The Benson signal., 1920-02-14
FOREIGN


resume trade with soviet Russia be-
fore Russia's 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,O00,OO0 pesetas now due her, says
the Matin, which denies France has
asked for new loan of 100,000,00O
pesetas.
The French government is deter
mined to maintain reserve of air.
plane pilots. Several flying schools
have been approved to which are to
be sent each year large number of
student-fliers.
Fifteen persons were killed and
thirty injured in head-On collision be-
tween an express train and freight
train standing at Perrigny sur
L'Ognon, about twenty-one miles east
of Djon, France
An illiterate Austrian earned S5,521
in Canada during a single year of the
foundries, it was learned at st. Cath
arines, when Mike Ennis was fined
for making false income tax return.
Damage to the amount of $1,OOO,OOO
destroyed half the buildings of the
Philippine Carnival Exposition and the
island exhibits they contained Many
of the exhibits were irreplacable and
the loss is serious.
France has bought six former Ger
man transatlantic liners, recently
United States army transports, from
the United States shipping, board, it
was learned at New York from an of
ficial of the board, who refused to al
low the use of his name.
Rate increases of 80 to 40 per cent
on Canadian railroads were predicted
as the result of estimates that deficits
for the current fiscal year would total
28,OOO,OOO. An investigation is being
made to determine increases necessary
TO enable the roads to pay expenses
GENERAL
Aliens are departing from Chicago,
chiefly the steel mills district, at an
average rate of 300 day, thereby Gre
ating a labor problem that threatens
to become acute.
A bill providing for the granting OF
statehood to the territory of Hawaii,
under qualifications to be determined
by Congress was introduced by Ha-
waiian Delegate Kalanianaole.
Henry Edward Clement, for twenty
five years editor-in-chief of the Boston
Evening Transcript, died of heart dis
ease at his home in Concord, in his
77th year. He retired in 1906.
A score of persons were injured
when two electric trains on the Wash
ington and Virginia railroad crashed
in a head-On collision in the midst of
a driving sleet storm near Dunn LOr-
ing, Va.
The total output of the meat pack
ing industry in the United States for
1919 was estimated at more than So
OOO,OOOOOO, in a statement given out
by the Institute of American Meat
Packers The estimate was based on
annual reports of more than 500 pack
ing companies which operate under
federal inspection. Profit throughout
the industry averaged not more than
oh nf n
report estimated.
Government officials and prominent
coal operators have been invited to at
tend the meeting of the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
ENGINEERS in New York on Feb. II, at
which a constructive plan for the bet
ter working of the bituminous coal in
dustry will be presented by Horace V.
Winchell, retiring president of the in
stitute, and Herbert G. Hoover. Mr..
Hoover will be installed as president
of the institute at the meeting.
DR.. r. S. Robertson, who shot and
killed Porter Nj. Brindley, member Of
the Alabama Legislature at Hartzelle,
Ala, was captured at Falkville, Ala,
by posse. He was taken to Decatur
for safekeeping.
Consumption of wool in December
increased from 29,0O0,O00 pounds to
64,OOO,OOO 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.
On his way to court to face a charge
of picking pockets, Nathan Palestine
broke away from policeman at an
elevated station in New York and
leaping down on the tracks lay down
with his neck across the rail. An on
coming train severed his head. Hun
dreds of persons viewed the suicide
Shooting from the top of his burn
ing home in which he was holding Il
mob at bay negro at Pine Bluffs,
Ark, wounded four men and boy i'll
the crowd before he was killed The
,,oruo oorlinI. in tho I1U had killed a