, 1919-01-09
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYiNGs, o G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINes. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR

Inc Lithuanian government, because
of the Bolshevik successes in western
Russia. has been removed from wilma
to Kovno.
Bolshevik forces captured Ufa, cap
ital of the White Guards. a wireless
dispatch from Moscow reported. They
also captured Stilitan.
Marshal Foch. according to the
Matin. has given permission for the
Germans in the occupied Rhine prov
inces to participate in the German
elections.
Several German army corps have
been concentrated on the border be-
tween Posen and Prussia. according
to the Nachrichten of Frankfort.
Germany, 1t is added. has decided to
defend her rights to the province of
Posen.
Czecho-Slovak troops are moving
toward Vienna INT have cut commu-
nication between the Austrian and
Hungarian capitals. They have en-
tered Pressburg, only thirty miles
from Vienna, according to informa-
ton received at Geneva.
Two thousand French soldiers rave
entered Budapest, the Hungarian zap
ital, according to a telegram from Eur
ich to the Temps. One detachment
occupied the castle of Count Karolyi,
where Field Marshal Won Mackensen
of the German army is interned.
The Russian wireless service re-
ports a number of successes for the
Red Guards. They have taken Nov
ogrodek in the province of Minsk,
while the Ukrainian Reds have cap
tured Homel. The offensive move
ment of the Bolsheviki continues in
the Reval n Riga sectors.
Posen is completely in the hands
from Berlin. The official buildings
are guarded by soldiers wearing
German uniforms. but with their
cockades replaced by the white eagle
of Poland. The Poles have taken
complete charge, ever in the Ger
man districts, and the German ma
tional monuments have been over
turned. after violent fighting.
WESTERN
Not for twenty-five years has
Texas faced brighter crop prospects
at the beginning of sthe new year
than at the present time. as a result
of rains and SHOWS of the past two
weeks.
A new minimum wage scale of
Sc a day, a fiat increase of 81 a day
for approximately $4,000 employees
~ ra,t&hDrt thA nApntry uyoc ON
nounced by the Ford Motor Com
pany at Detroit.
Victory and peace were the key
notes of the Thirtieth Annual Rose
Tournament held in Pasadena, Cal,
New Years day, the yearly demon
stration that southern California is
a winter playground.
A freight rate reduction of SIS a
tor for cargo trade from the Pacific
coast to Japan was announced by ].
D. Lowman, assistant director Of OPP
erations in the Seattle district for
the United States Shipping Board.
The new rate will be $50 a ton.
WASHINGTON
France has warned Germany that,
If the radicals seize power, the allies
will consider the preliminary peace
affairs ended.
The governments loss in operating
the railroads in 1918 is calculated by
railroad administration officials at
less than $3.50, 900, 900.
Railroad telegraphers and station
agents were given a further wage
increase by Director General Nc
Adoo, retroactive to October L.
President Wilson had his first pay
day outside of the limits of the United
States n the treasury warrant for
$6,250 drawn to his credit probably
was the first presidential pay check
eve endorsed by anyone other than
the chief executive.
Gold production in the United
States in 1913 fell to $4,000 fine
ounces, worth $6S,493,OOO the low
est in twenty years, and silver pro-
duction dropped Il 6~7.S79.0OO fine
ounces. worth $67,S79,00O at the
standard government price of 81 an
ounce, the smallest record since
1913.
Preliminary estimates of the Geo
logical Survey indicate that the guam.
tity of petroleum marketed from oil
wells and field storage tanks in the
United States this year. according to
more than 345, soc. 900 barrels, an ap
parent gain of 3 per cent over the rec
ord output of 1856. 315, 6O1 barrels in
1917.
The departure from France o.
four transports with 1000 troops
was announced in cable advices t.
the War Department. They are tn,
Toloa. the Ulua, the Abangarez ant
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