The Socorro chieftain., 1906-03-03
Condensed and Classified from Press
Dispatches for the Benefit Of
Busy Readers,
FOREIGN. NATIONAL, TERRITORIAL
Such Things as Every Intelligent
Citizen New Mexi Ought
to Know.
The Chieftain presents the news
of the week condensed and classi-
fed as follows:

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of the week condensed and classi-
fed as follows:
FOREIGN.
The Chinese government has
instructed the governor of Nam
chang to punish severely all who
took part in the massacre of the
six French Jesuit missionaries
and four British subjects Mon
day.
The French court is soon to
fix date for the hearing of the
divorce suit brought by the
Countess Boni de Castellane.
II is suggested that Russia
may use her good influences with
Germany to avert trouble be-
tween the latter country and
France over the Moroccan Situa-
ton.
Queen Dowager Magahrite of
Italy conte mplates touring the
United States in an automobile.
The first meeting of the Rus
sian national assembly will occur
May 10.
Now that Count Boni de Cas-
tellane is about to lose his wife
and his credit, his creditors are
levying upon even the household
goods.
Because of the famine in north
ern Japan $50, 200 persons out of
population of 2,S21, 200 are on
the verge of starvation.
NATIONAL.
Wednesdays dispatches said
that Ex-Delegate Rodey was
pressing an amendment to the
Hamilton joint statehood bill for
the purpose of making Phoenix
the capital of the proposed state
of Arizona; also, that Delegate
Andrews is fighting the scheme.
The statehood bill is schedul-
ed to come to vote in the sem
ate March q.
The Missouri custer proceed
ings against the Standard Oil
company have been resumed.
The trial of the miners arrest
ed on the charge of assassinat-
ing the late Governor Steunen-
berg of Idaho is now in progress.
1t is reported that one of the
miners has made confessions inn
plicating the Western Fedora
tion of Miners.
A system of interlacing cleo
trio lines is projected to cover all
northern Illinois and Indiana.
The system will center at Chi
cago and is capitalized for $780,
900, 900.
The case against the packers
is still in progress in Chicago.
In Difference to the wishes of
President Roosevelt, a general
conference of all coal mine oper-
ators has been called to meet in
indianapolis March 10. II is
hoped to avert the threatened
general strike.
The Boston wool market con-
tinues active and firm.
The bill TO prohibit gaming in
the territories is now before the
senate.
Trolley cars were stuck in
snow drifts in the suburbs of st.
Louis Saturday.
Ex-Speaker Henderson died at
his home in Dubuque Sunday.
Johann Hoch, the notorious
wife murderer and bigamist, was
hanged on Friday of last week
No cemetery would receive the
body and il was buried in the
potter's field.
The DOlliver-Hepburn bill de-
signed to empower the interstate
commerce commission to fix max
imum railroad rates is now under
consideration in the senate. The
railroad interests are trying to
amend the bill so that the rates
fixed by the commission shall be
subject to the approval of the
courts before becoming effective.
TERRITORIAL.
The supreme court is in ses-
sion.
A. G. Spalding, the well
known sporting goods man of
Chicago, will build dam on the
Mimbres river to reclaim l00,O ZOO
acres of land.
John Conley. hanged at Taos
Monday for a double murder,
was violent to the end. He cut