The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-10-29
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PROBATE court al -S>aItlll MISS. III was
Indicated the attempt by Victor Albert
Searles. ii Boston artist. who was Il
nephew of the teStator. would be based
on contention that the aged million
aire was not fit physically or mentally
at the time the will was drawn to I'M
derstanu or to make such an intricate
instrument as that offered for probate.
Fire which destroyed the freight
house of the Chicago Junction railroad
in Chicago. did damage estimated at
81 .noo,ooo. officials of the railroad an
nounced. Quantities of merchandise in
transit We're burned and 26O freight
ears. most of them loaded. were de-
Stroyed by the fire.
Word has been received in New York
City of the death in Paris of Mrs
Ogden Mills. for many years prominent
III societey in New York. Newport and
Paris. Her death resulted from heart
disease following a recent illness from
pleurisy. Mrs. Mills before her mar
rage was Miss Ruth Livingston.
J. G. Snydacker, president Of the
Pacific American Fisheries company.
The Puget Sound and Alaska Shiphuild-
| ING company and the Hawaiian Pine
apple company is dead in Chicago. Mr..
| Sn!dacker left an art collection valued
1T more than $1.mO.o0O. He was -
years old and bachelor
| The Sharp Manufacturing company
| Of Boston announces that its mills in
| New Bedford will be clo~ed for an in
definite period. Prevailing conditions
in the cotton cloth market We're given
as the reason.
Arrests for drunkenness in Boston
/ during the last court year We're 1918
less than in the preceding l. months.
according to the annual report of Ed
ward j. Lord clerk of the municipal
court. These arrested in the year just
closed numbered 1887 he said as
compared with a previous total of 81
63O
, Ten cases containing 500 sticks of
| dynamite We're discovered in a wooden
~hanty on Huckwheat island off Staten
island last week. Two of the cases had
been opened and part Of the contents
removed. The discovery the police
hope. may give them lead in solving
the Wall Street explosion.
Three cotton gins at I.avaca. Ark.
warned to cease operations for 60
days or until such time las cotton
price is right" have resumed work and
will operate only on the day shift. it
was state by the gin owners. Four
4 gins at Wan. OKLA. warned in an I'M
signed letter to cease work are operat-
/ ing on full time under guards. it is re-
( ported.
Frank f. tre'ler was found guilty in
federal court at I.eavenworth. Kas., Of
making countcrfeit half dollars While
confined in federal prison. Sentence
was deferred,
Selling agents for two lines of widely
known hlearhed mu>lin> announced in
New Yoll, thar drastic price cuts would
he made immediately. one line will
he cut from 81 cents to 90 cents a
yard While another line Will he re
aicel from 81 To 10 In the first case
/ the cut represents u decline of so per
cent from the high record.
The Kansas court Of industrial re-
lation> has forwarded Il petition to the
Interstate commerce commission ask
inr that the advance in rates granted
on the western division of railroads he
set aside. The petition alleged that
the commission hid made an error of