The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-20
OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

ate at Hakodate reports that the loss
from the recent coniagration was
s15,O 600, 900. Fifteen thousand houses
burned and 10000 people are homeless.
Madame Emma Eames Story, the
opera singer, is now completely free
from the matrimonial bonds which
bound her to Julian Story, the artist.
The secret marriage of the young
son Of the secretary of the navy to
Mrs. Ouida Vevans, a widow ten years
his senior, at Oakland, Cal, is now
public.
President Roosevelt has announced
! the appointment of August E. Menter
to be collector OF internal revenue in
California; Edward F.. Sweeney to be
superintendent of the mint at San
Francisco, and William Cutter to be
coiner at that mint.
Honolulu boarding house keepers
chartered a ship and sent it loaded
with Japs to British Columbia on spec
ulation. They. had to advance each
Jap $25 in order to land him. The
Japs vanished and the shippers are
out Sic, 900 on the deal.
Commissioner Sargent has ordered
immigration officials to inform resident
Chinese who intend to visit China with
the intention of returning to the Uni
ted States, that immigration officials
will make out thet return certificates
free of charge as a part of their du-
ties.
Roosevelt has given up his. plan to
have Arizona and New Mexico admit
ted to joint statehood. The people
concerned wouldn't stand for it.
The ministers of La Crosse. Wis.
T formed a union and united with the
Z central organization. They were
: dropped because the brewery workers
kicked on them.
} The next national Democratic con
a ~vention may be held in Chicago. 1t Is
said Folk and Johnson are to be candi
q dates if Bryan decides to make race.
e 1t is learned from Manila that samp
n les of Philippine woods, believed to o'
available for making lead pencils, hav'
It been sent to New York to be tested.
/ The Swiss woman who was lost II
the Alps near Loeche-Les-Bain for 2
a DAYS is Nine. Schopfer. She has re
4 covered her senses
Long-term convicts, burglars, Ec
If ward Quinn and Harry Varmon, az
* tailed as nurses in the Joliet priso
IT hospital, escaped recently.
Koyama, the Japanese who assaulte
and wounded Ii Hung Chang at Sh
moneseki in 1895, during Japanes
g. peace negotiations, and who was sci
at fenced to life Imprisonment, has bee
m %pardoned.
he The Ogden tabernacle choir will sin
at the Fifteenth National Irrigatio
Il. congress in Sacramento, Cal.
or The so-called lumber trust is to /
ia the next big corporation to be inve
tigated by the United States depaT
nd ment Of justice.
ne School opened at the Washingtc
of State Normal Wednesday.
i'll The crew of the Hill liner Mime
ota, which arrived in Seattle Saturda
ill fought fire in one of the coal bunke
ne nine days during the u to Seattl
ed Ex-Gov. Durham, of Indiana, CLAIM
on that he was offered a bride of $780,
les to deliver Gov. Taylor to the Ke
en- lucky authorities.
lrt Machinists and other workers in Il
ies railroad shops of the west are rejoi
err ing over news that the nine-hour d'
,ol- is to be tried on several Of the larg
ro- railroad systems.
st. Louis, Mo.-The historic De
for farm of 438 acres outside the city III
has its has changed hands, the consid'
alton being $4,000. The log cab
1 a at one time the home of General
a S. Grant, still stands.
in After wagering that he could cat
the and hold a boar which was roami
lur- about the streets of Richmond, Tex
per recently, Adam Kaulfer, a promine
young man of that place. laid hold
are the animal and was killed.
be Miss Anna Goodyear, granddaught
of Charles Goodyear, is trying to ]
fire a bill through congress which v
was make lashing a punishment for
ems crimes.
lily. George Gould, 65 years old, no re
lied tive of the railroad magnate, died
Gently from starvation and exposu
sing Gould, although he died from star
that ton, was one of New Rochell
Is wealthiest men.
Word from Clinton, ll.,says jus
cent Cochran has decided that Mrs. Isat
la Robinson Warner. stepmother
that Commissioner Warner, is entitled
900 dover rights of the estate of Jc
;, at Warner, the commissioners fatt
She secures a life interest in $685.
II of A million-dollar union stockyard
cali railway companies. The site for
,lay- proposed yard is said to be at c
ged, Point, situated about ten miles W