The Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1918-1919, 1919-05-08
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

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The food famine and typhuS cpl
demic which threatened Serbia have
been averted through the work. of the
United States food administration and
the American Red Cross forces, the
headquarters of the latter agency has
been notified by Red Cross headquar-
ters at Salonki.
Organization plans for the 1920 pres
idential campaign will be considered
at Il conference of Republicans in
Washington May 30 and %. The meet
ing will be attended by state chair
men OF the mems and women's Repub-
lican state central committees and
members of the national Republican
committee.
A terrific explosion of gas in the
Nottingham mine of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company killed a
number of miners. Scores of men We're
caught behind the blast and the fire
that followed the explosion. Three
bodies have been reached and the fear
inspector that at least 80 men are dead.
Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle, oppOn-
ent Of radical and /. w. w. principles,
in statement issued in Kansas City
appealed TO mayors of all cities in the
United States to close all /. w. w.
halls, imprison the leaders and sup
press the red flag.
Frank A. Brush, cashier of the
Santa Rosa, Cal, First National bank,
pleaded guilty in the United States dis
trict court at Sacramento to charge
Of embezzling 100000 of the banks
funds. He was sentenced to 10 years
Imprisonment in McNeil's 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 n Washington, may prove to be
the initial break in the structure
erected by the radical leaders which,
it recent developments continue their
| normal course, would lead to the com
plete disintesration of the bolshevik
government in Russia.
Italy has been given a new loan of
| $50,OOO,QOO by the United States to
cover 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 Italys 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, Oh
employment of discharged soldiers
Eighteen cities, said Colonel Woods
have placed contracts totalling more
than S12.O00000 dollars during the
past week.
Ten persons are dead and one fa.
tally injured as the result of an explo
sion following the attempt of Tom
Ballard,s Il farmer near Chelsea, Okla.
to kindle a fire with coal oil. The
dead are: Ballard, his wife. baby anC
two orphan children Mrs. Chas. Ride
nour and three small children, and e
w. Ballard. They We're unable tc
escape the fire which swept the house
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AS sequence to the recent enact
ment of state law permitting loca
option on Sunday baseball the New
York City board of aldermen have
adopted an ordinance legalizing the
playing of professional baseball or
J Sundays after , p. IN.
| Construction of battleShip No. 81
which is TO be even greater than tn,
gigantic superdreadnaught California
at present under construction, is TO h.
started at the Mare Island navy yar(
within the next two months, navy of
ficials have announced.