, 1922-01-05
FOREIGN

one was injured. Soldiers restored or
der.
Several Americans were on the Ven
Ice express which collided with the
Trieste-Itome express at San Dona.
Italy, but none was hurt, according to
the Times Milan correspondent. Five
persons were killed and thirty Injured
in the crash.
DR.. Traugott Won Jagow, former
Berlin police commissioner. was SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment
by the Federal Supreme Court for
the part he played in the Kapp re-
volt Of March. 1920, which temper
arily overthrow the Ebert govern
ment
Sixty-two more Nationalist volun-
teers and members of the all-India
Congress have been arrested and nine
sentenced to three months imprison-
ment each at Allahabad. India. The
editor of the Allahabad Independent
was sentenced to a years imprison-
ment.
Fashionable London jewelry shops
are selling large numbers of dia-
mond-studded pipes and cigar and
cigarette holders to women. This is
the first record hat cigarholders for
women have been on sale as the in
PRODUCTION of cigar smoking by wom-
on is of recent origin.
Maj. Braithwaite Wallis, British
consul general at New Orleans, com
pleted an investigation into the tar
ring and feathering of the Rev.
Philip S. Irwin. a British subject.
several weeks ago, by a band of night
riders at Miami, Fla. He withheld
comment on his report to the Brit
ish government.
Mexico's cotton crop this year win
not be more than $4,000 bales as
compared to a normal annual crop of
$4,000 bales. according to recent
estimates. The decrease is said to
be the result of the determination of
growers in the Laguna district, where
the bulk of the crop is produced, not
to cultivate their fields until market
prices are higher.
A great discovery of Turkish stamps
is reported from Constantinople, where
a packet numbering $4,000 ex-
amples of the earliest issues has
been found in the archives of
the finance ministry. These early
Turkish stamps are said to be
rare and much sought after by collec-
tors, and 1t is believed hat the discov-
cry of such a quantity at one time will
81 ffact tba Stamn n,orlyat
GENERAL
New 1ork's unemployed numbered
33O,015 on Dec. 10, against 342,S60 two
months before. This report was made
by the local committee appointed in
accordance with recommendations
made mt the unemployment conference
in Washington.
An involuntary petition in bankrupt
cy was filed in Federal Court in New
York against Robert IL. %Ingersoll and
Brother, manufacturers of Ingersoll
watches. Liabilities were set at 3d.
100000 and assets, exclusive of good
will, as 3d. 900.
Harvey Church, charged with the
murder of two automobile statesmen,
was found guilty at Chicago and sem
fenced to death. Church killed the
men, Carl Asmus and Bernard Daugh-
erty, when they delivered a car which
he had arranged to buy.
While attempting to replace a blow
out fuse in the power house of the
Illinois traction system at Danville,
ILL.,, Grover McNear. an engineer,
was shocked to death, and Edward
Hart, who rushed to his assistance,
was seriously burned.
With the purchase of a large plot
of ground in New York, Mecca tenn
pie, mother temple of the Mystic
Shrine in the United States. has an
nounced plans for constructing a $1r
100000 oriental mosque. Work on
the building. it was said. will begin
at once.
Grieving over an illness. August
Smell. 20, a patient OF the county
hospital, ended his life at Los An
geles by chewing a dynamite cap
which virtually blew off his head
when it exploded. The explosion
%terrorized a number of patients.
The body of Charles SwInney, for
mer soldier, has been found neal
Kings Mill. Tenn, after n search. ne
cordlng to advices received. The top
of Swinney's head had been blown
away. Officers attribute the crrle to
robbers. Swinney is sald TO have left
home with $500 in cash. Nothing was
found In the pockpts when tho hody
was discovered.
George w. Walker. conductor, Yves
asphyxiated and three other train
men were overcome by gas or smoke
when their train apparently was
stalled in a tunnel between st. Johns
Junction and Portland on the Ore
gon-Washington Railroad and Navi-
cation Company's lines. The train
vas found standing zeal the east end