The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-08-31
news OF The WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Wsek-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.


Gently in Boston.
There is to be an invasion OF this
country next fall by a number OF
English prize fighters.
Spokane, July 4, 5, 8 and z, 1907, Is
the place and date for the great ma
tional meeting of the Baptist Young
Peoples union.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Basil Miles of Pennsylvania as first
secretary of the American embassy at
st. Petersburg.
L. Anthony, postmaster at Ruthven,
La, hanged himself in the postoffice
this morning because of a shortage
Of $135 in his accounts.
The cruiser Marblehead has been
detained at Mare Island navy yard,
where she will be repaired Instead OF
at Puget sound, as at first intended.
Guorday, who sought to force him.
self into prison, is so Ill at a hotel In
Chicago that il is unlikely he VIII
ever see his private ~penitentiary COM
pleted.
Just at present the German emperor
is having all kinds Of trouble with
the newspapers and the newspapers
are having all sorts of trouble with
the German emperor.
The recent discussions on both sides
of the Atlantic on the possibility that
Emperor William may visit the United
States have not been treated seriously
by the German press.
The Gaekwar of Baroda, who has
been travelling through Scotland, says
that he spoke jokingly when he told
the New York reporter that American
women lacked real beauty. Il have
really found American ladies charming
women" said his highness.
Tiflis. - The country mansion OF
Prince Palavandoff at Okonl was set
on fire by peasants last night. The
princess was unable to escape u
was burned to death.
1t is very surprising to learn that
DESPITE the mortality in the Grand
Army of the Republic, the membership
of the organization increased by more
than 5000 during the past six months.
Mexico has decided to prohibit the
importation of arms and ammunition
into the state of Sonora for the pur-
pose of preventing the hostile Indians
in that state from procuring supplies.
Nearly an entire block front of bust
ness buildings in West Fourth street
between Mercer and Greene streets,
New York, were partially burned re-
Gently, causing damage to a dozen
firms exceeding $250,000.
The depositors of the defunct Enter
prise National bank Of Allegheny,
which failed last october, have re-
ceived their first dividend in the shape
of receivers certificates for 20 per
cent Of their deposits.
Twelve armed men held up the
Ivanoff passenger train about ten
miles from Moscow and robbed a rail-
way cashier of $4,000 and escaped to
the forest. Subsequently two Of the
robbers were arrested.
The jury in the case of Doss Gall
braith, the alleged lyncher, who is on
trial at Springfield, Mo-, failed to
agree and Gailbraith was discharged.
The vote stood 10 for acquittal and
two for conviction.
1t is understood that NJ. Edmond
Rostand, NJ. Catulle Mendes and other
leading French poets and dramatists,
are organizing a demonstration against
the refusal of the council of the Le-
gion of Honor to decorate Nine. Sarah
Bernhard.
Piggott, Ark.-Suddenly becoming
insane, Mrs. Frank Polsgrove, wife of
a well known farmer of the st. Fran
els ne~ighborhood. killed her husband
and 4-year-old child and fatally
wounded her other two children, a boy
of 8 and a girl of Z.
1t is said that at least a million
"vacationists" Americans included.
have left London during the last 80
days. OF the million it is safe to
wager that at least 900, 900 are in Scot
land. Perhaps never before in its his
tory have there ever been as MAN.
people on the soil of Scotland as there
are today.
Who would ever imagine that Nine.
Melba, one of the reigning queens Of
song today, once went forth with a
pail of paste in one hand, a huge
paste brush in the other, and a roll of
bills under her arm? Such a thing.
however, actually happened in the
early days of her career, when she was
hungering for opportunities to sing
in public.
The new German submarine boat
which was launched at Kiel the other
day is provided with the Dequevillay
submersion system. This enables the
boat to disappear under water and re.
appear at the surface without dimin.
ishing speed, and renders 1t a matter
of extreme difficulty for an enemy's
artillery to bring their guns to bear
on the attacking submarine.