The Raymer enterprise., 1923-04-12
FOREIGN

The plague is raging in almost all
the provinces Of India. The statistics
for the week ending March "a give o.
600 new cases for all India, Of which
5000 were fatal.
Three hundred persons involved In
the anti-Jewish outbreak In Warsaw
have been arrested. The large number
OF wounded Jews has served TO lnten-
sify the excitement In the Jewish quar-
ter.
Special dispatches received In Ha-
vana from Camaguey. Cuba, report
that the destruction Of sugar cane by
fire still continues throughout the dis
trict. The losses through the fires are
placed mt more than 10000 arrobas
Of cane and sugar production In the
Camaguay district will be greatly re-
duced.
"All this business about Carnarvon
being brought to his end by magic Is
nonsense and dangerous nonsense, be-
cause 1t goes to stir that rising tide Of
superstition which seems to be over
flowing all over the world" said Sir
Rider Haggard, the eminent traveller
and writer, In an address In Hastings,
England.
Two young Irishmen Identified as
Peader Breslin and Joseph Herman
were executed by Irish Republican ir.
regulars In Dublin. near the home Of
Governor General Timothy Healy Of
the Free State. They were placed
against stone wall and their bodies
riddled with bullets. The corpses
were left lying where they fell.
Scores Of Jews are alleged to have
been killed In almost uninterrupted
warfare launched on them by the Mos
lens at Yemen, southwestern Arabia,
according to reports received In Jeru-
salem. The reports add that many
Jews, to escape death, have nomlnally
accepted MohammedanIsm that mum.
erous Jewish children have been seized
and given the alternative Of death or
conversion.
Exports from the Philippine Islands
to the United States In 1922 exceeded
those Of 1921 by more than Sl3,5OO,O ,OOO.
but the imports from the United States
decreased approximately S26,OOO,UOO,
according to figures just complied by
the bureau Of customs. The total
trade with the United States In 1872
amounted to $lll.S49,OO0. Of which
$84, 10000 was exports and 81. .73S, 200
was Imports. The total trade In 1921
was Sl24, $4,000. the exports being
$50. .358,0OO and the imports S74, 4,l30.0O0
British ships carried the largest por-
ton Of the total trade Of the Philip
pines In 1922. their cargoes being val.
ued at s67. 7.7S8,0O0. while American
ships carried goods valued at So. 2.0O0..
900.
GENERAL
Registered bonds Of the st. Louis
Federal Land Bank amounting to g.
9,0O0 were In the loot obtained by
five bandits who held up II mail truck
In the heart Of the downtown business
section OF st. Louis.
Kansas City high, champions Of Kan
sas, won the national invitation Inter
scholastic basketball tournament Of
the University OF Chicago. held In
Chicago last week, by defeating Rock.
ford, H., In the finals, 43 to Il.
A self.styled victim Of newspaper
assassination" DR.. Samuel c. Pandol-
| 70, cohead Of the Pan Motor Company
Of st. Cloud. Mlnn., surrendered TO the
United States marshal at Chicago aft.
er appealing in vain from sentence
OF ten years In LeavenwOrth prison
and fines aggregating $4,000, imposed
by former Federal Judge Lands after
conviction Of using the mails to de-
fraud.
The death toll as result OF the
tornado which recently swept Alcxan.
dria and Pineville, Louisiana, has been
placed Mt twenty. A check by author
tiles developed that undertaking es-
Establishments In Alexandria had the
bodies of twenty victims. The list OF
injured was placed at sixty, more than
thirty of whom are In the United
States Veterans hospital near Pine.
Vile. The property damage was es
tlmated at S50OO00.
The Bower business block and the
plant OF the Mackenzie Rubber Com.
pany at Whitewater, Wis, were dam.
aged $4,000 by fire recently. The
Bower loss, $4,000. was covered by in.
surance.
With the voluntary surrender Of DR..
Frederick A. Cook, arctic explorer and
oil promoter, before federal authorities
n total Of twenty Fort Worth oil men
have been arrested and arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioner
George Parker on charges Of fraudu-
lent use Of the mails. DR.. Cook was
released on $4,000 bond. He Is sole
trustee and president Of the Petroleum
Producers Association.
Three fires In towns surrounding
Madison, S. D., broke out recently,
causing a total loss Of S95OOO. The
first fire occurred ut Howard, In which
loss Of $4,000 was Incurred. At
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