The Winslow mail., 1923-04-13
FOREIGN

O0O In the last year.
Monsignor Ernesto Filippi, former
apostolic delegate to Mexico, from
which country he was expelled by the
ObregOn government, has been appoint
ed apostolic delegate at Constantine
pie.
Mexico's first pure-bred live stock
show was opened recently by President
| Obregon. More than 600 head of stock
were entered by breeders in the south
ern United States. The show was held
under the auspices of the Pure-Bred
Live Stock Association of the United
States.
Among the regrets expressed by the
| friends and admirers of Sarah Bern
hardt in Paris, the most frequent is
that her wish to die behind the foot
lights was ungratified. "Moliere's s
death in harness, facing the public"
she frequently declared, "was an ideal
end. l want to go that way"
The curse of the Pharaohs has been
fulfilled and it may be a long time
before another tomb is disturbed in the
Valley of the Kings" declared Abdul
lah Ben Alba, priest of the Montmar-
tire Arab mosque in Paris, in discuss
ing the strange death of Lord Car
narvon, discoverer of the tomb of Tut
ankhamen.
Two young Irishmen identified as
Peader Breslin and Joseph Herman
were executed by Irish Republican ir-
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Governor General Timothy Healy of
the Free State. They were placed
against a 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 $13,500,000,
but the imports from the United States
decreased approximately $26,000,000,
according to figures just compiled by
the bureau of customs. The total
trade with the United States in 1922
amounted to Sill $4,000, of which
$64, ,116,000 was exports and SAT ,73S, 600
was imports. The total trade in 1921
was $124, 4,486,00O, the exports being
$50 0,356,000 and the imports $74, 10000.
British ships carried the largest por-
ton of the total trade of the Philip
pines in 1922, their cargOes being val
ued at $67, ,786,000, while American
ships carried goods valued at $62,OOO,-
600.
GENERAL
Chicago's next mayor will be
Democrat. William Z. Dever, former
circuit court judge, was elected mayor
by plurality of 103,748 over Arthur
c. Lueder, Republican.
The Bower business block and the
pany at Whitewater, Wis, were dam
aged $4,000 by fire recently. The
Bower loss, $4,000, was covered by in
surance.
Having approved the expenditure of
81, 540,OO0,000 in new tracks, locOmo-
tives, cars and terminals, the Ameri-
can Railway Association in New York
City adopted a program which calls on
every road, every shipper and every
householder to help relieve the heavi-
est traffic burden in history.
With the voluntary surrender of DR..
Frederick A. Cook, arctic explorer and
oil promoter, before federal authorities
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.
For the first time since she was con-
victed of poisoning four husbands in
Chicago, three of whom died, Mrs. Til
lie Klimek smiled when she was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment in Joliet.
The death toll as a 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-
adjustments 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 es-
timated at $500000.
Three fires in towns surrounding
Madison, S. D., broke out recently,
causing a total loss of $4,000. The
first fire occurred at Howard, in which
a loss of $4,000 was incurred. At
EI1ndrpau n town east of Madison a