The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-11-16
WORLD IN BRIEF

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ton at a time to customer.
New York.-The New York Ameri-
can says project is ON foot TO build
several super submarines, modelled att
err the Deutschland, in this country.
Chicago.-Chicago drug and con-
fectionery stores have raised the price
of ice cream sodas to Is cents, and
candy shops announce advances of
from five to 20 cents per pound for
candy.
q Philadelphia. records for the
number Of pieces Of money coined
were broken by the United States
mint here during October. The num-
Der Of coins turned out amounted to
45, 231, Alb.
Pittsburg. To take the place of de-
parted foreign workmen who have
gone to Europe, several hundred neg
roes have been imported to work in
the mills. Several thousand negroes
have been drawn from the south for
this purpose.
New York.-During the last IL
months there were built in the United
State by steam railroads only ZIG
miles Of new line, the lowest annual
record for more than so years. In
1854, during the Civil war, only 1888
miles were built.
New York.-The debts of the seven
largest nations at war aggregate $751;
O00, 900, 900, compared with $27 ,000,-
100000 at the beginning Of the war.
The daily cost of the war is estimated
at $1O5, 100000. If the war ends next
year the annual interest on the debt
will be $3,s00,000,000.
Geneva.-Compulsorv war economy
in Germany has spread to clothing.
Berlin dispatches say that hereafter
no person may buy new clothes with
out proving that their old ones are
useless. Men are to be allowed two
suits yearly as maximum; women,
three suits or dresses.
st. Paul.-The Minnesota tax COM
mission increases the assessed val
uation of property owned by the late
J. j. Hill $1,337,118 on personal
property and So, 372, AL on money and
credits over the assessors respective
returns. This increases the amount
of the inheritance taxes on these items
alone by $S3,6l4.
Boston. The executive committee
of the National Housewives league is
urging it's 100000 members to stop
buying cold storage eggs until the
price has been reduced to IS cents.
The league claims that dealers paid
% cents for eggs. for which they now
demand IS and 20 cents.
Chicago.-Frantic kilograms are be-
ing received by the Interstate Com
merce commission from manufacture
ing concerns all over the country say
ing that they will have to close down
their plants if they do not get more
coal Immediately. Most of the mes
sages report coal supplies on hand
for only two Or three days.
Washington Treasury officials are
considering whether initials of design
er of new dimes put in circulation
Monday shall be eliminated and COIN
age suspended temporarily. On face
of dime initials of artist, A. Weinman,
appear prominently in monogram. In
all $180,000 in new coins have been
minted.
New York. After 60 years of bar
bering, Jacob Hysler, for 20 years
proprietor of shop in the Hotel
Manhattan, has retired with for
tune of 100000. Among his steady
patrons were William and Percy
Rockefeller, George McAneny and
Mayor Mitchell. Colonel Roosevelt
and Charles E. Hughes also were Gus
toners.
Stanford, Calif.-One hundred Stan
ford university men, mostly under
graduates, volunteered today for serv-
ice in France with the American Am
bulance Corps. Forty-eight signed
up definitely for service; the other
fifty-two have yet to obtain the con-
sent of their parents. Expenses are to
be paid by group Of San Francisco
business men.
Ell Paso.-Colonel Rosario Garcia,
Villa commander from Sonora, weak
ened and made vain plea for his
life when he faced a firing squad with
two of his men in Juarez One of his
companions was boy Of II, while the
other was stolid Mayo Indian. The
first volley did not kill Garcia, and
the captain of the guard had to fire
two ENERGY shots" to end his agony.
Chicago.-James E. Wertz, Chi
cago's largest holder of eggs, said to-
day that eggs will go to 60 cents a
dozen and butter to so cents a pound
in December in Chicago. "This talk
of an egg trust is all humbug," he de-
clared. "There is no corner on eggs.
However, I am going to get all I can
for the eggs I hold, and I probably
own more than any other man alive. /"
New York.-Charles M. Schwab,
president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration, has just ordered the most ex-
pensive private car that ever has been
built, to cost 100000. The car at pres
ont nsnd nv Mr. Schwah cost %45 600