, 1919-12-25
FOREIGN

Sir John Jackson, famous as a con-
tractor for public works in various
parts of the world, is dead in London.
He was born in 1851.
A partial street car strike is on at
Madrid. A number of airs are still
operating under the protection of the
civil guards. The building strike con-
tinues.
The note which the allies are draft
ing demanding the %extradition of the
eX-kaiser from Holland, is not to be
presented until after the final ratificit-
ton of the peace treaty.
John Alcock, the ote British avi-
ator who was the first pilot to COM
plete a nonstop flight across the At
lantic, died of injuries sustained when
he fell near Rouen, France.
Sadi Lecointe, the French aviator, in
an officially timed test, averaged 3O5
kilometers, 225 meters (about 1S9
miles, 247h yards), in an hour. At IL
time he attained n speed of 1854 kilO-
meters al hour.
Another overseas tour is being
planned for the Prince of Wales. In
Il speech he announced that the king
vas sending him TO Australia and New
Zealand and probably would sail next
March and be away six or seven
months
Reports of n fresh wave of pogroms
in the districts of the Ukraine occr-
pied by General Denikine's forces are
printed by the Lemberg newspaper Ga
zetta Wiscrowka, according to Lem
berg adviceS. The newspaper claims
EkaterinOslav alone.
August Mueller, former under secre-
tary in the German food administra-
ton, is arranging to visit he United
States, u Berlin dispatch to the London
Times reported. Mueller will attempt
to arrange for import and export of raw
materials and to ascertain the amount
of food available for Germany, the dis
patch said.
The bubonic plague is reported to
have attained grave proportions at Las
Rosas, Santa Fe province, where the
business houses have been ordered
closed for forty-eight hours owing to
bad hyglenic conditions. Several
deaths have occurred. The national
department of hygiene has begun a
war on the rats infesting grain ware
houses.
Alexandra Millerand, former minis
ter of war II at present governor of
Alsace, according to reports, will sue
coed Georges Clemenceau as premier
of France, n Y the Echo de Paris. 1t
is asserted that Millerand, in addition
to being premier, will hold the port
folio of minister of foreign affairs.
Stephen Pinchot, at present foreign
minister, is considering retiring from
the cabinet because of his health.
GENERAL.
Prof. Horatio w. Parker, famous mu-
stefan and composer and lean of music
ut Yale University, died of pneumonia
at his daughters home in Cedarhurst,
l.. L.
AS a result of eating pancakes in
which insect powder had been acct
dentally mixed, four aged inmates of
the Kalamazoo county poor farm in
Michigan are dead and thirty-five are
seriously ill from the same cause.
The new Ohio Products Company
brought in the largest well in Wyom-
ing in he last five years with the eX-
ception of one Salt Creek well of 10000
last year. The new well is making
$50 barrels IN hour by actual measure
ment, making it Il 6,000 barrel pro-
ducer and is located in the Lance Creek
field.
Loss to the United States on account
of the recent coal strike amounted to
approximately $126,0 10000, while tina
to Ohio was about $27, zoo, 900, accord
ing to n. ID. Mckinney secretary of
the Southern Ohio Coal Exchange. Adj
ditional loss to railroads from curtailed
service and to industries forced to
shut dow on account of the fuel situa-
ton could not he estimated and no al
lowance therefore is made in the esti-
mate Mr.. Mckinney stated.
Liquor interests estimate their losses
as n result of the enforcement of the
wartime prohibition law at S400,000,-
600, according to Il statement at Chi
cago by Levy Mayer, chief counsel for
the distillers in the middle West.
Somewhere in Montana, julius E.
Johnson, formerly of st. Joseph, Mo-,
is working on n railroad. In New York
an $4,000 legacy awaits him. When
an application was made to settle the
100000 estate of Alex Johnson, de-
ceased, importer n exporter, in sur
rogate court it was disclosed that Jul
ius Johnson, II grandson, could not be
found. When last heard of he was
working as a railroad Waterman in
Anaconda, Mont.
Segregation or disposal of CONNER
| cial lines not directly allied with the
meat and provision business of the five
great packing companies as agreed up-