AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ICBTItALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SHOT IN MEXICO. MRS EVANS KILLED. MEXICO CITY, August 3. Mrs Rosalie Evans, widow of u former President- of the Bank of London in Mexico, was shot dead in the vicinity of Texmelucau State, Puebla, on Saturday evening. Airs Evans was shot through the left side, falling iiotn tlie buggy in which she was driving. Her hair caught it: the wheels and her hotly was dragged, the face being badly mutilated. John Strauss, the German manager of Airs Evans’ hacienda. who was accompanying her, was seriously wounded. 'I lie shivers are believed to he Agrarians, incited by anti-foreign agitators. They escaped with a pay roll of two thousand pesos, which Strauss was carrying. .MEXICO CITY, August. 3.

The name of Airs Evans recently mine up in connection with alleged attempts by .Mexican troops to seize her great estate. It was reported that large portions of her arable lands have been taken over, and many live stock driven off*. Airs Evans s tight against the alleged attempts to seize her property wore taken tip by the British wiinrge D’Arehives, Air Cummings. There was an acrimonious dispute between him an.l the .Mexicali authorities. on behalf of Airs Evans. It resulted in the Mexican Government’s demand for his withdrawal.

U.S.A. PRESIDENCY. NEW YORK. Aug. I. A telegram from Atlantic ( itv says that the heads of the American federation ot Labour have published a document endorsing the platlnini ol the Cleveland Conference for Progressive Political Action, and the Convention’s nominees. Senator La pollette tor President mu! Senator Wheeler tor \ icePresiileiil. The Eeih.ratinn denounces both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Tin* former is charged with Inning flaunted the desires of l.abnur in an arrogant manlier, and with that evasiveness which is the customary mark of insincerity. Bulb parties are declared to be morally bankrupt, being manipulated by machine politicians, who have involved tlie nation in moral obliquity, and are unashamed of their betrayal.