The St. Johns herald., 1922-04-06
FOREIGN

I cabinet of Stamboulisky and estab- lished dictatorship.
 The first Swiss hospital train for Russian children started for VOlga district few days ago. It consisted of thirty-five cars of food and medical supplies, with which it is hoped to sup port 10000 children for three months.
 Ramon de Valera has issued a man. ifesto launching a new Irish Organiza- ton the objects of which are to ob- tain international recognition of the Irish Republic and repudiation of the proposed agreement with Great Brit ain.
 When the grandfather of native tain province, was arrested recently for killing one of the babies in accord ance with tribal custom, he was 'sur- prised and indignant at being arrested for what he considered his personal and private affairs" says an official Philippine constabulary report.
 Disturbances in the provinces in connection with the general lockout in Denmark have necessitated the call ing out of troops to patrol the streets. Thoe Geresh, leader of the Danish Communists, was arrested at Ran ders, in Jutland, charged with lese majesty and agitating for a revolu- tion.
 The wettest and dryest spOts-at- moSpherically speaking-in the terri tory of Hawaii during 1921 were only ten miles apart, on the island of Maui, according to the annual report of the United States Weather Bureau. The heaviest rainfall was at Puu Kukui, Maui, with 102 inches during the year, while Olowalu, ten miles away, had the least, 7.54 inches.
 A Stefani agency dispatch to Rome from Durazzo states that an extraor- dinary tribunal convened at Shiak, northeast of Durazzo, had sentenced to death by hanging Captain Bajra- mgiani, captain of the gendarmerie, for complicity in the recent rising in AlOdh1d, OAO llldL IuS SCulCllCG WdS carried out immediately. The tribunal ruled that the city of Durazzo must pay 100000 francs damages and Shiak 60,000 francs in connection with the revolt.
 William D. ("Big Bill'') Haywood heads a group of American I. w. w. to whom Premier Lenin has granted a concession to operate the big Nadejd- insky iron works in the Ural mountain region, part of the coal mines in the Kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories. Haywood disappeared from the United States last year while under $65,00O bail after he and about ninety other I. w. W. had been convicted of espionage and conspiracy against the government in the war. He has since taken some part in the deliberations of the Third InternatiOnale at Moscow.
 GENERAL
 Mrs John Hawley was elected may or of Sandstone, Minn., over Chris Rid isuhle, former mayor.
 Thirteen dipping vats in the eastern part of Cass county, Texas, were de- stroyed by dynamite. The trouble is said to be the outgrowth of hostility on the part of residents of that sec tion to the compulsory dipping of cat tie.
 A world Holstein record was made on the Badger stock farms, near Hart ford, Wis, by Pietertje Ormsby Mer- cedes Frisby No. 624241, a 2-year-old. She produced 3291 pounds of butter fat in seven days, or 452.1 pounds of milk.
 A quart bottle of strong ammonia foiled the cracksman who early blew open the safe of the Standard Oil fill ing station at Benton, III. The door of the safe succumbed before a strong charge of "soup." So did the bottle. And the fumes forced the burglar to decamp without stopping to investi- gate the contents of the safe.
 Carlton M, Carver, coal operator, boiled 9,453 votes for mayor against 8,952 by Mayor H. H. Barton in the recent primary election at Des MoineS, Iowa. Ernest Quick, labor candidate, was eliminated. He boiled 5,1O2 votes.
 The Federal Reserve Board has ad- vised the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank that it sees no objection to the erection of a branch of that bank in Denver, Colo. The Denver branch, it was said, will probably cost about $50O,0O0. The board, it was explained, is not required by law to approve the building plans of reserve banks, but generally these plans are discussed with the board before work is started.
 Nineteen western railroads entered