VEHON, ABRAHAM, merchant, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 78, May 22, 1914.

WEIL, LEOPOLD, manufacturer, Lawrence, L. I., June 19, 1914. WEINGART, ISAAC, manufacturer and philanthropist, New York City, aged 40, Nov. 6, 1913.

WESTHEIMER, ISAAC, member of school board, Titusville, Pa., aged 66, Feb. 21, 1914.

WOLF, MRS. ELIAS, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 80, Dec. 25, 1913.

WOLFSOHN, RACHEL, communal worker, San Francisco, Calif., May 20, 1914.

WOLODARSKY, MYER, former professor of Russian and Hebrew at Yale University, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 53, Mch. 6, 1914.

WRONKER, MORRIS, Confederate veteran, Helena, Ark., Oct. 16,

1913.

YAFFA, Jacob, rabbi, Haverhill, Mass., aged 72, Sept. 8, 1913. ZALKIND, B., rabbi, New York City, aged 61, Oct. 24, 1913. ZUNSER, ELIAKUM, Yiddish poet, New York City, aged 77, Sept. 22, 1913.

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FOREIGN COUNTRIES

ABYSSINIA

GENERAL: AUGUST. At Asmara, Erytrea, local police official Antioco Scanu conducts search at synagague on account of ritual murder charge.

SCHOOL FOR THE FALASHAS: MARCH 8. At Frankfort, meeting of pro-Falashas Committee; chairman, Dr. Margolies, and Jacques Faitlowitch present; Zionist Actions Comité, the Agudas Yisroel, and the Union of German Jews officially represented; meeting decides on immediate creation of a fund of fifty thousand francs for erection of schools for the Falashas, and on guarantee of an annual income of between thirty thousand and thirty-five thousand francs for the maintenance of the schools.

ARGENTINA
ELECTION

DICKMANN, ENRIQUE, Buenos Aires, elected member of Chamber of Deputies, May, 1914.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

GENERAL

SEPTEMBER. At annual meeting of Melbourne Jewish Philanthropic Society, the president suggests the establishment of a

settlement for the instruction of immigrants in agriculture.— NOVEMBER. Colony of nine Russian Jewish families coming from Russia and Palestine are settled in Shepparton, Victoria, by Melbourne Jews headed by I. Jacobs, an Australian member of the Jewish Territorial Organization (ITO).—FEBRUARY. Because Jewish boys who recently came to Melbourne did not remain on the farms on which they were placed, authorities decide "that the Semitic race is not adapted to farming," and instruct British agents to send no more Jewish boys.-APRIL. At Sydney, during strike of slaughterers, butchers provide one depot for kosher supplies for the convenience of Jews.

APPOINTMENTS

ALTSON, B. H., Melbourne, appointed justice of the peace, Aug., 1913.

FREEDMAN, D. I., appointed, by Government of West Australia, trustee of the Museum, Art Gallery, and Library, Jan., 1914.

GERSON, JULIUS, Brisbane, appointed justice of the peace, Aug., 1913.

ISAACSON, ISIDORE, Melbourne, appointed commander of the Fiftieth Senior Cadet Battalion, Sept., 1913.

LEVY, DANIEL, Sydney, appointed representative of the Legislative Assembly on the Senate of the University of Sydney, Oct., 1913.

MONASH, JOHN, Victoria, appointed brigadier-general to command Thirteenth Brigade of Infantry, Aug., 1913.

NECROLOGY

DAVIS, ALEXAnder Barnard, rabbi, Sydney, aged 85, Dec. 16, 1913. ISAACS, LEVI, communal worker, Melbourne, aged 53, Dec., 1913. MONTAGUE, DAVIS S., accountant, North Otago, New Zealand, aged 71, Aug., 1913.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
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GENERAL EVENTS AFFECTING JEWS

BEILIS CASE:-OCTOBER 3. At Vienna, at Congress of authorities on criminal medicine, Professor Zinke (Kiel) ridicules ritual murder theory in conclusions of Professor Sikorsky in Beilis indictments. Professors Haberda (Vienna), Unger (Bonn), and Frenkel (Berlin) agree with Professor Zinke.-4. At Budapest, protest condemning attitude of Russian Government signed by prominent men, among them M. Benedel, Minister of Education,

and former Ministers Berchevichi, Lukasch, Graf, and Aponyi; personal protest by Reformed Bishop Balthasar.-6. At Vienna, protest meeting organized by executive of Jewish community.-9. At Budapest, at instance of Chief Rabbi, a declaration, sworn to by seven hundred rabbis, published, declaring that no Jewish sect uses blood for religious purposes. Copy forwarded to court at Kieff through Russian consul.-At Prague, remarkable protest, signed by Czechs of high social standing, published; among signers are members of Austrian Parliament and of Bohemian Diet, professors of the Czech University and at the Polytechnic High School, magistrates, artists, and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, and Roman Catholic priests.— At Czernowitz, Lemberg, Prague, and Cracow, Jews protest.-28. At Vienna, Jewish deputy in Lower House offers interpellation asking whether the Government was prepared to make representations to Russian Government, calling attention to grave dangers threatening Jews in Russia and requesting it to take prompt measures to avert them.-The Egyenlöseg, Budapest, publishes letter from Dr. Csernoch, Prince Primate of Hungary, refuting the blood libel.-NOVEMBER. At Budapest, protest meetings called by Maccabaean and other societies.-11. At Budapest, massmeeting adopts resolutions of protest.-At Vienna, sensation created by statement in clerical anti-Jewish paper, the Reichspost, to effect that Old Testament commanded Jews to commit ritual murder. Representatives of Archbishop request editor to withdraw statement.-The Neue Freie Presse, Vienna, opens Beilis Fund; contributions received from many Russians.-FEBRuary. At Vienna, the Israelitische Allianz publishes appeal for contributions to a fund to help Beilis to become self-supporting.

GENERAL:-JULY. Hungarian House of Deputies passes Sabbath Closing Bill, prohibiting Jews who observe Saturday as Sabbath from opening their shops all day Sunday.-Serious rioting occurs at Czernowitz University between Jewish and German students, in course of which combatants on both sides are injured. Police restore order.-Austro-Hungarian consul-general at Salonica appeals to his Government for help for Jews at Serres. -Galician anti-Jewish agitators attempt to extend Russian-Polish boycott, with encouragement of Roman Catholic clergy, who make incendiary speeches against the Jews.

AUGUST. At Ferenzi, Hungary, Jews accused of ritual murder in connection with dedication of new synagogue.-Society of Polish Archeologists and Polish Society of Architects decide to restore synagogue built in 1579 at Przemysl, Galicia.—At RankFured, Hungary, watering place, Count Paul Haller, inspector, prohibits renting of rooms to Jews.-Governor of Galicia orders police to arrest all male persons liable for military service who at

tempt emigration and to send them to their homes.-Jewish boy scouts from Lemberg, while on march, save small town from destruction by fire. Eight boys badly burnt.

SEPTEMBER. Hungarian Government creates high school for training of cantors as an adjunct to the Government Seminary for Rabbis and Teachers. Dr. Joseph Banoczi, of Budapest, appointed director.-At Budapest, city council grants request of Jewish booksellers and dealers in Jewish sacred objects to be allowed to keep shops open longer than the statutory hour for fifteen days prior to and fifteen days after Rosh ha-Shanah.—At Cracow, Jewish cabmen seek to remove disability which forbids them to work outside of Jewish quarter.

OCTOBER. Galicians start boycott against Jews similar to that existing in Russian Poland; owing to fusion between the AllPoles and Christian Socialists, the agitation assumes a dangerous character. At Budapest, grave conflict concerning representation of Jews in the Hungarian House of Magnates, because Orthodox and Reform Jews have separate candidates, each class claiming to be the real representatives of Jewish faith.-23. At Budapest, in interview by the Jewish organ, the Egyenlöseg, George Mavrocordato, Roumanian minister, Vienna, states that territory ceded to Roumania may be regarded as separate part of country under special laws.

NOVEMBER. In Galicia, negotiations between the Poles and Ruthenians on reform of the franchise, aiming to exclude Jews from representation in the provincial Diet, adjourned, although it is alleged that the Ruthenian leaders have come to a secret understanding with the Governor-General; are only withholding their support in the hope of getting more than the Poles are now ready to grant them.-17. At Prague, rector of Czech University refuses to admit number of Russian Jewish students who applied for matriculation, because their certificates contain no mark as to their proficiency in knowledge of Judaism.-Herr Breiter, Christian member of Austrian Parliament of Polish Democratic Party, interpellates Minister of Interior on boycotting of Jewish doctors in Vienna hospitals, including those with Jewish wards endowed by Jews.

DECEMBER 17. At Vienna, Count von Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, replying to suggestion of Hungarian delegation, that the Powers that were parties to Berlin Treaty take joint action to obtain equality of treatment for Jews in Roumania, says he does not believe that the Powers could be induced to take such action.-Hungarian delegation vote by large majority to take note of Count Berchtold's declaration, that in matters concerning Article 44 of the Berlin Treaty the Powers signatory to the Treaty can intervene effectively only by united

action.-At Vienna, Social League of Jewish Doctors formed to safeguard interests of physicians.-At Lemberg, city council agrees to lease restaurant in the Stryrer Park, belonging to the corporation, to a firm of brewers, stipulating not only that all the rooms be kept clean, but also that Polish be sole medium of conversation. Yiddish strictly prohibited.-22. At Czernowitz, Minister Heinold, in reply to deputation petitioning for recog nition of the Jews as a nationality to have its own electoral college, states that such recognition would be unacceptable to Jews in other provinces.

JANUARY 10. Hungarian Government makes plans to establish a governmental liquor monopoly. Thousands of Jews engaged in this business may be ruined by the action.-12. Interpellation by Dr. Straucher in Lower Chamber states that Roumanian Jewish question ceased to be an internal affair of Roumania since the signing of the Berlin Treaty; that Roumania is answerable to the signatory Powers for its fulfilment of the Treaty of Berlin.At Körös, conference of delegates of Jews in Croatia and Slavonia demand equal civil and political rights and repeal of law of 1907, so that conversions from other religions to Judaism be legal.-26. At Ropczyce (Galicia), a Christian co-operative stores society founded. Many Jews will be affected economically by this.

FEBRUARY 1. At Cracow, Nahum Sokoloff prevented from delivering address by Polish students and police, who fear attack on Polish boycott.-2. At Maramaras Gross-Sziget, head constable fined one hundred kronen for sending officials to smear tables, tools, doors, etc., of Jewish butcher shops with lard, in order to compel butchers to cleanse shops, which, in his opinion, were not kept clean enough.-9. At Złoczow and at Zolkiev, the local Zionist party succeeds in electing four members to each of the municipal councils.-Count Goluchowsky promises aid to LandMarshal of Galicia and deputation of Jewish representatives, who protest against proposed amalgamation of Jewish constituencies with Christian villages, advocated by the Poles in order to reduce Jewish representation in the Diet.-16. The Emperor, upon petition of Ludwig Gross for exemption from serving as reservist, because he is sole support of large family, orders secretary to give Gross family three thousand kronen from his privy purse.20.

Government submits to Croatian Diet a draft of law providing for a uniform mode of oath to be sworn in law courts, so that the oath "more Judaico" may be abolished.

MARCH 2. Galician Diet adopts new electoral bill according to which Jews will have a smaller representation than entitled to by the population. They will be represented by a minimum of ten deputies in Diet, with possibility of securing fifteen seats as a