Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
SUMMARY
OF NEWS
SHORTY CONCISE ITEMS
FROM DISPATCHES.
YEARLY ALL PARTe OF THE
WORLD REPRESENTED
HEREWITH.

In the family lot in Spring Grove
cemetery. Cincinnati. Ohio. the body
Of Mrs. Louisa Taft, widow of Judge
Alphonso Taft. former United States
attorney general. was placed recently
After January / beer will cost 81 q
barrel more in New York than it does
now.
At Victoria. B. c.. Alfred Francis
clerk of the st. Francis hotel. com.
mitted suicide recently by shooting
himself with a revolver.
A man reported to be William W.
Walker. the absconding treasurer OF
the New Britain Comm Savings bank
has been arrested in the mountains in
Mexico. He stole 100000.
Two highwaymen entered the Bank
of Aldrich, at Aldrich, Mo-, recently,
and at the point of rifles forced Cash.
Ter James Vaughn and Vice President
2. E. Toalson to hand them $4,000 in
cash from the safe.
The Olson-Mahoney Lumber com.
pany of San Francisco was the lowest
bidder. at $124,372, for furnishing the
Isthmian canal commission with ap-
proximately 100000 feet of lumber.
An effort will be made to get the
delegation from Iowa for Cummins for
president.
Liethon Coleman, Episcopal bishop
of Delaware, is dead.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Otto Seidel, a
wealthy member of the city council,
fatally shot himself recently.
Patrolman Charles Ford of Salt
Lake was shot. probably fatally, re-
Gently, by holdups.
1t Is officially stated that the rumor
to the effect that James Bryce, the
British ambassador to the United
States, is to leave the Washington en-
bassy is absolutely untrue.
Herman Hense, who made silver dol
lars SO well that only experts could
distinguish his product from that of
the mint. was sentenced in New York
to six years at Sing Sing prison and
to pay the government $3.50 in real
money.
c. M. Colby, a janitor in the Ok
ford fiat building. Minneapolis, recent
ly, killed his wife. ..! ,....-.. i....
William H. s. Wood, president OF
the Bowery Savings bank, New York,
Is dead. 'a 81 f'r4 81.1 ssajsJ
Chihuahua, Mexico.-Acting Gov
ernor Sanchez has committed the
death sentence Of DR.. c. H. Harle,
William Mitchell and c. T. Richardson
to 20 years imprisonment. i.-lu
1t is announced that between the
LIST and the 18th of January one of
the railroads in the southwest will lay
of 1900 men for an indefinite period.
James Smith, . brakeman in the
employ Of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road, was accidentlly killed by falling
between cars near Cranbrook. 4
Five directors Of the defunct Nil.
waukee Avenue State bank were freed
recently. when Judge. Windes held that
the statute under which they had been
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The reichstag has adjourned for the
Christmas recess. 1t will reopen Jan
uary 8. ' ~'' '' tAi'i ~ is ID
2. Viscount Aoki. the Japanese am
bassador. who has been summoned
home, Is preparing to get away from
Washington by the last Of the month.
An extra appropriation OF $4,000
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