, 1920-06-03

to information received by the French
foreign office.
The dowager countess Of Granard,
who married Beatrice, daughter Of Og-
den Mills of New York, is dea at Cas-
t%leknock, ireland.
The Japanese cabinet has voted to
reduce the naval budget from S33,00O,-
900 to 500, 100000. The original pro-
gram Of extension will not be inter
fered with, authorities said.
Field Marshal Szetozar B~oroevic,
commander of Austrian forces on the
Italian front from late in 1915 until
October, 1918, is dead, his death being
caused by a stroke of apoplexy.
e. n. Beasley, managing director of
the British Columbia Union Steamship
Company, was killed when the airplane
In which he had flown over Vancouver
crashed to the ground from a height
of $500 feet. Major A. r. Baker, his
companion, was seriously injured.
Feeling is growing that the Russian
B%olsheviki are directing their armies
toward Persia, as they have concen-
trated about 10000 troops in the vicin-
ity of Baku. These troops have not
participated largely in the fight
against h Georgians and Armenians.
Concern is felt in commercial mar
kets throughout France because of u
rapid decline in prices of stable com
modities. In the past thirty days, cot
ton has declined pa francs per fifty
Kilograms in the Havre market, while
coffee has fallen seventy-six and wool
t~hirty-five points in the same time.
The well-known Swiss aviator Tad
dioli fell into Lake Constance and was
drowned while flying a seaplane in a
contest at Romanshorn. Taddioli was
complishing the feat in July, 1910,
when he flew from Sesto Calande,
Italy, to Geneva in two hours.
GENERAL.
A hydro-airplane marked mo. 1926"
was picked up at sea off Scotland light
ship by the steam pilot boat New York.
The hydro-airplane was upside down
and there were 40 traces of any occu-
pants.
Ten leaders of the railroad strike in
New Jersey were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at Newark under the
Lever act. They were charged with
conspiring to obstruct Interstate COM
merce.
Franklin X. Lane, former secretary
of the interior, was elected a director
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. Mr.. Lane retired from the
cabinet March 1, after twenty-one
years of public life.
Wildair, owned by Harry Payne
Whitney, won the historic Metropol-
itan handicap at Belmont park, at New
York. Thunderclap was second and
On Watch third. The time was
1 :3S 40.
Sweeping email that Great Britain
was seeking to monopolize the worlds
fuel oil supply was made in New York
by Sir Auckland Geddes, British am
~bassador, speaking at the Pilgrims
dinner.
Fifty persons saved themselves by
jumping into a life net spread by po-
lice and firemen when fire broke out
in the Hotel Manhattan, at Paterson,
n. J., a four-story structure in the bus
mess section. The loss is estimated at
$4,000
Indictments against seven persons,
including three women, charging that
they violated the income tax law by
the alleged failure to mark prices on
theater tickets which they sold, were
returned at Chicago by the federal
grand jury.
Herbert Hoover is being considered
by the executive committee of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Corporation for president of that in
stitution, to succeed the late Richard
G. MacLauren, 1t has been reported at
Boston.
A fund Of half a million dollars was
pledged by more h a 1000 business
men at a luncheon of the merchants
association to finance nm independent
trucking corporation in an effort to re-
lieve the tieup of freight in New York
resulting from strikes of various labor
organizations.
The United States Is in no danger of
exhausting its coal supplies in the near
future, for about 1000 years supply
is available, s. NJ. Darling of the bu-
reau of mines told the twelfth annual
convention of the International Rail-
way Fuel Association. He estimates
the supply Of minable coal at $685.
637, 100000 tons. Last years consump-
ton, he said, was 590,0O0.O00 tons.
The U. s. super-dreadnaught Mary
land is soon to go in commission. This
huge ship will have a displacement Of
1880 n The Maryland is electric
ally propelled and electrical through
out. Approximately $4,000 horsepower
is available, enough TO supply power to