, 1922-07-06

Fire believed TO be or
origin destroyed the Owl cafe and gam
bling house, part of its liquor stock,
and the segregated district at Mexicali,
at an estimated, loss of $4,000.
l. A. Bruce Bielaski, the American kid
naped by Mexicaps, escaped without
the ransom his captors demanded hav-
ing been paid, according to -informa-
ton from Cuernayaca, Mexico.
| Missing Eearlytelght months and be
lieyed lost, the schooner Teddy Bear IL
frozen in at Poten river. twelve miles
south of Emma, A. village on East
Cape. Siberia. NJ on board are well
and waiting for the ice TO clear out of
the river before returning to Nome.
2 Fresh reports from the interior of
IKiangsi province are lacking, mis-
sionnries and officials at Shanghai be-
lieyetthe fury of the mutiny has been
spent and the p%lllaging soldiers of the
Picking government brought under
control either by fierce or bribery.
~ Premier lloyd George, Colonial Sec
rotary Winston Churchill and Sill
Hamar Greenwood. former chief sec
Rotary OF Ireland, have received anony.
nous letters threatening them with
death If James Connolly and John
lO'BFien, alleged assassins of Field
Marshal Wilson. are hanged, 1t has
been reported. 30 80 o.
A. Bruce Bielaski, former chief of
the investigation bureau of the Amer.
fcnn Department of Justice, is re-
ported to have been kidnapped and held
for ransom near Cuernavaca in the
state of MoreIos, Mexico, together
with Manuel Barcena, an attorney of
Mexicala. The American charge daft
flares is investigating.
Fire of undetermined origin at
MeXicali, Lower California, destroyed
nearly Il city block at an estimated
damage of -s3O0,OOO. A liquor ware
house and a new barroom of the Low
er California Commercial Company,
the Monte Carlo gambling hall, a par
tally constructed boxing arena and
other buildings were destroyed.
Gen, W. Pei-Fu, dominant figure of
northern China, indorsed the recent
suggestion of Gen. Chen Chiung-AIing,
outstanding leader of the South. that
a federal system be adopted for re-
united China, patterned after that of
the United States of America. General
WI suggested that the recognized re-
public he known as the United States
of China.
A report Of the national treasurer,
Mexfcn City, shows that there was IL
surplus at the end of the year 1921 Of
3,I1S, 81 pesos. Receipts from all
sources totaled $50, 6O2,3 1888 pesos and
expenditures amounted to 2~77,O43,S52
pesos. The largest Expense was in
CURED by the War Department with
l36,2l2.2G3 pesos, the next being the
Department of Finance with only 81
634,2So pesos and the Department of
communications and Public Works
with 2s.617,71s pesos
GENERAL a
J. Il. Hart, secretary of the State
Department of trade n
announced that the EndIcott (Neb)
State bank had been closed on the
Initiative of the board of directors.
Eight men were killed and ten in.
jured. severa of them seriously, in an
explosion recently at the plant Of the
Holston Quarry Company at Straw
Plains, Tenn, thirteen miles east of
Knoxville.
william Rockefeller who with his
older brother. John ID. built m tho
family millions in the oil ministry
died RECENTLY Of nneumonia cnn,ni,'
Gated by a recurrence of kidney, tom.
bic. nj his country estata o-varionrtnr
the Hudson river from North rarrY'
town. \. Y. lie was 81 years ni%
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