The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-10-14
THE WORLD

Redlands, Cal.-Mrs. I. d. Stewar
celebrated her 91st birthday here re
Gently by registered as a voter for the
first time in her life.
London-One of Germany's best
known airmen will attempt a trans
Atlantic flight about the middle o.
this month. He will use an alumni
UNI ~monoplane.
New York-The foreign trade OF
the United States for 1920 will ap-
proximate $14,O0O,O 100000, accord.
ing to estimates compiled by the Ma
tional City bank.
Fargo-Whisky and rum-running
is too dangerous a game for times OF
peace, D. F. Smith said here in ex-
planning why he resigned from the
prohibition enforcement service.
Chicago-Chief of Police Carrity
has begun an investigation of reports
that dozens of Chicago policemen are
implicated in wholesale bootleg
ging" and are acting as guards in the
illegal transportation of liquor.
Raritan, N. j. Mrs. Elizabeth
Niles, who, with close clipped hair
and a uniform, concealed her sex and
is said to be fought beside her hus-
band through the Civil war, died a
few days ago, aged 90.
New Neutrality-suspicious., with
a cruising radius sufficient to enable
them to cross the Pacific ocean, now
are under construction and probably
will be available for use by the navy
department next spring.
LeaVenworth-Eckhard Won Shack
and Franz Won Bopp, at one time con-
sui and vice consul for the German
imperial government at San Fran
cisco, have been released from the
federal prison.
CaIgary-Disguised as a boy and
working as a messenger for an cleo
trio company, Helen Howard, 16, who
ran away from her home in Missoula,
Montana, September 26, is being held
by the local police pending instruc-
tions from her home.
Boston-The federal grand jury
has indicted Charles Ponzi, promoter
of the scheme by which millions of
dollars were obtained from investors
on promises to pay SO per cent profits
on a charge of using the mails in a
scheme to defraud.
Hanover, N. H.-President Ernest
N. Hopkins, of Dartmouth college,
issued a statement in denial of char
ges that more than 100 students had
filed dispositions admitting their par
ticipation or knowledge of a traffic
in booze" at the institution.
Jonesboro, Tenn.-Thirty-five to
SO service men from the National
s|anitarium at Johnson City, shot up
the Jail here, slightly %wounding one
prisoner, in an effort to obtain a ne
gro held in connection with an at
tack on a white waitress at the sani-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of four
major league baseball clubs have
a movement designed to
clean up baseball forever" by TAX
ing control of the game out of the
and placing it undr a Civilian tri-
Dunal" to be composed of men "of
lnquestioned public standing"
LondOn-The divorce courts have
reopened after the summer recess
= it'll a record docket of from 1000
o $500 cases, against 1,471 when {
he last term opened. AS 700 of the {
pending cases are l~eft-oYers the j
expect the busiest time in their +
until the Christmas recess.
Washington-New York state, the {
most populous in the country, has a /
population of 10,384,144, an increase g
If 1,270,53O or 1879 per cent over S
hat of 10 years ago. Populations of
hree other states also were an C
bounced Monday by the census bu- a
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