White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-05-23
Worlds News

EASTFORD, Conn. = Mrs. Sara
Benworth Broadway, of Eastford. Con
necticut, has just celebrated her 106tl
birthday, with 40 grandchildren, great
grandchildren and great-great grand
children in the party. Mrs. Brad
bury's father was soldier in tn,
American Revolution. She has neve
been more than ~ miles away from
her home, and is still hale and hearty
Manchester Guardian, and some Al
miles east OF New Zealand, this island
has been chosen as the spot where
the day begins, the critical meridian
which decides the birth of each day
and Of each year, being arbitrarily
laid down almost entirely in the wat
ers OF the ocean From Chatham Is
land the new year wings its way to
the tiny Antipodes Islands and thence
to tie mainland Vi New Eealunu and
across Australia and Asia to Europe,
arriving in the British Isles ut mid
night exactly II hours old
LONDON. = English prohibitlonists,
who, although not numerous, are as
decided in their views as those of any
other land, have been aroused to in
dignation by the discovery that Queen
Mary's $1,000,000 doll house has wine
cellars containing miniature cases Of
champagne, whisky and other alco-
holic beverages. Protests have been
made, but without results, and her
Majesty's eXquisitely furnished replica
of fine English home, wine cellars
and all, will be on view at the Wem-
bley exhibition to any and all of her
subjects who wish to contribute six
pence to charity.
ATLANTA, Ga.--A frghtful storm
ragged recently in all the six south
eastern states. Many lives were lost
and the damage is estimated to be
$10,000000. The storm consisted of a
series Of tornadoes which devastated
at least 1000 square miles in locali
ties.
TOKYO. = A dispatch from Seoul
that fire recently destroyed the Ko-
rean government printing office and
tobacco monopoly bureau quarters,
damage being estimated at two mil
lion yen.
LONDON. Announcement was
made recently by the Foreign Office
that King George will sign the Anglo
American rum running treaty. Under
the terms Of the treaty American au-
thorities may search suspected whisky
smuggling ships beyond the official
three-mile limit.
CHATHAM ISLAND. - The lonely
Chatham Island, lying in the South
Pacific Ocean, may be described as
the birthplace of each new year, and
the handful of Britishers who inhabit
the place are the first to welcome 1t
In. Lying nearly on the meridian OPP
posite to that of Greenwich, says the
husband and gave up life of ease
to work for revolutionary ideals. She
was a friend Of Kropotkin, the best
known Russian anarchist, and was
first arrested by the Cars officials in
1878 and sentenced to five years of
hard work In Siberia. She attempt
ed to escape, but was captured and
her sentence extended four years. In
1896 Madame Breschkovskaya re-
turned to European Russia, and
after working IA years against car
ism was banished again to Siberia.
The revolution Of 1917 freed her from
Punishment, and she returned to Mos
cow and Petrograd, the uncrowned
queen Of the revolutionaries. Her tri-
umph was short, however She was
not a Bolshevist and was forced to
leave Russia when the Kerensky gov
eminent fell and the Communistic
elements took over.
GENEVA. - Nine million dollars
worth of gold plate and specie be-
onging to the late King Nicholas of
Montenegro, have been found after a
six-year search, according to reports
Iohi5ht. iHe Boiu was louHu III DoA-
es In dilapidated house in Zagreb.
Jugoslavia, the reports state
KHARKOV, Russia. - Captain Ste
zenko, former officer in the czarist
army, has been sentenced to death on
soviet charges Of responsibility for
the deaths of 5000 workmen and COM
while acting as head Of the
secret police Of the Wrangel and Deni-