By the Associated Press. «
LONDON, August 26.—The British
government income from liquor taxes
during the year ended March 31
amounted to more than 140,000,01*0
pounds.
The net amount derived from beer
was £82.493.147. homemade spirits £41.-
989,706. imported -spirits £7,937,939.
wine £3.745,826. liquor licenses £4.-
311,844.
The number of bulk barrels of beer
produced in England during the year
was 24.871.187, and in Scotland. 1,-
884,933. * |
been enough to damage cotton crops
in the South and endanger hundreds
of acres of grain in the shock or ready
for reaping in the Midwest. The corn
crop, however, has benefited, and the j
wetness is said to have put Western j
[ Winter wheat fields into excellent j
condition for plowing.
New York has had a 7.5-inch pre- •
cipitation in two weeks, and eonces- j
sionnaires at Coney Island have been j
Iso hard hit by a late and rainy Sum- j
; mer that they plan a special week of
I carnival next month to recoup losses.
The protracted spell of rain has
been fairly general east of the Missis
sippi. The rain has usually been ac
companied by disagreeable humidity,
and there has been considerable fog
at Atlantic coast ports.
ARRIVES AS “VOICE OF THE GODHEAD." Jiddu Krishnamurti,
young Hindu Theosophist, who arrived in New \ork yesterday with
Mrs. Annie Besant. international president of the Theosophist Society,
w hose members hail him as the new world teacher.
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
Thief Gets $15,000 Religious Manuscript,
500 Years Old, From New York Exhibit
I I
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 26.—A 500-
year-old religious manuscript valued
at 115,000 has been stolen from the
National Arts Club.
