The Breckenridge news., 1906-08-01
PUNCHED PARAGRAPHS
VERBlAGE CAREFULLY AVOIDED
IN THIS COLUMN.
important Events, Occurring Both al
Home and Bbroad, Will Be Found
Briefly chronlcled and Duly Ar
ranged In This Column.

Ing a loss Of $750,00O.
Fire destroyed the Washington
Brewing company's plant at Finley
vile, Pa. Loss $4,000.
Sapphire Inn, one of the Toxaway
company's hotels in Western North
Carolina, was destroyed by fire.
Despondent over i'll health, James
Major. cashier of the Carlton (Kansas)
State bank, shot and killed himself in
room of the bank.
An official denial was issued regard
ing the rumor that Major Dreyfus had
been assaulted by brother officer at
the military club in Paris.
At Wynne, Ark, Mrs. H. A. Leap
trot was shot and killed and her hus-
band fatally wounded by three mount
ed men who fred from the front gate.
Hiram Wilson, noted desperate,
while attempting to hod up the United
States mail in western North Caroli-
ma, was shot and killed by Fred Sims,
II, mail carrier.
Two men were killed and one fatal
ly and three others seriously injured
In a Northern Pacific railroad freight
wreck near Valley City, N. ID.
H. G. Holmes, a merchant of West
Union, Adams county, O., engaged In
a pistol duel with Policeman ]. L.
Rossiter of Cincinnati, and was killed.
A cloudburst accompanied by light
ming, destroyed the church of Les Cha
vanues, near Chambery, France. The
lightning melted the bells into a solid
mass.
The Devonian Oil company has
placed an order for Go miles of steel
line pipe and 19 miles of iron pipe,
which will be laid the Indian Ter
ritory.
Edward Church of st. Davids is
dead and James Donnegan of Elm
wood is fatally shot as the result OF
a shooting affray at Edwards Sta
tion, III.
Political discomfort In Persia is
again assuming an acute phase, and
the people are demanding the dismis-
sal Of the grand vizier, the return Of
the mullahs and a condification of the
laws.
Republicans of Alabama have decid-
ed to put a full state ticket in the
field.
Heavy and continued rains are
greatly damaging the growing crops
in the section of Norfolk, Va.
I 4. L.
aid to pusnih the Pulajanes in the
province of Leyte, Philippine Islands.
James Hart, a night watchman at
Portsmouth, o., was bitten on the
hand by a copperhead snake. His con-
dition is critical.
Joseph A. Miller, A, the legislative
agent of the Ohio brewers. is dead in
the Hotel Kaiserhof, Marienbad. Ger.
many.
1t is charged that $2,663, 900 in
stocks and bonds. belonging to the
Marshall Field estate, have been re-
moved from Chicago to New York to
escape local taxation.
The Stromboli volcano. after quiet
ing down, has again become violently
active. The ashes reached Sicily, lava
is pouring out of its crater and the
population of the island of Stromboli
is most excited.
1t is announced that John D.
Rockefeller will return to Cleveland
during the present month.
Much damage to wheat in shock is
reported because of the heavy rains
throughout southern Ohio.
Total amount of bids for Panama |
canal bonds is s445, 100000, or over
fourteen times the amount to be sold.
A dividend OF 20 per cent. to the
creditors of the failed Enterprise Ma
tionsl bank Of Allegheny, Pa, is an
For the fiscal year ending June 30
last the gross income of the South
ern Pacific railroad company amount.
cd to s1OO.OOO.OOO.
The works Of the Singer Sewing
Machine company at. Sonowice and
Bendzin, Russian Poland. have been
destroyed by bombs.
Butler Styes. colored, awaiting cleo
trocution at the Ohio penitentiary,
made murderous assault upon the
guards, but was maced SO severely az
to compel him to cry for mercy.
August Frickenstein. farmer near
ILL.,, was buttea to death
by a muley COW when he attempted
TO take the cows calf away from her.
In Chicago five men were injured,
two of them fatally, when a steel
beam they were hoisting to the Sec
ond floor Of the new building on In.
diana avenue fell on them.
Warren Moody, town attorney of
Shoshsne. Wyo. was shot from am
bush and killed. He was a son of the
late United States Senator Moody OF
South Dakota.
The circuit court at Toledo reversed
Judge Kindade in the contempt pro-
ceedings against the attorneys, Ira
by, Brown and Smith who represented
The ice trust, and they were dismiss
ID.