Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-21


Lehigh Valley railroad barely escaped
frightful wreck at Easton, Pa. No
one was injured. though every passen,
ger Was in grave danger.
Foreign.
Charles TAFT, mayor of Kingston, ia.
Maica, died as the result of injuries re.
oefved at the time of the earthquake.
Countess Cardigan, who was Lady
Beatrice Jane Craven, fourth daughter
of the second earl Of Craven, is dead
In London.
The last formality in connection
with the organization of the Morocco
State bank has been signed at the
Bank of France.
Maurice Donnal, the dramatist, ant
the Marquis de Segar, the historian,
have been elected to seats in tho
French academy.
Gustav Leeman, an electrician OF
Switzerland, is winner of the 5000
lottery prize of the Milan exposition.
He says he will give up his employ
ment.
Mai. John Harmon, a prominent
member of the American colony at
Guayaquil, and manager of the Quito
Guayaquil railway, died as the result
of stroke of apoplexy.
A CONCESSION has been granted an
American company for the construc-
ton of a railroad in the state Of Chi
chuahua, Mexico, from Madeira to Be-
cera, on the banks of the Vahisps
river.
Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce were
given a farewell audience by King
Edward, when Mr.. Bryce kissed
hands," as the ceremony is termed, on
his appointment to the British embas
sy at Washington.
The ameer Of Afghanistan has been
initiated as Free Mason. Gen. Lord
Kitchener, in command of the troops
in India, was present at the ceremony.
deep oil being advanced Is cents a
barrel and shallow oil S cents.
Domestic.
The 2.cent railroad fare bill has
passed both houses of the Missouri
legislature.
Benny Yanger knocked out Johnny
Morrison in the seventh round at Hot
Springs, Ark.
Over $4,000 in gold has been founo
in the barn of William Boche, a miser
who died at Norfolk, Neb.
The heaviest single advance in oil
ever made by the Standard Oil COM
pany has been announced, amber or
The Idaho senate has passed the bill
for the suppression Of wildcat mining
promotions. 1t now goes to the gov
ernor.
The Hudson Coal company has Sc.
cured control Of every coal producing
mine in the center of the State OF
Wyoming.
Frederick A. Busse, postmaster OF
Chicago, has declared himself can.
didate for the Republican nomination
Tor mayor.
The Michigan beet sugar factories
have closed for the season of 1906-1907.
The total beet sugar output of the
state is about 100000 pounds.
The Kentucky Republican state cen
trail committee has decided to hold the
convention for the nomination of state
officers in Louisville on June 26 next.
Since the first of the year Salt Lake
City has been in the grip of an epidem-
ic of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Since
Jan. there have been twenty.four
deaths.
Confederate veterans who lost a leg
br an arm in the service will now be
able to secure artificial limbs through
a bill which has passed the Arkansas
legislature.
The Texas legislature has passed a
bill providing that a special tax OF
$4,000 be assessed against every ex-
press Office in the state handing ship.
ments of liquor.
All Chinese laundrymen have been
run out of Riverton, Wyo., by CON-
mittee of indignant friends of syndi-
cate of widows who made their living
by taking in washing.
Overworked by the onerous duties
of journal clerk at the Iowa legisla-
ture, Walter G. Watt of Cedar Rapids
has been taken home in precarious
condition, and may be sent to a SAM.
tarium for regeneration.
Overseer Voliva's dream of estab.
fishing a new Zion City in the North
west has been abandoned with the an
nouncement that he has given up q
trip along the Pacific coast planned for
next month.
Sailors from the Tacoma, Whipple
and other American warships clashed
with the police at Santiago. Cuba.
Several OF the sailors were dubbed by
the police American soldiers inter.
vened in time to prevent the affair
from becoming serious.
James H. Barrett of Chicago has
been awarded verdict of $4,000 for
the loss of an eye while employed by
the Chicago Bridge and Iron company.
Gov. Little of Arkansas has signed
the 2.cent railroad fare bill. The law
becomes operative in sixty days.
The last water coming through the
break in the Colorado river has been
shut of after long and hard struggle