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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY WASHINGTON, D. C, January 22. Have you your .0.81? You should have that much if you have your share of the money in circulation, according to the annual report of the comptroller of the currency. John Skelton Williams made public today. He says there was $."0,379,400,000 in circulation, which is an increase of .07 per capita: over the 1917 report. STOCKHOLM. Sweden, January 22. Fifteen hundred peasants have. , been slain by, the. . .BolsjMjylUt in the province south of Moscow and a serious uprising is in progress. Scores of villages have been burned. Moscow is practically surrounded by the rebels, who are gaining recruits, especially in the Tula, Koslov and Ryazan. A former schoolmaster is leading the rebels. ROCK ISLAND, III., January 22. A sheriffs posse is believed to have surrounded twenty-one of the twenty-five desperate criminals who late last night escaped from the Rock Island prison, and fleeing in three automobiles sought refuge in a woods near hen, where they are said to be preparing to give battle to the posse. WASHINGTON, D. C January 22. The tax on theater tickets was reduced from twenty lo ten per cent by the conference on the 1919-1920 revenue bill this afternoon.
