Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-14
Worlds News

A resolution opposing the enfran-
chisement Of of HiRdus In British
Columbia was passed recently by the
legislature Of Alberta.
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
Of the Aregentina, has ceased explor-
ing for oil and has withdrawn from
the field, after expanding 100000.
There was shipped lately from Lon
don to the United States one million.
twenty-eight thousand, seven hundred
and sxty-four pounds in gold. Four
hundred and eighty thousand pounds
to Kuhn, Loeb and Co., and five
hundred and eighty-four thousand,
seven hundred and sixty-four pounds
to ]. P. Morgan and Company.
During fire at the Petroleum FIX
port Corporations warehouse in San
Diego. recently. one hundred thou
| sand gallons Of gasoline was burned.
The gasoline was to have be N
shipped to Kobe, Japan. for use in
areas of that country.
Said to be the longest cable in the
| world, the new Franco American
cable was recently safely landed at
Havre, France, by the cable steam
ship Stephan"
| Angel Clemens, carpenter living
near Cobalt, Ontario, found silver
nugget weighing 5000 pounds, on the
shores of the Montreal river. The
nugget Is worth more than $4,000.
The Philippine Islands we're re-
Gently visited by terrific typhoon,
In which many persons we're drowned
in Cagayan Valley, in northern Luz
zon. Numerous dwellings were car
ried away by the flood waters, ami
mails were drowned and crops suf-
ffered considerable damage.
On November 26th fourteen and a
half inches of snow fell in Montreal,
constituting a record for SO years.
Branches Of trees were broken, cleo
trio light and telephone wires were
snapped and traffic badly hampered.
Mrs. Lilly May Wittig, of Balti-
more, Is the happy mother of quad
ruplets-three girls and one boy. The
boy weighed S pounds and the COM
bined weight of the babies was 1S
pounds and thirteen ounces. Mrs.
Wittig now has twelve children. Med
ical records show that bankruptcies
are born approximately once in $780,.
900 births.
Survivors of the Inflated freighte1
Shinkoku Maru were lapded recent
ly at Cordova, Alaska, by the tug
Humaconna. One member of the
crew lost his life while attempting to
swim ashore with a lifeline, when
he saw the vessel on the rocks. He
was dashed to pieces by the terrific
seas, and his body lost in the icy
waters.
The top hat first made its public
appearance in its modern form, in
London, in 1897. Its wearer was John
| Hetherington, a Strand haberdasher,
and the unwonted sight he presented
| created such turmoil on the street
that he was charged with breach OF
| the peace and melting to riot, for
which he was bound over to keep
the peace in the sum of five hundred
pounds.
| On account of the exclusion laws
of the United States, it has been an
nounced at Stockholm, that a direct
line Of steamships-the first of the
kind from any Scandinavian country
lis soon to be established by the
| Swedish-American line of steamships,
between Stockholm and Canada, to
call first at Halifax, thence to New
York.
! The German courts are bein 6
swamped by divorce suits, filed by
German school teachers, as result
Of government order that all mar
ried officials must be dismissed as a
part of the sweeping reduction in
government machinery in the new
economy program. A number Of the
married women teachers prefer their
jobs to matrimony hence the d.
vorce suits.
The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal-Press in it's current issue says:
| The "non-ferrous metal markets
have generally been quiet. Copper
prices continue to show improvement,
with consumers manifesting greater
interest In the market. The change
in the trend Of the stock market and
a belief in the soundness of indus
trial activity may have had some
thing to do with this situation.
The lead market has remained
steady, showing no tendency to move
In either direction. The market for
slab zinc Is practically unchanged.
| On Sletringoen, rocky island, near
Titren, the largest lighthouse along
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