The Dolores star., 1921-01-28
FOREIGN

Italian forces along the Adriatic, has
ordered the raising of the naval block
ade of Fiume, and also the land block
ade.
The German treasury department
has announced that foreign govern
ments hold T0,oOO.OO0 German marks in
paper money and have credits of 25,-
OO000o,O00 marks in German secur-
tiles.
King Alfonso. with Archduke Fred
erick of Austria, In n hunting expedi-
tion in the forests near San Lucar.
brought down seventy-six wildcats and
one deer. King Alfonso shot more
than half.
Canada's wheat yield for 1920 to-
tailed 26S, 1S9,3oo bushels from 1922
3I4 acres, an average gain of four
and one-half bushels an acre over
1919, the Dominion Bureau of Statis-
ties announced at Ottawa.
Twenty-Five japanese sailors, sur
vivors .of the Japanese steamer Sakura
Maru, wrecked off the northern coast
of Luzon island. landed at Aparri.
the entire crew was saved. The Sa-
kura Maru was coasting freighter
of 239 tons.
A communication isued at Doom by
DR.. Haehner, the physician attending
the former Empress Augusta Victoria
of Germany, who is III with heart dis
ease. said. THE former kaiserins
heart attacks are less frequent but her
general state of weakness and of wear
ing away is increasing"
\ call for a special session of the
Mexican Congress, beginning Feb. I,
has been issued by President Obregon.
Among the projects to be considered
are the new banking law, article - of
the constitution, which governs petro-
leum deposits, n new labor law. army
reconstruction and international com
merce.
Fifty persons We're arrested in To
kio, Japan. charged with disturbing a
court in which thirteen Socialists. ar
rested when the japanese Socialist
leader was inaugurated, were being
tried. Employees of an engineering
works have smashed the fixtures In
the plant following the dismissal of
seventyfive strike agitators Ten men
were arrested
GENERAL
Rent reductions averaging about 90
per cent were ordered made by seven
Milwaukee landlords, by ruling of
the local rent bureau. Among the land
t.r dc ,ff
flats.
A reduction of 20 per cent in the
price of farm implements has been an
nounced by A. V. Burch. vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
Blount Plow Company at Evansville,
Ind.
Col. William T. Baker, 96 years old,
said to be the Oldest member of the
order of Elks in the United States,
died at Springfield, III. He was said
to be boyhood chum of Abraham
Lincoln
The Singer Manufacturing Company,
makers of sewing machines, employ
ing 5000 workers at Elizabeth, n. J.,
announced an immediate reduction in
wages of 20 per cent. 1t will not affect
salaried employees.
An appropriation Of S25O,OOO for the
relief of needy unemployed was voted
at Detroit by the city council. The
fund. made Immediately available. will
be disbursed by the city welfare com
mission. Applications for relief, ac-
cording to the commission, average
about 200 daily.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company will install wireless outfits
soon at New Orleans, Mobile, Pensa-
cola and Louisville for the transmits
sion of railroad business, according to
an announcement made at New Or
leans by II. II. Hobbs, telegraph super
intendent for the company. Train dis
patches will not be handled, however.
Three men posing as policemen in
Chicago stopped an automobile driven
by Mrs. Sigmund G. Livingston and
robbed her of jewelry which she valued
Mt $4,000. Included was q pearl neck
lace which she said was worth $4,000.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, who
inherited the bulk OF Mrs. Frank Les
lies 100000 estate, made settle
ments with two heirs to avoid con-
test of the will, it was disclosed when
the referees report was submitted In
Surrogate's Court. Mrs. Leslie's
niece, who was bequeathed the income
from a $4,000 trust fund, was given
100000, and another prospective con-
testant was paid 100000 by Mrs.
Gait
Ole Hansen, former mayor of Seat
tie, disrupted Socialist meeting at
Racine, Wis, when, under auspices of
the Racine Constitutional Defense
League, he invaded the meeting, at
which Irwin st. John Tucker, indicted
under the espionage act, was the prin-
cipal speaker, and challenged him to a