The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-06-17
THE WORLD

annihilated an italian battalion neal
Alessio and Italian warships have
shelled that city.
London-Ted "Kid" Lewis. defeat
ed Johnny Basham, the British vel.
terweight, in their fight for the vel
terweight championship of Europe.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES John Cawley
chancellor of the diocese of Monterey
and Los Angeles, Cal, has been nam
ed private chamberlain to the pope
at the vatican.
Vera Cruz-Only four new cases OF
bubonic plague with three deaths
were reported Sunday and Monday.
1t appears certain that the epidemic
is decreasing.
Constantinople - Turkey cannot
live five years if the treaty is enforc-
ed as it stands, Damad Ferrid Pa
sha, premier and brother-in-law of
the sultan, says.
Warsaw - Reinforcements have
been thrown in all along the line of
the northern front and the Poles are
daily regaining the ground recently
lost to the bolsheviki, it is officially
announced.
Montreal-Efforts will be made to
have the American Federation of
Labor, which will hold it's annual
convention here this week, lay the
foundation of an American labor
party.
Baton Rouge, lathe resolution
providing for ratification of the fed
eral suffrage amendment was defeat
ed in the senate of the general as
sembly of Louisiana by a vote of %
to 10.
st. Louis-Reductions in wholesale
prices of various styles of shoes of
from 25 cents to 50 a pair have been
announced by officials of three of
the largest shoe manufacturing es-
Establishments here.
Paris-According to information
at the foreign office, anti-Semetic
outbreaks occurred in Budapest Oh
June 4, on which date the advices
stated that one man saw IL Jews
killed.
Norfolk, Neb. - Members of the
Nonpartisan League of the third Neb-
raska district have nominated Mrs.
Marie Weekes for congress to run by
petition. Mrs. Weekes is editor of
the Norfolk Press.
Chicago-Charles G. Dietrich, Jr.,
factory manager for a furniture man
ufacturing concern, was shot and
killed in the offices of the company
by a policeman who mistook him for
a burglar.
Teheran-Polygamy is dying out
in Persia-another result of greatly
advanced living costs, together with
jealousy, which is becoming more
marked a characteristic of Persian
wives with the permeation of west
ern ideas and standards in the east.
Baltimore-"A wet candidate for
president of the United States has
about as much chance as a kitty cat
with tallow legs running through hell
chased by an asbestos dog" is the
way Pussyfoot Johnson sizes up the
Belfast-A pitched battle, result
ing in numerous casualties, was
fought in the village of Listsellaw,
near Enniskillen, when a patrol of
Ulster volunteers surprised so raid
ers who were about to burn the court
house.
Geneva-Field Marshal Won Kluck,
who commanded the right wing of
Paris in 1914, has arrived with his
at Aaru, Al miles northeast
Berne. He declared life has be-
come insupportable in Germany.
Seattle - The proposed Pacific
Irrigation congress at
which delegates from Oregon, Idaho,
Montana and Washington will dis
cuss the Columbia basin irrigation
and other minor projects for
reclaiming arid lands, will be held
Seattle, September IS.
Washington-The bill designed to
exclude dangerous aliens from the
United States was passed by the
house and sen to the president. I'm
Ter it's terms mere membership in
organizations advocating overthrow
If organized government or sabotage
would be sufficient grounds for the
deportation or exclusion of aliens.
Washington - Secretary of the
Navy Daniels announces that the
Montana has had her name
to Missoula, after the city
n Montana of that name. The change
vas effected June Z. The name is
hanged because one of the new bat
leships under construction is to be
the Montana.
Washington-Despite an improve
nent of 10, 100000 bushels in the ]
winter crop during May and an in
Heated spring crop 100000 bu-
hels greater than that of last year,
he total wheat production for 1920 t
5 estimated by the department of ag-
iculture at only 781, 100000 bush t
Is or 100000 600 bushels less than t
he total for 1919. ]
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