, 1920-01-01

with a revolver after assisting injured
passengers at Lille, France.
Lady Ramsay, formerly Princess Pa
tricin of COnnaught, gave birth to a
son in London. Princess Patricia was
married to Commander Alexander Rob
ert Maule Ramsey of the royal navy
in February.
During the fiscal year which ended
June 30, 1919, Brazil imported $1,000,
900 worth of automobile and motor
parts from the United States, which Is
an increase of 30 per cent over he
value of the 1918 imports.
Premier Nitti of Italy. expressed the
opinion that from 12.OOO, 100000 to To-
900. OOO. 900 lire would be subscribed to
the victory loan, the sale of which be-
gins Jan. 9TH. on his return from the
visit he is to make to Paris and Lon
don early in January Premier Nitti
will undertake a speaking tour on he
half of the loan.
The Bolsheviki captured fifteen
guns, 1000 horses and 300 men after
defeating the forces Of General Nam
ontoff and General ChelnOkoff in the
region of S~taroniensk, according to a
wireless dispatch received from Mos
cow. The dispatch adds: More than
II thousand Cossacks were killed, in
Guiding General Chelnokoff."
The rebels in Eastern Siberia, says
n Moscow dispatch, have completely
several all communication on the
Amur line and observation-disclosures has
been cut off. The dispatch adds that
Galician troops, intended for the de-
Tense of Kiev, have revolted against
General Denikine, the nti-Bolshevik
leader in the South and attacked the
volunteer army in the e
Taiga has been captured by local
Bolsheviki. Many trains Oh the trans
siberian railroad west of Talga have
u off and Polish troops in thai
region will he forced to fight their
way u Fears for the safety of 7.
r. Hansen, United States vice consul
Mt Omsk, and Joseph II. Ray, consul
at Irkutsk, who are west of Taiga, are
felt here. Nothing has been heard
from them for more than n week.
Herr Huszar, the Hungarian pre-
mier, stated in Budapest to a deputa-
ton representing those crippled during
the war, h Il Communism had cost Hun
gary eighteen billion kronen nominal
ly about So, 6OO,OOO,OO0 according to
a report received in Berlin. The pre-
mier said that Rumanian invasion had
IN Ion thirtySiy hiIlfan Epnnnp no.,
The national assembly now had to re-
store Hungary's finance from a des-
perate condition.
GENERAL
Statistics obtained show that LIPS
British girls married American dough-
boys. OF these only seventeen remain
to be sen to join their husbands in the
United States.
Judge A. w. Sanborn ordered $1,000
pounds of sugar, seized last week from
Nj. Leach, Beloit, confiscated and
turned owe to the E%consin fair price
committee Leach ~ fined 500 and
costs.
Victor l.. Berger, who was reelected
to Congress from the fifth congression-
al district, December 10Th, following
his expulsion from that body, said that
he will go to Washington January 9th
to claim his seat.
Uruguay has been linked to the
United States through the All-Ameri-
can cables by the opening of a new
line from Buenos Aires to MOntevideo,
putting New York and Montevideo in
direct telegraphic communication with
each other for the first time.
Maj. A. f. McKeever, NJ. c., d. S. o.,
one of the b~est-known Canadian aces
in the great war and credited with the
destruction of forty-five German ma
chimes, died in a hospital as the result
of an operation at Toronto. In an auto
mobile accident near Stratford, Ont,
some time ago, he suffered a broken
leg and internal injuries.
Purchase of 100000 acres of Montana
grazing land with 25,00O head of cattle
has been effected by the Hill Land
Corporation, organized by Walter ].
Hill, son of the late James J. Hill, JUS
tice Oscar Hallam of the Minnesota
Souilt II. L = OhtSithuun, WluC-
ly known Montana stockman, and f. S.
of New York.
John ID. Rockefeller gave to man
kind a Christmas present of 100000
to the General Education
Board to raise the salaries of college
professors and half to the Rockefeller
to aid in its work of COM
disease through improvement of
medical education, public health ad-
ministration and scientific research. Ii
is estimated that Mr.. Rockefeller's
public gifts now approximate $780,
100000.
New York boasts of a new school
boy tennis wonder in the person of
Charles NJ. Wood, Jr., Ia years old, of
the Dewitt Clinton High school. Play