Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-26
GENERAL NEWSITEMS
Gathered From Various Sources.
Interesting Events Briefly Told,
For the Benefit Of Busy People.
CAPTURED ON ITS OUTWARD RUSH

Because her face had been marred
by i'll health, Mrs. Lulu Brennan
killed herself at Chicago.
Despite protests, President Roose-
velt will renominate Joshua Wilson,
colored, for postmaster at Florence, S.
c.
Mark Hanna has written to a friend
in Kansas saying that he will not be a
candidate for the presidential nomina-
tion.
Mary Sullivan, who has been writ
ing threatening letters to President
Roosevelt, has been declared insane at
Chicago.
The statement was made to the char
ity workers in convention at Philadel-
phla that there are 100000 tramps in
the country.
John Alexander Dowie has issued a
call for $2,OOO,OOO. He orders his fol-
lowers to sell their property and give
him the proceeds.
Thirty -one men were killed and fif-
teen injured in a head-en collision be-
tween trains on the Big Four railroad
near Peoria, Ills.
Wisconsin has 14-year old boy who
weighs PIT pounds and stands S feet
81 inches high. He is said to be the
largest boy of his age in the world.
Insurance companies of the United
States have asked the senate to extend
the lottery laws so as to make them APP
ply to the concerns writing fake insur-
ance.
| The hundredth anniversary of the
transfer of Louisiana to the United
States will be celebrated at New Or
leans with elaborate exercises lasting
through three days.
The house, by a rising vote of 335 to
p, passed the bill to make effective the
Cuban reciprocity treaty. The dis
sentlng votes were about equally divd-
ed between republicans and democrats,
but there was no record vote, the
minority having too few votes to order
the yeas and nays.
| Spencer Bassett, professor of English
in Trinity college, of Durham, N. c.,
has resigned because of the storm of
criticism created by his article, in
which he declared Booker Washington
the greatest man the south has pro-
duced in the last century, with the
single exception of General Lee.
The proposition to enlarge the Erie
canal so that ocean vessels may pass
up the Hudson to Albany and through
the canal to the great lakes and thence
to Chicago, carried in New York at
the recent election. The appropria-
ton voted was over a billion dollars
and will bring the seaboard five hun
dred miles nearer the great Northwest.
1t is said that President James J.
Hill, of the Northern Securities Com
pany, acting on the advice of his at
torney, has decided to surrender con-
troll of the Great Northern, the North
ern Pacific and the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy railways in accordance
with the decision of the United States
Circuit Court of appeals, aud that each
of the lines will be operated under sep
arate arrangements. 1t is further said
the securities company is to declare
this fact before the supreme court and
also state that there is no community
of interests agreement between them.
A new treaty for Il canal across the
} 1sthmus OF Panama was signed al
: Washington by Secretary of State Hay
and Minister Philippe Bunau Varilla
of Panama. While the contents of the
treaty were not made public, it is un
, derstood that the lands for construct
} ing the canal were ceded to the Unitet
States outright. The canal is to bt
neutral, but in absolute control of tn,
United States. The purchase money
5 will go 20 Panama. The treaty will b,
ratified by Panama as soon as possible
Latest adviCeS state that two more de
pertments may secede from Colombia
Thara iS much eYCitanapf af R,an.