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are considering concerted action with
The object Of obtaining higher pay.
They also desire new rules regarding
the manner In which bulls are admit
ted to the ring.
Fortytvo horses belonging to the
Royal Canadian mounted police were
killed IN a fire which destroyed the old
winter fair buildings at Brandon. Man.
with a loss Of 100000. Efferts Of fire
fighters are being directed toward
saving the new fair buildings and
nearby residences.
Sylvia Pankhurst, who was arrested
on Oct. 10. charged with attempting
to cause sedition in the navy by edit
ing and publishing an issue Of the
newspaper, The Workers Dreadnaught,
Oct. 16, was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment on conviction for the Of.
fense in London.
Alfred Cocchl, charged with murder
Of Ruth Cruger, whose body was found
buried In the cellar under his shop
In Brooklyn several months after he
fled to Italy, was convicted Of murder.
He was sentenced to twenty-seven
years, four months and three days BY
the court In Bologna, Italy.
The municipal employment bureau
announces that $4,000 men and wom-
en- In Germany are unemployed. OF
these, 10000 are in Berlin. The labor
ministry estimates that soon 5000, 900
will be unemployed or on short time.
Women constitute approximately one.
fourth Of those Idle.
Fourteen japanese soldiers were
killed and nine were wounded In re-
cent fight with bandits at CheIn-Tao,
Manchuria, In which the outlaws were
routed. soy dispatches received. The
bandits lost sixteen killed and the to-
tai casualties inflicted upon them are
said to be heavy.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevlk min
lister Of war, who is directing the re.
grouping of the Red troops in the
south, has visited points along the
Dneiper front. 1t was he who or.
dered the concentrated effort which
resulted In the evacuation Of Alexan-
drovsk by the forces Of General
Wrangel.
Canadian highways aggregate $4,000
miles, according to figures presented
by government report, and the land
appropriated for their construction and
Improvement is valued at 10000, 900.
For every mile the public travels on
railways, 1t Is estimated, It travels two
miles on highways. Canada has ex.
pended S20.O0O,OO0 on highways in the
last five years.
Within two years after the armi-
stice. France has practically remade
the vast area Of her agricultural soil
which was pitted and Scared beyond
usefulness by the ravages of war. Fig.
ures received by the French commits.
sion In New York show that out of
100000 acres which were rendered
unfit for cultivation by the effects Of
battle from 1914 to 1918, only 2S0,OOO
acres will not be incondtion to per
nit Of sowing next spring.
GENERAL
The Alabama Federation OF Labor
in convention at Birmingham adopted
by unanimous vote resolution de-
manding the impeachment Of Governor
Kllby for sending state troops into the
coal strike district.
Appropriations totalllnS nearly $780,.
600 for relief work In the Near East
were voted by the executive committee
OF the Near East Relief. A gift OF
S150,000 from Armenlans resident in
the United States, was received, and
the committee appropriated $500, 600
for immediate purchase of supplies for
Armenia.
Count Primo Magri, Il, second hus-
band Of Mrs. Tom Thumb and himself
famous dwarf, died at hospital at
Mlddleboro, Mass, after an illness OF
two weeks. Two weeks ag0 Count
Magri held an auction sale Of the late
Tom Thumbs effects and those Of his
wife and with the proceeds planned
to return to Italy, the country OF his
birth.
The speed typewriting championship
Of the United States and Canada was
won at New York by George l.. Hoss
field Of Paterson, N. j., who typed ap'
proximately 13l words a minute fol-
sixty consecutive minutes. The con.
test featured the opening Of the seven
teenth national business show.
Many European children, born dur
Ing the lean war years, will enjoy the
taste OF sweets next Christmas for the
first time In their lives, as n result
of price declines in this country. Be
cause of lower costs, the American re
lief administration announced it woult
add two and one-fifth pounds of sugal
and one pound OF cocoa to all pack
ages bought with Hoover food drafts
beginning Nov. l.
The World Film Corporation mus
pay Kitty Gordon Sl,53l for injuriei
received In making war film, &C
cOrding to a decision by the Appellate