The Raymer enterprise., 1923-09-27
FOREIGN

Island.
Five thousand persons are reported
to have penshed In the floods which
followed upon the typhoon at Tottori.
northwest Of Kobe. Japan, according
to an Osaka dispatch to the Central
News In London. u
Raoul Madero, q brother Of the late
Francisco Madero. revolutionary pres
ident Of Mexico, Ii the latest person
age to announce his candidacy tor the
presidency Of the republic In the forth.
coming elections.
AL Spencer, notorious bandit Of the
Usage. is dead. He was killed by Alva
Macdonald, United States marshal for
the western district Of Oklahoma.
Spencers spectacular career Of crime
ended In the Osage hills. ~
The Toxic municipal council has ap-
proved and recommended to the gov.
eminent a concrete plan for recon
structing the capital along more mod.
ern lines. 1t is aimed to make the new
Toxic quakeproof and flreproof.
Eamonn de Valera and some of the
other leading Irish Republicans will
be brought to trial at an early date,
according to report in Dublin. De
Valera is being continually removed
from one military prison to another to
avoid the possibility of an attempt to
rescue. F-
Many Of the archives Of the Ameri.
can embassy In Toxic were salvaged
unchanged when the vault safes In
which they were kept were opened and
the documents found only slightly dam.
aged and readable, despite the holo-
caust which destroyed, virtually all
structures in the vicinity.
Chinese soldiers who attacked the
1chang Maru In the yangtse river
have demanded million yen ransom
for the release Of their captives, a dis.
patch from Shanghai stated few days
ago. They served warning they
would kill their captives II the amount
Is not paid. A japanese gunboat has
arrived for the purpose Of resculns the
captives. the dispatch added
Since the German government form
ally announced Its inability further to
finance the passive. resistance In the
Ruhr and Rhlneland there has been q
marked cooling Of the ardor Of the reg.
listers and one Of the Immediate effects
OF the withdrawal Of official credits
to the Industrialists, employers and
labor organizations Is reflected In the
growing inclination by many workers
to return to their former posts.
A telegram received at the foreign
office at Montevideo from the Uru.
guayan consul In Zuarahy, near the
Brazil Uruguay frontier, says the town
was taken by a force of 1880 Brazilian
rebels. There was a sharp fight, In
which seven men were killed and TWEEN.
ty-seven wounded on both sides. Twen.
ty members Of the government force
were drowned us they attempted to es.
cape by swimming the River Cuareim.
Their commander and fifteen men
were captured.
GENERAL
Minneapolis is the driest city of Its
size In the United States, according to
5. b. Quale, federal prohibition direc-
tor for the state of Minnesota.
Prosperity in the larger cities of the
United States, but economic depression
In the rural districts, was emphasized
by members Of the American Bankers
Association In annual convention at
Atlantic City.
Demands that Congress enact legis.
lation making 1t still easier to obtain
credit required by the industry were
contained In resolutions adopted by
the Iowa Farmers Union In annual
convention In Des Moines, Iowa.
The unprecedented oil boom that
swept California during the past year
is over and from now on there will be
steady decline in production, S. A.
Gulberson, Jr, of the Southern Cali.
fornia Oil Producers declared before
the annual convention of the National
Petroleum Association ut Atlantic City.
Nearly all morning newspapers In
New York failed to appear few days
ago as result of strike of members
Of Web Pressmen's Union No. Is.
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham.
pion fighter, en- route from New York
to Salt Lake City to see his folks, told
reporter for the Omaha World-Her-
aid that the worlds championship had
thus far netted him more than $1,000
900.
The tank wagon price Of gasoline
has been reduced cent gallon In
New England and eight Atlantic sea.
board states by the Standard Oh Com.
pany Of New Jersey and the Gulf Re
filming Company. The new price
ranges from IS cents in Washington,
D. c.. to q cents In Virginia, where
there Is a state tax Of three cents a
gallon.
To live under the American consu.
tuition SIS the greatest privilege that
was ever accorded to the human race"
It was declared by President Coolidge
in d message made public In New York