The Holly chieftain., 1923-08-09
FOREIGN

eouNei, u. ~, NlCtilu VI Il tsphooh has
been recovered from the harbor ut
Hongkong. She was confidential sec
retary to Butterfield Swire.
Premier Zenkoff issued decree re-
questing the people of Bulgaria to join
IN the mourning of the American peo-
pie over the death of President Hard
ing. Bulgaria had suffered the loss
Of sincere friend, he said.
The latest royal parsonage to enter
the ranks of the mercantile world is
Count Otto Seefried. grandchild Of
the late Emperor Francis Joseph,
whose appointment as manager of the
Budapest branch of the Austrian Com
mercial bank is just announced.
The fight of his numerous widows
and children for the estate of Fran
cisco villa, slain Mexican bandit
chieftain, promises to become us ex-
citing as the search for the 100000
pesos which Pancho is popularly re-
ported to have buried in the vicinity
Of Parral.
The war department made public
reports from General Martinez, chief
of operation in Chihuahua, containing
denials of stories published in the
United States that three uprisings of
followers of the late Francisco Villa oc-
Cured in the vicinity of Canutillo,
Hacienda, Durango's estate.
Robert A. Newmen, reported to have
been kidnapped In Southern Durango
by the bandit, Juan Galindo, last
April, and recently reported murdered
Is not an American, as has been stated
but an Englishman, who Joined Calm
dos band voluntarily and declined to
abandon the outlaws, says an official
report made to the Department of the
Interior by Gen Eulogio Ortiz
Ii Yuan-Hung, who was president
of China until he fed. recently to
Tientsin and resigned, has approved
the proposal Of Sir Robert Ho-Tung,
prominent Chinese resident Of Hong
kong, for conference of the principal
leaders of China In an effort to bring
peace to the country. Sun Yat-Sen,
the southern leader. telegraphed his
approval of the plan some days ago.
The league of nations temporary
committee on limitation Of armament,
which is holding sessions in Paris to
discuss the pending plans, took up the
proposed compromise between Lord
Robert Cecil's plan and the French
project. The former provides for a
general guarantee pact with a general
reduction of ornaments, and the latter
for partial guarantee pacts between
two or more powers with limitation
of armaments proportionate to the
security afforded by such pacts. The
compromise will probably form the
basis Of the text Of the treaty which
the committee will draw up to present
to the next assembly of the league.
GENERAL
The brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers, through its holding company,
the Brotherhood Investment Company,
VIII engage in the banking business in
Baltimore, the Baltimore News says.
Lieut.. Rutledge Irvine, flying the
| navy Curtiss seaplane which will be
entered by the United States navy in
the international races for the Schnei-
der trophy, off the Isle of Wight, Sept.
| %, recently established new speed
record for seaplanes of 1853 miles an
hour.
The Farmers Savings bank mt Dol
liver, Iowa, and the Superior Savings
bank ct Superior, Iowa, will reopen
for business without loss to depositors,
Robert L. Leach, superintendent of
banking announced.
American school teachers are going
to Mexico to work. Within the last
few days nearly 100 young American
women have passed through Laredo,
Texas, on their way to Mexico City
to attend the summer session of the
University of Mexico The majority
of them are teachers of Spanish or
those desirous of learning that
language. Many of them stated they
expect to remain in Mexico as school
teachers.
The first case to test the legality of
Michigan's obsolete Sunday blue laws,
invoked locally by Prosecuting Attor-
ney Virgil d. Fitch, was Instituted
when Mayor II. NJ. Hallett of Luding-
ton entered formal complaint against
| Roscoe Conkling Fitch, son of the pro-
secutor, charging the young man with
attending dance. Prosecutor Fitch
announced he would prosecute his son
| on the charge. The maximum penal
| ty for violation Of the statute Is fine
of $40
An unidentified man dropped dead
OF heart failure in the Times Square
subway station, New York, as he
glanced at the front page Of news
paper extra announcing President
Hnrdlng's death.
To handle crowds that attended the
late President Hardings funeral at
Marion, Ohio, orders were issued by