The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-10
NEWS STORIES BRIEFLY TOLD

PRINCETON. n. J..-Prnceton defeat
| ed the New York University foot ball
| team by % to 0.
BERLlN.-1t is rumored that Emperor
William has instructed the Kiel Yacht
club to challenge for the Americas cup.
NEW ORLEANS-Louis Herman,
prominent member of the cotton ex-
change, shot and killed himself because
of il-health.
WAsHINGTON-The postofiice depart
ment decided to place the late President
McNin!ey's head on the new postal cards
that will appear shortly after December
l next
LOUISVILLE.-The Army Of the Cum
herland decided to hold its next annual
| reunion in Washington. on the occasion
| of the unwilling of the statue to General
Sheridan.
NEW YORK.-President Roosevelt,
will. it is announced. make an address
here on Thanksgiving day, at the dedi-
cation Of the Soldiers and Sailors monu-
ment On Riverside drive.
WASHINGTON.-Sta of the
treasury. In the general fund exclusive
of the $3.50, 900 gold in the division of
redemption: Available cash balance.
sl13, 295, 062 gold SOL, 1879, 800.
WASHINGTON.-Se Ccrtelyou
left for Canton to attend to some bust
ness in connection with the settlement of
the estate Of the late President Mckin-
ley. He will be gene several days
! PARISH decree of the fifth chamber
OF the civil tribunal provides that
estates Of the jesuts and assump-
tionists shall be liquidated, as they
have not complied with the association
law.
\ MADRID-A royal decree orders the
\ payment in gold, of all taxes or interest
/ upon bonds, shares OF dividends, and on
/ redemption by companies who are to pay
their shareholders and kondholders in
gold.
SALT LAKE CITY.-Arthur j. VAN
Kuran, was sentenced to two and half
years in the state penitentiary for the
crime of embezzling $1,000 from the Ore
gon Short Line railroad company. while
in it's employ in the capacity as local
treasurer.
NEW YORK-Johann Most was tried
in the court Of special sessions, on the
charge Of violating the criminal code in
publishing on September ~ in his paper,
the Fre3heit, an article entitled, MUIR
der Against Murder" Decision was re-
served until Monday next.
SEATTLE President Fowler of the
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging COM
pany, Seattle corporation, has been no.
titled that his firm had been awarded
the government contract. valued al ST.
0G0 900, for dredging the harbor of Manila
and completing the old Spanish break
water.
NEW YORK.-The annual meeting or
the Western Union Telegraph company,
held in this city elected Stuyvesant Fish,
president of the Illinois Central, and Sam
uel Spencer, president of the Southern
railway, to the directory. The gross earn
ings for the year We're s26,354 Isl, an in
crease of 81, 595, 5s2.
SEATTLE-The battle ship Wisconsin
will leave the Puget Sound navy yard
today for San Francisco. On board will
| be Admiral Casey, who will return i'm
mediately with his flagship. the Iowa.
The Oregon will go into the dock and
it is expected will complete her repairs
/ in time to allow the Iowa to take the
dock on her arrival.
LOUISVILLE, KY.-The society OF the
Army of the Cumberland elected the fol-
lowing officers: President. General d.
H. Stanley. Washington; Corresponding
Secretary. Gen. H. v. Boynton, Wash
ington; Recording Secretary. H. N.
Steele, Oberlin. Ohio; Treasurer. Major
John A. Twedale, Washington; Vice
Presidents, California, General T. T.
crittenden: Colorado. COL H. NJ. Fitch:
Kansas. Sergeant Henry j. Allen; Mon
tana, General c. E. Madotzin.
! SALT LAKE CITY.-Oliver Ames,
Francis S. Bangs Horace G. Burt, Sam
pel Carr, T. Jefferson Coolrdge, jr., w.
p. Cornish. w. B. Glyn, Edwin Gould,
George ]. Gould, E. H. Hartman, Otto
#. Kahn, Gardiner NJ. Lane. Oliver w.
Mink, Winslow S. Pierce and Thomas r.
Jones. We're yesterday reelected as di-
fectors of the Oregon Short Line rail-
road company.
1 Morse Confirms Consolidation.
(By Associated Press)
| New York, Oct. 1O-Chas. W. Morse
has confirmed the report from Bangor
Maine. that he had purchased control
of the International Steamship COM
pany. plying between Boston and
provincial ports and of the Portland
Steamship company, plying between Bos-
ton and Portland. His verificatiOn in
cludes the statement that he now con-
trolls the four principal steamship lines