Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-15
GENERAL NEWSITEM
Gathered From Various Sources
Interesting Events Briefly Told,
For the Benefit Of Busy People.
CAPTURED ON ITS OUTWARD RUSH

CAPTURED On ITS OUTWARD RUSH
A baker at Whatcom, WASH, put
concentrated 1ye in the flour of a rival
banker.
A hurricane at Ocean City, Md,
does great deal of damage and chases
nearly all the people out of town.
Near Berlin an electric car was
driven at a speed of 124 miles an hour.
It is hoped to attain still higher speed.
The American ship Benjamin Sewal,
has been lost at the Pescadores. Onlv
twelve of the persons on board were
saved.
Courtmartial will convene at Denver
to try charges of corruption and graft
| ing against officers of Colorado nation
al guard.
United States Senator Plat, of New
| York, announces that on October 10 he
will wed Mrs. Janeway. Senator
Plat is 20 years old.
The concensus of opinion in Great
Britain is that the new cabinet will
go to pieces. Joseph Chamberlain has
begun his fiscal campaign.
The property at Tappan, N. Y,
where Maj. Andre was executed as a
spy, has been bought in by the county,
the owners refusing to pay taxes on it.
Although Japan is moving troops
| into Korea, apd is keeping war vessels
under steam, Russia does net vet con-
slider them as constituting unfriendlv
acts.
The dividend on the common stock of
the steel trust for the last quarter has
been reduced from per cent to Z per
cent, owing to the falling off of bust
ness.
M. Lebaudy, the French multi-mil-
lionaire, plans the establishment of a
negro empire in Africa. He hopes to
get many subjects from the southern
states.
Word has been received at Delaware.
o., that the Rev. c. w. Kennedy. who
left there some months ago to do mis-
sionery work IN China, was killed by
Boxers.
At the trial of a tutor in Germany
for whipping a boy to death, the spec
tators became so excited bv the revela-
tions of brutalities that a lynching was
feared in court
During the fiscal year ended June
so, 1908, the expenditures of the Post
Office department were S138, 748. 4S7,
and the receipts S134, pa, 40, leaving
a deficit of 81, 500, ,044.
The death of Bradley II. johnson re-
moves another of the Confederate lead
ers who fought so valiantly for State 5
rights in 'o1-'o5 and then for their
States honor in 90 'o7.
Dispatches from Venezuela state that
President Castro is treating foreigners
with great severity in the matter of
taxes. A reign of terror is alleged to
prevail at Cludad Bolivar.
At Topeka, Kans., five hundrd per
sons witnessed a rough and tumble
fight between girl sophomores and
freshmen. Many of the girls had their
clothing torn from theirbodies.
Speaking before the Hague tribunal,
Wayne MacVeagh, counsel for the
United States, declares that Germany
and Great Britain made war on Ven
ezuela to collect money due to private
firms.
John Decker, of Norwich, Conn,
whose actions at the white house
aroused the suspicious of the guards
there, was arrested and turned over TO
the police authorities. He was found
to be unarmed.
1t is reported at London that several
women prominent on both sides of the
Atlantic, are taking part in the fight
over the successor of the late Sir
Michael Herbert. British ambassador
to the United States.
The appeal of the case of the state of
Minnesota apatnSt the Northern &c.