The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-03-19
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

| Fearing pursuit, bandits In the Mex
lean state of Zacatecas, after holding
up and robbing passenger train, de-
| tached the engine and sent 1t full
| speed aread in the direction of an ap-
preaching train. 1t crashed into the
first train, inflicting death or injury
to q number of soldiers and civilians,
according to Mexico City advices re-
| ceived at Laredo, Tex. A second res
cue train arrived and soldiers set out
in pursuit of the bandits.
Disbursement of S576, 349, POS by the
government in October was the lowest
in any month since June, 1917, Sec
rotary Glass announces. The net cur
rent deficit for the month was $780,
239, 49, the lowest for any month
since April. 1917, excluding months In
which income and profit taxes were
payable.
The American mine No. / at Bick-
NELL Ind, said to be the largest coal
mine in the bituminous fields Of the
United States, is on fire. The confla-
grafton is the worst ever experienced
in the coal fields of this section. The
cause of the fire and the time Of Its
origin have not been determined. Due
to the strike of miners, 1t Is not be-
lieved anyone is in the mine.
The Netherlands government has in |
formed committee of the chamber |
Of deputies that no offer had been |
received from the United States for |
the purchase of small Dutch colonies |
in the West Indies.
The French government, as COM
pliment to Hugh c. Wallace, the Amer
lean ambassador, has presented Ia
coma, WASH, Mr.. Wallace's home
town, one Of the largest guns captured
by the French from the Germans. 1t
is a 150-millimeter howitzer. The gun
will be shipped as soon as arrange
ments can be made for its transporta-
ton.
Announcement has been made that
the Emergency Fleet corporation has
fixed $4,000 as the price of the $500
ton Ferris type wooden ship hulls the
government intends to sell. Nearly
200 wooden ships, mostly of the Ferris
type, are to be sold. The price ap-
plies to the hulls now in the moor
ng basins. Equipment on the vessels
will also be sold.
A 10 days cessation Of railway pas
,enger traffic is the German govern ,
nent's latest effort to prevent a ma
ional catastrophe owing to lack of 5
.oal and to safeguard the transporta- I
ion of potatoes before the first frost
aIls. The only exception in the STOP 5
,age of passenger services will be the
Berlin interurban traffic, which will
uffer only to the extent that trains .
will cease running at IL o'clock at \
light. e
John D. Rockefeller has added $1O.- 6
10000 to his endowment Of the Rock a
Teller Institute for Medical Research, c
is announced in New York. The gift, a
he largest single one made to the t
Institution, is to meet rapidly growing n
eeds in its many lines Of work and to c
1ake new knowledge available for u
rejection Of the public health and to b
improve the treatment Of disease and
ljury. a
Fire, believed to have started from
pontaneous combustion, destroyed the
reno Cereal mill at Minneapolis,
18th d loss estimated at SOC, 600. fully .
'sured q
An eigft-year naval program, cost p
e 1924 .dpO, 900, has been decided on .
' the japanese government, accord A
e to q cable message to q Japanese B
ally paperkat Honolulu. The program ].
'cludes the construction Of four 4O,- 4
)O-ton battleships, four battle cruis- u
y, eighty destroyers, seventy sub ',
arInes and thirty other craft. q