, 1920-11-04
FOREIGN

They also desire e rules regarding
the manner In which bulls are admit
ted TO the ring.
An increase of S1.15 a day in the
wages of Alberta coal miners, granted
by operators in conference with repre-
sentatives of the United Mine Workers
of America, has been announced in
Calgary, Alberta.
Fifteen thousand Russian Bolshe-
visit soldiers have been taken prison
ers, and many mo and large guam
titles of war material have been cap
tured in raids carried out by General
Baron Wrangel's forces recently.
Forty-two 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 $500, 900. Efforts 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
Tense in London.
The municipal employment bureau
announces hat $4,000 men and WON
en- in Germany are unemployed. OF
these, 10000 are in Berlin. The labor
ministry estimates that soon 100000
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 a re-
cent fight with bandits at Chein-Tao,
Manchuria, in which the outlaws were
routed, say dispatches received. The
bandits lost sixteen killed and the to-
tai casualties inflicted upon them are
said to be heavy.
Canadian highways aggregate $4,000
miles, according to figures presented
by a government report, and the land
appropriated for their construction and
is valued at $500 0 900.
For every mile the public travels on
railways, it is estimated, it travels two
miles on highways. Canada has ex-
pended s20,000,O 900 on highways in the
last five years.
Canada's trade with he United
States continues to develop on both
sides of the account. September fig
ures, issued showed exports to the
States amounted to $40, 948, 900,
as against S43,457 900 in the same
month last year, an increase of 15 per
cent. Imports from the United States
totaled SS1, 5000. against $685. 17, 900
an increase of % per cent.
GENERAL
Isaac e. Ferguson, Chicago lawyer,
and Charles L. Ruthenberg of Ceve-
land, were convicted of criminal anar-
chy by a jury in Supreme Court of New
York. Justice Weeks Immediately SEN
fenced them to states prison for terms
of from five to ten years each.
Edgar Carlton Singer of Clear
Lake, Mimi, sent a gold watch and
chain to the Democratic national com
mittee as his contribution to the
campaign fund. Still run
ming, the watch was received at head
quarters in New York, with a letter
from Singer.
The Otis Company announced at
Ware, Mass, that its cloth department
would operate only four days a week,
beginning at once, because of lack of
About 4 0nn aNa,a.f-o, 49,. 80
A part of the underwear de-
partment already is on a four-day
schedule.
Appropriations totalling nearly $780,
900 for relief work in the Near East
were voted by the executive committee
of the Near East Relief. A gift of
S150,O00 from Armenians resident in
the United States, was received, and
the committee appropriated 100000
for immediate purchase of supplies for
Armenia.
The steamship Celtic arrived in New
York from Liverpool and Queenstown
with 344 boxes of gold valued at APP
proximately S11 200, consigned to
the Federal Reserve Bank.
New York trucking companies
adopted resolutions refusing recent de-
of their $4,000 employees for
hours and Increased pay, and
notifying them that they must work
hours for the present nlne-hour
wage.
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 APP
proximately 131 words a minute for
sixty consecutive minutes. The con-
test featured the opening of the seven
national business show.
Many European children, born dur
ing the can war years, will enjoy the
of sweets next Christmas for the
first time in their lives, as u result