The Holly chieftain., 1923-09-27
FOREIGN

the Iepers Of the colony at Molokai
| Island.
Five thousand persons are reported
| to have perished 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.
Raoul Madero, brother of the late
Francisco Madero. revolutionary pres
ident of Mexico, Is 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 Alvs
Macdonald. United States marshal for
the western district OF Oklahoma
Spencer's spectacular career of Grim.
ended In the Usage hills.
The Toxic municipal council has ap-
proved and recommended to the gov.
ernment concrete plan for recon.
structing the capital along more mod.
ern lines. 1t is aimed to make the new
Toxic quakeproof and fireproof.
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.
Many of the archives of the Amerl-
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
Ichung Maru In the Yungtse river
have demanded million yen ransom
for the release Of their cuptives, dis-
patch from Shanghai stated u few dnys
ago. They served warming they
would kill their captives II the amount
is not paid. A Japanese gunboat has
arrived for the purpose Of rescuing the
captives. the dispatch added.
SihSC tHC oCA man SoNCAhiuSAt loltu-
ally announced its Inability further to
finance the passive resistance In the
Ruhr and Rhlneland there has been
marked cooling Of the ardor of the reg
listers and one Of the Immediate effects
of the withdrawal of official credits
to the industriulists, employers and
labor organizations Is reflected in the
growing inclination by many workers
to return to their former posts.
A telegram received ut the foreign
office at Montevideo from the Uru-
guayan consul In Zuarahy, near the
| Brazil-Uruguay frontier. suys the town
was taken by force of 1900 Brazilian
rebels. There was u 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 Cuarein.
Their commander and fifteen men
were captured.
GENERAL
Minneapolis is the driest city of its
size in the United States, according to
| s. 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 Itankers'
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.
Guiberson, Jr., Of the Southern Cali
,fornia Oil Producers declared before
| the annual convention of the National
Petroleum Association at Atlantic City.
Nearly all morning newspapers In
New York failed to appear rev days
ago as a result Of strike of members
Of Web Pressmen's Union No. 25.
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham
pion fighter, en- route from New York
to Salt Lake City to see his folks, told
a reporter for the Omaha World-Her-
aid that the worlds championship had
thus far netted him more than $2,OOO,-
900.
The tank wagon price of gasoline
has been reduced cent gallon In
New England and eight Atlantic sea-
board states by the Standard OIL Com
pany of New Jersey and the Gulf Re
filming Company. The new price
ranges from IS cents In Washington,
ID. c., to u cents in Virginia, where
there is a state tax of three cents a
gallon. ...
To live under the American constl-
tuition "is the greatest privilege that