The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
r NE WORLD

Pittssburgh-S. Rosenbaum & Co
of this city last month chartered /;
fleet of vessels to ship SIS, 10000
worth of whisky to Europe.
n-Representative Fer
ris of Oklahoma has introduced bill
to prohibit for year the export o.
print paper from this country.
J London-London merchants estim
ate that there will be more than 200,
900 American visitors to London this
year, and that they will spend $3.50,
100000.
London-Great Britain has receiv-
ed $50 former German merchant
ships and will get 100 more. Hel
present tonnage exceeds pre-war fig
ures by five per cent.
New York-Union workers in the
east are profiteering shamefully
Ninety per cent of the cost of suit
of clothes today goes into the labor
in making it.
StockhoIm-Sweden is torn with
industrial troubles. Seventy per cent
of the iron workers, mechanical en-
gineers in all lines and paper pulp
mill workers are out on strike.
Geneva, Wis.-At an auction of SO
Poland China sows at the farm of
William Wrigley, Jr., the chewing
gum man, the sows brought an aver
age of $1,555 each, or total of $685.
975.
Chicago-A partial quarantine of
the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta
tion has been ordered due to an epi-
demic of influenza. The disease ap-
pears in mild form there this year
and no serious trouble is anticipated.
Wellington, New Zea1and-By rea-
son of the failure of the prohibition
lists to obtain majority of the votes
in the recent "no license" referendum.
New Zealand will remain wet and the
present license system will continue.
New York-The American Railway
Executives association says the rail-
roads of this country will need g.
100000 tons of rails this year, 1907
600 freight cars, 5000 locomotives
and 1000 passenger cars.
Paris - France will soon begin
shipping back to Germany several
hundred thousand German prisoners
captured during the war. Six lines
of railroad will be used and about
5000 prisoners a day will be sent in
to Germany.
Bombay-Three of the great banks
of India will be consolidated into one
central semi-government institution,
to be known as the Imperial Bank of
India. The capital will be $65, ,000,-
900. A policy similar to that of the
American federal reserve system may
be adopted.
London - Prime Minister Lloyd
George, it is believed, will accept an
annuity of $4,000 a year which was
left to him for the period of his life
by Andrew Carnegie. Lloyd George
is a poor man with no income other
than his salary as government Off
cial.
Dayton, Ohio-Wright Brothers
company has brought suit for sums
aggregating $40, 100000 against
French airp1ane companies for alleg-
ed violation of fundamental patent
rights, and several millions have al
ready been paid in settlement OF
some of the claims.
CoIon-Traffic through the Pana-
ma canal in 1919 exceeded that of
any previous year, 1896 ships, be-
sides hundreds of Warships, having
passed through the waterway. The
tolls through the canal for the year
amounted to just under $7,000,000.
Philadelphia-Even with holiday
buying over there is no let up in the
demand for silver coins of less than
a dollar. Mints of the country have
been working "a hours day in an
effort to cope with the situation, but
have been behind in deliveries for
months.
Washington-The house has pass
I'd a bill increasing pensions to Civil
war veterans by total of more than
65.OOO.O00 a year. The minimum
allowance received under
he bill is $50. Partly disabled vet
Grams would receive $50, and blind
I'd and invalided veterans of the Civil
var, $72.
Boston.-How much does the earth
weigh? The Massachusetts Institute
If Technology has just weighed the
Earth and finds it weighs 5000, ,000,- ]
100 900, 100000 (six sextillion)
ons. The test was accomplished by +,
combination of lead spheres, brass
.ods and fire-drawn quartz threads. S
The laws of gravitation furnished the
,ey. {
Boston - The price of hides has ]
Iropped from rs to 10 per cent in the /
,ast 60 days, but manufacturers say /
hat the cost of shoes will not come {
own before next winter, as shoes
ow being manufactured, and those l
hat will be made for the next few {
1onths, are from leather bought at s
very high price that existed six /
lonths ago. t
Boston-Attorney General Wyman 2
nd Commissioner Hobbs of Massa- d
husetts have recommended that all t
ersons owning automobiles in Mas n
achusetts file a bond of $4,000 to il
ldemnify any person injured or for f
roperty damaged through the us5 v
f their cars also to compel opera Z
,rs of motor vehicles to pass written E
showing knowledge of
utomobile, as well as ability to oper- d
.e the car. t,
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