Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
s5. Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
/ News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad. s
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
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Lou Dillon, the worlds champion trot-
ting mare, broke all workout records
for trotting horses by circling the course
at the Memphis (Tenn) driving park
in 2:01l. -.
Secretary Hay and Sir Chentung Liang
Cheng have begun to lay the foundation
for a new Chinese exclusion treaty,
which will, it is understood, replace all
existing laws on the subject.
Behumil Schnepp, Bohemian, while
insane, took his two children into the
cellar of their home in Cleveland, O., and
killed them. He then went to the Gem
etery and shot himself at his wife's
grave. He may recover.
So Rresident Roosevelt Monday an
nounced the appointment of Robert J.
Wynne, acting postmaster general, as
postmaster general. How long Mr..
Wynne may continue as postmaster
general has not been determined.
Twenty-nine persons were killed and
60 injured by collision of Missouri Pa
cific trains three miles east of Warrens-
burg, Mo.
D. E. Tuigg, of Chicago went temper
arily insane on a train near Fort Wayne,
Ind, and shot two persons.
Frank De Peyster Hall, member of
several prominent New York clubs shot
and killed himself A suit brought by
him against two other clubmen alleging
SANDER and demanding 100000 dam
ages, was to have come up in court.
Boston vanquished New York on the
baseball field in New York, winning the
American league championship pennant
for the second time.
William Powell, a negro formerly body
servant to Lieut.. Gen. Chaffee, and for
10 years regular soldier, pleaded guilty
at Kansas City, Mo-, 10 wife murder and
was sentenced to Is years in prison.
The October government crop report
suggests a yield of 546,0O0,000 bushels
of wheat, 2,314,000 900 bushels of corn
and 889, 1000 900 bushels of oats.
Lulu Cook, aged Is, and Minnie If
land committed suicide at Buckingham,
hearts Tilted them.
Eight of the nine union teamsters who
were convicted in the superior court at
New Haven, Conn.,, last spring on the
charge Of conspiracy in bringing about
a teamsters' strike, have been sentenced
to three months each in the county jail.
A jury in the Belleville, ILL.,, circuit
court returned verdict finding Nellie
Gardner and Mabel Wright guilty of
completely in the murder of John Dunlap
and fixed their punishment at IA years
each in the penitentiary. The girls are
Is years old.
The late Postmaster General Payne
left an estate estimated in value at $780,
900, of which 100000 is personal and
100000 real estate.
Two Wabash freight trains, west
bound, collided near Chillicothe, Mo-,
and George Runyon. of Moberly, Mo-,
conductor of one of them, was killed.
While attempting to cross the river in
a skin, near Kingston Mines, ILL.,, three
boys were drowned.
Grove Hurlbut, one of the most re-
markable characters in the Berkshires,
is dead at his home in Pittsfeld, Mass
Hurlbut was "a years old. He could
neither read nor write, but amassed a
fortune estimated at 100000 through
shrewd trading.
j. Rather than have his finger amputated
by surgeon, Alvin Schreiter, so years
old, committed suicide in St. Louis by
drinking carbolic acid.
The twin screw, first-class battleship
Georgia, was launched from the ways
of the Bath, Me-, iron works. Miss
Stella Tate, daughter of the late Maj.
William Tate and sister of Congress-
man F. Carter Tate, christened the YES
sci.
The power of federal courts and grand
juries to punish lynchers was empha-
sized by United States Judge Jones in
charging the federal grand jury at
Huntsville, Ala.
Trainmen are held responsible for the
wreck near Warrensburg, Mo-, and will
be prosecuted. The testimony showed
that three were asleep.
Michigan day. was celebrated at the
worlds fair in st. Louis. A parade of
military organizations began the cele-
bration, which was followed by exer-
cises in the Michigan building.
Burglars broke into the post Office
at Wabash, Mimi, dynamited the safe
and obtained nearly $1,000 in stamps
and currency.
The international Sunday rest con-
gress, now in session on the exposition
grounds in st. Louis, ratified a resolu-
ton petitioning the postmaster general
to strictly enforce the law forbidding all
Sunday banking in post offices.
Two life insurance policies aggregat
ing $70O,O have been taken out by Mrs
Charles Netcher, of Chicago, to assure the
completion Of great building project.
One man was killed and four seriously
scalded by the explosion of steam pip,
In Hampden flats, Chicago.
In pistol duel at Junction City, Ky.
between Benjamin Durham, q well-to
do druggist, and John Wright, prom
inent farmer, both parties were fatally
shot