The Holly chieftain., 1923-02-08
FOREIGN

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The All-Russlan Council of Trades
Unions at Moscow has donated 100000
| gold rublcs to the Ruhr workers.
Great Hritain formally accepted the
American terms for funding of the S4,-
500,000,OOO debt owing 10 the United
States.
Andre MuneyroI. French pilot, broke
all world gliding records at Cherbourg.
France. with flight of eight hours
and five minutes.
A former British soldier. suffering
from shell shock, attempted TO attack
King George with his crutch at the st.
Pnncrls railway substation. The ex-
soldier WAS arrested.
With the arrival ut Manila of the
steamship Paris. belated member of
learned that her sister ship had been
sunk off ForInosa last week with the
loss of twenty lives.
Tie residence of Sir Horace PIunket,
at Fox Rock, Dublin, was destroyed
by fire. The final destruction of the
residence was due to Il second attack,
the. previous explosion having only
partly wrecked the building.
Railroad service in the Rhineiand is
virtually normal. and the lines In the
Itulir region are not occupied by the
French in military sense. The strike
at Mayence continues. The situation
in the Ruhr is drifting back to the reg
ulur routine
Captain Coyne of the Irish National
army was shot dead and three soldiers
were wounded when a party of troops
were ambushed by Irregulars between
Abbeyfeale and Brosna, on the Liner
ick-Kerry border The attacking par
ty Is said to have left tile captains
body at the roadside, stripped Of all
clothing.
Seven tidal waves recently swept
Hilo bay, Island of Hawaii. The waves
reached ii maximum of fifteen feet.
The waves, apparently the result of in
tense earth shocks, brought death to
a number of persons. One japanese
was killed when the Matson Naviga-
ti0n Company's lighter Wailoa struck
the railroad bridge across the Wailu-
ku river.
The Free State government still is
confronted with grave task, as shown
by the intensified compaign of destruc-
tion and incendiarism that Is being
carried on by lhe Irregular forces.
These acts are considered proof of the
determination of the Republicans to
resort to every possible means to pre-
vent the government from functlonlng
and to break the country's morale.
Late advices from Essen Indicate
French and Belgians throughout the
occupied zone, where wholesale arrests
Of German officials are taking place,
| which are promptly followed by strikes
in all branches of the governmental
service. The telegraph, telephone and
postal employees at Essen walked out
in body as protest against the ar
cede to French orders.
GENERAL
| Restoration Of the eight-hour day by
the United States railroad labor board,
with time and one-half pay for over
time to $4,000 railway signul men, has
been announced ut Chicago.
The sinking of the Lusitania was an
act of war, the court of appeals at
Albany, N. Y. held in deciding the case
Of the estate of Alfred G. Vanderbilt
against an Insurance company.
Closer affiliation of the various
printing trades unions under jurisdic-
tiOn of the International Typographical
Union was discussed at d meeting OF
the boards Of governors Of the Inter
national Allied Printing Trades Asso-
citation at indianapolis.
Fred Lundin, former Illinois con-
gressman and known as the silent
power behind the political machine Of
Mayor William Hale Thompson, and
twenty-three others were named In u
blanket Indictment returned In court
by the special grand jury at Chicago
which IL investigating school board af-
fairs.
Il hAWA A1hCAkb " JCdiS WY
lost $4,000 damage suit against the
United States Cremation Company Of
New York City for the alleged mixing
| Of the ashes Of her first two husbands.
The court directed verdict holding
Mrs. Anhert had failed to substantiate
her claim that the cremation company
carelessly handled the ashes.
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the Springfield, Mass. Gas Light COM
pany caused at least three deaths. in
jured forty persons and caused confu-
sion and wreckage In the business sec
uon. Office workers and persons In
the streets were struck down by
debris. Workers in the plant were re-
ported seriously hurt. Automobiles In
the streets were hub deep in the
wreckage.
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