The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-07
FOREIGN

at an estimated loss of $4,000.
The Yap treaty with the United
States has been approved by the privy
council and Japanese prince regent.
The treaty fixes the rights Of each
nation in the island, which Is under
Japanese mandate.
Missing nearly eight months and be-
lieved lost, the schooner Teddy Bear is
frozen in at POten river, twelve miles
south of Emma, village on East
Cape, Siberia AL on board are well
and waiting for the ice to clear out Of
the river before returning to Nome.
Fresh reports from the interior of
Kiangsi province are lacking, mis-
sionaries and officials at Shanghai be-
lieve the fury of the mutiny has been
spent and the pillaging sol,iiers of the
Peking government brought under
control either by force or bribery.
Premier Lloyd George, Colonial Sec
retary Winston Churchill and Sir
Hamar Greenwood, former chief Sec
retary of Ireland, have received anony-
nous letters threatening them with
death if James Connolly and John
O'Brien, alleged assassins of Field
Marshal Wilson, are hanged, it has
been reported.
A. Bruce Bielaski, former chief Of
the Investigation bureau of the Amer
ican Department of Justice, is re.
od fn Ii hol
for ransom near Cuernavaca in the
state of Morelos, Mexico, together
with Manuel Barcena, an attorney OF
Mexicala. The American charge daft
faires is investigating.
Fire of undetermined origin at
Mexicali, Lower California, destroyed
nearly city block at an estimated
damage of 100000. A liquor ware
house and a new barroom of the Low
er California Commercial Company,
the Monte Carlo gambling hall, a par
TALLY constructed boxing arena and
other buildings were destroyed.
A report of the national treasurer,
Mexico City, shows that there was a
surplus at the end of the year 1921 of
3,55S,53 pesos. Receipts from all
sources totaled 2SO,6O2, ,3S3 pesos and
expenditures amounted to 277 7,O43, ,S52
pesos. The largest expense was in
Cured by the War Department with
136,212,263 pesos, the next being the
Department of Finance with only ST.
634, ,280 pesos and the Department Of
Communications and Public Works
with 28,677,77S pesos.
GENERAL
j. E. Hart, secretary of the State
Department Of trade and commerce,
announced that the Endicott (Neb.)
State bank had been closed on the
initiative of the board of directors.
William Rockefeller, who with his
older brother, John D., built up the
family millions in the oil industry,
died recently of pneumonia compli-
Gated by a recurrence of kidney trou-
bic, at his country estate overlooking
the Hudson river from North larry
town, N. Y. He was 81 years old
One hundred and seventy-one thou
sand dollars was pledged toward ma
tiOnal headquarters building to be
erected in Washington, d. c., by the
delegates to the biennial convention of
the Federation of Woman's Clubs at
Chautauqua, N. Y. Colorado delegates
pledged 1900 on behalf of the Colo
RADIO federation. Several Colorado
women were prominent in the meet
ingS.
Death from cheat prostratiOn" was
the verdict reached by coroner's fury
at Brawley, Calf, at the inquest over
the bodies of three men who died in
the desert few miles southeast of Nj
land, Calf, recently. The men were
]. ]. Everharty and Henry c. Brown
of Los Angeles and David Wilcox, an
aged prospector, who had lived in
many western mining districts. 1t Is
estimated the temperature where the
deaths occurred was between 132 and
152 degrees.
Eight men were killed and ten in
jured, several of them seriously, in an
explosion recently at the plant of the
Holston Quarry Company at Straw
Plains, Tenn, thirteen miles east Of
Knoxville
William Bross Lloyd, Chicago mill
liOnaire Communist, and eighteen 9th.
er members of the now defunct Com
munist Labor party, must serve pris-
on terms for advocating the over
throw of the United States govern
ment, it was ruled by the Illinois Su-
preme Court.
Secretary of Labor Davis has an
nounced that the farm bureau of the
United States employment service
would open offices at st. Louis June
"a and at Denver July 1 for the con-
venience of men coming from the East
and West into the harvest fields Of
Kansas and Nebraska.
Adoption of a program calling for
a nonpartisan political campaign this
a n II.