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ly Carl Rudolph Legien, president of the German Federation of Trades Unions and socialist member of the Reichstag, died in Berlin b Hearing on the Snell bill for a national forest policy, including better fire protection for timber lands, will probably be begun early this week. Women spies, known as "skirt traps to bootleggers, are being employed by the government to check importation of whiskey from Canada. According to a Brussels despatch to The Journal, Belgium intends to renounce her right to confiscation of German property in Belgium. Fifteen leading business houses of the town of Wirt. 25 miles from Ardmore, Okla.. were destroyed by fire. Loss is estimated at $75,000 to $100,000. On account of President Wilson's grandchildren's absence there was no tree at the White House. Christmas was passed quietly at the White House. It was announced that the Rothschilds of London have offered a loan to Chile for public improvements and a new railway between Santiago and Valparaiso. Recievers were appointed yesterday for the Plymouth Rubber company against which a petition in bankruptcy was filed ten days ago. A robbery of $400 from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., store at Wollaston, Mass. was reported by J. J. Vassil, the manager. A royal decree has been issued grahting foreigners the right to practice medicine in Spain in the event their countries give reciproçal treatment to Spansh protessioals. Miss Belle Kearney, of Flors, Miss., sulfragist, prohibition leccurer and traveller. announced her candidacy for the UL S. senate to succeed John Sharp Williams. Armenian and French friends of American hospital in Paris subscribed the 10,000,000 francs last year toward the improvement and maintenance of the instilution. The death at 1.19 home in Medford. Mass. occurred Sunday of Hal B. Mosby, 61, chief postoffice inspector in New Eng. land nad a nephew of of the Confederate guerilla chief John S. Mosby. Striking coal miners in the Rhondda coal field district voted to resume work pending negotiations between their employers and the South Wales executive committee. Miss Paula Van Dyge, daughter of and Mrs. Henry Van Dyke, was married Dr. at noon yesterday at Avalon, their Princeton home, to Henry Chapin of Springfield, Mass. A panic among storekeepers was caused a: Bilbao, Spam, by the nouncement of a dealer that he had ordered 35,000 pairs of American shoes to be sold at half present prices. Friends of Col. Arthur Woods, police commissioner in New York city in Mitchel administration, are planning the to f bring about his nomination for mayor next fall on a fusion ticket, r Paris newspapers report Count Stefan h Tisza, Austro-Hungarian diplomatist, was,slain as the result of a plot S herents of Count Michael Karolyl. by for- ade mer Hungarian premier. t ₫ Eamonn De Valera, "president of s Irish republic," who went into seclusion the several weeks ago "for a rest" is still n York. indisposed in his hiding place near New Staff of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, TurkS isk nationualist leader. decided to force na-Brusa the nationalist army on the re-end fromt to 100,000 men for Smyr- the 3 purpose of and any attack on Greek forces. S r, The Crook County State Bank of Prinee ville, Oregon ,failed to open its doors e terday Shrinkage of values of cattle yeso and sheep on which the institution had made sible loans was said to have been responr d g The ex-kaiser's son-in-law.. the Duke of Brunswick and his former subjects are in conflict over the duke's claim of 250,000.000 marks worth of property of to revolution fiscated by the state at the time of con- the 9, Paris municipal council decided public that baths are not only a necessity, that but ar ture they are likely to be a paying vend City architects were ordered 9. prepare plans for three baths to be con- to structed in Paris. re 0 al Many of the legionnaires under d command of Gabriele d'Annunzio realiz- the ing the impossibility of being loyal their native countr and to as der have deserted their commanth their way to Italy the latter and are on e3 Alexander Kerensky in his paper lished headed at Prague charges a conspiracy pubby Ludendorff is under to restore the monarchy in Russia way S Germany and re-establish the former and Austro-Hungarian empire. R ol The Harbor Beatmen's Union of a York, voted to reject the new working New in agreement for 1921 tendered by 600 indehe pendent owners and to go on strike Jan. uary 1. Arthur Oisen. secretary of the ey e union declared 2,200 men will be affected. aThe lett. center and right wings of the ut rench socialist congress in session yours. Frace voiced their fears of hopes on the proposed adhesion to and the Moscow internationalie under the twenty. one conditions taid down by Nikolai Lenine. The second safe robbery in the busi nd ness district of Montreal within 36 bol hours was reported to the police and to er $5.000 Cash, securities jewelry valued Sunday at were taken from the blown-up 4r. safe of the American pumping supplies
