The St. Johns herald., 1922-01-26
FOREIGN

was so intense that his death was an- nOunced several days ago.
 In a bloody fight between Fascist and Communists at BergiOla, near Car rara, Italy, three persons were killed and a dozen badly wounded, says a Times dispatch from Milan. Carbin- eers who intervened were fired upon by the riflemen of both factions.
 Marquis Okuma, former premier of Japan, is dead, according to a cable message received by the Nippu Jiji, Japanese vernacular newspaper in Honolulu, from TOkiO The MikadO conferred certain decorations on Oku- ma pOsthumously, the cable message said.
 A young woman in Paris jumped to her death from the top of the Arc de TriOmphe. Her body fell among a crowd of mourners who were carrying flowers to decorate the grave of the unknown soldier" The woman had removed from her clothing all identifi- cation marks.
 Eliseo Pic Rodriguez, when he was rounded up in a police raid on the beg ging pests of Madrid, proved to be capitalist with $30,000 to his name in a provincial bank, while he also pos sesses a farm with thirty cows. This fortune is the result of many years of mendicancy.
 Official PrusSian crime statistics for 1921 made public in Berlin show that 3.2 per cent of the population were charged with infractiOns of the penal code. Of those so charged 9 per cent were convicted. In the previous year 2 per cent of the population were charged with infractiOns.
 A young woman recently jumped to her death from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, 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.
 America is given full credit for her part in the World War in a book de- voted to 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 intervened in 1917, we would have been lost"
 Joseph Oliver, 70 years old, grand sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, died at Toronto, Ont, after an illness of three months. He was member of the Odd Fellows for many years and was head of the grand lodge in Canada before being chosen to the highest office in the order in North America. He also was a past master of the Masonic fraternity.
 GENERAL
 Four children were instantly killed and a score seriously injured when a Pennsylvania fast freight crashed into a bus carrying the children to school, three miles east of Van Vert, Ohio.
 The name of Smith leads all other names in the enrolment of the Colum- bia University, it is shown by the 1922 catalOg of the university. The Smith family has IA tons and daughters at tending Columbia this winter, and the next highest number of any tribe is Miller, represented by seventy-four members.
 Thomas COSgrove and Charles BOr- shel, Jr., both of Iowa Falls, Iowa, were found asphyxiated in private garage. When found their car was still running. The suppOsitiOn is that they drove into the garage, closed the door and tarried a few minutes to visit and were overcome by the fumes from the exhaust.
 Foreign ships are carrying the bulk of the cargo between this country and the east coast of South America and are increasing their proportion, al- though American ships are making a better showing on the routes to and from the west coast of that continent, according to a survey issued by the Commerce Department.
 Crime judged by the number of priS- oners sent to state institutions has in- creased during the last year in New York, according to a report made pub lie at Ossining, N. Y.sby John Kenne- dy, chairman of the State Prison Com mission. More prisoners were put to death and there was a great increase in drug addicts admitted.
 Two unidentified negroes in New. York held up Jacob Belkin, real es- tate operator, and Charles Johnson, a negro janitor who accompanied Belkin, shooting and killing Johnson when he refused to obey an order to 'hold up