, 1920-10-28
FOREIGN

A
The drys have lost their first battle
in the prohibition fight in the federal
district in Mexico. The saloons were
open Sunday, though the government
had made an effort to have them all
closed.
The imports into France for the
months ended Sept. 30 were o.
lS9,O0O,O00 francs, as compared with
24.567, 100000 for the same period of
1919. The exports We're 16, 1857, 100000,
as compared with 6,704, 100000.
Luis A. %Santander. consul for Chile
in the state of Washington, and assist
ant professor of Spanish at the Uni
versity of Washington, died at Seattle
after n few hours illness. Mr.. San
lander was formerly secretary OF the
Chilean legation at Buenos Aires.
Action by the French government
to cover $1,372, 100, alleged to be the
value of war equipment which went
down with the steamship North Cam
bria Aug. 2, 1913, has been instituted
in Admiralty Court in Brooklyn against
the Commonwealth and Dominion Line,
Limited, of London.
A general strike throughout Poland
has been proclaimed as n protest
against the proposed creation of an
upper parliamentary house under the
new constitution, on which a commits.
sion has cen working for more thar
a year. In Warsaw the street cars
ceased running and restaurants and
many stores were closed.
AS Il result of the census taken
Oct. 1, the figures of which have not
been announced, the Japanese govern
ment has begun sending circulars
throughout the country, asking physi-
clans, surgeons, dentists, pharmacists,
%tailors, b~lacksmiths and other persons
whether they would be willing to
serve In the army in case of war.
GENERAL
The convicts, George Stivers and
Marcus Bassett, who escaped from
Sing Sing prison, were captured in
the woods at Warner, N. H.
Sale of the S,541 lightweight ton
steamer Westmead to the Standard
Steamship Company of New York for
S~1,412,467 has been announced at the
Shipping Board.
The Philadelphia & Reading railway
has announced reduction of its work
ing force approximately 1000 men and
all employees have been put on an
basis.
A farm survey to eradicate the COM
mon barberry n a defensive measure
against wheat rust has been started
by the Department of Agriculture In
portions of thirteen states in the West
and Middle West.
The public utilities commission, in
a n order made public at Hartford,
grants a petition of the Connecticut
Company for a flat teffcent fare rate
on its trolley lines, instead of the
fare now in force.
All farm organizations in the United
States and Canada have been asked to
in the request of the Ma
tlonal Wheat Growers Association to
suspend delivery of wheat from farms
to market, until such time as 1.-The
of good wheat is stabilized at SO
per bushel at the terminal market"
DIR. Duncan MacDougall, fifty-four,
a surgeon known particularly Cor his
experiments in "the weighing of the
is dead at Haverhill, Mass.
Through delicate weighing devices, he
calculated the weight of the human
soul at between six and eight ounces.
He was a contributor of poetry to
various magazines.
Production of bitumlnous coal went
above the 1900, OO0-ton mark for the
first time since Jan. II, during the
week ended Oct. 8. The total output
is estimated by the geological survey
at 12,075,000 net tons. This was an
Increase of 224,O0O tons over the week
of Sept. % and 706,OO0,OO0 tons or g.
per zen over the week of Oct. ..
Three trainmen were killed, five
others injured and five or six pas
sengers shaken up in a head-on col
llslon between two Norfolk & West
ern passenger trains at Rural Retreat,
Va, according to an official announce
ment ut the railway headquarters at
Roanoke, Va. The trains met on a
Testimony taken at the New York
hearing of the joint legislative com-
investigating the alleged build
ing trust, relative to the payment Of
$4,000 by Il. b. Levy, real estate
owner and builder, TO have a strike
on one of his building projects,
will De submitted to the proper
prosecuting authorities for immediate
action"
Mrs. Milla ID. Shonts. widow of
p. Shonts, former president
OF the marlborough Rapid Transit
was given permission in the
s%urrognte's Court at New York to sue
the executors of her husbands estate