The Holly chieftain., 1923-04-12
FOREIGN


for the week ending March "a give o..
600 new cases for all India, of which
5000 were fatal
Three hundred pessons involved in
the anti-Jewish outbreak in Warsaw
have been arrested. The large number
of wounded Jews has served to inten-
sify the excitement In the Jewish quar-.
ter.
Special dispatches received In Ha-
vana from Cnmaguey, Cuba, report
that the destruction of sugar cane by
fire still continues throughout the dis
trict. The losses through the fires are
placed at more than 3,OO0,00O arrobas
of cane and sugar production In the
Camaguay district will be greatly re-
duced.
"All this business about Carnarvon
being brought TO his end by magic is
nonsense and dangerous nonsense, be-
cause II goes to stir that rising tide of
superstition which seems to be over
flowing all over the world" said Sir
| Rider Haggard, the eminent traveller
| and writer, In an address in Hastings,
| England.
Two young Irishmen identified as
Peader Breslin and Joseph Herman
were executed by Irish Republican ir-
regulars in Dublin, near the home of
Governor General Timothy Healy of
the Free State. They were placed
against stone wall and their bodies
riddled with bullets The corpses
were left lying where they fell.
| Scores of Jews are alleged to have
been killed in almost uninterrupted
warfare launched on them by the Mos
lens at Yemen, southwestern Arabia,
according to reports received in Jeru-
salem. The reports add that many
Jews, to escape death, have nominally
accepted Mohammedanism that num-
erous Jewish children have been seized
and given the alternative of death or
conversion.
| Exports from the Philippine islands
to the United States In 1922 exceeded
those Of 1921 by more than $13, 500, COO.
but the imports from the United States
decreased approximately $26,OOO.OOO,
! according to figures just complied by
the bureau Of customs The total
trade with the United States In 1872
amounted to $111,849,OO0. of which
| $64, 10000 was exports and $47, ,73S. 200
vas imports. The total trade in 1921
was $124, 600, the exports being
| $50, ,356,0OO and the Imports $74. 1904 900
British ships carried the largest por-
tion of the total trade of the Philip
pines in 1922. their cargoes being val
ued at 67,7s8,OOO, while American
ships carried goods valued at 62,OOO,-
600
lENERAL
Registered bonds of the st. Louis
Federal Land Bank amounting to $2,-
10000 were in the loot obtained by
five bandits who held up mail truck
in the heart of the downtown business
section of st. Louis.
Kansas City high, champions of Kan
sas won the national invitation inter-
scholastic basketball tournament of
the University of Chicago, held in
Chicago last week, by defeating Rock
ford, ILL.,, in the finals, 43 to q.
A self-styled victim of newspaper
assassination" DR.. Samuel G. Pandol-
70, cohead of the Pan Motor Company
of st. Cloud, Mimi, surrendered to the
United States marshal at Chicago aft
er appealing in vain from sentence
Of ten years in Leavenworth prison
and fines aggregating $4,000, imposed
by former Federal Judge Landis after
conviction of using the mails to de-
fraud.
The death toll us result of the
tornado which recently swept Alexan-
dria and Pineville, Louisiana, has been
placed at twenty. A check by author
tiles developed that undertaking es-
Establishments in Alexandria had the
bodies of twenty victims. The list Of
injured was placed at sixty, more than
thirty of whom are In the United
States Veterans hospital near Pine
vile. The property damage was e.
timated at $500,O00.
The Bower business block and the
plant of the Mackenzie Rubber Com
pany at Whitewater, Wis, were dam
aged $75,000 by fire recently. The
Bower loss, $4,000, was covered by In
surance.
With the voluntary surrender Of DR..
Frederick A. Cook, arctic explorer and
oil promoter, before federal authorities
a total Of twenty Fort Worth oil men
have been arrested and arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioner
George Parker on charges of fraudu.
lent use Of the mails. DR.. Cook was
released on $4,000 bond. He is sole
trustee and president Of the Petroleum
Producers Association.
Three fires In towns surrounding
| Madison, s. D., broke out recently,
causing total loss Of $4,000. The
first fire occurred at Howard. In which
a loss of $4,000 was incurred. At
| Flandreau. town east of Madison, q