The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-11-07
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

A 10 days cessation of railway pas
senger traffic is the German govern
ment's lates, effort to prevent a ma
tional catastrophe owing to lack "i
coal and to safeguard the transporla-
ton Of potatoes before the first frost |
falls. The only exception in the stop
page of passenger services Will be the
Berlin interurban traffic. which Will
suffer only 10 the extent that trains
will cease running at IL O'Clock ut
night.
| John y. Rockefeller has added Sl0.-
100000 to his endowment of the Rock
efeller Institute for Medical Research.
it is announced in New York. The gift,
the largest single one made to the
institution. is TO meet rapidly growing
needs in its many lines of work and 10
make new knowledge available for
protection of the public health and to
improve the treatment of disease and
injury.
Fire. believed TO have started from
spontaneous combustion. destroyed the
Cremo Cereal mill at Minneapolis
| With 4 loss estimated at S2OO.oOO, fully
| insured. The structure WAS four
stories high.
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium have concluded their visit in
the United States and are now on the
Atlantic. homeward bound. One of the
last things done by King Albert be-
fore going to New York to board his
shin was to shake hands With pre$i-
dent Wilson and visit at his bedside
for a moment.
An inventory of the Austrian crown
Jewels has disclosed that the famous
diamond known as the Grand Duke
OF Tuscany" and lG other valuable OBJ
jects have been removed. presumably
by the former emperor. when he fled
the country. 1t is admitted TO be an
open question. however. whether this
stone was private or state property.
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Mild rumblin@S of many months %
a strike of union postal employees 10
bring about improved working condi-
tons and increased wage standards
were silenced when tabuiation of TIE
referendum vote of the National Fed
Grafton of Postoffice Clerks resulted
favorably for retention of the no
strike clause in the constitution of
the organization.
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Despite a plea that her husband had
been unkind To her and neglected their
young children, Il woman's jury in
Cleveland police court advised the
: Judge to impose the maximum sch
tence Oh Mrs. Goldie Dresses, charged
with deserving her husband to go to
another man. Each WAS fined 5000 and
sentenced to three months in the work
house.
Resolutions fayoring Il higher price
: for sugar this season than last Wer,
, adopted at Il meeting Of the American
Cane Growers association in New Or.
leans. Resolutions also favored nego
tiutionS with the sugar equalization
|
should the board be granted author
ity by congress to handle this years
crop.
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One thousand New York retail gro
; Gerry clerks are on strike for a nine
hour day and a salary of $50 week
n The union announced it would attemp
n to organize the $4,000 grocery AM
: dairy clerks of the city
$ x Z
n The peace treaty has been approves
: by the Japanese privy council at
meeting ut which the emperor pre-
IS sided. The treaty committee repor
J. ed that the league covenant did i.t
s conflict with the prerogatives of tn
$, emperor and could coexist with the q