The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-03-02
THE WORLD

New York-Americans in Austria
have been warned to leave that coun-
try.
Boston-Mayor Curley proposes to
raise the pay of city laborers from
$3.50 to $2.75 per day.
LondoI-The British war office
has issued call for 1000 young wo-
men for service as army cooks.
Washington - General military
training for all American boys is to
be Endorsed by the administration.
Havana, Cuba-The revolutionary
movement in Cuba is a failure, and
large numbers of revolutionists are
surrendering daily.
jefferson City, Mo.-The Missouri
house has passed bill authorizing
special election on the calling of a
constitutional convention.
New York-SiX hundred thousand
boy scouts throughout the country
have been appealed to for non-mili-
tary service in case of war.
London-The port of Plymouth,
one of Great Britains most import
ant naval bases, has been closed to
all, excepting allied, shipping.
l1OSlOII-I OLdIoCS oil y SCI1Iheo AACAS
for 81 peck and sugar for 10 cents
pound. Cabbage is selling for II
cents per pound, and onions Is cents.
Philadelphia-Grov G. Alexan-
der, star pitcher of the Philadelphia
Nationals, has refused contract for
$4,000 year and demands $4,000.
Portland-At $1O.25 per hundred
pounds, the highest price ever paid
for onions, a carload Of these veget-
ables was sold here for shipment
east.
Washington - That the entire
United States will be voted dry be-
fore the end of this year is the pre-
diction of the Anti-Saloon League of
America.
New York-An Italian nobleman,
the Duke of AlagOna, has taken out
naturalization papers, evidently pre-
ferring citizenship in this country to
his dukedom.
Copenhagen-A dispatch from
Archangel, the northern Russian sea-
port, tells of an explosion OF ammu-
milton that killed 1900 people and
injured 1000.
Washington-It is said by officials
that China wants to get into war on
the side of the allies in order to form
big army, which Japanese pressure
would not otherwise permit her to
do.
New York-"Bud'' Fisher, the car
toonist whose "Mutt and Jeff have
made him famous, is being sued for
divorce. His wife, who was dane
or in vaudeville, eloped with him in
1912.
Pierre, S. D.-South Dakota's new
prohibition law, which becomes effec-
tive July 1, 1917, makes the state
"bone dry" as no liquor can be ell
Their manufactured or imported into
the state.
Portland-Charles Clarke. a ferry
gateman who died recently, left $l0,-
900 to Miss Ella II. Pearson because
she always had a cheerful smile for
him when she boarded the ferry boat
every morning.
Olympia, Wash.-GOvernor Lister
has signed the new prohibition law
which prohibits possession OF lntoxl-
eating liquors by any person except
ing regularly ordained clergymen
priests and rabbits for sacramento
purposes.
Philadelphia--In a riot by the
wives of striking mployes of the
Franklin Sugar Refining company,
one man was killed and nine persons
injured. The police, who were at
tackled with bricks, shot into the
crowd to dispense it,
Chicago - The congestion OF
freight traffic east of Chicago has
led to suffering from food shortage
in New York, and actual starvation
has resulted in some instances Riots
have been frequent and appropria-
tions by the city for relief have been
necessary.