Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-05
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.

Eight of the crew of the American
steamer Evelyn, sunk by a mine in
the North sea, are lost.
Princeton university has contrib
uted an ambulance to the American
Ambulance hospital in Paris.
Fire saturday destroyed the old Y.
M. c. A. building at Peoria, Ill, and a
building adjacent. Total loss 100000
Strongly expressed opinion both for
and against sending a Japanese army
to Europe is found in the Japanese
press.
Plans for an extra session of the
senate to ratify treaties and confirm
nominations Immediately after March
S have been abandoned.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard is making
normal progress at Paris toward re-
covery from the effects of the I'M
putation of her right leg below the
knee.
The superior court holds that the
old age and mothers pension bills
adopted by the voters as an initiative
measure at the November election is
invalid in Arizona.
A special committee has been form
ed in Berlin to assist artists who have
given up their work to go to the front
by purchasing pictures and statues
from them.
Proposals by railroads to exclude
from regular baggage service penta-
gonal trunks are pronounced unrea-
sonable by the interstat commerce
commission.
The Moulin Rouge, we'll known as
a center of the night life of Paris,
caught fire Saturday. There were
no casualties. The origin of the fire
is mo- known. 100000 loss.
The federal council of Germany
adopted budget estimates, including
10,042,000 marks ($2,51O,5 SOC, OO0) for
extraordinary expenditures. This sum
Is for carrying on the war.
Great Britain, France and their al
lies have advised neutral countries
that they hold themselves at liberty to
stop all shipping TO and from Germany
and the countries of her allies.
At the opening of the parliament
of the Union of South Africa the guard
of honor for the new British governor
was composed entirely of burghers in
khaki, a duty which heretofore has
devolved on British soldiers.
After having completed the destruc-
ton of the forts at the entrance of
the Dardanelles last week the allied
fleet of British and French warships,
the greatest winch has ever been in
action, attacked the inner forts.
Without a dissenting vote, the
United States senate has passed the
army appropriation bill, carrying ap-
p~roximately $103. 100000, while the
house aided in cleaning up legislation
for the session nearing the close by
passing the $~6,oo0,00O Notifications
bill.
The budget commission at Berlin
AAhOulOC0 tudt Jul VI 1lsOVU nidlS
high school teachers in the country,
1000 are serving in the army, while
nearly half the high school pupils
v II years of age have entered the
military service.
The Rev. James Morrison Darnell,
formerly pastor of a Unitarian church
In Kenosha, Wis. was indicted by
the federal grand jury at Milwaukee,
charged with violation of the Mann
white slave law in transporting Ruth
Soper of Owatonna, Mimi, to Ke-
nosha, Wis.
Glasgow. Scotland.-The peremptory
order of the government for the re-
sumption of work Immediately by the
shipyard engineers at the Clyde yards,
10000 OF whom went on strike for an
increase of wages, has produced
speedy results. Committees represent
ing the strikers decided this week
10 advise the men to return to work.
The government told the men they
would have to go back to work to help
move munitions of war for the army
and navy.