, 1923-05-10
FOREIGN

diary Captain Cook kept during his
first voyage to the South Seas in 1850
has been sold at auction for $4,000 to
w. w. Ifould, librarian at the public
library, Sydney, N. S. w.
The day of the handbook operator
is over in Canada as a result of the
anti-gambling act just passed in the
House of Commons. 1t prohibits
newspaper publication of betting in
formation or the circulation of such
information except ut the race track
during the actual race meet.
A scientific expedition financed by
the government has solved q mystery
of fifty years standing by its discov-
cry in Kursk of a magnetic iron ore
field. The ore was found at a depth
Of 600 feet and in such quantities as
to arouse the hope that it may develop
into one of the worlds largest fields.
One hundred persons have been
killed in an ammunition explosion in a
factory in the government Of Tula,
Russia, according to Moscow advices
reaching H~elsingfors, Finland. says a
dispatch. Those killed included Gen.
cral Malinikoff and many military Of
ficers and three members of the local
soviet.
Mexico is spending this year 100000
on Its air service and 1t proposes to
spend next year $3,0O0,000 or more.
The object is to make the air fleet the
eyes of the army wherever a revolution
threatens. 1t is believed that the in
crease in the air service will largely
decrease the costs of the army, which
are still heavy. Scores of Mevican air
plane officers are in training in Mex
leo City, in the United States and
Europe.
The presence of hundreds of Amer
lean tourists in Cairo, Egypt, has
caused a congestion in the hotels.
Rooms usually occupied by a single
person have two or three persons in
them. In some cases bathrooms are
being utilized as bedrooms. Rooms
are so scarce that tourists who are ac-
customed to the best are willing to
put up with anything. Not sine be-
fore the wal have Cairo hotels been so
overcrowded.
Francisco Perez Rivera, matador of
Mexico City and Barcelona, Spain, was
gored badly by a wild bull imported
from Sonora at a bull fight ut Mexi-
cali. Chagrined by his failure to de-
feat the animal, Rivera, 1t was said,
attempted to commit suicide in the
ring, according to reputed matador
custom, but was prevented by plea
dores. These diverted the attacks of
the bull from Rivera and rescued him
after he had been injured.
The people of Manitoba will be
asked to vote not only for the estab-
lishment of government liquor stores
to dispense liquor for beverage pur-
poses, but also on a petition put for
ward by the Beer and Wine League
for the sale of beer and wine with
meals in hotels. Separate referen-
dums will be taken, according TO a de-
cision reached by the Manitoba Legis-
lature. The referendum submitted by
the Moderate League of Manitoba.
calling for establishment of govern
ment liquor stores, will be voted on
June l, while the Der and wine ques-
ton will be settled by the electorate,
probably in September.
GENERAL
The American State Bank at Kan
sas City failed to open a few days
ago. A notice announced 1t was in
the hands of the state finance COM
missioner.
A committee composed of eight
white men and five negroes to study
the critical labor situation in agricul-
tural and industrial sections of Miss
issIppi brought about by the migration
of negroes from Mississippi to north
ern manufacturing centers vas APP
| pointed at a meeting of business men
and plantation owners at jackson.
Hyman Bushel, counsel for Babe
Ruth, laid before Acting District At
| torney Pecora, in New York, charges
of conspiracy and a request for the
Indictment of Dolores Dixon and 9TH
ers Involved in the girls $4,000 suit
against the home-run king, which her
attorney withdrew.
Many Americans visiting Matamoras,
Mexico, were compelled to spend the
night there because immigration Of
ficers closed the international bridge
at S o'clock without warning, when
proprietors of gambling houses refused
to close their places In accordance
with orders from Mexico City.
The H~ippodrome, the home of big
spectacles and New York's greatest
playhouse, closed its doors for good
recently and no longer will Its audi
ences, each representing half the states
in the Union, wonder where the diving
-
huge tank and never are seen from the
front to reach the surface. About 49,
100000 persons are computed to have
entered the vast auditorium during the
eighteen years of its existence. The
Hippodrome was erected on the site
of the old Sixth Avenue car barn. The