Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-01-03
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What is Transporting
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
General.

state of unrest, with rival political
forces seeking control.
Passengers on the grounded fruit
steamer Turrialba were safely trans
ferred to the revenue cutter Seneca.
Bubonic plague has broken out near
Popovka, in the government Of Sauna
"a. Twelve persons have died of the
disease and eight persons are under
treatment
Militant suffragettes made an eX
tensive attack upon the pillar letter
boxes in London. They employed
black and red fluids in an endeavor
to obliterate the addresses on the
heavy Christmas mail.
Twelve hundred immigrants from
all parts of the world, detained on
threshold of the new world, were
given a taste of Uncle Sans Christ
mas cheer that increased their anx-
iety to enter.
In view Of the unsatisfactory posi-
ton of the opium question, the Chi
nese government has issued a mani
festo reiterating its desire to suppress
the evil and to save the people from
a life of degradation.
AT Atlanta, Ga, more than 200 pa
tients shot, cut, bruised, burned and
injured otherwise were received by
the hospitals as a result of the cele-
bration of Christmas with fireworks,
pistols and other noise-making de-
vices.
In a speech at Boston, Col. Roose-
welt severely criticised the war de-
partment for lack of preparation in
time of peace. His remarks are caus-
ing comment.
Bitten on the nose by a rat while
sleeping, Clifford Null, a musician, at
Traverse, Mich, nearly bled to death.
A vein in Mull's nose was cut. Blood
poisoning is feared.
Denver's chief of police advised
women to keep their purses in their
stockings. One of them did so. While
she was asleep in a chair a smooth
burglar took off her stockings and got
the purse, Now she dosen' believe in
police protection.
Boarding house keepers all over
the country may celebrate for the ex-
press companies have been compelled
by the government to cut down the
rate on prunes. 1t was brought about
through the agency Of the parcels
post.
Bert Dalton bank robber, one time
leader of the Whitney gang that held
western Wyoming in terror a year
ago, and the man who engineered a
sensational Jail break of nineteen
convicts from the Rawlins peniten-
tiary, was captured at Big Piney,
Wyoming.
Charges that Martin B. Madden of
Chicago obtained his reelection to
congress from the First Illinois dis
trict by expenditures in violation of
the law, were made in notice of con-
test filed with the house by andrew
Donovan, the democratic and progress,
sive candidate from that district.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff who has just been named as
chief marshal of the approaching in.
auguration parade, has begun to out,
line his plans for a military, naval
and civic demonstration. General
Woods purpose is to make the Viii
son inauguration parade as well bal
anced as possible.
With both hands cut off and his
skull fractured, Max Won Bulow, said
to be a d~eScendent of Count Won Blu
low, the famous German general. was
picked up on the railroad track neal
the Nevada state line Thursday
night and died two hours later in the
railroad hospital at Starks.
Two of the ten buildings of the
Akron plant of the international Har
vester company were destroyed by fire
the loss being 100000. The company
manufactured automobiles and farm
implements and 1,100 men will TEN
porarily be out of work.
The Portuguese premier. DR.. Quart,
Leite, on his return from Oporto, will
hand to the president of the republic
the resignation Of the cabinet.
C~hicago's cattle receipts show
decrease and prices are correspond
ingly increased. This is true in spit,
of the fact that more money was pait
out for cattle in 1912 than in 1911.
After pleading not guilty to charge
OF receiving deposits after his ban
was insolvent, Bernard F. O'Neil. TO,
mer president of the defunct Stat
Bank OF Commerce of Wallace, Idaho
was held in default of $18 900 bail il
district court.
The Barre Wool Co. of Massachr
sets paid government fines amountin
to $4,000 for violations of the allie
contract labor law.
Cambridge, Mass, was chosen q
the next place of meeting by Ia
annual convention of the Nation,
Language Association of America E
it's closing session in Philadelphia.