Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-11-13
NEWS or TINE WEN.
Items OF General interest Coadessed Tor
the Busy Readers.

There was a decrease OF $9,56S,4oS
in the public debt during the month
of October.
A scientist who has made a study
OF that planet states that there Is
snow on the noon.
The STANDARD Oil Co. has declared
q dividend Of IS per share, payable
Dec. 18th. making $4s per share for
the calendar year.
David B. Hill ref uses to discuss the
movement to overthrow Tammany,
but Significance is attached to his
visit to New York on the heels OF the
election.
Charles B. Thompson, supreme
finance keeper OF Supreme Tent oil
Maccabees. c~onfesses shortage oil
$57, 900 and tenders resignation. Or
der will lose nothing.
Ii Hung Chang, the distinguished
Chinese statesman, died at his resi-.
dence at Pekin ON November 18th.
Death resulted from severe hemor-
rhages due to liberation OF the stom'
ach.
An impenitrable fog envelopes both
Paris and London. Traffic Is nearly
at q standstil and 1t Is almost i'm.
possible to transact business OF any
description, owing to the intense
darkness.
1t is reported that Russia and
France have arrived at an agreement
for common action with a view to
the bringing abou ut OF reforms in Ar.
menia and the European provinces oil
the Ottoman empire.
A dispatch from Antwerp says a
detachment of black troops recently
sent by the Congo authorities tn
quell n revolt at Balines, in Kassal,
was captured. and that the troops
were murdered, roasted and eaten.
A definite date bias been fixed for the
coronation OF King Edward and the
ceremonies will begin Wednesday
June %, 1902, and extend over two
days, although foreign royalties will
be en~sertalned for q week.
A mutiny broke out among the
convicts at Fort Leavenworth last
week and twenty-five prisoners
escaped after killing N guard and
seriously wounding two Others.
Armed guards at once took up the
pursuit, and a number OF the con.
victs have been recaptured.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says that the Porte has sent n note
to Nj. Bapst, counselor of the French
legation, enclosing monthly drafts
on the customs in payment Of the
Loranpo and tn bic claims, and EN-.
bodying certain conditions of the
Turkish government regarding the
quays difficulties.
The report that Richard Croker
would retire from politics is incorrect,
according to IA New York dispatch
On being interviewed On the subject
Mr.. Croker said: 1.-THE report that ]
am to quit politics is absolutely false,
and 1t ia not true that | am to sal
for Europe ut once. 1 am in good
health and | shall stay here for some
time to come"
In a three.column letter to the Lon.
don Times Sir William Vernon Har.
court indicts the governments policy
and conduct In the South African
war, and particularly In the latter
stages. He declares that the Danish
ment of the Beers and the confisca
ton of their property are both un'
constitutional and miscellaneous, and
can be deduced neither by the lawso
war or by civil law.
Edgar Canisius, an American who
recently retired from the employ oil
the Congo Free State, has confirmed
the stories of the horrible atrocities
which are said to be practiced on the
natives by the Belgian troops. The
district IL partially under martial
law, on the strength of which such
endless barbara ties are committed,
The natives are thoroughly terror
stricken. Canisius further declares
that the so-called punitiveexpeditions
are in reality rubber squeezing
raids" conducted with such iniqui
tous methods that the natives are In
constant state Of revolt. The condi
tiOns are somewhat similar In the
territories workedby concessiOncom
panies.