The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-17
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FOREIGN
Belfast. Ireland. is qnieter than /,
has been for a fortnight owing to the
steady rain which has fallen. Two
more victims Of the rioting have died
In the hospital, bringing the total
deaths to %. 1t is believed that there
are more than $50 wounded distribut-
ed among the various hospitals. many
serious.
n. Tchitcherin. the Russian soviet
foreign minister. in a wireless message
20 Prince Sapieha. the Polish foreign
minister at Warsaw. picked up BY
Paris. accepts Riga as the scene of
further peace negotiations between
Russia and Poland
Germany has accepted the French
demands concerning the incidents II
Breslau, which included an attack by
q German mob on the French consul.
ate at that place DR.. Simons. the
German foreign minister. informed the
French embassy to this effect.
Premier Lloyd George OF Great Brit.
ain has decided to end his visit to
Switzerland and return to England
without holding any further confer
ences there. his son. Major Richard
Lloyd George. says. The premier will
not attend the meeting to be held Sen.
TENDER II at AK Les Bains. when Pre-.
mier Millerand Of France and Premier
tiiolitti Of Italy will hold Il conference.
GENERAL
Anthracite operators and miners
at Scranton, Pa. last week signed y
two-vear contract embOdying the
terms OF the award made BY the an
thracite coal commission and apnroy
ed by President Wilson. The agree
ment was signed under protest by rep
resentatives of the miners. whose
scale committee held a meeting later
for the purpose of asking thai The
wage agreement be reopened and the
mine workers given such further in
creases as was done in the case of the
bituminOus coal diggers.
Quaint Greenwich village. New
iork'S Bohemian quarter. famous in
song and story as The home of New
Thought. has something new 10 occu.
py its attentiol--a Jazz curfew AT II
O'Clock nightly. This ntra-modern
idea was not of 'he villages own mi
tiative 1t will be decreed by Il mat
fer-of-fact magistrate In jefferson
Market court who ordered the clankinc
of cowbells and the moaning saxophone
70 cease their .iangle in a tea room AN
hour before midnight. In order thai /
complaining nearby tenants might !
sleep.
Governor Cox. Democratic presiden- t
tial candidate. has left his home n, /
Columbus, o. on months Swing
around the circle" through the west
In Michigan the Democratic nominee
started his speaking trip--the most ex-
tensive political tour undertaken since
William ]. Rryan'S in 1S9f-which will |
take him around 1900 miles, through
~ states, and end October :, At 81,
Louis.
Rather than appear in court 10 face
4 charge of elnbezZlemen'. Herman r.
Summers, "a years old, shot and kill.
I'd himself with rifle at Sioux Falls,
). d. The young man and his father
1ad prepared to 60 TO court when the
'ormer seized q rifle and shot himself.
His bride of few months was pros
rated. Summers and several others
we're charged with implication in tie
heft OF Il large quantity of sugar
rom the store that employed him.
\ freight train of 81 cars. loaded
With automobiles and other merchan.
iise. was stolen from the train crew al
icero. a suburb Of Chica 60. and driven
:" Rensonville. H.. where it was
abandoned. The train was taken from
he yards Of the Chicago. Milwaukee
4 ST. Paul railroad after the crew
1ad been beaten and thrown off. Po-
Ice arrived In time to arrest five men
Who had not had time to Join their
on the stolen train.
More than half of the $4,000 s,rjk.
ng sign painters. paperhangers and
decorators. according 10 New York
inien leaders. Won their demands for
4 $40 day-increaSe of one dollar y
iay-an eichthour day and a five
lay week. Approximately 1.0r0 in the
trades quit work. they said. Many en-
ployerS of plumbers. union lenders
said. had granted demands for So a
lay. a 44-hour week and curtailruanr
If overtime labor, consequently few
II those who had threatened Ia strike
lid So
The food situation in Adana. in the
French zone Of Syria. where IS Amer
lean relief workers and the French |
garrison We're heSiesed by Turkish ma
flonal forces for two months. has much .
improved. according IN cable mes
sage received by the near east relief .
III New York. from DR..
Todd, physician in charge of medical !
work In Adana.
Farmers near La Crosse. Wis. COM