The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-06-24
THE WORLD

Iarls-Ool' JdIar Tayar, Turkish
commandant at Adrianople, has pro
claimed the autonomy of eastern
Thrace.
Washington approximately IS.
600, 100000 was appropriated by the
Sixty-sixth congress at it's session
ending June 5.
New York-The supreme court de.
MED incorporation to a society call.
ing itself the Institute for Industrial
and Technical Aid to Soviet Russia.
London-The holsheyik eorces in
the lie region are still pressing
pack the Poies, following the capture
OF the city by the soviet army.
Tok1o-Two hundred miners have
been killed by an explosion of fire
damp in the Yubari Goa mines at
Sapporo, on the island of Yezo.
WIchita-Georges Carpenter is
sued a challenge to Jack Dempsey,
heavyweight champion, to meet him
after October 10 at any time or place
Dempsey will name.
Topeka, Kan. - Pearl Lash. an in
mate of the state hospital for the in
sane at Parsons, is sole heir to a for
tune estimated at from S25O.OOO to
100000.
Fredericton, N. B.-The largest
seizure of liquor ever made in New
Brunswick was reported last week.
consisting of II tons of whisky and
other "wet goods"
Gwinn, Mich.-Andrew Seass TT
and Eddie Rider, 8, were e~Iectrocu-
ted when they came in contact with
a hlgh-tension wire of the Cleveland
Cliffs Iron company.
St. LouIs-A campaign for enact
ment of uniform automobile laws in
all states was authorized at a meet
ing OF directors of the National Au-
tomobile Dealers association.
a FranciscO-Jack Dempsey, the
heavyweight champion, was found
not guilty on a selective draft eva
sion indictment by a jury in the dis
trict court here.
Pensacola-Pensacola has started
a rat-killing drive with a view to
stopping the spread of what local
physicians have pronounced bubonic
plague.
Dubuque, Iowa-A. M. Cooper, at
n time said to be Dubuque's rich
est man and a shining light in Iowa
financial circles, with a fortune of
near $1,250,00O, died penniless a
few days ago.
san Ffancisco-California voters
will not have the opportunity to vote
for a third party presidential ticket
at the November election, according
to a statement made by Assistant At
torney General Harrison.
New York-The Rev. w. w. Page.
last living member of the staff of
Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confeder-
ate army, and rector of st. PauI's
church, Cornwall, N. Y, is dead.
Seattle-Unable to reach Nome be-
cause Of a huge ice barrier. the
steamship Victoria, first of the Seat
tie Hectic attempt to reach the nor
thern port this year, discharged 200
OF her 500 passengers on the ice.
ParIs-Another month of good
growing weather, with favorable har-
vesting conditions, will be worth be-
tween three and four billion francs
France, in the opinion of agricul-
tural experts.
Duluth-Three negroes were hang
ed by a mob estimated at 5000 per-
sons which overpowered the police,
took possession of police h~eadquar-
ters and seized the negroes, who
were held in connection with an at
tack on a young white girl.
MOntreal-Moyement to call upon
United States to recognize the So
Wet government or lift the blockades
against soviet Russia was blocked in
annual convention of the Ameri-
Federation of Labor after a
heated debate.
Buenos Aires-Additional sums of
gold released from the deposits of
Argentine embassy in Washing
,on bring the total amount released
n this movement to $19,600,0 900,
equivalent to the expectation of that
sum in gold from Argentina.
Warsaw-A1l the Americans who
we're in the Kiev region, over which
he bolsheviki have swept in their
westward drive, have safely emerged
rom that sector, according to word
the front, but several of them
lad narrow escapes.
MOntreal-The American Fedora
ion of Labor in convention has called
lpon the congress of the United
states to cancel the "gentlemen's
agreement" with Japan and absolute
y exclude Japanese and other Asia
ic immigration into this country. The
exclusion of picture brides also
vas demanded.
LOndon-Soviet Russia does not
'ecognize its liability for debts con-
by Russia up to November, =.
.917, and if compelled to meet them
will have serious offsets, says the
Times in reporting conversations be-
ween their ministers and Gregory
E~rassin, bolshevik minister for trade {
nd commerce. J
Chicago - Three years ago Mrs. {
Toward Van S. Tracy of Evanston
ook her baby daughter to college
With her and a few days ago Mrs. I
'racy was graduated from North l
Western university at the head of n {
lass of 878 with the degree of bach {
lor Of arts and honorary membership '
n a scholarship fraternity. |
Tokio-Japan inserted an article I
4 the Anglo-Japanese alliance pact
f 1911 to remove the risk of Eng ]
and becoming involved in any dis
ute between the United States and
apan, it was declared by Viscount
-af0 f0rmpr foreipn ninicfar in an 9