Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED OVER THE GLOBE
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.
Colonel Roosevelt was in Louisiana
Monday and Tuesday making speeches
The Ohio coal mine scale was not fix
cd at a recent conference and $1,000
men are still on a strike.
George w. Webb, former state treas
urer of Oregon, celebrated his nine
tieth anniversary at Pendleton Sept. B.
There are 25, 900 Austrian and Hun
sarian reservists registered at the
Austro-Hungarian consulate in New
York.
The German cruiser Karlsruhe re-
Gently engaged and badly disabled the
British cruiser Bristol off the coast of
Haiti.
The Germans have changed the Bel
GUM clocks, altering them one hour
to synchronize them with the German
clocks
Reports from ostend quotes reser-
visits from Lille as saying that a war
levy of $40,0 0O, 900 has been imposed
on that district by the Germans.
Confidence of the Parisians in the
ability of the allied armies to prevent
Germans entering or even investing
the city increases daily at Paris.
In the Belgian district occupied by
German officials post and telegraph
service will soon be opened under the
supervision of the general postoffice
at Berlin.
The total strength of the Russian
army now holding the ground between
Lublin and Lemberg is TOO 900. Lem
berg is described as evacuated by the
Austrians.
Colonel James C. Bulger, convicted
OF the murder of Lloyd F. Nicodemus
a hotel proprietor of Denver, has been
sentenced to be executed during the
week beginning December %.
Frank Williams, an ex-pugilist, char
ged with the murder of A. G. MCLEOD
a rancher, has confessed at klamath
Falls, Oregon, that he shot MCLEOD
but insists that he shot in self-defence
Aliens in Canada have been forbid
den the possession of arms or explo
sives. Natives of countries at wa.
with England who have arms or eS
plosives must surrender them to tn,
authorities within ten days.
It is said that the inhabitants of Blu
kowina, in which district Czernowit
is located, Joined with the Russians
This, the correspondent says, is re
:garded as the first sign of dissolution
of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Washington President Wilson ar
nounced Sunday he will not make
speaking tour during the coming can
paign. He declared his intention @
staying on the job" because of tn
unlocked for international situation.
The senate of Argentine approve
the nomination of DR.. Romulo Mao
to be ambassador of the Argentine RI
public to the United States. DR.. Mao
is now minister at Washington an
will be Argentina's first ambassado
at Washington.
1t is related in Rome that n conve
sation before his election Pope Ben
dict XIV. repeatedly expressed his b.
lief in the necessity that the ponti
should intervene with an appeal IL
peace, not in purely evangelical forn
but in a precise diplomatic action.
The town hall of Louvain, Belgiul
is safe, standing alone, with all tt
houses around it destroyed. The di
patch serves to confirm earlier repor
that the historic Hotel de Vile. whit
is a beautiful example of late Goth
architecture, was spared by the &c
mans when they burned the town.
Two passengers on a Grand Trur
passenger train inbound to Detro
from Toronto Saturday night we
shot and probably fatally wounded
two masked robbers, who boarded t
train soon after it entered the cit
After securing money and valuabl
from the rest of the passengers in t
b coach the bandits disappeared.