The Dolores star., 1920-10-15
GENERAL

Mrs. Elizabeth Niles, % years old,
who with close clipped hair and a uni
form that concealed her sex, is said
to have fought beside her husband
thru the Civil war, is dead at Rari-
tan, y. J.
Capt. R. W. Schroeder of McCook
field, holder of the world altitude
record, will retire from the air serv-
ice as soon as he returns from
France. where he flew in the Gordon
Bennett race.
Twelve members of the crew of the
steamer SpeedwelI, wrecked in a trop-
lcal hurricane in the gulf, and one
passenger. were picked up in a life
boat by the steamer Lake Superior,
according to radio advices received at
New Orleans.
Two Brooklyn Boy Scouts have ar
rived in New York from San Francis
co, completing a round trip made part
ly on foot and by picking up rides in
automobiles and wagons. The boys,
j. F. Budd and A. G. Greiner, began
their journey July 81, arrived at San
Francisco Aug. IS and started back
three days later.
Public bequests totaling SSGJ, 600 are
contained In the will of W. Murray
Crane, filed for probate at Pittsfield,
Mass. The will is twenty-eight pages
long. The widow, Mrs. Josephine NJ.
Crane, received S75O,OCO and the in
come from a trust fund of S1,OOO,OOO.
The total amount of the estate OF the
former United States Senator was not
given.
Lieut.. Sidney Pedott Of Chicago, a
naval reserve officer, was drowned
when naval seaplane which he was
flying plunged into Lake Michigan
two miles off Lake Forest. Lieut.. A.
X. Bachelor of Saginaw, Mich, his
companion, was thrown clear and
swan back TO the wreckage. He made
n vain effort to release Pedotts life
belt before the wreckage sank.
Seaman Eugene Paquette of Dover,
y. H., reported drowned when washed
overheard from the destroyer Colds
borough off Tampico, Mexico, on Sept.
30, has been rescued by the destroyer
Hatfield, that vessel reported on its
arrival at Miami, Florida.
The 1920 corn crop promises TO be
the largest in the history of the coun-
try by more than ninety million bush
els. A yield of 3,216 192, 600 bushels,
compared with the previous record
production of 1924, ,746. coo bushels in
1912, was forecast by the Department
Of Agriculture from a condition of
S91 on Oct. /. The yield would e1-
ceed that Of last year by practically
100000, 900 bushels.
Charles Ponzi can pay less than one
dollar in three on the claims of
creditors of his shattered scheme of
high finance. The extent TO which the
millions entrusted to Ponzi had been
reduced was revealed by C. n. Ritten-
house, auditor for the federal receivers
Of PonZl, at a hearing on a bank
ruptcy petition against Ponzi In the
Federal court. To meet liabilities which
he set at S7,50O,OOO, the auditor said
Ponzi had total assets of S2,195GS5.
The will of the late Jacob Schiff,
Jewish multimillionaire and phllan-
thropist, gave S1,350,OO0 to charity,
mostly to Jewish institutions on New
York's east side. The exact amount
Of the Schiff fortune was not made
known in the will, altho friends have
estimated it at around S30,OOO,0O0.
Several hundred Louisiana planters
and business men at New Orleans, in
dorsed plan of Barry ID. Wilson, state
commissioner of agriculture and immi-'
grafton, providing for importation of
Mexican labOrers for cane, rice, sugar
and cotton fields.