, 1921-02-03

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climbed down the pier and rescued the
sailor.
The ex-kaiser is suffering from ex-
aggerated absent m~indedness at his
home In Doom md is often unable to
recognize his visitors or to write with
a pen, according to a Berne dispatch to
Paris.
A loan of $4,000, 600 has been nego-
tiated by the Belgian government with
the Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, and the contract for it has been
signed. The loan will be issued in the
United States and will be at an inter-
est rate of 8 per cent.
The Supreme Court upheld the au.
thority OF h alien property custodian
to seize securities deposited in this
country by the German insurance com
panies to protect American policy
holders. The our said there could
be no doubt that the trading with the
enemy act authorized such seizure.
Thirty thousand refugees from
Crimea in the Caucasus, among whom
are twenty generals, seventy colonies
and a nephew of the novelist, Tolstoy,
face starvation unless aid is sent by
the allied governments, 1t is learned.
Typhus and other diseases are ram.
pant and scores OF deaths are being re.
ported daily.
Sunday passed without n recurrence
of the food riots by former soldiers
and h unemployed in Montreal. The
three soldiers arrested as the alleged
leaders of the raids on restaurants
have been freed on bail or given sus
pended sentences. Groceries are being
cases of restitution.
Europe's debt to the United States
will be increased to $4,000 DOC, 900 by
1924, George f. Warren, professor of
economies at Cornell University, de-
clared at tariff revision hearings by
the House ways and means committee.
This sum, he said, will include the &c.
100000 war time borrowings from
the American treasury.
The State Department at Washing
ton has sen an emphatic note to Mex
leo protesting against en~croachments
on the rights of American oil produc-
ers. Mexicans are alleged to have
taken advantage of u announcement
system put In effect in Mexico when
claims are contested to take American
oil claims and reap profits from
them, it was learned, and it is this
practice which the State Department
has protested against.
GENERAL
-Four bandits entered the Daniels
jewelry store Mt Toledo. Ohio, bound
the proprietor and customers hand and
foot, and escaped in an automobile
with jewelry valued at $4,000.
A bill making refusal of a landlord
to rem his property to families with
children n misdemeanor, punishable
by a 800 fine and ninety days impris-
onment has beer introduced in the
lower house of the Michigan Legisla-
ture.
The sexton in the Eighteenth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church of New
York pulled the bell rope before morn
ing services but no sound came. He
climbed to the steepie and found Tim
othy Jones, "a, lying over the rope in a
semi-delirious condition. After being
revived. Jones said he climbed to the
belfry a week z to escape the cold
and had lain there n week trying 10
forget his hunger.
The navy yards on the Atlantic coast
should be sold and the money used for
the building of one big base on Maria
g~ansett bay. in the opinion of Rear AID.
miral William S. Sims, president OF the
naval war college. Speaking at New.
port, r.. l., he said he believed Maria
gansett bay should be developed by the
erection of repair plants capable OF
caring for a whole fleet. In the event
OF the navy requiring repairs after an
engagement with an enemy force, he
said the fleet would be forced to scat
ter to several yards for the necessary
work.
The American Bonding and Casualty
Company with headquarters at Sioux
City, Iowa, capitalized at 100000 and
with S100, 100000 worth Of policies on
Its books was declared insolvent at Chi
cago. Albert SABBATH, an attorney, was
appointed receiver. Liabilities were
said to be $3,O0o,000 and assets ICON
slderably less
That n masked burglar with an
automatic pistol is no match for q
woman armed with a painful OF hot,
soapy dlshwater was proved by Mrs.
Elsie Waite at Chelsea, Mass. The in
truder poked his head and pistol
through the kitchen doorway and de
manded all h money in the house.
He got about n gallon of boiling suds.
The speed artists that drive their
typewriters through the sprlnts at the
business schools nj sixty miles an hour
or ~thereabouts, never tried an endur-
anc test, says Miss Agnes X. Clay.
New York typist, who turns out 100
sheets OF $50 words every day. Miss
Clay issued n challenge to any New