GENERAL NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1920, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

NEWSPAPERS’ ST R UGGLES. EFFECT OF PAPER PRICES.

The rise in the cost of paper continues to produce mortality among Canadian newspapers, writes the Toronto correspondent -of the London Times. A few days ago the Toronto World, which was established nearly half a century ago, and under tire control of Mr. W. F. Maclean, 31. P., has been among the most virile jouvmus of Canada, was forced to make an assignment. It is hoped that a reorganisation will he effected and the paper continue, but as yet the necessary new capital has not been obtained. Some months ago the Brantford Courier wm; absorbed by the Expositor of 1 lie same city. The St. Catharine’s Journal, with a. long and honourable history, has also ceased publication. A year or more ago the Toronto Times closed

its doors, and in Montreal and the West there have been suspensions or amalgamations of various daily publications. i: SUGAR IN BRITAIN. The position with regard to sugar in England is much move serious than in Australasia. At latest advices there was every probability that the juice of rationed sugar would bo increased shortly-by at least Id per pound; it was already about Is. This is the result of the advance in the producers’ price, writes a “Daily Chronicle” representative, consequent upon an estimated deficit equal to 10 per cent, nf the Cuban crop this year.

X _ v ; _ 1' “ ,7 ( The price of sugar in the Cuban market has advanced so much that the Food Ministry cannot afford to buy • there now and sell it at less than 5 1/6Ad per lb. Fortunately good s(jocks a of the cheaper sugars are still in hand 3 Mr. McCurdy states that the amount 1 of sugar to he issued to householders 2 for jam making during the coming season is anoroximately 35,000 tons. No sugar is to he allotted to brewer--2 ies and dr-tilleries, and the confectigni ery trade is to receive one-half the t quantity issued during 1919. ’ which > was approximately 156,000 tons. I

SHOT IN ms SLEEP. In the beautiful old cathedral tit} o* Strasbourg r» young in,.n, :uiueti Francois Dippig, m ame red liis' stepfather, -VI, Schwab, by shooting JTm with a revolver in his sleep. Dippig, who is only 19 years cl age, r at his trial at Scrasboaig confessed that three times previously Ira had attempted to carry out the murder by poisoning his father’s food, and oven 10 having on one occasion poisoned the food of the whole family. .Selecting a night when everything was quiet, he crept along to his father's bedroom, and there deliberately and coolly shot him as he lay sleeping peacefully in bed. Mine. Schwab, being awakened by the noise, went downstairs to see wha fhad happened, but on trying to turn on the electric lights found that they failed to work, as the boy had previously .-nit ail the wives. Young Francois. being surmised at tlm a mrnranco of his mother, turned and fip lonely attacked hm- with tho butt of his revolver, striking her about the head and body. Foxt d iy Francois visited his unde, living in another part of Strasbourg, and calmly announced to him that burglars had broken into the house, killed Ms father, and seriously wound ed his 'mother’. He even suggested that they should employ police dogs in an attempt to track down the dangerous criminals who had committed the terrible crime. At the trial ho shewed no romor.c. When his mother stood in the witness box to give her evidence Franco's do libm’itofy covered his face with a handkerchief and turned his head in an, opposite direction. Tire only apparent object of the- murder was that on several occasions Francois had been scolded by his father, and a mental doctor who examined the bey _ stated

that Jie was degenerate, with a cony piet* 1 '<ek of moral, sense, and a dan ger to the public. The Court fmnd Francois guilty, and sentenced him to •death. Failing a I’residential reprieve he will be publicly executed.