The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-06
WORLD IN BRIEF

~ III MS way 10 inc United States for
! Il vacation.
Boston. = Boston milk producers
VIII sell their milk at auction. bepin-
ming October l.
washington. -Postmasters are to be
/ pad 10 for every recruit they secure
for the new army.
/: st. Joseph.-When arrested here
/ Tor the murder of his wife. Oscar
| Mcdaniel laughed.
/ st. Paul.-Foodstuffs have advanc-
i ed 81 per cent over last years prices.
Flour has almost doubled.
/! milwaukee. Coal gas. caused bv
| imperfect stoves, asphixiated Edmund
! Meyer and Mrs. May Knapp.
! Seattle. The steamship Victoria
has arrived from Nome bringing more
than $1,000, 900 in new gold.
New York.-Edward Macino killed
his wife because she insisted IN wo,,-
ing a red dress which he did not like.
Mobile Hundreds of lumber mills
III the south will have to suspend Oh
efatlons on account of the ear short
age.
New York.-It is estimated that the
automobile has increased the consume
llon OF rubber in the United States bv
100 per cent.
Ottawa.-Asked to subscribe 800
600 1000 to the new British war loan
canada has Offered to take $500 OO.-
600 Of the issue.
New York.-A counterfeit federal
reserve note for $40 is in circulation.
Check letter B, face plate No. 4. nor-
trait of Jackson.
Chicago The government h,s
warned bakers that if they band to-
sether to raise the price Of bread they
Will be prosecuted.
Aurora, nl.-For "going with tho
other fellow, Paul Verhoyle, 10 wears
OF age, killed Gwendolyn Holden. his
10 year old sweetheart.
Washington.-The government is
ordering a large number of a new tyne
OF antl-alr craft guns, the DESIGN of
which is to be kept secret.
boston.-The city Of Boston has
made a contract for 1000 tons of hi
luminous coal at $40 per ton. com
'N' III ic.1f II ION Ill 1914. l.
Boston. Flour will 90 to s14 a bar
rel and bread to 20 cents a loaf. nm
less an embargo is put on wheat is the
declaration of the Boston Consumers
league.
Amsterdam. = Seventeen persons
have been executed here as spies.
twenty-five We're condemned. includ-
ing four priests, three women and two
young girls.
New York Bakers will ask the
government for an embargo on wheat.
Hundreds OF bakers have been put out
"1 business because of the increase il,
the price Of flour. .
Dodge Center, Mimi. : MARGARET
Guy. three years of ace, wandered
away from home, went to sleep on a
railroad track, and was crushed to
death by a passing train.
New York-An increase in tbe
price OF cigars is announced by sew
eral New York manufacturers. due to
higher cost of raw material and bet
ter wage for clgarmakers.
Los Angeles Women are not per-
mltted to smoke cigarettes in fashion,
able after dinner cafes. The habit
mad become so general that those who
dld not smoke were the exceptions.
San Diego.-Mrs. II. r.. Given.
prominent socially. has been arrested
on charges of having helped to rob
many of the fine homes i'm which she
mad been entertained. She has con-
fessed.
Columbus. : Villa disclaims anv
part In the Columbus raid. and saws
Pablo Lopez was responsible for the
attack. As Lopez has been executed
he is not in a position TO DENY the as
s%ertion.
New York.-Two hundred thousand
tons of copper have been sold to the
all1es at prices ranging between 26
and y cents. The Anaconda COM
pany fl @ured largely in the big trans
action.
Boston.-Fresh %hcnnery eggs will
cost at least Is cents a dozen when
the price reaches the high mark in
November or December, ACCORDING TO
Secretary Wheeler, of the state board
of agriculture.
Paris. Sergeant Kitten Rockwell.
IN an air battle with a German aero
plane, tell mortality wounded. and died
without knowing that two hours pre-
%Vlously he had been promoted to a
%llcutenancy for bravery.
Chicago.-Helen Ferguson, an old
Woman, arrested for stealing, asked
the judge to give her five years. "Bc-
cause she said, "T have no home;
my children do not write to me, and I
have nothing to live for.'
London.-Of the twelve Zeppe1ins
which raided London recently, two
were brought down by air guns. One
was destroyed with its crew in mid
air, and the other brought to the