The Tomahawk., 1922-04-27
Big Happenings of the Week
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In All Parts Of the World-Of
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Everywhere.
Washington


land, Ireland and France is in pros
pect for the Washington Americans
next fall.
Washington-Federa aid roads,
either completed or under construc-
ton in the United States at the end
of the persent fiscal year, will re-
quire approximately fifty million tons
Of stone and gravel for the making Of
$4,000 miles of highway.
Washington-Decision to pass SOL
diers bonus bill at this session of con-
gress has been reached by senate re-
publicans in party conference. The
vote was SO to on motion offered
by Senator l. L. Lenroot.
Washington marine officers
and a marine private were killed at
Quantico, Va, when two airplanes in
battle practise locked wings in the
air and plunged to the ground.
.Washington-Actual and official ne
gotiations for refunding the $11,OO0,-
100000 war debt of the Allies to the
United States will start soon it has
been stated officially.
Observation-Disclosures of rain did not
deter several thousand Washington
children from flocking to the White
House grounds for the Easter Monday
egg rolling.
Observation-Disclosures that the coun
try is flooded with millions Of counter
felt currency, notes and government
securities has brought the faction now
dominating the bureau of engraving
and printing into a headOn collision
with the treasury department.
Washington-When Major General
George o. Squier, chief of the Army
Signal Corps, recently succeeded in
operating radio telephone apparatus
by connecting it with an ordinary
electric light amateurs all over the
country decided to try his method.
hington-Charging that the St.
Louis livestock exchange and 110
other buyers, dealers and traders at
the East st. Louis National stock.
yards had combined to put into eff.
feet a virtual boycott against indepen.
dent commission companies" Secre'
tary H. C. Wallace issued his first or.
der under the packers and stockyards
act directing the respondents to
"cease from the practice on the
ground that their acts constituted a
restraint Of trade in violation Of the
stockyards act.''
Domestic
Indianapolis Well, as long as it
rains, we'll surely be on top" said a
Miller player as he watched the in
cessant downpour that had interfered
with the second game of the Indiana.
polls series.
New York-Ordered out of hotel
dining room because they were not in
evening dress. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
E. Rau have brought suit for $4,000
each.
New York-New York has surpass.
ed London in population, according to
the census committee, if the same
radius of territory is included within
the New York City limits as is calcu.
lated in the London figures.
Dayton, Ohio-"The Chldren's Crus.
ade for Amnesty" arrived en- route
from St. Louis to Washingto to ask
liberty for 113 political prisoners. The
crusade is composed entirely of wo.
men and children who are seeking
freedom for husbands and fathers.
Eugene v. Debs, former Socialist can
didate for president and at one time
prisoner in the Atlanta pententiary.
did not join the party in Terre Haute
as expected.
New York-The promoter is willing
Dempsey and Kearns are willing and
Wills is reported to be crying for the
chance, All the elements of the match
appear to be in the mixing and Boyles'
30 acres in Jersey City may again
be the scene Of a world stirring battle
next Labor day. This is the announce
ment of Frank Flourney, matchmaker
for Madison Square Garden, who says
he will put the Dempsey.Wills match
on and that Kearns has accepted the
terms offered. -. ~@R.,-. --...-
Chicago-The estate of Rosa and
Josefa Black, the Siamese twins, who
died recently, amounted to $500 In
cash, according to petition for let
tiers of guardianship filed in the
probate court here. -,t
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train of valuable freight, northbound
on the Illinois Central railroad, were
destroyed when the train was wrecked
at washout near Bergersville, west
Of Franklin. H.. r. ',s,-
Frankfort, Ky.-Burglars and muir
iierers are placed in the same class in
q law passed by the Kentucky general
assembly in, the closing days Of the
1922 session, the penalty for breaking
into a dwelling house at night being
fixed at life Imprisonment or death In
the discretion of the jury.
HorneIl, N. Y.-One Of the most re-
markable operations in the history OF
the surgical, world was accomplished
when the pupils of dying mans eyes
were transferred to the eyes of John
Eichenberger, aged 10, who bas been
blind for four years, and the sight re-
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