, 1905-11-09
TOLD EW "A FEW WORDS.
Leading Events of ahe Big World Briefly Stated for Busy
Sig Horn County People.

The retiring viceroy, Lord curzon, whose wife is n American girl.
Miss Leighter, of Chicago, has been stricken with fever while making
a farewell tour through India.
A 16yearod CIR. in Denver attempted suicide because her mother
and brothers objected to the company she kept. The police surgeon
arrived in time to save the girls life.
DIR. j. w. Oswald, said to be the victim of ove.work, was stricken
with paralysis while operating IN a patient n a Chicago hospital. Lit
tie hope can be entertained of his recovery.
Mrs. I. N. Potter and Miss Alice Pope. of Helena. had a narrow es-
cape from a terrible death. They were dashed down a fortyfoot preci
pe and severely, though not fatally injured.
There ire a number of cars of steel in the yards at Laramie for
the construction of the Laramie, Hahns Peak and Pacific railroad. This
road will be pushed to completion a rapidly Is possible.
In the Office of the secretary of state, articles of incorporation we're
filed of the Storage Reservoir company of the Bates Hole country and
the Doyle Sheep company, in which Douglas people are interested.
Senior Joaquin walker-Nartinez, the Chilean minister, says his
country will be greatly benefited by the isthmian canal as it will bring
his country and the United States into much closer commercial COM
munication.
twenty feet from where stood his faithful horse. Upon investigation it
was found that his horse had been standing there for five days. Its
supposed that the man died from natural causes.
Eighty thousand dollars worth of stock of the Santa Fe Central rail-
road of which the late cashier, Clark, of the Enterprise National bank
of Pittsburs, vas treasurer is reported missing. Receiver Cunning
Natural gas exploding in the small town of Pine Grove, W. Va,
the fire spreading rapidly until dynamite was escorted to in a N endeavor
to check the flames. No lives lost but the estimated financial loss is a
The board of consulting engineers of the isthmian canal commits
sion, have been holding meetings o discuss reports of the subcommit-
tees formed for the study of the lock canal, the sealevel canal, and
prices for constructing both. They expect to be able to render a de-
cission in four O r five weeks.
An American girl, Miss Katherine Carl, of Memphis, Tenn, while
on a tour through China, received an order to paint the portrait of the
Dowager Empress. Her impressions of this noted woman wereo IF the
most pleasant in spite Of her Observation-Disclosures TO the contrary.
Miss Carl has just returned to her home via London.
Chas. A. Brown OF Green River, Wyo, who was employed as an
engineer on The Union Pacific until March 9th, 1901, has been awarded
$22 900 damages in the district court at Salt Lake against the U. F.
company. Brown va permanently injured in a head-on collision in
1904 and sued the company for 5000 but the Jury found in favor of
him the amount of damages above stated.
The Sheridan County Fair Association, with a capital stock of 3d.,
900, divided into 400 shares at S25 each, has filed articles ofincorporadon
with the secretrry of state at Cheyenne. 1t is the purpose of the IS
ISOLATION, a soon as a adequate water supply is obtained, toconversits
40 acre tract of land into a beautiful park with shrubbery and trees and
erect substantial buildings and a grandstand for the purpose OF holding
an up to-date fair and harvest festival each year.
cambridge, Gar Nov. 3-Wrought up to a high pitch of anger
against negroes by the presentation of Thomas A. DLxonis play, 1.-THE
Clansman," last week, a mob of 300 men stormed the Jail last night,
took out Gus Goodman, a negro who had fatally shot Sheriff Stogal,
and lynched him. The lynchers re- not masked. The feeling against
negroes, never kindly, has been embhtered by the Dixon play, in which
stories of negroes depredations during the reconstruction have been re-
vived, and whites have been wrought up to a high tension.
To separate a newly welded couple, at Mamareneck, N. Y, shree
brothers of the bride, an heiress t o a large fortune, knocked down the
to an asylum for the insane, at Bloomingdale, N. Y. Mr.. Reid, the
fight to the bitter end. On her way to the asylum the bYide attempted
suicide with carboic acid, and succeeded in drinking some before the
bottle could be knocked from her hand, but it is thought the prompt
means used will save her life.
State Auditor Grant and State Superintendent T, r. lyman have
returned to Cheyenne this week from a visit to the state institutions at
Sheridan and Buffalo. Mr.. Grant stated this afternoon that the Soldiers
Home and the hospital are both in nourishing condition and that the
former will. doubtless i n a year or &c, be sell supporting. He gave praise
to Commandment Smith who, with the aid of The veterans, has succeeded
in raising enough vegetables and hay to supply the home for the winter.
The hospital at Sheridan is showing itself to be a long felt want well
supplied and there are patients there from all parts of northern Wyom-
ing.