White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-10-26
Worlds News
1t takes 100000 German marks now
o equal 1O-cent postage stamp.

1t takes 100000 German marks now
to equal a 1O-cent postage stamp.
In Texas, at the Waggoner REIN
cry tank farm, two miles from Elec-
ira, large $4,000 barrel of fuel oil
was struck by lightning and set on
fire.
The Dawson season is closed-the
last steamer has departed, carrying
SO passengers who will winter in the
South.
An explosion. in the Citadel OF
Warsaw, killing 20 and injuring $50,
occurred recently, said to be Of com
munistic origin.
In one of it's magistrates courts
the City of New York draws 100000
from the fines of motorists toward
it's expenses.
The Daily Telegraph, one of the
foremost English Newspapers, com
ments editorially on the American
proposal for a 12-mile limit for the
search of ships and the admission OF
sealed stores, saying: "Our opinion
is that it would be we'll for Britain
to enter into the proposed arrange
ment."
A strange invasion of England by
flies has been noticed lately. Clouds
of them, in long, dark, floating patch
es, can be seen coming across the
Channel to England.
Akron, Ohio, was threatened to be
wiped out through disastrous fire
but after three hours of heroic work
by the firemen the fire was brought
under control. The fire caused dam
age of approximately 100000.
Probably due to earthquakes along
the eastern shore of England, abnor
mally high tides have caused great
property damage. Sandgate Castle
near Folkestone, was partially wash
ed away.
At Atwater, Ohio, recently, a
horse-drawn bus, filed with chill
dren on their way to school, was
demolished by the "Clevelander," the
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railroad, between Cleveland and New
York. The accident occurred at
Lambert's Crossing. The engineer
saw the vehicle too late to apply
the brakes. Eight children were
killed and many badly injured.
Long skirts have been designed by
fashion experts for women to wear
this autumn-at, least that is what
Viola and other leading London
dressmakers are showing. Goats are
long and highly embroidered.
| Ambassador George Harvey, who
sent in his resignation to Washing
ton lately, will leave London for the
United States toward the end of the
month, as announced at the Ameri
can Embassy on October ID.
In official estimates, the Italian
Government finds that foreign mon
ey, now being sent by Italian emf
grants back to their home land, ex
ceeds one billion lire annually. A
lire is equal to about 20 cents.
In the noted Snake Creek fossil
quarries of Western Nebraska the
Albert Thompson expedition has dis
covered the skull and jaws of 81
gantic camel The Nebraska quar-
ries have yielded many interesting
fossil remains of prehistoric verte-
brates.
| Cost of living is still terribly high
| in Germany, and with winter just
upon them conditions are deplorable
1t is said that two million German
| children must starve II help Is not
forthcoming. 1t will be Russia and
Austria over again, with untold mis-.
cry for the women and children.
Soaring food prices, accompanied
by scarcity of all commodities, are
causing great unrest in Berlin; food
riots occurring constantly in the
densely populated districts Of the
city.
In Los Angeles bootleggers are
initiating the Ice Delivery Company
to obtain business. The bootleggers
give out cards with the figures SO
printed in large black letters, telling
the people that when they want any
liquor to hang the card in their