, 1919-10-23
FOREIGN

The American army transport Great
Northern sailed from V~aldivostok with
100 officers and 1,40O enlisted men re-
turning to the United States.
Allied cruisers are aiding in the de-
Tense of Riga against German attacks.
which has been stubborn, according to
a communication issued by the Lettish
foreign office.
The British Socialist party has de-
cided by an overwhelming majority to
join the Third Communist Interna-
tlonals, established at Moscow, and to
sever connections with the old inter
national Socialist bureau.
The American steamer Mount Hood
is n total loss as the result of a fire
aboard the vessel at M~ontevideo, ac-
cording to a dispatch from that port.
The Mount Hood was built at
Portland, Ore, last year.
Fire starting in Il summer home de-
stroyed seventy cottages at tie Meth
odist assembly grounds, Grpveland,
Lake Minnetonka. Four persons, two
of them children, We're seriously
burned in escaping from their homes.
The first announcement by Chicago
concerns of a Christmas bonus for EN-.
ployes came from Marshall Field & Co.
Officials announced that S1,500,OO0
would be split among workers receiv-
ing less than $500 yearly. The dis
tribution is made in view of the high
cost of living, the officials said.
NJ. Stambuliwsky, leader of the peas
ants and agrarians, has been success
full in his attempt to form a new cabi-
net in Bulgaria, according to a Sofia
message received in Paris. The minis.
try, it is stated, has been constituted
for the purpose of signing the peace
treaty presented by the allies.
Italy has agreed to the creation of a
free state in Fiume, the port remain
ing under control of the league of ma
lions, says the Petit Parisien. At the
same time, it is said, Italy is under
stood to require there shall be no gap
between the free state and Italian As
tria in order that Fiume may not be
surrounded by Jugo-Slav territory.
Appeal to Presbyterians throughout
the country for an expression of opin-
ion on the question of granting women
equal rights with men in all the func-
lions of the church has been issued by
the committee on official relations of
women in the church, created by the
last general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church. The committees report
will be submitted to the next general
assembly.
GENERAL
Six of the largest longshoremen's
local unions voted In New York to re-
TURF to work, John r. Riley, chairman
of the longshoremen's strike commit
tee, announced. These locals, he said,
have n combined membership of 5000
workers.
Lyman w. Doty, pilot of one of the
New York-WashingtOn mail aero
planes, was burned to death at the
Rolling Road Golf Club, Catonsyille, a
suburb. when his plane crashed nose
first into the ground and the gasoline
tank exploded.
An embargo on the expectation of SUI
gar to relieve the existing shortage is
sought by Representative Gallinger of
Massachusetts in a bill introduced in
the House. Under the bill no sugar
cane or raw or refined sugar can be
exported for a period of six months and
such further time as might be consid-
cred advisable by the President.
Reports that Russians on the north
eastern coast of Siberia recently CON
fiscated the cargo of the American
schooner Belinda, which was in Siber-
ian waters hunting walrus has beer re-
,ceived at Nome, Alaska. Russians, II
was said, disputed the right of tho
americans to shoot walrus on Siberian
shores. The Russians first seized The
vessel and her cargo.
OF 10.245 members of the army nurse
corps who saw service overseas, 268
died and three were wounded in ac-
ton, according to a report on the work
of the nurses ON the western front
made to the surgeon general by Miss
Julia @. Stimson, director of the army
overseas nursing service.
Margaret Seithamier, aged 16, on
trial for the murder of Benjamin Burr,
a Chicago attorney whom she was al
legged to nave shot TO death in his of
flee July Z, was found not guilty after
two hours of elaboration by the jury
Mrs. Marie Hermes, co-defendant, also
was acquitted. These women make
some two-score acquitted in recent
years after Staying men in Chicago.
Secretary Glass put his name to a
check for 80, 84s, 300. ILL., SO, said to have
been the largest ever drawn. 1t was
made payable to the treasurer of the
United States, but did not involve a
transfer of that amount of money. 1t
mas made necessary to coun for re-
demptions of certificates of indebted