The Holly chieftain., 1922-01-12
.FoREIaN

he confessed to the murder of his
wife in New York City in July, 1919.
Mrs. Joseph Perron, wife of col
onist at LaMothe. fifteen miles from
Amos, Quebec, and five of her chill
Idren were burned to death In their
home Saturday. An oil lamp exploded.
ElIseO Pho Rodriguez, when. he was
rounded up In a police raid on the beg
ging pests Of Madrid, proved to be
capitalist with $4,000 to his name in
a provincial bunk, while he also pos
sesses farm with thirty cows. This
fortune is the result of many years of
mendicancy.
Official Prussian crime statistics for
1921 made public In Berlin show that
81 per cent Of the population were
charged with infractions of the penal
code. OF those so charged 25 per cent
were convicted In the previous year
IL per cent of the population were
charged with infractions.
A young woman recently jumped to
her death from the top of the Arc de
ITriomplle, Paris. Her body fell among
a crowd of mourners who were carry
ing flowers to decorate the grave OF
the unknown soldierrj The woman
had removed from her clothing all
Identification marks.
Fifty bodies have been recovered
from the Greek torpedo boat destroyer
Leon, anchored in the harbor Of Pr
aeus, which was wrecked by nm explo-
sion of a torpedo The explosion dam
laged nearby warships and caused
houses ashore to collapse, killing n
number Of the. Inhabitants.
A. dispatch from Innsbruck says that
the Tyrol Diet at Geneva, after ses-
sion of thirty-three hours, broke down
the Socialist obstruction and voted the
1922 budget, amounting to 1890, ,OO0, 600
kronen. When the vote was taken n
number Of the Socialist members fell
asleep. Other Socialists had gone
home.
America is given full credit for her
part In the World War in a book de-
voted to the struggle written by Adolf
for Agroio of Montevideo. One Of the
prominent French commanders quoted
| in the book is General Sarrail. 1.-THE
Americans won the war" he is quoted
as declaring. Had the United States
not intervened in 1917, we would have
been lost"
General Frunze, chief Of the Ukra-
lnian mission, will leave Angora, seat of
the Turkish Nationalist government
soon with the draft of an agreement
for consideration by the Kiev soviet.
It is reported that the treaty provides
for military assistance to the Turks by
Ukraine against Rumania In the event
the Rumanians manifest an intention
of assisting the Greeks in Thrace.
GENERAL
An athletic stadium with 10000 ca
pacity will be built by the University
of Detroit, officials announced. Work
is to start Immediately.
The name Of Smith leads all other
names in the enrolment of the Colum-
bia University, 1t is shown by the 1922
catalog of the university. The Smith
family has ia tons and daughters at
tending Columbia this winter, and the
next highest number of any tribe is
Miller. represented by seventy-four
members.
Crime Judged by the number of pris-
oners sent to state institutions has in
creased during the last year in New
York, according to report made pub
lie at Ossining, N. Y, by John Kenne-
dy, chairman of the State Prison Com
mission. More prisoners were put to
death and there was great increase
In drug addicts admitted.
Three firemen were hurt, several
families were made homeless and $780,
600 damage was done in the first two
big fires Of the year in Chicago. A
garage and eighty-five automobiles
were destroyed and tenement house
adjoining was burned, forcing a score
of persons to flee from the building.
The second blaze destroyed the inter-
ior of seven-story factory and office
building.
Three bandits, armed with sawed-off
shotguns, held up three collectors for
the Owl Drug Company In its store in
Los Angeles and escaped in an auto
mobile with sum estimated by the
company at about $4,000. The rob-
berry occurred on the busiest street in
downtown Los Angeles.
Business failures in the United
States during 1921 number 1882, with
an Indebtedness Of $627, ,4O1 1888, as
compared with 1881 defaults in 1920,
involving 1926, 121, ,sO5, according to a
report made public by r. G. Dun and
Company. Failures last year ranked
next to the 1915 total Of 22,O00 and the
Indebtedness was the heaviest on rec
ord. Banking suspensions and person
al bankruptcies were not included.
Two Chicago banks with resources
of more than $s5,O00O 600 were sold aft
er the Chicago clearing house commit
tee had conducted an examination and
found their assets had been impaired