The Dolores star., 1920-02-13
FOREIGN

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Holland have agreed they Will not
resume trade with soviet Russia be
fore Russias debt to nationals of
those countries has been paid or guar
anteed.
Spain has agreed to defer for one
year payment of the French debt of
450,OOO,ooO pesetas now due her, says
the Matin, which denies France has
asked for Il new loan OF 10o,o00,ooO
pesetas
The French government is deter
mined to maintain reserve Of air
plane pilots. Several flying schools
have been approved to which are to
be sent each year large number of
student-fliers.
Fifteen persons were killed and
thirty Injured in Il hcad.on collision be
tween an express train and Il freight
train standing ut Perrigny sur
LOgnon, about twenty-one miles east
of Dijon, France.
An illiterate Austrian earned S5.I2I
in Canada during single year of the
war, as Il luborer at the Welland steel
foundries, ii was learned at st. Cath
arincs. when Mike Ennis was fined
for making false income tax return.
Damage to the amount of 81. l.0OO00u
was caused at Manila. T. l.. when fire
destroyed half the buildings Of the
Philippine Carnival Exposition and the
f.tn
of the exhibits were irrcplucublc and
the loss is serious
France has bought six former Ger
man transatlantic liners. recently
United States army transports, from
the United States shipping board. it
was learned at New York from an of
ficial Of the board. who refused TO al
low the use of his name.
Rate increases Of 30 to 10 per cent
on Canadian railroads were predicted
rs the result of estimates that deficits
for the current fiscal year would total
S2S.oOo,OOO. An investigation is being
made to determine increases necessary
to enable the roads to pay expenses.
GENERAL
Aliens are departing from Chicago,
chiefly the steel mills district, ut an
average rate of 800 Il day, thereby ere
ating labor problem that threatens
tU become acute.
\ bill providing for the granting %!
statehood to the territory of Hawaii
under qualifications to be determined
by Congress was introduced by Ha-
waiian Delegate KaIanianaOle.
Henry Edward Clement, for twenty.
five years editor-in-chief of the Boston
Evening Transcript, died of heart dis.
ease at his home in Concord, in his
nth year. He retired in 1906
A score of persons were injured
when two electric trains on the Wash
ington and Virginia railroad crashed
in head-on collision in the midst OF
a driving sleet storm near Dunn Lor.
ing, Va.
The total output of the meat pack
ing industry in the United States for
1919 was estimated at more than So
o00OOo,OO0, in statement given out
by the Institute of American Meat
Packers. The estimate was based on
annual reports Of more than 800 pack
ing companies which operate under
federal inspection. Profit throughout
the industry averaged not more than
~ cents on each dollar Of sales, the
report estimated.
Government officials and prominent
coal operators have been invited to at
tend the meeting of the American In.
stitute of Mining and MetallurgicaI
Engineers in New York on Feb Il, at
which a constructive plan for the bet.
ter working of the bituminOus coal in.
dustry will be presented by Horace V,
Winchell, retiring president of the in.
stitute, and Herbert c. Hoover. Mr.
Hoover will be installed as president
of the institute at the meeting.
DIR. II. S. Robertson, who shot and
killed Porter NJ. Brindley, member OF
the Alabama Legislature ut lIartZelle
Ala, was captured at Falkyille, Ala.
! by posse. He was taken to Decatur
for safekeepinG.
Consumption of wool in December
| increased from 2S,O00,oO0 pounds tt
| 100000 pounds, the monthly report
of the Bureau of Markets showed
There was continued demand fol
fabrics made from the finer grades OF
wool, "a per cent of the total consurnp
| ton being of the fine grades.
On his way to court to face a charge
of picking pockets, Nathan Palestine
broke away from a policeman at al
elevated station in New York and
leaping down on the tracks lay dow
with his neck across the rail. An on
coming train severed his head. Hun
dreds of persons viewed the suicide.
Shooting from the top of his burn
ing home in which he was holding !;
mob at bay negro at Pine Bluffs