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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY General Local AVeather Forecast Following the passage eastward of the disturbance of Friday gen ¬ erally fair weather will prevail in this forecast dis ¬ trict from Wisconsin and Illinois westward to the Rockies for the next two or three days The changes In temperature will not be of much importance importanceA A storm which in intensity equals any experi ¬ enced this winter still prevailed in southern Minne ¬ sota South Dakota northern Iowa and northern AAis consin today South of a line drawn across Minne ¬ sota from a point fifteen miles northwest of the Twin Cities to Lake Superior running south of the twin ports about thirty miles came reports of a heavy wet snow and high winds In northern Iowa considerable sleet was reported northern AViscon nin as far south as Madison was covered with snow and South Dakota experienced a blizzard In the Twin Cities electric light and power wires were crippled and portions of both cities suffered in convenieiHf from lack of light Street cars were moving with difficulty Telephone service be ¬ tween St I a nl and Minneapolis was irregular Tele ¬ graph and longdistance telephone communication in all directions was crippled Pipestone and Albert Lea Minn recorded the worst storm of the season with over six inches of snow which the wind was piling into huge drifts driftsTranscontinetal Transcontinetal trains on the Chicago Mil ¬ waukee it St Paul road were being diverted to the Northern Pacific between Minneapolis and Terry Mont on account of snow blockades on the former road west of Aberdeen S D Through service on the hitter has been tied up for two days by heavy snow in Montana and South Dakota DakotaAH AH records for movement of cotton from Savannah have been broken and the movement is continuing for Savannah is shipping her cotton to all parts of the world including the Orient Since August 1 the opening of the cotton year until the first week in March eightynine cotton sljips have been loaded there carrying a total of approximately SoOOOO bales of cotton to foreign countries jnid the port is still lined with vessels taking cotton though early January in former years lias marKcil the end of the movement Despite this heavy snipmcnt the move ¬ ment is continuing at the rate of 21000 to 30000 bales weekly for direct export with almost as much being shipped coastwise coastwiseA A representative of the Aossische Xeitung who went over Krupps huge establishment at Kssen re ¬ cently states in his report that the number of hands employed there is now 4 000 Iefore the war the number was SO 000 and during the war owing to the excessive demand for war material the number was increased to ll lli000 i000 After the armistice the number gradually dropped to 32000 The con ¬ version of the works to peace purposes has added 13000 to that number In the building where big guns were formerly cast marine propeller shafts are bi ing forged The linn is devoting much at ¬ tention to agricultural machinery machineryDiscussion Discussion of methods to regain government losses resulting from the decision of the Supreme court that slock dividends are not taxable continued be ¬ fore the house ways and means committee at Wash ¬ ington Joseph S McCoy government actuary who appeared before the committee Thursday was to be recalled to explain more fully the effect of the court decision on government revenues Tin com ¬ mittee is divided over the necessity for additional legislation to recoup the losses both Republicans and Democrats holding that the eventual loss in revenue will not exceed 33000000 33000000Strong Strong remonstrances have made by the Amer ¬ ican government against rulings of the allies repa ¬ rations commission that under the peace treaty sale of certain Ceruian property in neutral countries may lie forced if necessary to satisfy the initial payment of the erman indemnity Undersecre ¬ tary Polk of the State Department writing to Senator Henderson dem of Nevada and afur tlier protest was in preparation as such a con ¬ struct ion of the treaty was contrary to an official interpretation exchanged between Germany Germanytaiid taiid the allied powers powersAn An increase of 103020832 in Canadian trade both imports and exports was made in the eleven months ending February 20 over the same period a year ago according to statistics announced by the customs department The total for the last eleven months was 2110r 4Sr OI as compared with 2 0051521 572 for the same months a year ago In imports the greatest increase was in the total value of dutiable agricultural products while in exports increases were shown in domestic agricultural prod ¬ ucts animals animal products wood wood products and paper paperCountess Countess Marie Tolstoi niece of the famous Kus sian author and philosopher who recently arrived at Constantinople as a refugee from Odessa ap ¬ plied to the American Ited Cross for relief The countess who speaks perfect Knglish was at once placed on the stall of the Ited Cross the head ¬ quarters of which are on the island of Proti in the Prinkopos group and will act as an interpreter interpreterA A committee of railroad men lias sent a lengthy document to the Spanish government declaring that in the event railroad rates are increased and higher wages for Hie men are not given approval before Monday next the entire body of railroad employes in Spain will strike1
