, 1920-02-12
F0aEIGN

and Holland have agreed they will not
resume trade with soviet Russia be-
fore Russia's debt to nationals of
those countries has been paid or guar
anteed.
Fifteen persons We're killed and
thirty injured in IL head-on collision be
tween an express train and Il freight
train standing ut P%errigny sur
L'Ognon, about twenty-one miles east
of DIXON, France.
An illiterate Austrian earned S5,J2T
in Canada during Il single year of the
war, as a laborer at the Welland steel
foundries, it was learned at st. Cath
nrines, when Mike Ennis was fined
for making II false income tax return.
Damage to the amount of S1,OO0,O0U
was caused ut Mnnila, T.. L., when fire
destroyed half the buildings of the
Philippine Carnival Exposition and the
island exhibits they contained. Many
of the exhibits We're irreplacable and
the loss is serious.
France has bought six former Ger
man transatlantic liners, recently
United States army Transports, from
$50 ''''>'' shoNN' hlFl fAh ~
was learned at New York from an Of
fetal 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
as the result of estimates that deficits
for the current fiscal year would total
S2S,OO0,0O0. An investigation is being
made to determine increases necessary
to enable the roads to pay expenses.
The list of Germans accused by the
allies of var crimes and whose extra
dition is to he demanded, is headed
by former Grown Prince Frederick
William and several other sons of the
former German emperor. The list has
been handed to Baron Kurt Won Lers-
ner, the German representative al
Paris.
Julio Mitchell, state prosecutor of
Puebla, has been notified that the
%eXequator Official recognition) of
William o. Jenkins, United States
consular agent at Puebla, was can
celed Feb. /. The federal government
is awaiting action by the Puebla
courts in Jenkins case before taking
/ '''lS ANSuibihS us aiitStu iiitlilioi
of requesting him to leave Mexico.
Dog teams from many parts of the
northland will start March 18th, st.
Patrick's day, in the third annual 100
mile Hudson's Bay Dog Derby over
the snow trails between The Pas and
Sturgeon Landing and return. About
fifty teams may enter. A purse of ST.
600 and IL huge silver and gold cup will
be presented to the winning driver.
The cup, which stands over three fee
in height, was given by Frank Burns,
a Toronto sportsman.
GENERAL
Aliens are departing from Chicago,
chiefly the steel mills district. at an
average rate of 300 a day, thereby Gre
ating Il labor problem that threatens
to become acute.
A bill providing for the granting of
statehood to the territory of Hawaii,
under qualifications to be determined
by Congress was introduced by Ha-
waiian Delegate Kalanianaole.
A score of persons were injured
when two electric trains OIL the Wash
ington and Virginia railroad crashed
in a head-on collision in the midst of
a driving sleet storm near Dunn Lor-
ing, Va.
Mayor Couzens' SIS, OOO, 900 municipal
ownership street railway plan, includ-
ing use of Henry Ford's gasoline street
car, was approved unanimously by the
Detroit City Council and is 10 ready
for the vote of the people April 9Th.
Shooting from the top of his burn
ing home in which he was holding a
mob at bay Il negro at Pine Bluffs,
Ark, wounded four men and a boy in
the crowd before he was killed. The
negro earlier in the day a killed u
city detective who had gone to arrest
him for the shooting of another ne
gro.
DIR. r. S. Robertson, who shot and
killed Porter NJ. Brindley, member of
the Alabama Legislature at HartZelle,
Ala, was captured at Falkville, Ala,
by a posse. He was taken to Decatur
for safekeeping.
Government officials and prominent
coal operators have been invited to at
tend the meeting of the American In
stitute of Mining IL Metallurgical
Engineers in New York on Feb. II, at
which a constructive plan for h bet
ter working of the bituminous coal in
dustry will be presented by Horace V.
Winchell, retiring president of h in
stitute, and Herbert c. Hoover. Mr..
Hoover will be Installed as president
of the institute at the meeting.
The total output of the meat pack
ing industry in the United States for
1919 was estimated Mt more than So
OO0,000,OO0, in a statement given out