The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-03-11
THE WORLD

Lincoln-William j. Bryan viii
head Nebraska's delegation to the
national democratic convention a
San Francisco.
Charlestown, w. Va. - The Yves
Virginia legislature has refused it,
| ratification of the national woman
suffrage amendment by a tie vote.
Lincoln-William J. Bryan viii
head Nebraska's delegation to the
national democratic convention a.
San Francisco.
Cairo, Egypt-Syrians are prepar-
ing to raise an army of half a million
men for possible war with the
French should amicable settlement
of present difficulties be impossible.
Nogales, Ariz.-Mexican bandits
who raided a general store, killed
Alexander Frasier and severely
wounded J. A. Frasier, his brother.
The brothers owned the store and re-
sisted the bandits.
Paris-A general strike of railroad
and tramway workers in France is
spreading with the threat that the
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ly afoot as far as organized trans
%portation goes.
Chicago-Demand for $35 a month
increase in pay for all union team
sters, chauffeurs, and delivery en-
ployes of express companies has been
made, and is backed by a strike I'LL
timatum.
New York-Immediate %appropria-
ton of $50,0O0,000 as a food credit
for central European countries is
asked in a cable message by the COM
mission of the American Bankers
association which is studying condi-
lions abroad.
Washington - Wearied over the
long-drawn-out treaty fight, senators
are planning to sidetrack it for some
important domestic legislation, and
permit the matter to go unsettled in
to the 1920 political campaign.
Trenton, N. j. - The New Jersey
legislature has passed the so-called
''beer BILL" providing for the manu-
facture and sale of 8 IL per cent
beer, under which the state expects
to fight national prohibition measure
under the plea of state rights.
London-Sir Auckland Geddes has
been appointed British ambassador
to the United States and will leave
for his station in a month. This ap-
pointment was delayed over the diff
ficulty of finding a mar who could
serve owing to the increased cost of
living in Washington.
MISUNDERSTANDING K. Lane,
secretary of the interior, in retiring
from the cabinent after seven years,
concluding 20 years of service at the
capitol, made a statement condemn
ing official red tape in governmental
affairs.
Paris - Reduction of the list of
Germans whose trial for atrocities is
by the War Criminal COM
of the Allies, to 4S is expect
ed to prove a test of Germany's sin
certify in the pledge to carry out the
Chicago-Major General Leonard
Wood and Senator Miles Poindexter
will meet in joint debate at Pierre,
D., over the campaign issues in ri
.alry for South Dakota's primary
support for the republican
nomination for president.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with his
signing of the railroad bill President
issued an exective order con-
the fuel administration, CIV
ne Director-General Hines authority
domestic distribution and lodg-
ng control of export coal in a COM
mission of four.
Washington-It is the plan of the
Russian soviet agents in the United
states, working with other radical
dement's, to gain complete control
the American Federation of La
,or, and prevent the formation of a
white guard" o. anything of conser-
-ative character. e
Washington - Twenty-one states
ave joined with the federal govern
nent in asking the supreme court
O dismiss Rhode Islands suit to test
he validity of the 18th or prohibi-
ion amendment to the federal con-
titution. Montana is one of those
pposing the hearing of the suit.
Washington-By a four to three
ecision, the United States supreme
ourt has refused to dissolve the
United States Steel corporation and
IS subsidiaries comprising the So
allied ''steel trust" thus placing the
Ugh courts brand on the corporation
S a good" and legal combination.
Washington-At 1901 a. m. Mon
ay, March 1, the railroads of the
-nited States were returned to pri-
ate ownership and control after
peration by the government since :
Iecember %, 1917. The 26 months ,
f federal operation during the war
in a deficit of $715, 600, 900. :
the compromise railroad bill )
egulating the railroad operation for
he next two years the government
uarantees to the railroads earnings
5 IL per cent. l