The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-07-16
FOREIGN.

leo city. Of this, more than 366.OOO.-
GOO pesos is owed abroad.
The Canadian parliament was pro-
rogued after the governor general. in
speech from the throne. had compile
mented 1t on its provisions for con-
tinued government wheat control and
development of the air service.
Sir Robert Borden. premier Of Can
ada. definitely announced his retire
ment from public life at general eau
Gus of unionists at Ottawa. and his
decision was regretfully received by
the caucus. No definite appointment
Of successor has been made.
Germany's total debt is 265 .OO0. OoO.-
600 marks. Finance Minister Wirth an.
nounced before the budget committee
of the reichstag.
The Irish police have seized 800
rifles and large quantity Of ammuni.
ton in the Stranorlar district Of Don.
egal.
Marine wireless operators have hand.
ed an ultinatum to the Marconi com.
pany in London announcing that they
will call a sea-wide strike unless their
wage claims. filed in September, 1919.
are met. In their declaration the op.
orators apologize to passengers for de.
priving them of safety in the event of
Il strike.
The strike of sugar plantation work
erS of the Hawaiian islands, which be-
gan on January 49, has been official
ly declared off by the Hawaiian Labor
association. formerly the Japanese
Federation of Labor. About 5000 Jap
anese and Filipino laborers are af-
fected by the decision. Employers an
nounced they had granted the return
ing men no concessions.
GENERAL.
Shipments Of between 100000 and
a.WN.ON pounds of sugar received in
Chicago by way of Canada were bill
ed to packers. Gamers and wholesalers
at as low as nine and nine and a half
cents pound. federal investigators
said. The United States district at
torney's assistants declared that if
wholesalers are paying only nine and
nine and a half cents n pound for
sugar. the retail price should not be
higher than eleven cents.
The federal grand Jury which last
week indicted IA concerns and 20 in
dividuals in connection with a nation.
wide roundup Of alleged fraudulent
oil promoters. has indicted Plum. Rey-
nolds and Co.. New York brokers. on
charges of using the mails to defraud
investors in the stock Of the Hender-
son Farm Oil company Of Delaware.
Two men We're wounded. one seri.
ously. when crowd said to have been
composed of striking switchmen at
tackled the crew of switch engine in
the yards of the Southern Pacific at
East st. Louis. Ill.,. and precipitated a
revolver fight.
Henry Alexander and George Hughes
transfers. We're blown to bits when 600
quarts of nitro-glycerine they were
hauling exploded near Beattyville, Nv,
Robert F. and Harry =. Wolfe. own
ers Of the Columbus Dispatch and the
Ohio State Journal. have paid half
year bonus checks to their employees
totalinc more than 100000. A SINH.
lar bonus WIS given their employees at
Christmas time.
Only one New York evening paner
is being sold now for two cents, fol-
lowing announcement that the prices
of the Evening sun and the Evening
Telegram will he increased to three
cents because of the increased cost
Of publication.
Between $4,000. 900 and S1OOOO Onc
has been gathered from outgoing aliens
who We're too modest to declare the
full amount Of their earnings for In.
come tax payments. and many thou
sands more are being collected from
delinquent aliens who boast Of their
ample incomes to immigration insnec-
tors to convince those officials that
they can easily care for incon'n~ do
pendentS. according to a statement
made public in New York by Colonel
Daniel l.. Porter. supervising internal
revenue agent Of the federal income
tax collecting service.
The war department has available
a quantity Of condemned guns. mortars
and howitZers for donation to munich
pal corporations. posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic and soldiers
monument associations. Colonel Mnish.
ordnance officer of the eastern depart
ment announced in New York. Ap.
nlications may he made to the offices
Of chief Of ordnance. war department.
Washington.
lightning killed John Benson. 10. as
he WAS standing in barn near Cres.
cent. Iowa, and injured a number Of
workmen in Omaha during a heavy
wind and electrical storm in that vi.
entity. Fremont. Neb., reported heavy
damage 70 the crops.
Detective William Goodenhour Of
Waterloo. Iowa WAS instantly killed
in Il Dstol battle with bandit in the
II. Marx clothing store. the bandit