The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
PUNCHED PARaGRAP HS
vERBlAGE CAREFULLY AVOIDED
IN THESE ITEMS.

The opera house, three stores, nine
dwellings and three barns in Gallit-
zen, Pa, were burned. The loss will
reach S25O0OC.
Both Norway and Sweden applied
! to the Russian foreign office for rec
ognition of their claim to the owner
ship OF the island of Spitzbergen.
At Lafayette, Tenn, Will Pike of
| Bowling Green, KY, shot and killed
Lon Ray, father of Elsie Ray the girl
he had just married. Father objected
| to the match.
w. p. Dilworth, proprietor Of the
Dilworth Hardware company store at
Oklahoma City, Okla, was shot and
| probably fatally wounded by a man
in an attempt to rob the store. The
robber escaped.
Four men fell 100 feet down the
shaft of the Wind Bow mine, near
Webb City, Mo-, and were instantly
killed The dead: T. A. Miller, 33;
Burt Shumacher, 30; E. A. Allison,
25; Tom Epperson, 20.
IN w Aiiiahi NdllNg DiColuNhl VI
Wabash Qnd) college, died at a
health resort near Hot Springs, Ark.
Plans to form a s2S,OOO,OOO merger
Of Louisiana sugar plantations and
sugar houses were announced at New
Orleans.
John Daniel Debs, father of Eugene
V. Debs, former Socialist candidate
for president, died at Terre Haute,
Ind. He was a native OF Alssce,
France.
Negro press association OF Okla
homa and Indian Territory adopted
resolutions condemning President
Roosevelt for discharging the negro
soldiers.
c. E. Adams, agent at Kayford, w.
Va, was arrested charged with the
robbery of the express once at that
place last Saturday morning. when
over $4,000 was stolen.
Bank at Mendon, o., was entered by
burglars. who blew hole in the wall
of the building with dynamite. They
then blew open the safe but were
frightened away before they reached
the money.
Baltimore G. Ohio Southwestern
granted Cincinnati switchmen In
crease of cents an hour
A memorandum submitted to the
reichstag shows that the imperial debt
amounted to $95O.OOO,O0O Oct. l, 1906
Jules Cambon, French ambassador
at Madrid and formerly ambassador
at Washington, will be transferred to
Vienna.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
Of Ohio and Mrs. Longworth arrived
in Washington from Boston. They
went direct to the White House.
Young Mems Christian Association
building at New Britain, Conn, was
practically destroyed by fire. The loss
will be 100000. The fire started from
the boilers.
Notices OF a restoration OF wages TO
the scale prior to November 1903,
were posted at the Hamilton cotton
mills at Amesburg, Mass. This means
10 per cent increase of present wages.
Goat and sheep raisers of the Sac
TamentO mountains in New Mexico
lost from 60 to so per cent OF their
herds during the recent blizzard.
Mrs. Nellie Munson. bride of three
months, was chloroformed and bound
hand and foot at her home in New
York by a burglar, who escaped with
jewelry and cash.
Annual report Of the military sec
rotary shows that in the year ended
June 80 there were 6,25S desertions,
or IA per cent for every 100 soldiers
in the United States army.
In a collision between a carriage |
and Westerville streetcar near Co !
lumbus, o., Miss Josie Hewitt, 40, OF
Darbyville, o., an evangelist and w. |
G. T. U. worker. was instantly killed. |
By the accidental discharge Of a re-
volver in the hands Of a fellow stu
dent John Ross Fraser Of Geneseo. !
N. Y, was fatally shot through the
abdomen and died at the university |
hospital, Ann Arbor. Mich.
Samuel Gompers was reelected /
pltolucul VI llt american fcQeIdllOu /
of Labor
Mrs Henry Hartman and daughter /
Mary were asphyxiated by gas I'm |
their home at Upper Sandusky, o.
George w. Gable, the novelist, and |
Miss Eva c. Stevenson of Lexington,
KY, We're married at Philadelphia.
]. d. Miller, formerly of Magnetic |
Springs, o., was struck by a passen-
ger train at Palmer Lake, Colo, and |
instantly killed.
Alarming earthquake shocks occur |
red in German New Guinea, the Bis |
marck archipelago, followed by tidal |
waves, causing much loss Of life |
among the natives.
Miss Harriette Hargen of Pontiac, |
Mich, was killed aud 16 other per. |
sons were injured when an electric |
freight car crashed into the rear end |
Of an electric car near Birmingham, |
Mich.
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