, 1919-12-04

house of commons by a majority of A.
900.
Three million American tourists are
expected in France i'm 1920 and 1921, 1t
was estimated by Henri de Fert, the
new president of the French Motor
Touring Club.
Premier Clemenceau has rented at
st. Vincent, Yendee, a small solitary
house on the s%eashore, where he hopes
to rest and work in solitude, according
to reports from Paris.
The fIrepits of Mount Kilauea which
for months was level with the main
crater and overflowed frequently. col
lapsed and fell 400 feet. Tel earth
quake shocks accompanied the col
lapse. T.
All records in the prices of fashiona-
BILE gowns are beaten by spring models
just announced in Paris. They will he
$4,000 francs (s2,4O0), while an after
noon frock, n Poiret creation, costs d.
900 francs $4,000.
y Adelina Patti, famous prima donna,
who died Sept. %, at her castle in
~ W. q u ~
00O She bequeathed her entire prop
erty to Baron Rolf Cederstrom, her
husband, except n few personal arti-
cles.
The parliamentary budget commit
tees of Chile has appropriated funds
for the purchase of aeroplanes and
other elements TO increase the iffi-
cheney of the army and navy. The gov
eminent has purchased from Finland
four naval sloops now in German wa
tiers.
of the pre-war population of $780,
900 in the devastated regions of
France, four-fifths have returned to
their former homes, according to n re-
port issued by the American Red Cross
in Paris. French authorities expect a
return of the majority of the remain
der within the next few months.
The Japanese peace delegation, in
announcing that Japan was sending a
light cruiser and two torpedo boats to
Flu Chow, China, for the protection of
Japanese subjects, said instructions
had been given the commander of the
squadron forbidding the landing of
marines or the use of arms, except in
case of absolute necessity.
The Socialist deputies, De Guise
and Ringuier, of the Aisne department
nave informed the president of the
chamber of deputies at Paris that they
will introduce n bill when that body
convenes asking the government to as
sumo the expenses in connection with
the transfer of the bodies of French
soldiers. from battlefield graves to
their native village cemeteries.
GENERAL
The Rev. DR.. Edward Ballard, 9S,
who was bOrn December %, 1920, and
was the oldest Methodist minister in
America, died at his home in Ocean
Grove, N. ].
The famous Holstein Friesian bull,
King Segis Pontiac Alcartra, valued at
$4,000, died at Middletown, N. Y. 1t
was owned by John II. Ardmann of
Fairmont farm.
Twenty-Five persons, most Of them
women and girls, lost their lives in Il
fire which quickly destroyed a frame
building in which 800 of the village
folk were making merry at a dance at
Vile Platte, La.
Robbers, who burned the vault door
with an acetylene torch, looted fifty
safety deposit boxes of $4,000 in cash
and bonds at the State bank of Free
landville, Knox county, Ind. No clew
to the robbers has beer found.
Federal agents raided an alleged
counterfeiting plant in Minneapolis,
placed one man under arrest and
seized 500 spurious half-dolfars, sew
eral molds and dies and a quantity of
metal.
Maud Powell, the violinist, collapsed
during n recital at st. Louis and was
taken to a hospital in a s-emi-conscious
condition. Physicians diagnosed her
ailment as an acute attack of stomach
trouble.
The German bark Paul, which was
reported in distress off the Nova SEQ
tan coast is believed to have been
lost with all hands. Several steamers
which have searched the vicinity of
the last reported position of he vessel
have found nj trace of her or her
crew.
Major Huston of the British army,
attached to the Chilean army as an
aviation instructor. broke the altitude
record for South America. He as
cended 21,400 feet in eighty-five min
utes with an experimental scout BIZ
plane of 300 horsepower.
Clyde Smith of South Bend, Ind, and
Harold Lane of New York City have
been indicted on charges of having
worked n confidence game when they
disposed of an alleged new process in
manufacturing automobile tires to Sol
Goldberg, president of the Hump Hair