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...west of the Rockies. They have about 600 fathers, clerical students and lay brothers working under them. The Dominican Missions at Fall River, Mass, and Lewiston, Me. are under the jurisdiction of Very Rev. Alphonse Langlais of Montreal, provincial of Canada. Those at New Orleans are under Very Rev. Manuel Perez, vicar-provincial of the Philippines...
...tocsins: "Death to the Unitarian Savages! Long Live the Holy Federation!" A few wags cheered "El Torito de Matadoros," champion Argentine Boxer Justo Suarez, now attached to the Argentine consulate in Manhattan. Five anti-Irigoyenistas ploughed through the crowd, fired a score of shots which brought down Parader Manuel Varela. At week's end no other signs of revolution were evident. President Irigoyen was furious to learn that by order of the Minister of War General Luis J. Dellepiane, a number of officers had been arrested, confined to barracks for no other reason than that they were known...
...General Manuel Maria Ponce, a Leguia friend, was placed in command of the revolutionary Junta (military government). Ex-President Leguia and his son Juan fled to the cruiser Almirante Grau, begged to be taken to a neutral port. Other members of the numerous Leguia family scurried to the safety of Lima's foreign embassies...
President Leguia: 'T am disposed to bow to any decision of armed forces. . . . Now those who take over the power will see the bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...
Members of the 67th Congress (1921-23) were not surprised last week to hear that their most eccentric colleague, Manuel Herrick, 54, Republican, of the Eighth Oklahoma District, had been arrested by Federal Dry agents while firing for $15 per week the boiler of a 500-gal. still in the remote reaches of St. Mary's County, Md. They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against...