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tants of that city. Eighty officers, the | Consul General adds, were shot by order | of Kemal Pasha on a charge of breaking | the rules for prisoners. | Ipangler, Penn., Nov. Tth.—The Rei'ly | Coa: "ompany’s mine, swept by a gas ev- plosionesterday morning, was clearea of its Geaa'@tie th#s afternocn, the rescue | crew bringingg ut {'ve bodies, believed | to be the las?in the workings. This | brought the total of the known dead to eighty. Thirty-iwo were rescued. i Berlin, Nov. Tith.—The experts, who | Fave been making investigations into the : econpemic condigion of Germany, have de- | cided that a r@gratorium of two years | in the paymenfs of reparations, partly | in money «nd rP-tly in geceds is neces- | sary, also the sighilisation of the mark | cn the basis of NUU to 4,000 marks e | the dollar by using the gold in the Reichshank. The report states that the | financial problem is i@possible ol Get- | tlement unless the mark b 2 stabilized | and that the stabilization would be im- | possible without a moratorium. The ex- | perts further estimate that a moiety of | the gold in the Reichebank would be suf- | fictent and should be set aside for the | baying up of the paper mark, these pur- | chasers being limited to the German | banknotes, particularly those in the pos- | session of foreigners, to the exclusior of | treasuary bonds. The moratorium should ' b 2 possible of prolonzation ¢nd payments | saould not be demanded until Germany is in a position to meet them from a real | surplus in the budget, which the experis | consider may be possible to two years. | Thus the success of the stabilization will | not be dependgnt upou foreign loans, | but upon’ im'j,\)ved production and the | final regulation of the reparatidns prob | lem. NEw York, Nov. Bth. | Fiour, (Blended Clears, St. Lawrence Brand) pr. brl. $7.50. | Meal, Kilrdried per 100 pounds $2.20. | New Season’s Pork per barrel $37.00. | Heavy Mess Pork per brl. $29.25. | Sugar—Crystals maximum per 100 lbs. $5.53. | Meclasses Sugar 89 no quotation. | Cotton, Middling, Upland, at Liverpool per lb. 15 4-IGCd. | Exchange. New York and Londen, 60 days’ sight $4.44% Exchange New York and london, sight | $4.46 | LoNDON, Nov. 3th. | Sugar, Demerara Crystals, per et 425. od. —4ss. 6d. ““ Muscavado per cwi, 355. —3Bs. ““ White Java’s cif United Kingdom 20s. 9d. Demerara Rum per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, good middling red per ewt. 635. od.—6ss. od. Cotton, medium fine 3e2a [sland, at Liv- erpool, per Ib. 20s. 44d. Bank of England Rate of L'iscount per cent 3. _Consols dbgs. e n Ny N N xR T X £ LUEsalX A-Vill O FOUR POINTS AT ISSUELE. - There are four po'nts at issue in the temperance fight in Great Britain accord- : - C. R. M. Bentley. NatiGnal Secre- ¢ of the National Commercia' Temper- ance League with headquarters at Brad- | ford, England. ? All the national temperance organiza- l tions have agreed on the four points and asked support of the temperance people for early legislation. The points are as tollows: No sale of intoxicating tliquor to young persons under 18 years of age. 1 ' Local Option for England and Wales. | No sale or supply of intoxicating liquors | on Sundays. The supply of Int ‘ing liquor in clubs to be subject to the . ant of an annual license by the loca! justices. ‘All persons are urged to vote only for the candidates who favor these policies. The N tivnal Commercial Tempe;ance Leag® s comporsed of business men throu.nout the Uaited Kingdom, lts business is to support tha cause of total abstinence and tempzrance legislation. | World League Clip Sheet. | EX-PRESIDENT TAET OPPOSED 10 2 CHANGE. ; \ Ex-President Taft, now Chief Justice . of the Uinited] States Supreme Unurt, . whose influence heretofore had general- Iy been on the wet side, sees clearly the - result of the proposed nullification legis- lation which would parmit beer and wine . to Dbe sold in spite of the Eighte:nth | | Amendment. These are his words: | | I am not in favor of amending the Vol i stead- act in respect ty the amount of . permissible aleohol in beverages. lam | not in favor of allowing light wines and | beers to be so!d under the Eigbhteentl - Amendment. I believe it would defea ‘ | the purpose of the amendment. No suc’ | distinction as that between wine and . beer on the one hand and spirituous | liquors on the other is practicable as a | | police measure. Any such loophole ' would maka the amendment 4 laughing- | | stoeki—lbid L i } ! KING AND QUEEN CROWNED. ; ; The coronation of King Ferdinand and g | Queen Marie of Rumania took place at . Alba Julia after having b2en postponed | s=2veral times since the accession of Fer- ' i dinand in 1916. On a dias in the center ! ofa vast open sqaiare the sieel erown - made from a Turkish cannon captured | at the battle of Plevna in 1877 was placed on the King’s head by the president . of the senate. The king in turn placed .~ acrown on the head of th2 queer: while ' the immense throng cneered. The pro- | eessiop at the conelusion of the ceremo- | | npies contained representatives from the | Eopiinepat reibning fanilies of Europe, but it was Marshall Foch who received the greatest applause. The king and queen are very popular from the stand they took in the war, which resulted in ~ anincrease of territory and population ~ to more than double the pre-war figures. | —The Pathfinder, Oct. 28th. | FINDS GREAT ANCIENT SKULL. \ An agent of the museum of natural history found in the desert of Gobi a l five frot skull of a giant land mammal, ' a ballehiterium, belonging to the neocene | geological period. As indicated by meas- . urementsof the skull the beast was 15 . feet tall and 25 feet long.— Ibid. FIND RICH PHOSPHORUS STORE. A eroup of young Japanese explorers returned after a three years cruise in the South seas with the report of the discevery of a group of four little islands containing untold wealth in phosphorus. The expedition was financed by a phos- phorus company, and the location of the | islands was kept seciet. According to the explorers the islards are merely coral | reefs inhabited only by birds which ecame % fearlessly and alighted on the shoulders | of the men.—lbid. 1 CIGARETTES BY MACHINERY | Egyptian ecigaret % have lony been l >d as the finest ana most expensive, bt Eeypt, like most eastern countries, h- .2 to the slow hand-process of v aufacture. Modern machinery has at .ast been introduced for making cigar | tes with the result that there i bitterness among the hand ro¥ t cost a dollar to have 1,000 ciga. I- ' ed by hand; by machinery 1t costs eight [ cents. Accordingly the workers have been | reduced from more than 1,500 to about | 300. 'The labor conciliztion board has | taken the matter in band.--llbid. ! FIRE DESTROYS SIX TOWNS | e | Forest fires raging in the provinces of | Quebee and Ontario wiped cut six mining [ towns and resulted in more than 30 | deaths. Fifteen bodies were recovered | from the ruins of Haleybury, several be- ] ing the vietims of a panic on the dock wherea rush was made for the rescue t boats. Property loss there was estima- | ted at $4,000.000. From the ruins of | Heasiip and Charlton 17 bodies were re- covered. A chanze of the wind saved t Cobalt. one of the larcest towns of north- | eastern Ontario.—lbid. | RIGEST FROG IN WORLD. | The curator of the museum at Sydney, New Souih Wales, brought back from the ' unexplored Solomon islands what is be- ' lieved to be the world’s largest frog. The | mouster taiiless amphibian measured one i fyot in length.—lbid.