The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent., 1919-12-26
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| While taking Il burglar suspect to
the Cleveland police station, Patrol
man Robert Shelton was fatally shot
from ambush by confederate, the
authorities believe. The prisoner es-
capped. Shelton is the second police
man to be murdered in the last week.
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| The largest Illicit still discovered in
New Jersey since the nation went dry
has been found ut Burley Hill. sub
urb of Burlington. and 45O gallons Of
whiskey We're seized. but the propri-
etor had fled.
{. Is. COchrane, promoter of the
Carpentier-Beckett fight in London, in
| which Beckett was knocked out in the
first round. announces that Georges
Carpenter has signed an agreement to
fight Jack Dempsey. the American
heavyweight champion. next year. The
purse will he 35.OOO pounds. the win
ner taking 60 per cent and the loser
| 10 per cent.
Street car service has been resumed
| in Toledo after four weeks of idleness.
Henry L. Doherty accepted the coun-
ellis repeal Of the custer ordinance and
ordered the cars returned.
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Three men entered the jewelry store
conducted by Mrs. I. Grossman in the
downtown shopping district of Port
land. bound and gagged the janitor
and clerk and made away with diu-
monds and jewelry estimated to be
worth $4,000.
An exodus of wealthy Germans from
the right bank Of the Rhine has begun
In the fear that military Intervention
| Is imminent. according to travellers ar
irving in Switzerland from Germany.
The number of Germans awaiting per-
mission to enter Switzerland is in
creasing daily.
Peanuts are being imported from
China by a Texas oil mill, owing to
the inatlequacy of the Texas crop to
supply the demand for peanut oils.
Several consignments have already
been received from Shanghai, the nuts
having been grown there.
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Six men were killed and three seri-
Ously injured in an explosion at Boyle
coal mine No. 3, at Jacksonville, Ind,
near Clinton. All men We're either
mine officials or employees In the Of
flee of the company, who, in attempt
ing to get out sufficient coal for the
boilers. set off a badly prepared blast
The mine had been closed by the
strike.
Joshua Willis Alexander of Gallatin.
Mo-, representative in congress, has
been selected by President Wilson to
be secretary of commerce. succeeding
William {. Redfield, resigned.
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A serious earthquake occurred In
western Asia Minor last week. seven
Balikesri. Smyrna, being destroyed, nc
c0rding to advices from Constantin.
Ople. Many persons were killed and
injured.
Medical students who interrupted
their studies to answer their cOuntry's
call to arms cannon count war sery.
ice as part Of their qualifications for
diplomas, according to decision rem
dered by Justice Delehanty in New
York. The decision was given in the
case Of an application by students of
the New York Homeopathic hospital
and the Flower hospital for Il man.
damus directing that they be admitted
to practice ut once.
The st. Louis Republic. one Of the
oldest newspapers in the United States
and the first to be published west of
the Mississippi river. has been pur-
chased by its competitor. the St. Louis
GlObe-DemOcrat, and will suspend pub.
licati0n.
The Prince Of Wales has arrived
back in London. He was greeted a,
the station by King George, Queen
Mary. Princess Victoria. Queen Maud
Of Norway. Premier Lloyd George and
the members of his cabinet and q TN
array Of the diplomatic corps.