The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHOUT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
psvi.w of Happenings in Both
..s..rn and Western HemisPheres
a..,,o the Past Week-National,
historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Another attempt on the life Of Ad-
u,iral Dubassof, ex-governor general
. MOSCOW, Russia, was made Saturday
o,tornoon, but be escaped with slight
injuries. -. al ~.
.on mills in Lowell, Mass, or a nye
nor cent increase in wages to go into
pToct on Monday. About $1,000 opera
tives are affected.
MEMBERS Of the house and senate
80 been denied more salary by a
vote Of 1873 to loo. but house speaker
ond vice president will draw $4,000
roarlv. also cabinet members.
Governor Magoon of Cuba has issued
decree directing all rural ~guardsmen
10 he especially vigilant in arrestlng
al nersons bearing arms without IL
cense. Another gubernatorial decree
Drovides for the expenditure OF $685.
0OO for sanitation in various towns
throughout the island.
Ct Louis, Dec. 15.-Adolphus Busch,
,be multimillionaire brewer, says he Is
~ sovor of an income tax law.
Six more theaters will be added to
tho Sullivan and C%onsidine circuit of
1be vaudeville ~playhouses within a
year. ~
An unidentified newsboy was killed
recently in the gallery of the Majestic
theater. Chicago, for a~pplauding a
player on the stage with whom George
nunraven. another spectator, was dis
rla,sed Dunrayen tried to hit the boy
with an umbrella. The point of the
umbrella penetrated the boys brain
through his left eye. Dunraven was ar
rested.
representative Jones has introduced
a hill providing that after July 1, 1907,
the salary of each and every civil ser
vice employe of the government shall
lie increased twenty per cent.
q The condition of Bishop McCabe,
suffering from apoplexy. Is slightly I'M
proved. ., 49,.
Two thousand machinists employed
in Denver shops, will receive an ad-
vance in wages January 1 ranging
from 5 to Is per cent. ,.,
The Standard Oil company an
nounces that it will advance the wages
of all its employees now receiving less
than 500 a month by 10 per cent, be-
ginning January 1.
The interstate commerce commits
sion will investigate into the shortage
of cars in hearings which begin at
Minneapolis December II and extend
to Kansas City, st. Louis and Chi
cago.
Flora C. Adams has obtained a dt-
vorce in Seattle on a cross complaint
from Henry Austin Adams, better
known as Vincent Harper, author and
magazine contributor.
On the recommendation Of the gen.
eral staff the secretary of war has or
dered the trial by courtmartial OF Ma
jor Macklin of Company c, First bat
talon of the Twenty-hfth infantry, I'M
der the 62d article of war for con
duct to the prejudice of good oruer and
discipline" in failing in their duties in
preventing and s%uppressing the riot by
negro soldiers at BrownsvnIe, Texas,
last August.
Simplifed spelling has received a
final quietus in the house Of congress.
The Indian appropriation bill for
1908, carrying about $8,000,000, has
been agreed upon by the house com
mittee on Indian affairs. The appro'
priatioR for the Indians for 1907 was
S,4O5,O00. The estimates submitted
by the bureau of Indian affairs for
lseS aggregated s7,970,O00.
Representative Roberts of Massa'
chusetts introduced a bill making the
noncommissioned officers and enlisted
men Of companies B, c and ID, 10Th In
tantry, the negroes discharged from
the service by the presidents order
eligible for reenlistment in the military
or naval service. The bill is intended
to restole to these men all the rights
lost under the order of discharge.
Ex-Mayor w. W. Rose of Kansas
city, Kan, has sent to the clerk of the
Kansas supreme court a check fol
Slb62 to pay his fine and all costs In
the contempt case decided against him
Robbers looted the safe in the banE
at Lincoln, Ark, recently, getting away
with $500, all it contained.
The Utah federation of labor has
resolved to circulate a petition to con
gress asking the creation of posta
savings banks. The move is said to be
under the auspices Of the American
recreation Of Labor, with which the
Utah federation is afnliated.