Williams news., 1922-09-08
FOREIGN

l Robbers blew open the safe of the | Bank of Hamilton branch at Killarney, | Manitoba, and escaped in an automo-
 bile with $1O,OOO in cash. | Republican irregulars fired on a l congregation of mourners as they were leaving a West Port (Mayo) church, 1 having attended mass in honor of 1 Michael Collins.
 The American steamship Septo has | sailed for New York from Marseilles | with the bodies of sixty-three Ameri- | cans killed on the French front dur | ing the war.
 Twenty of Montreal's smartest and prettiest girls, rebelling against the at | tempt of style creators to foist long | skirts on women have formed a mo longer-skirt league.
 The American consul warned more 1 than 800 American tourists in Vienna I to leave the city as soon as possible | for fear of riots, unless detained on ab- | solutely urgent business. Increase in the population of Cuba | from 100000 to 1O,OOO.OO0 mainly through Spanish immigrants, is one of the purposes of the new secretary of
 state, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, former Cuban minister at Washington The United States will grant recog-
 milton to Mexico by October 15, lead
 ing Mexican cabinet officer has de clared. The cabinet official, whose name was withheld for political req
 sons, voiced the opinion of official
 Mexico on the eve of the opening of Congress.
 In accordance with the Washington naval agreement the admiralty has or
 dered six large capital ships scrapped. They are the battle cruisers Lion and Princess Royal, and the battleships Orio, Monarch, Conquerer and Erin, all
 among the most famous warships in the British navy.
 In an ambush near TuI1amore, na- tional troops in an automobile were fired upon, and one officer was killed and another mortally wounded In MarybOro jail, where GOO irregularS are confined, fire broke out. It is as- serted that prisoners set fire to their mattresses, the flames spreading to many of the cells.
 Tortuao Lemus, a co-operationist deputy, was shot and killed in the green room of the Chamber of Depu- ties in Mexico City. Martin Barra- gan, an independent member, is charged with the shooting, which fol-
 
 CT edentials of the two men as deputies from the state of Michoacan.
 All is in readiness for the opening at Fairbanks, Sept. IS, of the farthest north college on this continent, the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. The college, which Is about three miles outside Fairbanks in the heart of a rich mining country, will teach mine engineering. Teachers and students will live in Fairbanks.
 The possibility of Mexico being made bone dry again is discussed seriously at Mexico City. It is announced that several deputies will propose a "dry" bill as soon as Congress begins it's ses- sion. The belief prevails that a dry law modelled after the Volstead law in the United States will be introduced, although it is not believed the measure will be enacted. GENERAL
 Leon Rupkowsky, a Chicago alder l man, mistaking his son, Frank, 21, for | burglar, shot and perhaps fatally | wounded him at their home. |
 Henry Ford has refused to avert | shutdown of his automobile plants | Sept. 16 at the expense of the domestic | coal users of the Northwest, it has | been learned from reliable source.
 James P. Larkin, Irish leader, and former Assemblyman Benjamin F. Git low, who were convicted two years ago of criminal anarchy and who have been out on a certificate of reasonable doubt, were ordered returned to Sing l. Sing prison to finish the remainder of their sentences of from five to ten years.
 The rapid spread of typhps in Pc land constitutes a menace to the while world, said Health Commissioner Roy al s. Copeland on his return to New York from Europe, where he has been studying health conditions.
 Mrs. Franklin Hatch Jones, only daughter of Gen. U- s. Grant, one of the country's few White House brides and one of the nations pop ular heroines of century, died at her home in Chicago a few days ago.
 Recall of Mayor Frederick Kohler of Ohio, was demanded in pc titions containing approximately 25,OOO names. The filing of the petitions is the climax of the mayors fight with the Cleveland Federation of Labor over the 'open shop" policy inaugur- ated in city departments.
 Led by Admiral W. H. Bullard, U. s. N., the passengers on the steamship President Grant, which arrived at Se-
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