The Dolores star., 1920-10-29
FOREIGN

in Halle, Germany, by seiZing the Of
flee of the Independent party's news
paper, says dispatch from Frank
fort
The drys have lost their first battle
in the prohibition fight in the federal
district in Mexico. The saloons were
open Sunday, though the government
had made an effort to have them all
closed.
The imports into france for the
nine months ended Sept 30 were 27,-
lS9,0Oo.OOO francs, as compared with
p, ,o6I, 100000 for the same period OF
1919. The exports were 1857 900, 900,
as compared with 6,7o4,000.OOO.
Luis A. Santander. consul for Chile
In the state of Washington. and assist
ant professor of Spanish at the Uni
versity of Washington, died at Seattle
after few hours illness. Mr.. San
tander was formerly secretary Of the
Chilean legation at Buenos Aires.
Action by the French government
to recover Sl,3T2, 100, alleged to be the
value of war equipment which went
down with the steamship North Cam
bria Aug. >, 1918, has been instituted
in Admiralty Court in Brooklyn against
the Commonwealth and Dominion Line
Limited, of London.
A general strike throughout Poland
has been proclaimed as protest
against the proposed creation of an
upper parliamentary house under the
new constitution, on which a commits
sion has been working for more than
a year. In Warsaw the street cars
ceased running and restaurants and
many stores were closed.
AS result Of the census taken
Oct. l, the figures of which have not
been announced, the Japanese govern
ment has begun sending circulars
throughout the country, asking physi.
clans, surgeons, dentists, pharmacists,
tnilors, blaCksmiths and other persons
whether they would be willing to
serve in the army in case of war.
GENERAL
The convicts, George Stivers and
Marcus Bassett, who escaped from
Sing Sing prison. were captured in
the woods at Warner, \. H.
Sale of the s,541 deadweight ton
steamer Westmead to the Standard
Steamship Company of New York for
81, ,412,467 has been announced at the
Shipping Board.
The Philadelphia & Reading railway
has announced reduction of its work
ing force approximately 1000 men and
that all employees have been put on an
eight-hour basis.
A farm survey to eradicate the COM
mon barberry as defensive measure
against wheat rust has been started
by the Department of Agriculture in
portions of thirteen states in the West
and Middle West.
The public utilities commission, in
an order made public at Hartford,
grants n petition of the Connecticut
Company for a flat ten-cent fare rate
on its trolley lines, instead of the
seven-cent fare now in force.
All farm organizations in the United
States and Canada have been asked to
cooperate in the request of the Ma
tional Wheat Growers Association to
suspend delivery of wheat from farms
to market, until such time as 1.-The
price of good wheat is stabilized at SO
per bushel at the terminal market"
DR.. Duncan MacDougall, fifty-four,
surgeon known particularly sor his
experiments in "the weighing of the
SOUL" is dead at Haverhill, Mass.
Through delicate weighing devices, he
calculated the weight of the human
soul at between six and eight ounces.
He was contributor Of poetry to
various magazines.
Production of bituminous coal went
above the 1900, ,OOO-ton mark for the
first time since Jan. II, during the
week ended Oct. 8. The total output
is estimated by the geological survey
at 12,O75,OOO net tons. This was an
increase of 224,OOO tons over the week
of Sept. 25 and 706,OOO,O0O tons or 6.2
per cent over the week of Oct. 2.
Three trainmen were killed, five
others injured and five or six pas
sengers shaken up in a head-on col
lislon between two Norfolk & West
ern passenger trains at Rural Retreat,
Va, according to an official announce
ment at the railway headquarters at
Roanoke, Va. The trains met on a
siding.
Testimony taken at the New York
hearing of the joint legislative com
mittee investigating the alleged build
ing trust, relative to the payment of
$4,000 by Il. b. Levy, real estate
owner and builder, to have a strike
settled on one of his building projects,
will be submitted to the proper
prosecuting authorities for immediate
action"
Mrs. NIilla d. Shonts, widow of
Theodore z. Shonts, former president
of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, was given permission in the
SurrOgate's Court at New York to sue