Gilpin observer., 1920-02-12
FOREIGN


resume trade with sovicl Russia be-
fore Russias debt to nationals of
those countries has been paid or guar
anteed.
Spain has agreed to defer for one
year payment of the French debt of
450,O00000 pesetas now due her, says
the Matin, which denies France has
asked for new loan of 100,0000O0
pesetas.
The French government is deter
mined to maintain II reserve of air.
plane pilots. Several flying schools
be sent each year a large number of
student-fliers.
An illiterate Austrian earned S5,52I
in Canada during single year of the
war, as a labOrer at the Welland steel
foundries, it was learned at St. Cath
arines, when Mike Ennis was fined
for making false income tax return.
Damage to the amount of Sl,0O0,00O
was caused at Manila, T.. l., when fire
destroyed half the buildings of the
island exhibits they contained. Many
of the exhibits We're irrcplacable and
the loss is serious.
Rate increases of 30 to 40 per cent
on Canadian railroads were predicted
as the result of estimates that deficits
for the current fiscal year would total
100000. An investigation is being
made to determine increases necessary
to enable the roads TO pay expenses.
Fifty men who escaped from a
train taking 1,5O0 Polish prisoners of
war back to their land from France
have claimed sanctuary on Swiss soil,
asserting they We're really Germans.
They declared thar when captured
they posed as Poles to get better
treatment in France and asked to he
transported to Germany.
Enrique Tiraboschi. an Italian
swimmer. broke the worlds INNER
sion record when he swan the River
Plat, crossing from Colonia, on the
Uruguayan coast, from which point
he started, to within five kilometers
of Buenos Aires. The distance is over
thirty-two miles, but the swimmer was
forced to breast strong currents
GENERAL
Aliens are departing from Chicago,
chiefly the steel mills district, at an
average rate of 800 II day, thereby ere
ating Il labor problem that threatens
to become acute.
Henry Edward Clement, for twenty
five years editor-in-chicf of the Boston
Evening Transcript. died of heart dis
ease at his home in Concord. in his
nth year. He retired in 1906.
Consumption of wool in December
increased from 2S,0O0,O00 pounds to
G4,000,0OO pounds, the monthly report
of the Bureau of Markets showed.
There was continued demand for
fabrics made from the finer grades of
wool, 81 per cent of the total consump-
ton being of the fine grades.
Four persons were killed and sew
eral injured at Lexington, Ky, when
Lockett, II negro, who confessed to
the murder of 1O-year-old Geneva
Hardman, charged the court house
during Lockett's trial and was fired
upon by police and state troops.
More than 24,0O0 candidates for mil
itary service in this country during
the war We're rejected on the ground
that they We're feeble-minded, according
to n paper written by DR.. Peace Bal
ley, chairman of the New York state
commission on mental detectives and
read at the closing session of the So
cietles for Mental Hygiene. Reflections
for nervous and mental diseases, he
said, ranked fourth on the list. The
percentage of mental detectives aver
aged six TO 1000, he said, aud was.
especially high among the immigrant
classes of New York.
On his way to court to face IL charge
of picking pockets, Nathan Palestine
broke away from II policeman ut an
elevated station in New York and,
leapng down on the tracks lay down
with his neck across the rail An on
coming train severed his head.
The total output of the meat pack
Ing industry in the United States for
1919 was estimated mt more than So
0O0OO0,O0O, in n statement given out
by the Institute of American Meat
Packers. The estimate was based on
annual reports of more than 800 pack
ing companies which operate under
federal inspection. Profit throughout
the industry averaged not more than
1h cents on each dollar of sales, the
report estimated.
Government officials and prominent
coal operators have been invited 10 AT
tend the meeting of the American In
stltute of Mining and Mctallurglcal
Engineers In New York ON Feb. II. at
which constructive plan for the bet