The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-09-09
THE WORLD

sure legislature, mas Deen appointed
assistant secretary of the navy t.
succeed Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mexico City-Three hundred mill
tary leaders and officers have beer
arrested for violating the regulation
forbidding military officials to med
die in politics.
GAINESVILLE, O.,-Mrs. Sarah AnI
Sewers, ITO years old, reputed to BIZ
the oldest woman in the state, dice
here last week. Eight children, 81
grandchildren and three great-great.
grandchildren survive. Mrs. Sewers
was born in Virginia.
Sherman, Tex.-Eight and four.
tenths inches of rain, the heaviest
precipitation in $40 years, fell here
in two days. Many families living in
the lower sections were forced to
move and chickens and stock were
drowned. Cotton was damaged.
New York-Forty-two steamship
companies and freight brokers in
Guiding virtually all the big transat-
lantic lines, were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury here on charges OF
conspiracy and restraint of trade in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law.
South Norwalk, Conn.-Freshly
baked apples ere served for break
fast from a tree owned by Mrs. An
ME E. Byrnes of this city. The tree,
heavily laden with early greetings,
was struck by lightning during the
night and the fruit thoroughly cook
ed.
Chicago-Warrants for seven men
were issued and three federal pro-
hibition agents were suspended as
the start of an investigation into al
legged conspiracies between federal
agents and Wholesale whisky dealers
to evade the prohibition enforcement
law.
San FranciscO-Shortage of gaso-
line in the Philippine islands, which
is verging practically on a famine,
with the necessary motor fuel quoted
retail at about $3.50 a gallon has
caused the rushing of a big cargo of
gasoline to Manila at the instance of
the federal government.
Seattle, Wash.-Development of
the wood pulp industry in national
forest of Alaska furnishes a
real solution of the news print short
age in America, w. B. Greeley, chief
forester of the United States declar-
ed upon his arrival after a months
inspection of timber, water power,
and other resources of the territory.
Washington-Due to war influen-
ces, 10 European nations engaged in
the world war show a potential loss
in population of 35,320,000 persons
since 1914, according to a statistical
research conducted by the Society for
Studying the Social Consequences of
the War, of Copenhagen, made pub
lie by the American Red Gross.
Tacoma-Seven thousand cases of
Christmas toys from Japan are being
unloaded here from two Japanese
steamers. The toys, packed in heavy
boxes strapped with bamboo strips,
are billed to almost every important
city in the Union. A total of 875,-
900 toys of all descriptions are in the
Trenton, N.J.-Reverend Freder-
ick KOpfman, pastor of a Methodist
church at Titusyille, N. j., who has
been recently endeavoring to "drive
the devil from the hearts of the i'm
modest bathers at Washington's
Crossing" was greeted Sunday with
a shower of overripe tomatoes when
he appeared at the resort to lecture
bathers on the immodesty of their
ST. Observation-Disclosures of legal
aid bureaus throughout the United
to give free legal advice to the
poor was recommended as a means
If checking the spread of radicalism
speakers at the convention of the
American Bar association, in session
lere. The speakers included Charles
Evans Hughes of New York; Regin-
I'D Heber Smith, of Boston, and Err
lest l.. Tustin, director of public
works, Philadelphia.
Paris-The French Academy of
Sciences has formally approved the
'ocking chair as the most hygienic
If all seats, and recommends its gen.
'ral adoption, whether in the office
IT the home. The position of a per-
on seated in a rocking chair is de-
Jared to be physiologically the most
'%orrect, since the normal position of
he skull on the spinal column is pre-
erved at all angles of inclination of
he chair.
Tacoma, Wash.-Dr. Allen Kay,
ormerly of Minnesota, instituted
uit against DR.. w. N. Keller, super
ntendent of the Western Washing
state hospital for the insane, for
$4,000 damages. DR.. Kay, who was
eleased from the asylum last week
fter a hearing on habeas corpus pro-
eedings, charges that he was unjust
Y held in the asylum for 26 months.