The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-17
WORLD IN BRIEF

New York.-Domestic coal has risen
to Sl2.3O per ton throughout New
York, and dealers will sell only one
ton at Il time to Il customer.
New York.-The New York Ameri-
can says a project is Oh foot to build
several super submarines, modelled aft
er the D%eutchland, in this country.
Chicago Chicago drug and con-
fectionery stores have raised the price
of ice cream sodas to Is cents, and
candy shops announce advances of
from five to 20 cents per pound for
candy.
Philadelphia.-All records for the
number of pieces Of money coined
were broken by the United States
mint here during October. The num-
Der of coins turned out amounted to
45,23l,4l3.
Pittsburg.-To take the place Of de-
parted foreign workmen who have
gone to Europe, several hundred neg
roes have been imported to work in
the mills. Several thousand negroes
have been drawn from the south for
this purpose.
New York.-During the last -
months there were built in the United
State by steam railroads only 16
miles of new line, the lowest annual
record for more than so years. In
1864, during the Civil war, only 1888
miles were built.
New York.-The debts Of the seven
largest nations at war aggregate $780,
600 ,00O,O 0O, compared with $27 ,OOO,-
100000 at the beginning of the war.
The daily cost of the a is estimated
at $l05, 000, 0OO. If the wal ends next
year the annual interest on the debt
will be $500, 100000.
Geneva.-Compulsorv war economy
in Germany has spread to clothing.
Berlin dispatches say that hereafter
no person may buy new clothes with
out proving that their old ones are
useless. Men are to be allowed two
suits yearly as a maximum; women.
three suits or dresses.
st. Paul.-The Minnesota tax com
mission increases the assessed val
uation of property owned by the late
J. J. Hill $1,337,llS on persona
property and $S,372,471 on money and
credits over the assessors respective
returns. This increases the amount
Of the Inheritance taxes on these items
alone by $S3,6l4.
Boston.-The executive committee
of the National Housewives league is
urging its 100000 members to STOP
buying cold storage eggs until the
price has been reduced to 35 cents
The league claims that dealers pai@
% cents for Eggs for which they nov
demand IS and 20 cents.
Chicago.-Frantic kilograms are be
ing received by the Interstate Com
merce commission from manufacture
ing concerns all over the country say
ing that they will have to close dow
their plants if they do not get NOR
coal Immediately. Most of the mes
sagcs report coal supplies on han'
, for only two or three days.
Washington. Treasury officials ar
considering whether initials of design
er of new dimes put in circulation
, Monday shall be eliminated and coin
/ age suspended temporarily. On fac
? of dime initials Of artist, A. Weinman
appear prominently in monogram. Ii
all $1SO,O0O in new coins have beer
minted.
l New York. After go years of bar
bering, Jacob Hysler, for 20 year
t proprietor of a shop in the Hote
Manhattan, has retired with a for
t tune of 5000 900. Among his stead.
patrons were William and Perc.
Rockefeller, George McAneny an'
Mayor Mitchell. Colonel Roosevelt
/ and Charles E. Hughes also were Gus
} toners.
:. Stanford, Calif.-One hundred Stan
ford university men, mostly under
graduates, volunteered today for serv
4. ice in France with the American Am
bulance Corps. Forty-eight signe'
up definitely for service; the othe
I fifty-two have vet to obtain the con
sent of their parents. Expenses are t
be paid by a group Of San Francisc
business men.
Ell aso.-Coloncl Rosario Garci;
Villa commander from Sonora. weak
\ cned and made a vain plea for hi
life when he faced a firing squad wit
two of his men in ,Juarez. One Of hi
companions was Il boy of II, while tn
S other was a stolid Mayo Indian. Th
first volley did not kill Garcia, an
the captain of the guard had to fir
e two ENERGY shots" to end his agony
|, Chicago.-James f. Wertz. Chi
e cago's largest holder of eggs, SAID te
day that eggs will 60 to GO cents
dozen and butter to so cents a poun
in December in Chicago. "This tai
of an egg trust is all hmmbug,' he dc
clared. "There is no corner on egg
However, I am going to get all ca
c for the eggs l hold, and [ probabl
own mnro than any other man alive.