The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-13
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM


Loss Of life in the dance hall fire
at Villa Platte. Louisiana. will exceed
% persons, according to latest reports.
Twenty-Five persons were injured. The
dead and injured We're trapped in the
dance hall, which was on the second
floor of the building burned.
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Ninety airplanes with pilots and Oh
servers will be used for forest protec-
ton purposes during the coming year
in Oregon, Washington. California,
Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. accord.
ing to decision reached by the COM
mittee of the western forestry and
conservation service in Portland, Ore.
The main building Of the University
Of Montreal, containing the medical
department. was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at 100000, GOV.
cred by insurance. The blaze is thought
to have been started by lighted Gig
arets thrown around'at concert.
Because Of the prevalence of small.
pox In Toronto. the United States pub.
lie health service will establish q Dor.
der quarantine. it was announced at
Buffalo, n. Y.
II the Kansas coal miners refuse to
go to work on the plan outlined to
them by Governor Allen, 1.5OO young
men of the Kansas State Agricultural
college are willing to dig coal, said a
telegram to the governor from Pres.
ident Jardine of the college at Topeka
Thirty-eight members of fourteen
wholesale sugar firms were arrested
in Chicago on federal warrants charg-
ing profiteering in violation Of the
Lever food control act. They were
charged with exacting an exorbitant
price or conspiracy to obtain IN ex.
cessive price for sugar.
The national adjustment commission
has made an award of so cents an hour
and $1.2O an hour for overtime to
the deep sea longshoremen in the north
Atlantic district. This Is an increase
of 22h per cent over the scale OF
wages In force up to October g, last.
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Lack of adequate training of pilots
was responsible for some fatalities
In the recent transcontinental derby,
Lieut.. Belvin w. Maynard, the win.
ner. told house subcommittee. OF.
ficers of high rank but whose expert.
ence had been confined to desk work,
he said, entered the race because there
We're no superior officers to pass on
iheir ability.
A verdict in favor of the defendants
In a libel suit brought by Ray McKale
against Frank r. Gooding and the
Statesman Printing company of Boise.
Idaho. was returned by jury in dis.
trict court In that city. McKalg, an
organizer for the Nonpartisan league,
brought suit for $4,000. based on nj.
legations GOoding made In matter
printed in the Boise Statesman during
the last political campaign, in which
Gooding was candidate for governor
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John B. Lawson. labor organizer,
was seized by a crowd as he was leav.
ing the office of his attorney ia Nash.
vile. Tenn, put aboard a train bound
for Indiana, and ordered not to return
He was reported to have come to
Nashville for the purpose Of agitatine
4 walkout OF street railway employees
Arthur Brisbane has announced the
sale Of the Washington Times and the
Wisconsin News Of Milwaukee to VIII.
liam Randolph Hearst. The sale price
was not made public.
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Peter Enguist and John Larson, both
Of Duluth, drank the contents Of
bottle Of m0onshine liquor they found
In deserted lumber camp near Inter.
national Falls, MIMI. and died several
hours later In great agony. 1t ala la,