Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-29
GENERAL NEWSITEMS
Gathered From Various Sources
Interesting Events Briefly Told,
For the Benefit Of Busy People.
CAPTURED ON ITS OUTWARD RUSH

The American Bankers association
is holding its twenty-ninth annual con-
vention in San Francisco.
There has been no change in the far
eastern situation. War between Japan
and Russia seems probable.
Charles Kratz, the alleged st. Louis
boodler who jumped his bond for $780,
900, has been captured in Mexico.
Government agents assert that the
country is being flooded with foreign
laborers in violation of the contract
labor law.
The Federal national bank, of Pitts
burg, capital So, 600, 900, has closed it's
doors. 1t is said the depositors will
lose nothing.
Before the American Missionary AS
sociation, William Pickens, a negro
graduate Of Yale, pleaded for an op-
portunity for his race.
SAiA Ian, uCSIO, was HdHScu DIT
Birmingham, Ala. On the first drop
the rope slipped and the man was
lowered and hanged again.
Union machinists in Lonsdade,
Tenn, shops of the Southern railway
quit work because non-union men were
allowed to dismantle engines.
In a sermon at Newport, r. l., DR..
Porter, who peaches to a fashionable
set, asserted that society is infested by
numerous demons. Strange, isn't it?-~-
The government has unearthed a stu
pendous Gland graft" ring that has
been carrying on business in every
we'll timbered area on the Pacific slope.
Samuel E. Morss, editor and pro-
prietor of The indianapolis Sentinel,
fell from third-story window of The
Sentinel building and lived but fifteen
minutes.
Canadians are still condemning the
Alaskan boundary decision. 1t is
charged that Great Britain has sacri-
feed Canada on the alter of political
expediency.
In binding fog, the steamer South
Portland, went down off the Oregon
coast. Thirty-one persons out of thirty
six on board are supposed to have been
lost.
Two survivors of the schooner J. T.
Williams arrive at Newport News, Va.
Out of fourteen men on board these two
were saved. The vessel was sunk DUR
ing last Fridays storm.
The North Carolina division of the
Sunshiners is to erect a monument to
Bill Nye, the well known humorist,
whose grave has been unmarked in one
of the mountain countries.
In a wreck ON the Southern near
Richmond, Va, caused by a head-on
collision four trainmen met death and
five were injured. AT Jackson, Tenn,
three trainmen were killed.
Near Kinston, N. c., Cook Stroud
and his divorced wife, now Mrs. Rich
ard Ward, exchanged shots when Mrs.
Ward came to Stroud's home and de-
manded possession of her childred.
The commercial treaty recently con-
cluded between the United States and
China is offensive to Russia. It is
said that Russia will not allow the
treaty to become effective in so far as
it relates to Manchuria.
Mrs. Anne Holcombe and her 17-year
old daughter, of Cheyenne county,
Georgia, were assaulted and murdered
in their home, after which their bodies
were horribly mutilated. 1t is believed
that two men committed the crime.
Thomas Music entered a church in
Johnson county, Kentucky, with an
empty drawn revolver while the
preacher was praying and ordered the
congregation to vacate. Panic resulted
and Jason Hall fell dead from fright
Several shots were fired, and Thomas
Music and Henry Stevens were wound
ed. jeff Stevens, who shot his brother
through mistake, is in Jail at Paints
Vile. Music escaped to the mountains.