Williams news., 1922-06-30
FOREIGN

The treaty 11XeS the rights or eacn nation in the island, which is under Japanese mandate
 Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, formerly chief of the British
 imperial general staff and lately mili-
 tary adviser to the Ulster government
 was assassinated near the door of his
 home in Easton place, London.
 Fresh reports from the interior of
 Kangsi province are lacking, mis-
 sionaries and officials at Shanghai be
 lieve the fury of the mutiny has been
 spent and the pillaging soldiers of the
 Picking government brought under
 control either by force or bribery.
 Fire of undetermined origin at
 Mexicali, Lower California, destroyed
 nearly a city block at an estimated
 damage of $3OO,OOO. A liquor ware house and a new barroom of the Low CT California Commercial Company, the Monte Carlo gambling hall, a par tially constructed boxing arena and other buildings were destroyed.
 A mysterious disease in the south eastern districts of Queensland is pug Zling the medical authorities and has forced them to seek aid from the United States in determining it's cause and, if possible, a cure. The malady is described as being similar to meningi- Hs, with the difference that the brain and not the spinal cord is affected. In one town twelve out of fifteen persons afflicted died.
 A report of the national treasurer, Mexico City, shows that there was a surplus at the end of the year 1921 of 3,55S,531 pesos. Receipts from all sources totaled 2SO, ,6O2, 1883 pesos and expenditures amounted to 277,O43, 1852 pesos. The largest expense was in cured by the War Department with 136,212,263 pesos, the next being the of Finance with only ST. 634, ,28O pesos and the Department of Communications and Public Works with 2S,677,77S pesos.
 GENERAL
 FOrty-four persons, two of whom were union coal miners, were killed when 5000 armed striking miners at lacked the Lester Strip mine, near H., which was being oper- ated by imported workers and guards.
 William Bross Lloyd, Chicago mill lionaire Communist, and eighteen oth- CT members of the now defunct Com muniSt Labor party, must serve prts- on terms for advocating the over throw of the United States govern ment, it was ruled by the Illinois Su- preme Court.
 Eagle Boat No. 57, which went ashore on a reef near Cattle Point, San Juan island, arrived at Seattle, having pulled off the reef under her own power. She escaped serious dam age. The boat was officered and by members of the Seattle and Tacoma naval militia units.
 William Rockefeller, who with his older brother, John D., built up the family millions in the oil industry. lied recently of pneumonia compli- ,ated by a recurrence of kidney trou- ,le, at his country estate overlooking he Hudson river from North Tarry- own, N. Y. He was S1 years old.
 Immediate enactment by Congress of legislation for the construction of a Jam and reservoir at Boulder canon 1 for the control of the flood waters of he Colorado river, was urged in by Secretary of Com | nerce Hoover before the House com | nittee on irrigation of arid lands con- | sidering the Swing bill.
 Col Marcellus H. Thompson, vice | president and active head of the Auto | Ordnance Company of New York, has | ,een indicted by the federal grand | rand jury at Trenton on the charge if conspiracy to ship arms to Ireland n violation of the neutrality laws The announcement was made by As istant United States District Attor- ley Thomas V. ArrowSmith.
 Adoption of a program calling Tor
 nonpartisan political campaign this all to elect the friends of organized he radical forces that favored recog- ition of the Russian soviet govern 1ent, marked the closing sesson of he American Federation of Labor con- ention at Cincinnati.
 The administration is considering he matter of decreasing second lass postal rates, it was said at the White House Considerable. discussion -as given to the subject at the cabf- ct meeting, and President Harding nd Postmaster General Work are in lined to believe that at least part the increase in the Second-claSs ateS made during the war should now e removed.
 Two hoboes were killed outright and eorge Welch, third knight of the ail, so badly injured he died in a hos ital at Bedding, Calif., when freight rain on which they were riding was erailed near Sims. The three were ding in a car laden with lumber and |