Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-05-29
NEWS or the WEEK.
tens Of General Interest Condensed for
the BUSY Readers.

'HINI'AN 1AN'f
King Humbert OF Italy, has commit
ted suicide in the p~enitentiary oil
Santo, Steiano.
The actual cash available in the
United States treasury, according to
a last weeks balance report, is $780,
Ssl,sO4, OF which s95,G37,72S is gold.
The American troops left China last
Wednesday en- route for Manila,
where they will take the place of vol
unteers who have been ordered home.
According to advices from Alaska,
smallpox is raging at Klllisnoo and
Hoona and fifteen deaths have al
ready occurred at the last mentioned
town.
Asyndicate oiforeigners has bought
the Figaro, one OF the greatest OF
Partisan newspapers. with a view to
making it the organ OF German inter
ests in that city.
Mrs. Charles f. Gunzert of Tacoma,
Wash, shot her 13-year-uld son last
week anu then took n fatal dose OF
carbollc acid. She had been mentally
unbalanced for some time.
The funeral OF Mrs. Lyman Gage,
wife OF the secretary of the treasury,
took place last Wednesday at Rose
hill cemetery, Chicago. The cere-
monies were entirely private.
Miss Pauline Mosby has lately re-
ceived her diploma as a graduate OF
the school of nurses OF the University
OF Maryland. She is the daughter OF
General John s. Mosby, the famous
Confederate leader.
Rudyard Kipllng's suit against
Geo. Putnam's Sons for infringement
nf the copyright on "Outward
Bound was non-suited by Justice
Lacomb in the United States circuit
court in New York last week.
In spite ofthe disaster tohjs yacht,
the Shamrock, Sir Thomas Upton
has cabled the New York Yacht club
that II they would grant him a few
weeks grace he would still enter the
lists for the international cup.
Mr.. Morgan was received by Presi-
dent Loubet last week, the interview
being requested by the American am
bassador in order to give Mr.. Nor
gan an opportunity to thank the
French president for the decoration
OF the Legion OF Honor.
"a late dispatch from Cape Colony
states that the Boer forces are con-
gregating near Lunaburg and that
many are crossing the Orange river
into Cape Colony. Commandant
Fouche of that district has joined the
invaders, whose total strength is
estimated at between 1000 and 100.
An unprecedented rain has fallen in
upper east Tennessee, sweeping away
bridges and washing out railway
tracks. Trains are blocked. The
latest reports from points north and
east OF Knoxville state that the
streams are swollen above anything
ever known. All telephone and tele-
graph communication in that direc-
ton IL now broken.
An amendment has been adopted
by the United Brethren church at
their quadriennial conference that
hereafter no minister Of the church
shall be allowed to use tobacco In
any form, and those who are now
addicted to it's use must desist. Iii
the Apostles creed the word ''hell'
wos modified and In the future will
be rendered ''hades.'
The Colorado state supreme court
decided last week that the city OF
Leadville owns the rights under land
transferred to the city forstreets and
alleys. This decision, it is said, will
give the city some valuable mining
property from which immense in
comes will be derived annually, there
by rendering the tax payers position
In that city u sinecure.
A proposal has been made to the
governments OF Spain and Morocco
by a French engineer named Berlier
to construct n tunnel under the strait
Of Gibraltar. Mr.. Berlier believer
believes that the construction of q
submarine tunnelirom Naquerosbay
In Spain, to Tangier, In Spain, Is per.
fectly feasible, rs the depth OF the sea
In this vicinity does not exceed 800
feet.
A quarter section OF soap deposit
has been discovered at Newcastle in
Wyoming. which is already for use
for household purposes. The vein,
so.called, Is fifteen To eighteen feet
wide and runs the length0f quarter
section, which for twenty years was
used as IA stock pasture. Next week
u building fitted with machinery that
will cut the slabs OF mineral sonp In
to six sizes for commercial use will
cover a portion OF the ground.
Five cadets were dismissed from
West Point hast week and many
Others punished for mutiny and baz
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