riec's.
On learning of the strike,
the rail-
way
officials
immediately
notified
tha
Grimshy
shippers
that
no fish
would be
accepted
for delivery.
The effeet
of this
will be to throw
thousands
in the fishing
industry out of work.
Vienna,
Feb.
19th—A
strike
o7 bank
employees,
which
clesed
four of ihe lar-
gest
institutions
here
yosterday
became
effective
today
in all the
banks
through-
out Ausiria including the National
Bank.
Forty thousand
employees
are
invoived.
The
men
are
asking
for
higher
wages,
Longan,
IPeb
18ia—-1t
is
asnounced
that Sir Laming
Waorthington
iLvans, hi s
been
zppointed
bßaditor-in-Chief
of
the
*“Financial Naws’’.
Sir
Laming
will be
assisied
by Joint
cditors
and
the present
staff of the
“"Financiai
News”,
He will
act
in
& consuliative
eapacity
and
will be
responsible
for the general
poiicy
of the
paper.
Washington,
Fob,
19th—S eretary
of
the Navy, Denby’s
resignation
will date
from
Marech
10thi.
The
President,
ina
letter accepling
the resignation,
praised
the officisl
record of
the
retiring
s-cre-
tary and
said
he
acceded
to
the
recuost
with regret,
Loadon,
Feb.
19th—1It
iz
stated
here
that
«n ovder just issued
for
the
piohihi-
tion of the tmporctation
of Canadan
store
cattle,
owing
to
the
prevaience
of the
foot
and
mouh
disease
among
ecattle
in
this country,
was intended
only as
a
{emn-
porary
measure.
Negoliations
between
the
Coanadian
Government
Ollicials
zund
the British Ministry of Agriculture, wiih
a
view to having
the prohibition
order
cancelled,
are proceeding
tuday.
Dublin,
Feb.
19ih.— Mary
MacSwe-
eney,
leading
Irish
woman
Republican,
has
written
to
Mr.
Ransay
Me Donuld
saving
that
the Republicans
have
watch-
ed with sympathy
the rise
to power cf the
L.apourites
but
doubdt
whether
they
wiil
stick to their ideals,
'‘any more
than
the
late
President
Wilson
did.”’
The
first
test of lLabou¢’s sincerity,
she
says,
will
be
in lreland,
where
the Republicans
re-
{use
10 recognize
allegiance
to
the King,
or
the
partition
of
tie
eccuntry.
She
raises
ti.e
question
whether
M:i.
Mac
Donald,
like
his
predecessors,
will
“‘force
His
Majesty’s
Minisiers
in.
the
Free
Siate
into
a
war
of
aggression
against
the Republican
citizens.”.
Miss
Mac Sweeney
urges
the
Premier
to make
an Irish
peace
on
the basis
of [rciaad’s
sovereignty
and intexrity.
Quebec,
Feb.
19th.—Lord
Athclstan,
ontreal,
will undertake
the provision of
a sum of money
up
io five hundred
thou-
sand dollars to continue
the fizht against
tuberculosis
in Montreal, i the
Quenc:e
Government
will “*thoroughly clean
up”’
the
present
tuberculosis
situation.
He
offers,
as
an
alternative,
to
personaily
defray
among
the
English
sp aking
population
of
Montreal
the
expesse
of
such
a eampaign
as
he
proposes
for the
Government,
if the Government
will un-
dertake
coneurrently
to
deal
similarly
Sl.
LRBI
XxX
AVIS
with
the
rest
of
the
population.
The
cffers
made
by Lord Atlolstan in
a letter
addressed
to both the Premier
Mr. Tas- |
cheicau
and Mr. Arvithur Sauve,
leader of
|
the Opposition.
!
New York, Feb.
19th.—The
raw sugar
market
was dull teday
and
prices
were
ur.changed
at 7.16, duty paid for Cuba’s
|
London,
Feb.
19.h"—There
was
no |
foundation
for
the
veport
that
the
‘
Prime
Minister
contemplates
resigning |
the
Foreign
Sceretaryship
at
an
early
|
date
and
it
is
equailv
un
rue
that
his
|
hea'th
is n.t good,
the
press
associatica
|
statas
it
is
authoritatively
informed.
|
The
Premier
had
a slight
coid
ten
days
|
ago,
but
the present
persistent
reports
|
regarding
his
tllaess
an¢d
his
resignpaticn
’
are
untrue,
the sratemnent
coreludes,
§
Paris,
February
19th.—-the
further
|
heavy
drop
of
the
frane
to
more
than
|
23
to
the
doilar
and
over
100
to
the
|
pound steriinz
was
the uppermost
topic
|
of
discussion
today
and
numerous
ex-
|
planations
were
forthcoming.
What
|
princivaily
puvzzled
the
commentators
|
was
the
rise
in
sterling
in
both Paris
|
apd
New York,
simultaneously
with the
|
coming
into
full
force
of
the
British
|
dock
strike.
i
:
London,
Feb.
19th--Mre.
James
O’
|
Grady,
seleeted
by
Mr.
Mae Dorald
to
|
be
Great
Batain’s
first
Ambassador
to
|
Russia
ander
the
new
regime,
wiil not
go
to
Mosecow
if
th2
Premier
ean
find
among
the
Labour
Party
leaders
orin
the
reczulatl
diplomatic
service,
another
|
man
oif
sufficient
calibre
for
the
post
aceording
to
anthoritative
information.
|
Wwashington,
Kb,
19 h.--The
demand
|
for
the
rosizpation
of
tha
Attorney-
|
General
Daugherty
suddeniy
has
be-
|
coms
one
of
the
most
acute
of all the
|
questions
growing
out
of
the
oil scan-
|
dal
and
there
were indications
today
that
|
some
important
deveicpment
could
be
|
expected
shortly,
Protests
avninst
Mr.,
|
Daugzherty’s
ecniintance
in
offi:»
have
|
eaine
1o
the
White
House
{rom several
|
new
sources,
uris,
Feb.
19:h~--The
spectacular
fall
|
of the
{ranc
on exchunge
has
roused
the
|
Froneh
people
to
a keener
sense
of the
|
resiizi2s
that
has
been
manirested
any
|
timie sinee
the armistice.
Groups oifpeo-
|
ple
erowd the pavement
in froot
of win-
|
dows
where
placards
register
the
fluctu-
:
a'ions
1n the
money
market and
(he steps
|
and
spacious
rotunda
of the
Bourse
are
|
crowded
as
never before oy curborokers
]
and
their elients,
eazerly
wailching
quo-
|
tations,
or
press
nY
into tie
throng
ar-
I
ound
the
biackbourds
to
unload
stoeks
l
and . boads
that
have
become
un-
dosirable
or
to buy
the leading
specula-
!
tive shares.
Throngs
equally great
and
i
equally
excited
assembled
around
the
|
Bourse
D 2 Commerce,
where
the
reac-
§
tion
of exehianze
on the
prices of
com-
taodities
is
sdiscussed
with
animation,
i
The dominant
ncte in all conversatisns
is
the time has
come for decisive action
and
that
if Pariiamezat
fails
to
follow
M.
Poincare
in
his
effort
to stabilize
the
fraiic,
something
else
must
be
dore,
The
shakiness
of
the
Frincare
Cabinet
ils
the subject
of energetiz
commenis
in
some
groups.
where
it is recognized
that
the popularity of the Premier
and public
confidence
in
his
policies
and
firmness
are being rapidly weakeued
by the short-
comings
of his Ministers.
Finance
Min-
ister De Lasteyrie
is under
sharp fire be-
cause
he waiied until the
catastrophe
to
the frare
befove taking
action
to prevent
further depreciaticn,
M. Raiberti,
Minis-
ter of Mavine
comes
in {or severe
criri-
cism
for
the
loss
of
the
great
airstip
Dixmude,
which
is altributed
to
zn
cffi-
cizl order
issued
by
ene
of
his
subordir -
ates,
who
Le covered,
as
well o 8 for the
loss
of
the
battieship
“‘France’’.
which
he attributed
to ‘‘fatality’’.
M. Cheron,
Minister
of
Agriculture,
is
bomburdel
from
all sides,
except
from the
eleme:t
he
represents,
for his
alleged
partiality
tn the
agricultural
interest
which poliey
i$ held
to
be
in
part responsible
for the
continual
increase
in the
cost
of
iiving,
Many
close
observers
of Parliamentary
procedure
believe
the
Premier’s
prestige
will
not suffice
much
longer
to keep
the
Government
together,
even
if he is
sue-
cessful
in putting
through
the
proposed
fiscal
measures,
The
possibility
¢f
his
feil
causes
considerable
worry
amons
Conservatives
and
Moder:
les
in Parlis-
ment,
as well
as
in the
g¢eneral
publie,
M. Poincare’s
logical
suecessor
would bo
from the Radical
or
Republican-Socialist
Party
and
no
man
in sight
appears
to
have
enough
strength
in
the
present
Chamber
to last
very
long.
REY. J
N,
TILWELL
a twelve-year
old bov,
who recently
eele.
brated
the first anuiversary
of his license
to preach.
Just
a year
ago
young
lid
well delivered
bis
second
sermon
at
the
Baptist
Chureh
in
Miles,
Tex.
After
hearivg the boy preachor
the chureh
vt
ed
to recognize
the
boy
as
an
ordained
minister
and reconmended
hm
to
o her
enurches.
In his first year
as
preacher
the
bov
has
traveled
more
than
5600
miies
to deliver
sermons
and
has
nuni-
bered
IVO eonverts
to Chiristianity during
that titme. —Baston
American.
Jan,
25th.
FINED IN RUM CASE
ON PATRON'S
iy
Lawrence,
Jan.
25—While
tae
liquor
squad
was inspecting
the siore of Henry
Aufiro
at
No.
77
Lawrence
street,
a
young
man
from
Manchester,
N.
H.,
entered
looked
at one plain
clothes
oifi-
cer and
in reply
to
a question
said
assur-
ingly: *‘Oh, it’s all
right.
1
have
been
here
before
aud got it often.
They
know
me.
‘'What
did
you
get?’”’
the
officer
asked.
‘‘Alcohn! spiit,
25 cents
a drink,”’
was the reply.
Aufiro and oihers charged
with
liquor
law violaticns
were fined S4OO.
lbid.