The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-09
FOREIGN

| General Francisco Murgulu the
rebel lender. was executed by firing
squad at Tepehuantes, Durango, Mex
/ death calmly.
Alfred Capus, editor of the Figaro.
member of the French Academy and
one of Frances best known writer's on
political and literary subjects, died In
Paris recently.
Lord Hardinge has resigned his post
as British ambassador at Paris. Ac-
cordlng TO the newspapers his success
sor is likely TO be Sir George Grahame.
now the British ambassador to Brus
sells.
Il am not trying TO take away any
ones beer; want TO give the voters
| freedom to control the drink trade"
Thus speaks Lady Astor In an election
address issued In which she denies
that She desires to impose prohibition
on the people by some act or bill.
An attempt was made recently to
blow up Oriel House. Dublin, the head
| quarters of the governments cr.micaI
investigation department, Dublin dis.
patch states. Several people were
slightly injured and many windows in
the Merton Square district were
broken.
On the invitation of Hungarian fem
inists, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
American suffrage leader has arrived
In Budapest to study the effects of
woman suffrage In Hungary. She also
has been requested to attempt to effect
Il union among the warning women's
groups.
A fierce fight took place recently at
Clifden, Ireland, forty-five miles north
west Of Galway. between National SOL
diers and force of rregulnrs. Eighty
of the Nationals were captured utter
ten-hour buttle. One of their bar
racks was burned to the ground and
another was blown up by mine.
by the Federal government at Mexico
City few days ago from the governor
of Qulntana Roo, eastern province of
Yucatan, who telegraphed that the en-
tire coust has been lashed for the last
week by severe storms. which have de-
stroyed property and crops and caused
some loss of life
The Mexican Petroleum Company
closed Its refinery and terminal works
in Tampico, throwing large number
of men out of work The company is
not desirous of investing more money
in Mexico under the present conditions.
An official of the company complains
of the heavy oil taxes, lack of security
and the threatened attack on land IL
ties.
The American occupation authOri-
ties In Coblenz have offered a reward
of 100000 marks for the apprehension
Of the assailant of former Major ]. A.
Sourwine. who was taken from u train
arriving in Frankfort suffering from
wounds inflicted by robber The re-
ward offered Is in addition to the
$4,000 marks offered by the German
authorities.
GENERAL
Tyler Longstreet Redfield, business
man and publisher of Newspaperdom,'
died at his home In Greenwich, Conn,
after Il weeks illness.
Fifteen persons-men, women and
children-left Cleveland, Ohio, re-
Gently on special train for New York,
where they will be deported.
The National Council of Boy Scouts
announced the designation Of Mortimer
h,y ,F
ternational commissioner of the Boy
Scouts of America.
Neil A. Miller, Union Pacific railroad
fireman, was killed near Waterloo
Neb., when the top of a freight car in
train, passing on parallel track
was blown into the cab of his engine.
Mrs. Ruth Scherlnerhorn, OF Des
Moines. Iowa, 24-year-old widow, who
recently offered to sell herself for
$1,000 that she might be able to re-
cover from paralyzed nerve centers.
sustained when shot by her husband
three years ago, has accepted an offer
of Chicago banker.
The ankle-length skirt was officially
and permanently removed from the
wardrobes of 100000 New York women
by the action of delegates to the con-
vention Of the New York City Feder,,-
tion of Women's Clubs In voting unan-
imously to wear dresses no longer than
seven inches from the ground.
The equivalent in the number Of
words of twenty-six novels was writ
ten by five court stenographers during
the nine days of the governments in
junction proceedings against striking
railway employees in Chicago. "The
verbatim report Of the record contains
100000 words" said Claude w. You
ker, chief stenographer, land is the
biggest record of any proceedings in
the Federal Court since the famous l.
w. w. trial In 1918"
The lives of former Governor Alfred
e. Smith and Governor Nathan N.