The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-19
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Belgrade-A mass meeting will lie
held here on August 23d to express
sympathy with the Macedonian insur-
gents.
New York-Jefferson Sanders, col
ored, who on May I'd was terribly
beaten and then shot and killed two
policemen and wounded another, was
today released from custody by Re
oorder Goff, the jury having failed to
find an indictment.
Omaha. Neb.-General Manager
Dickinson, Just returned from Europe
announces the financing of the Orien,
road accomplished. The line will run
direct from Kansas City to Port Still
well. A contract has been made with
the Hamburg American line for line
OF steamers from Port Stilwell to the
Orient.
Vienna-Two men have been arrest
Ell at Moena, Austrian Tyrol, on sus-
picion of being spies. They were
found to be in possession of sketches
of fortresses ON the Austrian frontier.
One of the prisoners is a professor
at Venice and the other is an official
of the postoffice at Florence. Both
are held for trial.
Astoria, Ore.-Two United States
warships, supposed to be the Marble
head and Concord, from Bremerton
macy yard, were sighted off the mouth
of the Columbia yesterday afternoon.
1t is supposed the warships will at
tempt to enter the river tonight with
out being discovered by the forts at
the mouth Of the river.
Neutrality-suspicious. Emery, COM
manding the battleship Indiana, has
advised the navy department that the
battleship Massachusetts can probably
be repaired sufficiently to get under
way from Bar Harbor for New York
next Thursday. The Massachusetts
will be docked there and the full ex-
tent of her damages learned.
Red Lodge, .-Grasshoppers
are so thick in this section that they
are plastered each day on the loco
motive of the express and the wheels
are so slippery that when the engine
stops it is difficult to start it again.
The pests settle in clouds on the rails
and cover the wheels with a black
coating of their carcasses. They have
eaten the range as bare as board
and come in swarms which obscures
the sun.
London - A London correspond
ent at Tien Tsin reports that the edu-
Gated Chinese in that city are i'm
pioring the Foreign Consuls to afford
them protection on account of the
approaching visit of the Chinese Off
cial, who arrested the Peking reform
journalist, Shen Chen, who was after
ward beaten and strangled to death.
The Chinese official is thought to be
Tins among the reformers there.
Lincoln, Neb.-Not over 100 of the
1851 delegates entitled to seats in to-
morrow's Republican state convention
had arrived tonight. This is account
ed for by the fact that the honor OF
heading the ticket is conceded in adj
vance to Judge John Barnes of Madi-
son county, who will be nominated as
Justice of the Supreme court. by ac-
clamation. No other candidate is
mentioned, and all the preliminaries
OF the convention have been so well
arranged in advance that it is doubt
full II any caucuses will be held up to
the time OF the meeting
Seattle-Crazed with the belief that
the affections of her husband had
been stolen and her home destroyed
by Mrs. Laura Graham, Mrs. Sarah
Allen fired a shot into the brain OF
her supposed rival at South Seattle
Monday evening. Two shots were
fired. The first missed its object, but
the second penetrated Mrs. Graham's
forehead and she fell bleeding to the
ground. Mrs. Allen was captured by
Sam Latterday, a former policeman
who held her until the arrival of tw'
patrolmen. The woman was taken t
the city Jail and little later wal
transferred to the county jail. Mrs
Graham was brought to the city ant
placed in Providence hospital. Al