The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-05-17
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR,
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-.
ters Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the PerusaI of the
Busy Man.

Prepared for the PerusaI Of the
Busy Man.
Thirty-one persons were killed al.
more than a score injured in th'
wreck of special train on the South
ern Pacific at Honda, CAL, bearing
Shriners from Reading, Pa, and Buf
falo, N. Y, and their families. Tht
train was derailed by defective
switch and the cars smashed.
Tree fruit crops in the southwest
we're reported to be practically des
troyed by the late frosts and Other
fruit and berries badly damaged.
Senator Foraker issued a statement
saying that he was making no dea
with anyone, but he would accept the
results of the Ohio Republican conven
ton.
The city jailer of Newport, KY, was
arrested in a raid on crap game anC
was locked up in his own Jail.
Ninety Mexican miners lost thei1
lives in a fire in the Lenares copper
mine at Velardena, in the state OF
Durango.
State Senator Charles H. Hughes, OF
Illinois, died at Excelsior Springs, Mo
He was thrown from his horse recent
ly, and sustained the injury which
caused his death.
Services commemorating the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the inauguration
Of the Salvation Army of st. Louis
were conducted by Commander Eva
Booth.
Mrs. Agner Barlow Houser, wife OF
Daniel NJ Houser, Of St. Louis, presi
dent of the Globe Printing company
publishing the Globe-Democrat, died
from the effect of self-inflicted bullet
wound in the right temple.
Engineer N. B. McGinnis and Fire
man Sullivan were killed in a wreck
of a passenger train on the Southern
Pacific in New Mexico.
Fire in Perry, Ia; destroyed fou1
business buildings, the loss being $685.
00G.
Rev. w. M. p Richards, colored
pastor of Carlisle, KY, was shot and
man and woman, were threatened
with lyncbing.
Unknown persons set off charge
| of some high explosive under the
house of Samuel Cook, a negro, at
Ruston La, blowing the house to
| pieces and killing Cook and four other
| negroes.
Joris Karl Huysmans, the celebrated
author, is dead in Paris. He was born
in 1848
The distillery and grist mill of the
H. Corby company at Belleville, Ont.
were destroyed by fire, originating, it
Is believed from spontaneous combus.
ton. The loss is placed at $250,000.
Mrs. Matte Connally, of Maysville,
Ala, killed her son-in-law, Frank Al
bright, because he went home drunk
and drove out his family.
The extra session of the Missouri
legislature came to an end after the
passage Of II important measures.
The supreme court of Kansas grant.
ed writ to oust Peter Everhardy,
mayor Of Leavenworth, from office
for failure to enforce the laws against
saloons and other resorts.
Thieves stole searchlight weigh.
ing 200 pounds from the top of a
building In Chicago.
The grand jury at Youngstown, o.,
| reported frightfu1 conditions existing
in the Mahoning county inf1rmary
Lieut.. Gov. Sherman, of Illinois,
was appointed by the president as a
member of the Spanish treaty claims
commission.
Elias Hartz. a famous "goosebone"
weather prophet, of Reading, Pa,
whose predictions usually came true,
died at the age Of 90 years.
Edward Kemeys, noted sculptor of
wild animals, died at his home in
Washington.
William Quinn, chief Of police of
Greenville, Miss, Committed suicide.
James r. Palmer, aged 81, who op.
Grated the first bus line in New York
city, was present at the laying of the
first rail of the first railway in the
United States and was once an init.
mate friend of Henry Clay, died in
Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Writs Of custer were ISSUED by the
supreme court Of Kansas against the
Western Union Telegraph company
and the Pullman company for not
complying with the Kansas corpora.
| ton laws.
It was announced in Baltimore that
the Susan B. Anthony memorial fund
of 100000 for the cause of equal sui.
frage had been raised.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis,
Frank Billings. Of Chicago. president.