, 1917-12-27
FOREIGN

cuss financial projects.
The first heavy fall ct snow in the
vinicity of Paris occurred Dec. IS.
Railroad and telegraph services n
disorganized.
Two sailors instead of n were
saved by the Germans from the Amer
lean destroyer Jacob Jones. according
to an official German announcement
at Amsterdam.
DR.. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the
first woman to be elected as mayor of
a town in England and a prominent
physician, died at her home in Aide
burg. Suffolk.
Unidentified bodies of 200 victims
of the Halifax disaster were buried
after public funerals conducted by
Protestant and Catholic clergymen.
Nearly 100 of the bodies were charred
beyond recognition.
Complete restoration of the terri
tories taken by the enemy, together
with compensation. was demanded by
Premier Lloyd George in explaining
the war aims of the government in
the House of Commons in London.
Living proofs of the terrible eco
nomic conditions in Austria were sup
piled by the arrival at Buchs, on the
frontier, of SIC pale and suffering
children between the ages of Z and 3.
They are from Vienna and other Aus
trian towns.
A state of siege has been pro-
claimed in P%etrograd and the Ukran-
ian Rada has refused to obey an ul-
timatum presented by the B~olsheviki
government. Disorders in the CAPT
tai, due, it is said, to the looting of
wine cellars and shops, made neces.
sary the proclamation of a state OF
siege.
Unionist candidates, supporters Of
h premier, Sir Robert Borden, and
his CONSUMPTION program. were vic
torious in twelve of British Column
bias thirteen constituencies in Mon
days election. Skeena alone was car
ried by a Liberal candidate, where
Fred Stork, a Prince Rupert mer-
chant, defeated Colonel Peck, now
overseas.
The forward IL crew of an Am
erican liner reaching an American
port destroyed a submarine the morn
ing after leaving a British port on
the voyage, according to stories told
by passengers. Maj. Gen. Hugh L.
Scott. former chief of staff of the
army. who was a passenger, is said
to have stood behind the gunners dur
ing the action and complimented them
on their Workmanship.
SPORTING NEWS
Young Jake Schaefer established a
new world record for high runs in red
ball billiards at San Francisco when
record was forty-five, held by Marc
Cation.
Tommy Fitzpatrick, graduate of the
University of Utah, who has been
coach to the Salt lake East Side
High school for four years, was ap-
pointed coach to the University of
Utah athletes.
Jimmy Hamill, Denver boxing pro.
moter, wired Jess Willard a guarantee
of $4,000 if he will come to Denver
to stage his proposed heavyweight
championship match for the benefit of
the Red Cross. The only stipulation
made by the Denver man is that the
titleholder meet either Fred Fulton or
Bill Brennan.
GENERAL
Legislation specifically to subject
all federal officials except the Presi-
dent and members of the Supreme
Court to the excess profits tax was
agreed upo by the House ways and
means committee.
AT Memphis, Tenn, yeggmen blew
the vault of a coal company in the
heart of the business district dur
ing the night and escaped with 5000
in cash. They also ooh $500 worth
of Liberty bonds and considerable
jewelry.
Mrs. Frank ID. Adams, wife Of Lieut..
Frank ID. Adams, assumed his duties
of the pastor OF the Universalist
church at Urbana, ILL.,, to fill the va |
cancy caused when her husband left
to begin his duties at Camp Grant,
Rockford, Ill.
Further investigation by the Federal
Milk Commission into means of i'm
proving production and distribution of
milk, after it has fixed prices for pro
ducers and distributors for the first
three months of next year, was decidr
ed upon by the commission in New
York. The Federal Food Administra-
ton has set Jan. l as the date on
the commission must fix prices.
Robbery of the State Bank of Sum
NIT, a suburb of Chicago, of O,000
more, called attention to the APP