The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-02-02
THE WORLD

Salt Lake-A fruit cake 46 years
old, baked by the mother of D. c..
Walker Of Anaconda, Mont, was
served at the wedding breakfast
here. following the marriage of Mr.
Walker and Miss Laura Ice, of Butte,
Mont.
Partisan alleged swindle, estim-
ated by different newspapers as
amounting from 100000 to 1O,-
100000 francs, was disclosed here in
the arrest of Philippe Simeoni, of
Italian origin, and Prince Henri de
Brogli-Revel.
New YOrk-Resolutions calling
upon President Wilson to take i'm
mediate steps for the recognition by
the United States of the governm mt
of the kingdom of Poland were
adopted here by the Polish national
defense committee.
New York-The secretary of the
National Association Of Ice Cream
Manufacturers states that the United
States, in 1916, paid 1921 $4,000 for
ice cream and consumed 2O8,320,0OO
gallons. New York alone consumed
~34,OOO,000 gallons.
AS Wal -
that all youths from 18 years of age
up have been called to train for
home defense until they reach the
age of 10 years. Hitherto youths
have not been called until they
reached the age of 18 years and Z
months.
St. Paula brief prepared under
the direction of the st Paul associa-
ton and the Equity cooperative ex-
change, setting forth what are called
the advantages of this city as a site
for s~tate-owned elevators, has been
completed and will be submitted to
the legislatures of North Dakota and
Montana. Fargo 10 a rival of st.
Paul for the North Dakota Elevator.
New York-The giving of n extra
daily meal to 100000 Belgian school
children was the greatest accom-
plishment of the American commits
sion for relief in Belgium, in the
opinion of it's chairman, Herbert c.
Hoover, who has arrived here from
Liverpool. Mr.. Hoover has begun
with his colleagues to devise relief
plans for another year.
BostOn.-After having been for Al
years in solitary confinement, Jesse
Pomeroy at the age of 81 has been
granted equal privileges with other
prisoner at the state prison at
Charlestown. When he began his SEN
tence he was poorly educated, Lut
now he can read in seven languages,
and is studying Arabic. He has made
several sensational attempts to es-
cape.
New YOrk-Through a suit filed
here it has been learned that the in
ventOrs of a new machine gun are
negotiating for its -ale to the war
department. 1t weighs IL pounds,
can be regulated from the shoulder
and can discharge 400 rounds a min
ute of service cartridges. 1t is
claimed that this rate can be kept
up indefinitely as the barrel cannot
become overheated and the gun can
not be clogged by dirt.
Washington - Chairman Kitchin
of the house ways and me: ms commit
tee, says there is sur to be a bond
issue to take care of the Mexican
border expenditures. These, it is es'
timated, will reach $4,000, 900 by
next June. The bond issue will also
take care of the purchase of the Dan.
ish possessions in the West Indies, tc
cost $25,0OO,0O0 armor plate pro-
ject, to cost $11,000,0O0 and the
Alaska railroad, to cost $21,83S,0OO
Ell Paso.-Export duties on sisa,
fibre from Yucatan and crude oil
from Tampico are the chief sources
of income of the Caranza govern
ment, according to a financier just
out of Mexico. Owing to reduced i'm
portations, the ordinary customs are
a minor source, he explains, while
the suspension of work in the mines
and factories and the unprosperous
condition of the ranchers have ma
terially reduced tie amount received
in taxes.