The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
news OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

All harvest work has been suspend
ed throughout the Palouse country.
The Unionists have elected Walter
Guinness to the house of commons from
Bury st. Edmonds, England.
The danger is thought so great at
Fee hat all foreign residents have
been ordered to leave the city.
The bodies of the late President and
Mrs. Mckinley are to repose perma.
nently in especially made bronze cas-
kets.
Charles Murphy, Tammany leader,
says hat Tammany would contribute
$1,000 every week to the striking tele-
graphers.
1t is reported that the French cruis-
er Duchayla has captured a German
vessel loaded with rifles and flying
the Spanish flag.
A California mar has been accused
of stealing 200 bicycles. 1t ought not
to be hard for his lawyer to prove
that he has wheels.
Five persons were ~soffocated by
smoke from a fire in the tenament at
449 Norfolk street, Bonneville, Mass,
recently and two others we're over
come.
1t is reported that the pop has ap-
pointed Rev. DR.. Edward ]. Hanna,
professor of dogmatic theology at st.
Demands seminary, to be coadjutor
at San Francisco.
At. La Crosse, Wis, recently Fred
Kersters, age IL, helped get his four
brothers out of their burning home
and then persisted in the flames be-
fore his mothers eyes.
Lieutenant Colonel Sherwood has
sent out orders offering a reward of
$500 for Bill Miner, the highwayman
who escaped from the British Column
bia p~enitentiary on July %.
The big fire at Cincinnati was put
out after superhuman efforts on the
part of fireman had confined it within
the block. The total loss will be near
ly a million and a half dollars.
The number of employees in the di-
visions of building and construction.
municipal work and engineering on
the Panama canal has been reduced
per cent because the appropriation
is less this year than last.
Montreal, Que, labor unions are to
petition the ottawa and Quebec gov
ernments, requesting that in futnre
all government construction work
throughout the province be given only
to union men at a current rate.
Amzi Smith, aged GA, for many
years In charge Of the document room
at the senate, is dead. He had a re-
markable memory for faces, facts and
the location Of thousands of docu-
The Nebraska railroad commission ]
has ordered the Great Northern to
cease discrimination against Omaha
in favor of Minneapolis in refusing {
cars for loading grain destined for the {
market.
One of the most disastrous hail s
that ever visited North Dakota {
has devastated a strip about rs miles :
long and from n to six miles wide,
destroying n of the finest wheat I
sections recently. 4
In his annual report to the depart Q
of trade and commerce. Lord I
5%trathcona emphasizes the necessity
Canadians striving to steadily i'm v
prove the quality of products sent to t
he British market, as a higher stand e
lrd is demanded every year. f
From the references that are being
made in the press to the National If Is
fgation congress, to be held at Sac v
'amento, September 2 to z, the inter- C
st in this annual event is becoming O
more widespread and the benefits of
irrigation more generally recognized. Y
A courier from Morocco city con- G.
rms the reports that the s~ultan's T
rother was proclaimed sultan on Aug b
st l6 and assumed the throne. The
sultan declares his intention of re
ppointing another brother kalif of re
'ez and then proceeding to take COM m
land of the Moorish forces b~esieging III
asa Blanca tc