Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1917 — FACTS AND FIGURES [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES

* ■ ■ ■ Northcllffe says that the Brit- : ishj war bill in the United States : is now $50,000,000 a week. i The 1,425 prisoners in the '■ Eastern penitentiary of Pennsyli vania have organized to aid the > Red Cross. > New York Bible society is coli lectlng funds to distribute 100,i- 000 New Testaments to soldiers ■: and sailors. :• Germany proposes to combine ; Its'l,2oo labor unions into 24, in ■: order to more easily settle indus- £ trial problems after the war. ■: German casualties in the war i: have now reached nearly four > and a half millions. A million :• German soldiers have been < killed. The Rockefeller contrlbu- :• Hons to charities since the war ■: was declared with Germany are :■ said to aggregate more than !; $100,000,000.