutilated
Attacks upon Premier Poincaire Of
France by Communists in the chamber
have been renewed, but the French
chief is gaining strength with each YER
bal exchange. One Of the charges is
that Poincaire brought on the world
war.
Twenty were killed and seventy-five
wounded in a terrific battle between
soldier and the tenants union at Vera
Cruz, Mexico. Soldiers we're sent to
arrest the president Of the union. The
adherents of the union we're loyal to
the president, and lively scrap en-
sued Most of the casualties were re-
ported among the union members, but
one lieutenant and two soldiers were
killed The president of the union was
finally arrested.
A cable received at Honolulu from
Toxic by the Nippu Jill, Japanese
newspaper, states that the regent
Crown Prince Hirohito has ratified all
treaties formulated at the Washington
disarmament conference. The govern
ment announced that the provision for
the abolition of eighteen postoffices in
China would be carried within, the year,
as far as Japan is concerned.
Cambridge university (England) has
conferred the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws upon William Howard Taft,
chief justice of the United States.
Claims for compensation Of the sui
ferers in the riots of last November
during the riot at Bombay, India, of the
prince of Wales have been adjudicated
Count de Boury, once noted figure
in Paris society, and former member
of the chamber of deputies, has de
cided to enter the Benedictine order.
Rioting occurred in Wilma when thu
Polish authorities prohibited an anti
Jewish lecturer from delivering ar
advertised speech.
The Daily Mail correspondent II
Bombay, India, writes that contro
versy is under way there regarding
the recent unsuccessful attempt t.
scale mount Everest, which it is wide
ly believed failed through over haste