The Holly chieftain., 1923-02-01
FOREIGN

occupational area.
| The telegraph and telephone sta
tlon employees have gone on strike in
Dusseldorf. They took this action in
protest against the presence of
French soldiers.
| Patrick Cunningham. William Con-
roy and Colin Kelley, all of Tullsmore,
We're executed mt Birr, Kings county.
| ireland, for possessing arms and am
munition and for thefts from resi-
| dences.
The Amaraco News, conducted by
American soldiers on the Rhine, went
out of existence with the removal of
the soldiers. and the balance of the
| money on hand went to buy milk for
babies of the poor in Coblenz.
Dispatches received at Montevideo,
Uruguay, from different points in the
Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sui,
indicate the situation there is most
grave. Supporters of DIR. Assis-Bra-
I'll, aroused over what they consider
the illegal reelection of the presi-
dency of the state of Rio Grande do
Sui, of DIR. Rorges de Medeiros, are
said to be rising in arms in various
townships
The London Times devotes full
column leading editorial to the re-
marks of the chancellor of the ex-
che1uer, regretting the Inability of the
baldwin mission to effect an agree
ment on the British reparations ques-
tion. 1t says the question now is
whether the American terms should he
accepted, whether Great Britain
should submit II counter proposal, OF
whether the whole matter should
stand over.
A sensational find of gold and silver
Is reported at Eloro. State of Mexico,
on the property of the Eloro Alinius
Company. Gold assays at an average
of over nine pounds and silver over
100 pounds to the ton from the same
vein. The same district some years
ago made the Estrellas mine the won
der mine of the world. 1t is asserted
that the find Is SO rich that 1t Is likely
to change the world market for gold
and silver. A rush of miners from all
parts of Mexico is expected, as the
company announces 1t will exploit the
vein on an immense scale, employing
hundreds of miners. The Dos Estrel-
las mine made fortunes for hundreds
of investors. History is expected tn
repeat Itself at Eloro.
GENERAL
Alexander How;ltt, former president
of the Kansas miners organization,
has returned to Cherokee county Jail
at Columbus, Kan, to complete the re-
mainins fifty-two days OF six
months sentence for violation of the
dustrial Court law.
Three Boy Scouts were killed and
several injured in dynamite eNplo-
sion in the Everglades, according tor u
telephone message at Miami, Fla, The
| troop had gone ON camping trip it
is understood, and is believed to have
accidentally touched off quantity u.
explosives left by stump basters.
The police department bomb squad
| of New York brought to the Mantat-
tan headquarters and booked for in
lvestgation" eight men taken in Gus
tody ut meeting reported to have
been held by the Ku kluN klan in
Brooklyn. The authorities asserted
| the men We're officers of the ku kl'ix
Klan.
The joint subcommittee of bitumin-
| Gus operators and union miners few
days ago resumed their discussions of
1923 wage scales to become effective
April l. Before entering the confer
ence, Phil II. Penna, Indiana operator,
issued a statement in which he re-
newed assurances of his fellow opera
| tors that there would be no strike in
the bituminous industry this year.
John L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, and other
labor members of the subcommittee
of seventeen, were equally optimistic.
"In some ways l am sorry to leave
this place." Alexander Howatt, de-
posed president of the Kansas union
coal miners, told John Huntington,
| sheriff, as he prepared to leave the
Crawford county jail few days ago.
| With five other deposed officials who
had been, like Howatt, serving a sen.
tence of one year for contempt of
court in calling a strike, Howatt was
| paroled by Judge ID. ii. Woolley
Declaring that the debt question
was too delicate to discuss at this
| time, members Of the British debt
Funding Commission sailed for home
on the Olympic from New York.
Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the
British exchequer, and Montagy z.
Norman, governor Of the Eank of
England, both paid glowing tributes to
the fair treatment they had received
from the American press. II am
particularly grateful" said Mr. Bald
| win "for its personal kindness and