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Angeles and drafted several juvenile court laws for the state. He is a republican. He was married to Olive Doolittle of St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 13, 1898.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

NEW CABINET MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. Curtis Dwight Wilbur was nominated for secretary of the navy by President Calvin Coolidge March 14. 1924. and was confirmed by the senate March 18. He succeeded Edwin Denby of Michigan, who on Feb. 18 sent in his resignation to become effective March 10. From that date until March 24, when Secretary Wilbur took charge, the affairs of the department were directed by the assistant secretary of the navy, Theodore RooseCurtis D. Wilbur was born in Boonesboro, Iowa, May 10, 1867, and was educated in the public schools there and at the high school in Jamestown, N. D. In June. 1888, he was graduated from the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, Md. Resigning from the navy, he studied law and began practice in Los Angeles, Cal., where he served as chief deputy district attorney of the county from 1899 to 1903. From 1903 to 1918 he was judge of the Superior court of the same County. Then he was made associate justice of the Supreme court of California for the term 1919-1931, but resigned on being made secretary of the navy. While in California Mr. Wilbur organized the Juvenile court of Los

Harlan Fiske Stone was born in Chesterfield, N. H., Oct. 11, 1872. He was educated in the public schools and in Amherst college, from which he received the degree of B. S. in 1894 and M. A. in 1897. After taking a course in the Columbia university school of law he was admitted to the New York bar in 1898 and became a member of the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone in New York city. From 1899 to 1902 he was a lecturer in the Columbia school of law and later professor and dean, holding the last office from 1910 to 1924, when he was appointed attorney-general of the United States by President Calvin Coolidge to succeed Harry M. Daugherty, resigned

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. Henry C. Wallace of Iowa, secretary of agriculture, died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 25, 1924. He was succeeded by Howard M. Gore of West Virginia, the assistant secretary.

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UNITED STATES COMMON SCHOOL STATISTICS.
-Teachers-
Men. Women.

Total.

Children.Year. Number. Enrolled. †Attendance. 1870.12.055,443 6,871,522 4,077,347 77,529 122.926 200.515 6,144,143 122,795 163,798 286.593 1880.15.065,767 9,867,505 1890.18,543,201 12.722,581 8.153,635 125,525 238,397 363,922 1900.21,404,322 15,503,110 10,632,772 126,588 296,474 423.062 1910.24,360,888 17,813,852 12.827.307 110,481 412,729 523.210 1911.24,745,562 18,035.118 12.871,980 110,328 423.278 533,606 1912.25.167,445 18,182,937 13,302,303 114.559 432,730 547,289 1913.25.499.928 18,523,558 13,510,643 113,342 451,118 564,460 1914.26,002.153 19.153,786 14,216,459 114.662 465.396 580.058 1915.26,425,100 19,693,007 14,964,886 118.435 485.566 601.001 1916.26.846.976 20,351,687 15.358,927 123,038 499,333 622,371 1918.27.686.476 20,853.516 15,548,914 105,194 545,515 650,709 1920827.728,788 21,732,340 16,248,997 96,920 574,070 670,990 Average daily attendance. *Children 5 to 18 years of age.

now collected for even years only.

PLACE NAMES IN IRISH FREE STATE.

Total cost. $63,396,660

#Salaries. $37,832,566

55,912,972

91,836,484

137.687.746

78.094,687 140,506,715 214,964,618

253,915,470 426,250.434 266.678.471 446,726,929 284,945,162 482,886.793

303,537,849 534,058,580

323.610.915 555.077,146

364,789,265 640,717,053 344,668,690 605,460,785

436,477,090 763,678,089

569,460,886 1,039,385,055 Of teachers. §Statistics

The government of the Irish Free State Navan-Baile na h Uaimhe (Bola na Huava). the official Queenstown-Cobh (Kov-as English cove). (Saorstat Eireann) has changed Other Names. names of places from English to Irish, or Gaelic. Following are the Irish names, with their pronunciation, of some of the better known cities in the Free State:

Dublin-Baile Atha Cliath (Bolah Awha Klia or Bla Klia).

Dail Eireann-Chamber of deputies.
Seanad Eireann-Senate.

Parliament-Oireachtas.

Supreme Court-Cuirt Uachterach.
High Court-Ard Chuirt.
(Dhun Lera or Ourselves Alone-Sinn Fein.

Kilkenny-Cill Chainnigh (Kil Khannig).
Kingstown-Dun Laoghaire
Lwera).

NEW MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH
ACADEMY ELECTED.

Three new members of the French academy
They
were chosen in Paris Nov. 27, 1924.
were Georges Lecomte, author, who succeeded
Frederic Masson: Emil Picard, mathematician.
who succeeded Charles de Freycinet, and Al-
succeeded Pierre
bert Besnard, artist, who
Loti.

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LIQUORS AND SPIRITS PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.
Year ended June 30. 1922.
State.

Barrels.

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Spirits. gals.

214.504

2,086,542

State.
Michigan
Minnesota

Liquors, barrels. 119,493 225,634 441,147 13,634 25.286 402.345 1,679,657 488.407 888,184 29.833 24.700

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La. and Mississippi 22,854,329
Maryland..

Dist. of Columbia

Massachusetts
Michigan.
Missouri

47.799 115.833 117,596

1,362,807 Massachusetts

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57.84 10.356

11,895 377,866

3,743

19.955

6,347,799

Imports.

Imports. Price, Per

Pounds.

Value.

Cents. Pounds.

Pounds.

Value. Cents.cap.Lbs

1830..

$4,227,021

8.3

2.98

8,609,415

$2,425,018 23.3

.53

1840.

94,996,095

8,546,222 8.8

5.06

20,006,595

5.427,010 24.1

.99

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11,234,835

7.6

5.60

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21.883,797 10.8

5.79

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60,360,769 13.5

8.78

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78,267.432 16.0

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7.83
9.81
9.33

29,872,654 4,719,232 14.1 1.22 31,696,657 8,915,327 26.3 .84 47,408.481 13,863,273 29.4 1.10 72,162,936 19,782.931 27.4 1.39 83,886,829 12.317.493 15.0 1.33 84,845,107 10.558,110 12.4 1.09 85.626,370 13.671,946 16.0 .89

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1921.

..1,352,312,725

72,196,053

17.587,398

1922. ..1,241,787,791

69,504,647 7.9

177,555,403 13.13 12.13

24.36 .65

20.94

149,085.642 12.01 10.97 86,141,949 18,040,476 *Average import price per pound. †Consumption per capita based on net imports.

NEW REICHSTAG ELECTIONS IN GERMANY. Elections of members of the German reichstag were held on Sunday, Dec. 7. 1924. They resulted in a victory for the social democratic government and a defeat for the monarchists. The communists and extreme nationalists lost teen seats each. The social democrats

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gained twenty-nine seats, while the parties affiliated with them in the government made small gains. The result of the elections was regarded as a triumph for the men pledged to the faithful execution of the experts or Dawes reparation plan.

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1900..

1910.

1920.. 1921.

236.674 3.883.529

$20.533.469
429,521,128

Total.

Policies.

Amount.

916.364 $1.584.717.001 5,203.090 4.049,578,567 29.988.582 16,401,261,042 64,341,000 42,330,968,000 71.781,203 45,983,400,333

3.176.051 7.093.152.380 11.219.296 1.468.986.366 14,395.347 8.562.138.746
6.954.119 13,227.213.168 23.034.463 3.177.047,874
....16,733,000 35,299,292.000 47,608,000 7,031,676,000
..17.684,688 37.977,280,586 54.096,515 8,006,119,747
Payments to

Total income. policyholders. Assets.
Liabilities. Surplus.
$196,938,069 $90.007.820 $770.972.061 $678.681,309 $92.290,752
400,257,603 168.687.601 1.742,414,173 1.493,378.709 249,035,464
781.011.249 387.302.073 3,875.877.059 3,325,878,366 549,998,693
1,847,264,000 744.649,000 7,319,997,000 6,989,309,000 330,688,000
7,548.158,953 388,337,891

......... 1.951,417,924 839,967,405 7.936,496,844
FRATERNAL LIFE INSURANCE.
Claims

1890..

1900..

1910...

1920...

..............

1921..

Year.

1901..

1910...

1920...

Com

Insurance in force.

Insurance panies. Income. Disbursement. paid. written. 489 $81.628,596 $77,343,460 $64.128.047 $799,626,678 $5.656,453,465 497 128.631,649 110,168,334 92.279.662 1,331,552.713 9.562.511.910 336 181,229,109 135.807,460 109.594,855 1,177,970,840 8,879,451,774

1921................ 283 194,798.000 136.604,000 107,925,000 785,131,000 9.123,525,000

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Losses. Dividends. 1915. 1900.493 198.312.577 108.307.171 8.446,110 1910.597 381.545.814 166.789.763 20,709,261 1920.789 1073,624,952 451,469,890 40.088,229 1920................. 79,180,592 1921.802 915,921,407 514,754,544 39.351,555 1921................. 83,408,000

CASUALTY AND OTHER INSURANCE.

Year. 1900..

MUTUAL ACCIDENT AND SICK

ASSOCIATIONS.

Companies. Income.
102 $3.201.098

Losses. $18,519,057

20,631,083

23.731,500

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1910......... 177

111.041.748 41.465.472

1910.

197

11.938,130

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1920......... 189

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Per capita. Gals. Gals. 23,310,843 1.36 36,563,009 1.58 101,346,669 3.22 204,756,156 5.31 414.220.165 855,792,335

1921......... 205

67 22.712,185
62 22,125,000

WINES AND LIQUORS CONSUMED IN THE UNITED STATES.

Consump- Per Consump

4,873,096 .29

Distilled spirits Wines & liquors-

Total. capita. Gals. Gals. 71.144.823 4.17

1920..

Consump- Per

Per

8.26

13.67

1900.

16.01

tion. capita. Pf.gals. Pf.gals. 43.060.884 2.52 51,833.473 2.23 89,968,651 2.86 79.895.708 2.07 63,526,694 1.27 87.829.562 1.40 97.248.382 1.27

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1910.

2.045 497.018 22.19

1920.

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1921. 1922.

29.988,467 .39 1.221,500,160
60,543,078 .65 1,851,340.256 19.79 133.538.684 1.42

2.63 24.026,751
285,798,939 2.61 35.217,662
196.737,187 1.77 19,262,861
EPIDEMICS IN 1924.
Encephalitis lethargica, commonly known as
"sleeping sickness," was prevalent in England
and Wales in 1924. During the fifty weeks
ending May 17, 2.829 cases were reported. The
mortality up to that time had been a little
more than 12 per cent. In Japan several
thousand cases were reported on the island of
Shikoku and on the mainland. The mortality
was high.

Spotted typhus, scurvy and malaria were prevalent in Russia, where there was an acute

shortage of quinine and other essential drugs. Early in the fall of 1924 cases of pneumonic plague, a form of the bubonic plague. appeared in the Mexican section of Los Angeles, Cal., and up to Nov. 13 there had been thirtyfive fatal cases. Four of these were from the bubonic plague, One of the victims was a priest and another an ambulance driver, both having become infected while doing work in the line of duty.

DEATH OF SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE.

Henry Cabot Lodge, after representing Mas- | politics. He was the author of a number of sachusetts continuously in the United States books and numerous magazine articles. He senate for thirty-one years, died at a hospital in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 9, 1924. He had an operation in July and a second one Oct. 20 and was apparently recovering when he had a severe stroke which proved fatal. Mr. Lodge had long been the republican leader in the senate and was influential in national

was born in Boston, Mass.. May 12, 1850. The vacancy in the senate caused by the death of Senator Lodge was filled by the appointment of William Morgan Butler, a Boston lawyer and manufacturer, and chairman of the Republican national committee.

DEATH OF NICOLAI LENIN.

Nicolai Lenin, premier of soviet Russia, died at Gorky, a village seventeen miles from Moscow, on the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 21, 1924. He had been ill since June, 1922, and while reports indicating his final recovery were spread from time to time it was known by his medical attendants that such an outcome was highly improbable. German and other specialists who were called in diagnosed his ailment as arterio-sclerosis and intimated that it was sure to end in his death. The official bulletin announcing Lenin's passing was as follows:

tionary career began in the early '90s when he attended the Kazan university, from which he was expelled because of his energy in expounding his communist doctrines. Moving to Petrograd he attended the university there, but soon was arrested and deported to Siberia for his propaganda among workingmen. When he had finished his term of exile he emigrated to Switzerland, where he continued his revolution. ary propaganda. He made visits to England, France, Germany and Australia, but kept up his connection with the radicals in Russia. When Czar Nicholas II, was overthrown in the early part of 1917 Lenin returned to Rusgovernment compelled him to go into hiding and to seek refuge in Finland. On his return in November Kerensky was deprived of power by his opponents, and upon his flight Lenin was installed as the dictator of soviet Russia. From that time until his illness Lenin, with the support of a small body of well-organized communists, ruled the country through several years of bloodshed, disorder and famine and established a true dictatorship of the proletariat. Toward the last he had to modify some of his communistic doctrines and to make concessions to capitalism.

"Jan. 21 the condition of Vladimir Ilyitch [Lenin] suddenly underwent a sharp aggra-sia, where his plotting against the Kerensky vation. At 5:30 p. m. his breathing was interrupted and he lost consciousness. At 6:50 Vladimir Ilyitch died from paralysis of the respiratory centers."

The bulletin was signed by six of the physicians who had attended Lenin. The announcement of his passing caused much grief among communists and other supporters of the soviet regime in Russia and when the remains were brought back to Moscow to lie in state in the House of the Unions they were viewed by thousands, who looked upon him as the outstanding hero of the Russian revolution. His funeral took place on Sunday, Jan. 27. and his body was consigned to an elaborate tomb in the "red square" in Moscow.

Nicolai Lenin was the bolshevist premier's pen name. His real name was Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov. He was born April 24, 1870, in the town of Simbirsk, Russia. His active revolu

Several attempts were made to assassinate Lenin and one of them nearly succeeded. In September, 1918, Dora Kaplan, a young socialist revolutionary, fired a bullet into his neck, inflicting a severe wound which gave him trouble for a long time.

WORLD'S SHIPS, RAILWAYS, TELEGRAPHS AND CABLES.
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