The Kendrick gazette., 1919-10-10
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Friday passed the house bill ap-
propriating $17,OO0,000 additional for
the completion of the Alaskan rail
road.
Advices received by the Paris peace
conference from Rome have persuaded
the members of the supreme council
that Italy will ratify the German peace
treaty by royal decree.
President Wilson's condition was
described as "about the same with a
slight improvement" in bulletin is
sued Saturday night from the White
house by his physician, DR.. Cary T.
Grayson.
Rioting broke out at the Universal
Portland cement plant at Indiana Har-
bors, Ind, Saturday night and union
picket was shot by one of two armed
negroes who, with nearly rs other ne
groes, attempted to return to work.
The Scandinavian American Bank of
Fargo, N. D., with liabilities aggregat-
ing more than $1,606,S47, was Satur-
day declared insolvent by the banking
board of North Dakota. 1t was Or
dered closed and placed in the hands
of temporary receiver.
William z. Foster, secretary of the
general committee conducting the
steel strike, when confronted Satur-
day before the senate labor committee
with his writings advocating various
forms of revolutionary socialism, de-
clared under a grilling fire of ques-
tions that his views had changed.
After seven days the British rail-
road strike situation Saturday night
became the gravest in the history of
any labor crisis of the British empire
in the present generation. All efforts
of the transport workers federation
to find bridge to enable renewal
of negotiations between the govern
ment and the National Union of Rail-
waymen failed.
Major-General Leonard Wood, who
has had charge of the military and
police forces patrolling Omaha since
the riots Sunday, in an address to
the University club, composed largely
of ex-soldiers, declared that the dis
turbance was unquestionably fathered
by the 1. w. w. He urged that a better
class Of citizens take more interest in
politics, and now that women have
the vote none should neglect their
duty.
Because of the illness of President
Wilson, King Albert of Belgium has
decided to cancel all his engagements
in connection with his tour of the
United States after those in Boston
and Buffalo up to October IA. From
Buffalo the royal visitor will go to
some point in California and will re-
main there until he is scheduled to
visit San Francisco on October A.
His schedule after that date stands
tentatively.
The supreme council has decided to
allow Germany the use of IA oil tank
ers until the oil contracted for in
America has been delivered.
A gift of s2O,OOO,OOO from John D.
Rockefeller for the improvement of
medical education in the United States
was announced Saturday by the gen.
eral education board.
The Roumanians attempted to seize
the telephone equipment at the palace
at Budapest, according to dispatches
from that city. The palace attendants,
however, warned in time, removed the
instruments and gave them to the
American mission.
Two men were killed, two seriously
injured and dozen others cut and
bruised when logging train on the
May Valley Logging company's road
at Coalfield, Wash, a mining town
near Seattle, ran away late Saturday.
The train vaulted over small en-
bankment at a sharp curve and rolled
into gully 20 feet below.
=, Two long-distance seaplane flights
are planned for early next year by the
navy, one to Brazil and another to the
Philippines. Planes of entirely new
construction probably will be used.
Serbia now is willing to sign the
Austrian treaty to which the repre-
sentatives of Jugo-Slavia declined to
attach their signatures when the docu-
ment was signed by the delegates of
the powers, with the exception of
Roumania, at st. Germain, September
10.