The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-05-09

sephaIitis, which has appeared i
. America.
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM
Frank A. Brush, cashier of the
Santa Rosa, Cal, First National bank
pleaded guilty in the United States dis
trict court at Sacramento to a charge
of embezzling $o04,000 of the banks
Imprisonment in McNeils Island fed
eral penitentiary by United States Dis
trict Judge William Van Fleet.
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Evacuation of Petrograd by the boil
sheviki, reported in dispatches from
| Helsingfors, in the opinion of observ-
ers in Washington, may prove to be
| the initial break in the structure
erected by the radical leaders which,
| if recent developments continue their
| normal course, would lead TO the COM
plete disintegration of the bolshevik
government in Russia.
Italy has been given new loan of
S5O,00O,000 by the United States to
cover a number of obligations incur
red by the Italian government on con-
tracts for war materials and food
stuffs from American producers. The
credit extension brought Italy's total
borrowings from the United States to
$1.571 100000.
The amount of public work con-
tracts let during the past month has
shown an increase, according to an an
nouncement by Col. Arthur Woods, as
sistant to the secretary of war, on
employment of discharged soldiers.
Eighteen cities, said Colonel Woods,
have placed contracts totaliing more
than S12,OOO,0OO dollars during the
past week.
As q sequence to the recent enact
ment of state law permitting local
option ON Sunday baseball the New
York City board of aldermen have
adopted an ordinance 1egalizing the
playing of professional baseball on
Sundays after 2 D. m.
Ten persons are dead and one IA
tally injured as the result of an explo-
sion following the attempt of Tom
Ballard, farmer near Chelsea. Okla,
to kindIe Il fire with coal oil. The
dead are: Ballard. his wife, baby and
two orphan children: Mrs. Chas. Ride
nour and three small children, and Il.
w. Ballard. They We're unable to
escape the fire which swept the house.
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A DH-4 airplane which had been |
rebuilt for the postal air service was |
burned while being tested ut Belmont |
field New York, and Pilot r. l.. Fer
ron of Jamaica. Long Island, was
badly burned. Advices to the post
office department at Washington gave
few details, but said an inquiry had |
been begun
Charles Jackson. said OF have been
he first American corset maker and
he designer of the cover used on
inside Il dead at Redlands, Cal. aged
% yeas. Jackson began making cor
tets in Worcester, Mass, and his sister
,old them. He had lived in Redlands
70 years.
Heavy loss of life is reported in the
linking of the steamers Magdalena
ena went down in a storm five miles
# Corral, Chile. The Alfonso was 1
unk in collision with the steamer
fortuna.
Construction of battleship No. 81,
rhich is to be even greater than the
igantic superdreadnaught California,
I present under construction, is to be
tarted at the Mare Island navy yard i
'ithln the next two months, navy-O Of
Icials have announced.
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A large section Of Yokohama was
ayaged by fire and 1900 buildings,
part Of the business section
urned< Firemen from Toxic aided in
heckiRk the flames before they reach
] the foreign residence section.
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Eighty shy thousand checks were
niled In Ane day last week by the
lreau Of whr risk insurance Mt Wash
gton. p. q, to beneficiaries OF men
no died In khe military or naval ser {
&c. Since October, 1917. more than h
100000 checks have been issnes'4 tn !
ling *4na.o0O.000. 4