The Raymer enterprise., 1922-01-12
FOREIGN

hIH. Jostptl GtTEOn, Nllt VI tOi-
Onist at LaMotbe, fifteen miles from
Amos, Quebec, and five OF her chill
drsn were burned TO death in their
home Saturday. An oil lamp exploded
Ellseo Pho Rodriguez. when he was
rounded up In police raid on the beg
sing pests Of Madrid, proved to be a
capitalist with $4,000 TO his name In
provincial bank. while he also pos.
sesscs II farm with thirty cows. This
fortune is the result of many years Of
mendcancy.
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. or those "a charged 2J per cent
were convicted. In the previous year
= per cent Of the population were
charged with infraciiOns.
A young woman recently jumped to
her death from the top Of the Are de
Trlomphe, Paris. Her body fell among
a crowd Of mourners who were carry
ing flowers to decorate the grave OF
the unknown soldier" The woman
had removed from her clothing all
Identification marks.
Fifty bodies have been recovered
From, tho Er..t. sxrp..l,, k,,, Ja.,, ,,.ynr
Leon, anchored In the harb0r Of Pr
aeus, which Was wrecked by an explO-
sion Of q torpedo. The explosion dam
aged nearby warships and caused
houses ashore 10 collapse. killing a
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, D,0OO,O ,OIO
krOnen. When the vote was taken a
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 book de.
voted 10 the struggle written by Adol'
for Agroio Of Montevideo, One OF the
prominent French commanders quoted
in the book Is General Sarrail THE
Americans won the war" he Is quoted
as declaring. Had the United States
not interviewed in 1917, we would have
been lost,
General Fruuze, chief Of the Ukra.
nian mission, will leave Angora, seat OF
the Turkish Nationalist government,
soon with the draft Of an agreement
for consideration by the kiev soviet
1t is reported that the treaty provides
for military assistance TO the Turks by
Ukraine against Rumania In the event
the Rumnnans 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, II Is shown by the 1872.
catalog Of the university. The Smith
family has la tons and daughters at
tending Columbia this winter. and ths
next highest number Of any tribe Il
Miller, represented by seventy -foui
members
Crime judged by the number Of pris
ouers sent to state institutions has In
creased during the last year In New
York, according TO report made pub
lie at Ossining, \. Y, by John kenne
dy, chairman of the State Prison Com
mission. More prisoners were put to
death and there was n great increas,
In drug addicts admitted.
| Three firemen were hurt, several
| families were made homeless and $500.
900 damage was done In the first two
big fires of the year In Chicago. 4
garage and eighty.five automobiles
were destroyed and tenement house
adjoining was burned, forcing score
of persons 10 flee from the building
The second blaze destroyed the inter
Ior of n seven-story factory and office
building.
Three bandits, armed with sawed-ofi
shOtguns, held up three collectors for
the Owl Drug Company In its store In
Los Angeles and escaped In an auto,
mobile with a 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 1862, with
an Indebtedness Of SGT, ,i0l $50, as
compared with S,SSl defaults In 1920
involving S295. III sos. according To Il
report made public by II. G. Dun and
Company. Failures last year ranked
next TO the 1915 total of 22,000 and the
Indebtedness was the heaviest on rec.
ord. Banking suspensions and person.
al bankruptcies We're not included.
Two Chicago banks with resources
Of more than Ss5.00O.0OO were sold aft,
er the Chicago clearing house commit.
tee had conducted an examination and
found their assets had been impaired
by bad loans and investments. After
two days negotiations the Fort Dear,
born National Bank and the Fort
Dearborn Trust and Savings Bank