Arizona state miner., 1919-10-31
FOREIGN

IOrty deaths. Many miners were in
| jured.
It has been reported in dispatches
from Lisbon that Portugal had granted
the United States a concession in the
Azores for naval station.
Marshal Foch has informed the Bel
gian government by telegraph that 49,
900 Belgian freight cars have been
found on the left bank of the Rhine.
Hundreds of American children will
receive Christmas dolls, gifts of the
French children of the city of Mez-
iereS, as a mark of their gratitude for
the organization there of the schools by
the American Red Cross.
The disappearance Of silver money
from circulation has resulted in such
a shortage of small change that many
restaurants in Paris have posted
notices that customers must make
their own change or accept postage
stamps in place of silver
A wave of diamond buying has
struck England despite the repeated
pleas of the government and business
| organizations for thrift. West End
jewelers. report doing an extraordinary
business in precious stones, especially
| among women who made big wages in
war work
Nikolai Lenine, Bolshevist premier
of Russia, has been captured by anti
Bolshevist forces, according to wire
less message picked up by the Japan
ese ship Tenyo Maru in the harbor at
Honolulu. The message gave no fur
ther details of the reported capture of
Lenine
An official census shows that the
population of Korea at the end of 1918
was 17,057, ,O32 This shows an increase
of SS,035 as compared with the end of
1917 and of 3,744,015 over the figures
for 1870 the year of annexation to
Japan. japanese residents number
336872.
The supreme council has decided to
intrust to the military authorities of
the allied powers the duty of fixing
date for depositing ratifications of the
treaty of peace with Germany, which
date will mark the coming into force
of the convention, according to the
Echo de Paris
The supreme council has refused a
request from the German government
that members of interallied commits
siOnS in Germany should not wear uni
forms after the peace treaty comes in
to effect. The council declared it saw
in the request an attempt to weaken
the authority of the commissions.
The game of baccarat is again al
lowed in the clubs in France since the
ratification of the peace treaty. AS
soon as the ban was lifted a veritable
frenzy of gambling set in all over
Europe. 1t is estimated $1,OOO,OOO
were won and lost in the first night
after the famous game was resumed.
GENERAL
The state of New York will attempt
to collect an Inheritance tax amount
ing to millions of dollars from the es-
tate of William w. Astor, who died in
London.
Recommendations granting the right
of suffrage to Cuban women and call
ing for participation by Cuba in the
league of nations have been placed in
the revised platform of the Liberal
party.
Progress in surgery and medico-ther-
apeutics since the Civil war have add
ed fifteen years to the average human
life, DR.. William Mayo of Rochester,
Mimi, told the ninth annual American
Congress of Surgeons in New York.
What is said to be a new record in
the price of books was established by
the sale of single volume for 100000.
The purchaser, a New York collector,
asked that his name be withheld. The
book is the only known copy of the
| first collected edition of Shakespeare's
works, published in London by Thomas
Pavier in 1890 and printed by William
Jaggard.
Alfred T. Ringing, head of the firm
of Ringing Brothers, circus owners,
died suddenly on his estate at Oak
Ridge, N. j..
George "Babe" Ruth, world cham
pion home-run hitter of the Boston
Americans, said before leaving for Los
Angeles that he would demand $4,000
salary next year.
Two men were killed, another may
die and several others were injured
following two explosions in a fire
which destroyed the produce plant of
| Swift & Co., at Iowa Falls, Iowa.
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