Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-10-03
Foreign.

The Geological Society Of London
has just celebrated its centennial ami.
yersary.
The estate near Tchurnigov, Russia,
belonging to Princess Dolgoroukova
has been pillaged and burned by arm.
ed bandits, who carried off all the val.
uables.
The newspapers at Lyon. France,
announce that local inventor has
discovered a method of transmitting
electrical energy long distances by
wireless telegraphy.
The armored cruiser Edga,
d'Quinet, of 1880 tons and 10000 in.
dtcated horsepower, giving her an es.
timated speed of twenty-three knots,
was successfully launched at Brest.
Official figures show that France
will reap bountiful harvests this year.
The wheat yield will be 130,377 900
hectoliters. against 114,501 900 last
year; rye will yield 20,642, 900, against
17.77l 900.
Over 1900 British and Irish emf
grants went to the United States and
Canada during the last year, accord.
ing to a London board of trade return.
The total is greater than that of any
year since 1887.
The strike Of the dock laborers at
Antwerp. which has been going ON
since last June, has come to an end
with sweeping victory for the Fed.
Grafton of Ship Owners. The men de.
ctded to return to work unconditional,
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The sultan Of Turkey has ordered
the exemption Of the import duty on
wheat. This step is in accordance
with the recommendations made by
commission which has been study.
ing the best means of supplying the
capital with the necessarnnies of life
The municipality of Berlin is nepo.
tiating the purchase of huge forest
IN the Spree district, east of the citv
from the state forestry board. The
purchase price is $1OO0O,OO0. The
purpose OF the acquisition is to estab.
asn q new municipal waterworks and
make 1t the peoples park.
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Fire at Attica, N. Y, DESTROYED the
Wesley planning mills and luml,a,
yards and the West Avenue fou,
mills. LOSS. $4,000.
Nose Dossett, negro, was lynchef
At Pritchard Station, Ala, for an at
tempted assault upon Mrs. ]. Breedar
q white woman, ninety years old.
Oscar Kondert, formerly cashier O
the First National bank at Bato,
Rouge. La, is missing. United State,
officers are searching for him with
warrant. charging him with a defalca
ton of 100000.
In desperate fight for freedom
William E. Burch Of Glendale. Ohio.
federal prisoner en- route to Cincinnati
In custody of Deputy Marshal Sander
son, plunged head foremost from :
fast-hytng train near Dayton. His necl
was broken and death was instantane
GUS.
District Attorney Covell applied ir
the United States district court =,
Grand Rapids. Mich, for a writ of ha
beas corpus in the case of Private CIV
rus Gillett, United States army. chare
ed at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, will
granddaughter after being acquitted b,
military court-martial.
DR.. H. L. Getz. former presi
dent Of the International Associa
ton Of Railway Surgeons and cit,
physician Of Marshalltown, Iowa. at
tempted suicide at the railway static,
at West Liberty by stabbing himsel
over the heart. 1t is feared he will
die. He is believed to be insane. H,
has been out Of an asylum about /;
year.
Frank J. Constantine was foun.
guilty Of the murder of Mrs. Arthur
Gentry by a jury in Judge Kavanagh',
court in Chicago. His punishment
was fixed at imprisonment in the peni
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