The Raymer enterprise., 1923-04-19
FOREIGN

Ing an Increase OF 6OWOOUO marks
during the last ten days Of the month.
The explosion Of q time bomb
destroyed the lock Of the Dortmund-
Ems canal, near Herne. The canal was
blocked, seriously interfering with the
complicated inland waterway traffic
In the Ruhr.
1t Is reported from Buer that that
town has been fined 100000 marks
and that all street traffic at night Is
forbidden on account Of the blowing
up Of the militarized railway between
Buer and RecklInghausen.
Imp. isOnment for five years and
fine Of 10O,0OO,0OO marks Is the pun
ishment prescribed in Dusseldorf by
General de Goutte for any German at
tempting to move coal or coke In the
occupied area without an order from
the interallied mission.
Somewhere In the mountains Of
Scotland, Major and Mrs Max Oser.
the latter formerly Miss MathIlde Nc
Cormick, IS years old, granddaughter
Of John d. Rockefeller, are enjoying q
brief honeymoon before returning to
Switzerland. where they will live.
A tall. slender, olive.skInned girl,
who. In the legends of Italy, was
born to be soldiers BRIDE" fulfilled
the prophecy when the Princess Yo-
landa, eldest daughter Of King Victor
Emmanuel and Queen Elena, was mar
ried to Count Calvl dl Bergolo, n war
veteran and captain In the Italian
army.
Domestic difficulties which have
piled up steadily since inauguration OF
the Bonar Law administration con.
fronted the government as parliament
reassembled In London. With 100000
workers on strike and the probability
that half million building trades may
be added to this number, labor unrest
presents. perhaps, the most serious
difficulty.
Howard Carter, the American who
assisted Lord Carnaryon In finding the
tomb OF King Tutankhamen and who
WAS said to be Ill, was reported I'm
proved in dispatches received In Lon
don from Cairo. Lord Carnarvons re-
mains will be Inferred on the top Of
hig hill on his estate and not IN the
family vault. according TO enc OF his
last expressed wishes, says an an
nouEcement In London.
Only athletics In which the element
Of sport predominates will make up
the program for the 1924 Olympic
gaines which are to be held In the
Colombes stadium In the suburbs Of
Puris. Many Of the events Of non
sporting character, which seriously
handicapped the American teams 10
previous games because the Americans
had no entrants in them. have been
eliminated from the official program,
which has been published In Rome.
GENERAL
A man and four small children were
burned to death In fire which de-
stroyed the Colonel Ba5b farm home,
two and one-half miles west Of Smith
land, Iowa, near Sioux City, Iowa. The
four children were sons and daughters
Of Colonel Babb.
Automobile accidents Killed 14,0OO
persons in the United States in 1922,
an Increase OF 1900, or l. per cent,
over 1871. according to figures Issued
by the National Bureau vf Casualty
and Surety Underwriters ut New York
City.
Industrial denocrucies" In the big
five packing plants Of the country
have restored directly TO $1,000 work
ers-und indirectly to l2O,UOO more
the ~ per cent Of their wages which
the same plant legislatures took away
in November. 1921.
Electrical! engineers the world over
are watching Chicago In her attempt
to rear the largest electric power plant
in the world-a station whose ultimate
capacity will be approximately 100000
horsepower, or 0OD,0OO kilowutts. The
largest piunt now In operation any.
where has capacity rating OF 10000
kilOwatts.
Fire at Herry +. Slnclairs' Runco-
cas- stable ut Jobstown, n. j., de-
stroyed property and horses valued ut
more than Sl,UU0U. The fire was
in the breeding stables and the horses
destroyed were brood mares and the
stallion Inchcape, for which Sinclair
paid the record price Of $4,000 as a
2-year-old. Purchase, another famous
sire, was saved.
william J. Gloria has resigned m
legal adviser to Samuel +. Rutter, fed
eral prohibition director for California,
as a protest against recent alleged
rough house methods OF prohibition
agents and what he terms Rutter's
failure to punish agents guilty OF un-
warranted offenses, according to q
story appearing In the San Fran'Isco
Examiner.
Obscurity for william z. Foster,
Americas most prominent exponent Of
soviet Russ!a's regime. or notOriety
that might lmperll democracy in this
country Notwithstanding to the
American Federation Of Labor. as re.
presented by Mathew Vol! Of Chicago.
vice president-upon the decision of