The Holly chieftain., 1923-04-19
FOREIGN


was 6,6OO, ,OOO, 100000 marks, represent
Ing an increase of S0O.0OO,O00 marks
during the last ten days of the month
The explosion of 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 50,0OO,OO0 marks
and that all street traffic at night Is
forbidden on account of the blowing
up of the militarized railway between
Buer and Recklinghausen.
Imprisonment for five years and
fine Of 100,0OO,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 lnterallied mission.
Somewhere In the mountains of
Scotland, Major and Mrs. Max Oser,
the latter formerly Miss Mathilde Nc
Cormlck, IS years old, granddaughter
of John d. Rockefeller, are enjoying
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-
ianda, eldest daughter of King Victor
Emmanuel and Queen Elena, was mar
ried to Count Calyi di Bergolo, war
veteran and captain In the italian
army.
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 Carnarvon in finding the
tomb of King Tutankhamen and who
was said to be i'll, was reported i'm
proved in dispatches received in Lon
don from Cairo. Lord Carnarvon's re-
mains will be Inferred on the top of a
hig hill on his estate and not in the
family vault, according to one Of his
last expressed wishes, says an an
nouncement In London.
Only athletics in which the element
of sport predominates will make up
I'm am fnr tn ltyvp1 In
games which are to be held in the
Colombes stadium In the suburbs of
Paris AIany of the events Of nom
sporting character, which seriously
handicapped the American teams in
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
stroyed the Colonel Babb farm home,
two and one-half miles west Of Smith
land, Iowa, near Sioux City, Iowa. The
four children were sons und daughters
of Colonel Babb.
Automobile accidents killed 14,000
persons in the United States in 1922,
an increase of 1,6O0, or II per cent,
over 1921, according to figures issued
by the National Bureau of Casualty
and Surety Underwriters at New York
City.
Industrial democracies' in the big
five packing plants Of the country
have restored directly to $4,000 work.
ers-and indirectly to 100000 more
the 10 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 100000 kilowatts. The
largest plant now in operation any
where has capacity rating of 10000
kilowatts.
Fire ut Herry f. Sinciairs' Ranco-
cas- stable ut JObstOwn, N. j., de-
stroyed property and horses valued at
more than $1,OO0,O0O. 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 $l5O,OOO us a
2-year-Old. Purchase, another famous
sire, was saved.
william ]. Gloria has resigned az
legal adviser to Samuel +. Rutter, fed
eral prohibition director for California,
us 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
story appearing in the San Francisco
Examiner.
ObscurIty for william 2. Foster,
Americas most prominent exponent Of
soviet Russia's regime, or notoriety
that might imperil democracy in this
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