The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-11-28
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Virginia Salinas carranza. wife of
President CarranZa of Mexico. is dead
at QueretarO, Sonora. Sonora Carran-
"a had been i'll for four months.
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Sir Thomas Upton. challenger for
the America cup. has arrived in New
York to make arrangements for the
overhauling of Shamrock w., the
yacht with which he hopes to cap
ture the famous trophy.
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To back up their charges that some
of their employers were profiteering,
striking butches in Chicago have open
ed large retail shop and sold ut a
profit porterhouSe steak at Is cents
Il pound, veal chops Mt 16 cents
pound, and hamburger steak ut 10
cents Il pound.
Announcement was made in Wash
ington that the national motor vehicle
law penalizing persons who transport
stolen automobiles from one state to
.hoth( had become law without
President Wilson's signature.
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Fearing pursuit, bandits in the Mex
lean state of Zacatecas. after holding
up and robbing passenger train, de-
tached the engine and sent 1t full
speed aread in the direction of an ap-
preaching train. 1t crashed into the
first train. inflicting death or injury
to number of soldiers and civilians,
according to Mexico City advices re-
ceived Mt Laredo, Tex. A second res
cue train arrived and soldiers set out
in pursuit of the bandits.
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Disbursement Of $3.50. 349, 2O5 by the
government in October was the lowest
in any month since June, 1917. Sec
rotary Glass announces. The net cur
rent deficit for the month was $780,
2:39, 45O, the lowest for any month
since April, 1917, excluding months in
which income and profit taxes We're
payable.
The American mine No. ut Bick-
nell, Ind, said to be the largest coal
mine in the bituminous fields Of the
United States, Is on fire. The confla-
grafton is the worst ever experienced
in the coal fields of this section. The
cause of the fire and the time Of its
origin have not been determined. Due
| 70 tho striEo If uinorS II Is NOT no.
lieved anyone is in the mine.
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The Netherlands government has In.
| formed committee Of the chamber
Of deputies that no offer had been
received from the United States for
the purchase of small Dutch colonies
in the West Indies.
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The French government, as a com
pliment to Hugh c. Wallace, the Amer
lean ambassador, has presented Ia
coma, WASH. Mr.. Wallace's home
town. one Of the largest guns captured
by the French from the Germans. Il
is a 15O-millimeter howitzer. The CUR
will be shipped as soon as arrange
me0CS can DC ul;luc lot It's truuSpOCld
ton.
Announcement has been made tina
the Emergency Fleet corporation ha!
fixed $4,000 as the price of the $500
ton Ferris type wooden ship hulls tn
government intends to sell. Nearl!
200 wooden ships, mostly of the Ferris
} type, are to be sold. The price up
plies to the hulls now In the moor
ing basins. Equipment on the vessel
will also be sold.
The Wisconsin Teachers ass0cia
ton at the closing session of the an
nual meeting in Milwaukee. went o.
record as against uniOnizing.
! An eight-year naval program. cost
/ ing 1921. OOO,O 900, has been decided o.
by the japanese government, accord
. ing to q cable message to Japanes
} daily paper at Honolulu. The program
, includes the construction of four 40
OOO-t0n battleships, four battle cruis
ers, eighty destr0yers. seventy sui
J marines and thirty other craft.