CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES, SPA T ST.E CITY. N. J.

Autos Killed 7.5'S—Aeeidmt*. Homi- , tides And Suicides. ST,j-tS; Decrease Ot Flu In New York. Washington—Inllmnta Btoma c.iused the- *rMt«st number of deaths during 161!'. awarding to the annual compilatton of mortality *:»!:•- s for UU just isiutd by thi Census

Bureau.

The roporl sho»-» 1.471^67 deaths In 1616. of which 477.467. or 32 per ., were due to influenza and pneuttonla. S&O-SSm; bating occurred from tnete causes during the last four tnoalhs of the year. The death rate lor influenza and pneumt nia was .H(3^ per IM.OOO. These are the highest heath rates the cation has ever known from these causes. Organic diseases of the heart, tuberculosis. nepbriu*. Bright's disease and cancer were responsible for 391.Wl. or nearly 27 pee cent, of the total deaths during the year Deaths from organic heart disease* showed a alight decrease over 1617. while there was a sllgbi inereaae in deaths from tuberculosis. Deaths from external causes, including arcidents. auicides sod homicides. number S2.349. a. rate cl 100 C | per 100.000. a nouble decrease over j •he rate of 106.S for the yeor 1917 The greaieet mmber of deaths due to accidental causes were from falit j —10.330 or 12.6 pci 100.000. Nest V i falls railroad accidents caused th< largea' number of deaths. Deaths from 1 automobile accidents number 7.f25. ot 92 per 100.000. a rate which has risen rapidly from vear to year The number of suicides for the year was 9.937. the rate being the lowes; shown since 1903. Deaths due to homicides were B.609. WIRELESS TEtE’HONE. Communications Throuph Air Between Ossining And Chicago. 7few York.—Wireless telephone conversations between Ossining. New York, and Chicago have been successfully car. -d on dur.ng the past 30 flays. acc< ng to announcement made by the He Fores: Labaralorie*. of High Brld'.e, a suburb. The conversations we.t conducted with the use of a anal) aerial, a low wave length and pewt-r of only one-third of one kilo watt. Experimental conversations were also held between (tsslniug and (owns and cities of Indiana. Ohio. Wertern New York «ud South Caro-

„|d Maport of Flmstmrg In the part of Scliieswig-Holateln which tiemnny must return to Denmark. 2 Aioerirac blue Jackets :aklng part In the dedication of the site for the I-oulslana monument on ibe Vicksburg battlefield. H—Mr- George Baa* of Chicago (lefl) and Mrs. May E. Foy of California, the only women on the committee of arrangitneats for the Democratic National convention.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Idea of Russia for the Russians to Govern as They Please

Gains Headway.

GOMPEfiS SCORES BOLSHEVISM

THE VATICAN NOT TO ACT. No Intention To Send A Diplomat ” Rome.—The Vat'can dot* not intend to send a diplomat to Paris to prepare ground for ru umption of diplomelic intercourae. a semi-offcr:*! communique declared. Such a step, the communique wld would be possible only when the Freocn Government prepared to do likewise. UNITED STATES PLEASES THEM.

Jugo-Slavia Rejo-ci Against

London.—Jugn-Slav newspapers are rejoicing over the American protest •gainst the Allied ultimatum to Jugn Blavia ia the Flume controversy said • now* agency dispatch from Delgrace. The Jugoslav newspapers

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—Edwin T. Meredith Appointed Secretary of Agriculture. By EDWARD W. PICKARD.

Uussia—InHndlng Siberia—for She Russianr. to do with as they please and govern as they plense. Is the slogan that seems likely to win In the vr-t realm that the e»rs on<e ruled. And though Just now the bolshevik I are the eontrolllng faction In altnos: all of fcurojiean Itnssln. n\<i in much of Silieria. they are discarding much of their "iMilshevIklness" and other factions are coming around to the belief that. If tliey erase fighting, the trtisl radical leaders will speedily lose their power and the country will settle down under n liberal government and will tie able to make peace with the rest of the world. In southern Europe the Don t'orsacks are siill holding out. though with waning chances of success. In Siberia, when the Gxech forces have departed, the liberal Russians wl'* find th'-mselves opjiosed only by the -artlontiries who have ibe support of Japan. Tbe latest cables from Vladivostok tell of an aliortive revolution there by soldiers who feared they were to be disarmed by the Japanese troops, and therefore starti-d an uprising against tbe liberal • who had planned to take over me p-vemment peacefully. The rebels were taken prisoner by General RoxannfTs student nflleerf, aft.-r whleh Hozanoff proclalmeil amnesty for all political prisimers and let the |>eaMint prisoners go home with their arms. The Siberians, it Is said, believe that their country will Join hands •1th the Moscow soviet pnerument ns soon as the Japanese have left, and thai bolshevism will then rapidly disappear. How soon the Japanese troops ; will depart If not known. The Amerij can evacuation Is already under way. ! ! Delayed dispatches from South Russia say the Cossack federation which i met in Ekaserlnodnr decided 'hat they . would .vmtinue to fight the bolshevik! ' unless their independence were reeognlzed. They wanted Denikine to . remain a* their commander in chief with the understanding that he should ; have no voice in civil affairs. This ! proposition he probably rejected, as , later dispatches said h. and his s-aff ! had taken refuge on a Britlsli vessel

their arguments tha» we should not pas* Judgment on bolshevism until we know more about It and see more of Its results. Mr. Gompers addressed himself particularly to trades unionists. and he tella them that the bolshevirts have split up the reserve funds of trade unions. Throttled the Inhor press, kilted labor organizations, split up trade unions as a class and put down strikes by force of arms ami by executions. The constitution of soviet Russia, he adds, provides for snd eufor-e* compulsory labor. It may be this pronouncement by the great labor leader will have a beneficial effect on those union labor men of tills country who have l»een submitting too much to the leadership of disloyal radicals; but ihere are signs that Mr. Gompers' Influence Is declining

somewhat.

ARJincgh the German government, a* such. 1* ostensibly doing all It can to carry out the terms of the treaty, many i the Individual members of It are ;ienly In sympathy with the general sentiment throughout the country against the surrender of officers and others for trial hy the allies oti charges growing out of their misdeeds during the war. Gref mass meetings to protest ngainst su n.-tlon are beI Ing held in Berlin, and while the gov- | ernment docs not officially countenance I them. It does not prevent them and various high officials have declared that they will not take part in the surrender of the accused. The Ebert government has sent a note to the aides urging them to abandon their demunds in this matter on the ground that execution of article ISIS of the treaty would certainly cause political and economic troubles in Germany that would seriously hamper production. I: suggests that the trials of the accused persons be held In Germany with the participation of al-

lied representative*.

What will be done In the matter of Holland's refusal to extradite the former kaiser Is not seiiled. The Juristic experts at the supreme council took up the .tody of the case anew and It Is believed the council dispatched another note to the Dutch last week. Probably connected with the agitation against ibe extradition of officers and solder* was the attempt on the life of .V .thias Erzbcrger. Gorman mlnls’sr of finance, who signed the armistice terms. He was seriously wounded by e student. The Incident was succeeded by rumors of a coming 1 monarchist uprising and Minister of I Defense Noske filled the strategic positions In Berlin with troops. The r.-

| volt failed to materialize.

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Jeering the compromise that liad been offered by Italy and agreed to by the other great powers. Tbe reply from Relgrnoe was couched in conciliatory Icitus. however, and left the way open for further dismission. The suggested solution was based on the pact of Ixindon. nod the Jugo-Siav* soy That ■i* ibis treaty was secret they cannot consider a solution based on a pact which they have never had an op|Mirtuulty to examine and discuss. They

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granting credits of fUQjOOOuOOO for Poland. Austria and Armenia to alleviate conditions In those countries. He says: “It Is unthinkable to me that we should withhold from those people, who are in such mental and physical distress, the assistance which can he rendered hy making available on credit a small proportion of our exportable surplus of food which would nllevla'e tbe situation.*' Prospect* of agreement In the senarr no the peace treaty dwindled still fonher last week. The bipartisan #nmmlttee. unofficial, was looked to by tbe more hopeful for a solution of 'be tangle, but the chances were not good. Article ten and the Monroe doctrine clause were the sticking points. Senator Hitchcock, peeved by the eontlnurd delay, threatened to take the whole matter before the senate In open session, but later said he would not do that until all hope of settlement hy private negotiation had failed. Other senator* said nothing would be gained by throwing the treaty buck Into the senate in the near future. The president has ••promoted" Secretary of Agriculture Houston to succeed Mr. Glass as secretary of the treasury, and has appointed Edwin T. Meredith of lown to the place Mr. Houston wld vacate. The changes-will take effect as soon as Mr Glass Is sworn In as senator. The new secretary of agriculture' is both a practical farmer and a business man. He Is the editor of Successful Farming and before establishing that paper was publisher of the Fanners' Tribune. He Is president at the Associated Advertising flubs of the World, a dln-cfor of ibe Chicago Federal Reserve hank and was one of the excess profits advisers of the tressury department appointed In li»17. He has said that one of bis first undertakings as head of the department of agrirnlture will be to try to work ont some method of getting crops to market “without too much lost motion." There has been evidence that Mr. Houston was not very popular with the farmers, and the change is counted on by the leaders of the Democratic paiiy to restore good relations between the farmers

and the administration.

It was said In Washington that Secretary of the Interior Lane desires to retire from the cabinet In the near future. Then has been no suggestion

as to his successor.

Three favorite son* dropped out of | ihe race for the Republican presidential nomination last week. They were Governors Goodrich of Indiana. Sproul j of F-nnsylvanl* and Ooolldge of Maslachiiselt*. The managers of the j Wood. IxJW'don and Johnson booms rerewed their activity In the rhasc for delegate*. The boom for Hoover, tin.ugh *tHl restricted, gave Indications of earlv expansion. In that connection a statement by Secretary Daniels to a graduating rlatu In rtilladelj phis I* interesting. Said be: j "I can tell you who the next presi- , d'-nt .- going to be. Do you want me to tell you who he I*? I don't know whether he helot gs tt> my party or ; yours. If he has one drop of reactionary Mood he will not have a chance of ! election. No old-fashioned politician | will do. He must be progressive -tid j meet the new- conditions." When reporters asked Secretary j lutuMs whom he meant, he smiled, i Asked if tbe name of the roan be lutd I In mind lias »>een Included among thi

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Statistics compiled by Ibe State board of Health show that influenza cm! imcomatila coses are still increasing In New Jersey. Senator Runyon, stnte chairman of the Near East Relief, has notified Mrs. Horace F. Nixon of Woodbury, acting chairman of the county committee, that Gloucester county's quota Is

<8,000.

The Haddon township budget calling for $J7,672.:>S has been adopted. This i* an inr-ensc of $4,000 over 1319. Game Wardens Connor ntei I’hlfer. who arrested a hunter for shooting a doe deer, presented the venison to the Millville and Bridgeton hospitals. Mayor Anderson and other officials of Gloucester City declared that there is no place in that section known as “Grace lola Farit,*' nor •* there any place near the city where there are 4.000 lots for sale. The Board of Assessors declared that the pro|>orty tHioks do noi show the name of Cbndojn.r von Foorlster. who v.as i.m-Med In Chicago on the chare of duping many people by w iling lots claimed to

be located In Gloucester.

Voter* overwhelmingly defeated both propositions relative to additional acbool facilities at Wenonah. and the result caused considers! le surpriorThe first proposition, to Issue $TC,000 bonds for a new school house, was defeated by u vote of 174 to 49. The other, for $42,000 bonds for tbe enlargement of the present school, was also defeated !»y a vote of 173 to 8. The women s organlzatl.'iis led In the fight for the loans, but the taxpayer* felt this Is not tbe time to build l*erause of tbe high cost of msierlals and

labor.

Less than a week after they held up a paymaster and robbed him of $18.0ts> at the Sigmund Elsman plant In Red Hank three young men were sentenced to serve from 12 to 18 year* In prison. Victor Bruna, Charles Casper and Frank Greno, all under twenty-one year* of age. stole tbe monry In broad daylight. Two of them were arrested at Perth Amboy In the afternoon and the other In Philadelphia Sunday night. All the money has been r: ... ered. The three bandit* pleaded guilty In special sessions court at Freehold and were at once sentenced. L. B. Baldwin, regional director of railroads, has Issued an order that hereafter all trains on tbe Pennsylvania railroad In New Jersey must not only wait for ferryboats advertised to connect with them, but muat not leave tbe Camden station until any preceding hosts that rosy have been delayed •hall also arrive. For year* eotnn.liters hare made protests in vain to trains leaving before delayed boats arrive when such boats left the Philadelphia side preceding the train boats. T! ? confusion that existed ai Ocetn City last summer between the gas company and some of Its patrons promises to be cleared early this year by a proper understanding of the conditions by summer patrons. Refund* are to t.e made by the company In proportion to the time the cottages are occupied. The company assumes that the summer season ends on October 15, and refund* will be made after that date. In a letter to the Sussex County Board of Taxation Frank B. Jea* of the State Board of Tnxe* and Asses*meiits advlaet that the $1,100 paid to the county by Newtc-i a* additional county taxes because of tbe added Dairymen's I-engut assessment «>f $H9.SOO be paid back to the town. After a number of conferences between Senator Harry T. Kaya, county counsel; Judge Allen R. Rhnw. attorney forSusi sex borough, and Charles A. Downing. towm attorney of Newton, It w«* decldi ad to write Mr. Jc*s for an opinion, j Edward Healey, Janitor of a public j school In Ridgewood will not relln- ; quish fcla position, notwithstanding an j Inheritance of $80,000 from the estate of an uncle, who died Grand Court. N. Y. Healey's wife deI dr red that he would not know what to | do with himself If he gave up hla ac- | customed dally labor. ' The Do Lion Tire and Rubbe.- Com- ' pany of Baltimore has purchased tbe | name and good will of the Dcl.lon Tire j and Rubber Company of Trenton, and > plans and speciflrationa are now- being | prepared by J. Osborne Hunt, local architect, for the company building A nine acre tract of ground bas been purchased along the v.'eet Shore railroad. where the erection of the new I buildings will begin at nu early date. ] The plant will cost aomewhat over 1 $20U,000. Including buildings and power equipment. It has becu decided by the Board of | Freeholder* of Middlesex county to I protest to the Appropriations Commit- | tee of the house of representatives I as.-Inst cutting down

Tbe Millville fire dopnrttncru oniis>i| a motor chomlc.it mid a ladder truck, which cost $13,000. right-year-old Frank Marcus waalnsrnmly killed wi-lle coasting when 1.? run under n -on! truck mur hi* home In Phllllpshurg. The Woodbury Ibuird of Education Is di-siituis of procuring two acres adjoining the High School property on which to hnlld n new grammar school and an athletic field. A comiulttev bas been Appointed to look Imo the

pmpcwil.

Coupling up hi* automobile with grindstone to -et quicker resu; Jesse Steelman, fifty-three year* wealthy farmer, of Sculvllle. ten mile* from Allantic City started the engine and l-egat. shanienlng an ax. With a crash the grindstone split, and pieces were hurled through the tides of the garage. One large section struck Steelman In the neck, completely beheading him. Elma. the three-ye*r-old daughter of W. H. Bachs, a coast guard, strangled to death at her home In Wiltwood Crest. The physician* called to administer to the llp'e one b< eve that an orange se*-l caused the stran-

gulation.

Fire which threatened to destroy the entire plant of the Anderson Lumber Company at WatUngUm, across the Prssalr river from Passaic, resulted in a loss estimated at about $]>3,000. State and municipal official* from New Jersey urged the Hour* Hlvc-a are- Harbor. Commute f recotnmem\ fun 1 ' for the construction of a ship canal across th? slate connecting Trenwith Raritan bay. No action was taken on the request Under the proposal made to the committee the federal government would jay the cost of constructing the canal, estimated at om $20,000,000 lo $30,000,000. and ic state would provide right of way. Detective work done In New York by Sergeant Sheridan of the SummU police led directly to the finding of Isabel Way. thirteen years old, of 65 Oswald place. Vaux Hall, in a restanrem In New York In company with Mrs Mary Brady of Summit and New York. She had been tnlasl"* more than a week. Unable to agree upon any satisfactory plan to avert a rente*! over tbe selection of four delegatea-at-large lo the national Republican convention, the ronferr nee called at Trenton for that purpose and the consideration of finann* hy State Clialrmau Edward C Stokes adjourned wlili the understanding that the subject should be laid ov.-r for further cousideration. Harry Luken*. mployed by Mr* Maclean Jones, went to the Cooper Hospital. Camden, for some medlrlnCL After leaving he slipped and fell on the lee and he was taken hack to the hospital. Word was telephoned to Riverton of the accident, stating that he would return In the morning. A second message was neelved stating that Luken a had passed away during the night. Mrs. Jones I* trying to locate relatives of the man. Senator Arthur Whitney, chairman of the Joint Appropriation* Committee of the legislature, it, a statement Issued at Trenton warns head* of Mate department* that in the future there must be no lobbying with a view to overriding budget recommendation* of the governor. The recent budget message had bxrdly been In the hand* of tlie legislature when the members of the Appropriations OjmmlC.ee were bealeged with suppll'-atlor.* to have the Items recommended by the governor increased. Pennlaalon hna been granted Commissioner A. Harry Moore of Jersey City hy the stole military authorities who have charge of the Fourth Regiment Armory, at Mercer street and Bergen avenue, to lay out tennis courts and Issue permits to clubs and individuals who derive to play ,hls game on certain day* end evenings during tbe week. Tills will mark the opening if Indoor tennia in Jersey City. Tbe taxpayers of Mansfield townahip will tie given an opportunity February 2 to oppose thi- budge' for 1920. Last year the budget called fn- the rvilalng of $3,892 by taxation. Phi* year tbe amount is $8,127 The Increase is due to $3,500 for road Improvement against $2,500 last year. There Is slao a balanee of $2,900 to 1* paid on the Jackson Valley road Impro’-ements. Having obtained hla evening mail from the nearby post offltc, Luigi Cavolln wo* reluming to the North Vineland home reading n newspaper he bad Just received, and. eros’lr.* toe West Jersey and Seashore railroad traeka, failed to notice on approaching train He was run down and badly mangled, dying almost Inetantly. (avnllo was orty five y ears «. and Is survived by a widow and six enlldren. Bull of giro-) was fixed for five of the six citizen-', prttoncr* niucht In Ihe "red" raids, when mraigned m Elizabelli before Judge Carlton B. Pler.-e on Indirtmrais eherglng them with .edition. A bond of J5.0QC was required 1 ieberck of 701 K.ilzubeth

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