The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-07-26
news OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
= Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western HemIspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.


announce the death of Sonora Juan
Quesada, the Cuban Joan Of Arc, at
he age of 20 years.
Judge Lawlor of San Francisco has
postponed until Thursday decision on
the motions to set aside the indict-
ments against Patrick Calhoun, Eu-
gene E. Schmitz, Abe Ruef and others
because the minutes of Judge Ora
hams department have not been
amended to conform with the facts.
Schmitz is not allowed to leave the
county jail.
Fire has destroyed the Southern
Pacific depot and hotel and the Nc
Cloud river exchange depot at Sisson,
Cal, and Miss Laura Sake of New
York, a school teacher, lost her life.
Several others were badly burned,
one, Miss Lizzie Walgamott, a wait
ress at the motel, dangerously.
A divorce has been granted Count
ess Rosslyn, formerly Anna Robin
son, the American chorus girl who
married in 1905.
While Queen Maria of Portugal and
her son, Prince Manuel, we're auto
MODELLING they were stoned by hood
Iums, but not seriously injured.
e. H. Hartman has bought the
home of the late Heber R. Bishop at
SS1 Fifth avenue, paying for it about
300, 900.
The armored cruisers West Vir-
ginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania and
Maryland of Admiral Dayton's Pa
cifc fleet, are expected to start from
Cavite for the United States in 10
days or two weeks.
Professor H. Magnus Olsen, the di-
rector of the Northwest Sangerbund,
which will give the annual northwest
sangerfest in Spokane the last of next
month, is making a tour of the diff
ferent towns of the northwest, proour-
ing singers and giving them an idea
Of the general lines of work to be Ia
ken up for the sangerfest.
The body of Miss Lawley, a nurse,
was found recently on the beach near
Victoria, B. C., and there is every in
dication that a murder has been com
| mitted.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, wife of
| the vice president, was in an auto acct
lent rs miles west of Amsterdam, N.
Y, but escaped without serious in
jury. The loss of a tire ditched the
machine.
The trustees of the Knights of the
Maccabees have decided to o the
Pacific coast medical department
headquarters from Oakland, Cal, to
Salt Lake City, Utah.
The formal notification from the
American government that the French
chambers of commerce had been
placed upon an equal footing with the
German chambers in the matter OF
certificates in relation to the valua.
ton of exports to the United States
has been received with qualification
IN France.
The whole Bohemian justice system
is tied up by a passive resistance
strike of the junior judicial officials.
The strikers are demanding more pay
and quicker promotion.
A rebuff from King Victor Emman'
uel to one of the American immigra-
ton committee visiting Italy studying
immigration conditions is the subject
of much comment in government and
diplomatic and commercial circles.
The great dock at Callao, Peru,
sank recently.
oscar S. Straus, secretary of com.
merce and labor, is visiting in Port.
land.
Sixteen thousand men employed by
the United States Steel corporation
and independent mine owners on the
Vermilion and Mesaba ranges, are on
strike, paralyzing the entire iron ore
industry of the Lake Superior region
The men ask for a general increase.
James F. English, 35 years of age
and pair clerk of the democratic eau.
Gus of the house, died in Washington
D. c., recently as the result of liver
complications.
The plot to capture or kill General
Alfaro, president of Ecuador, was
very cleverly conceived, but it failed
of it's purpose because at the last mo
ment n of the c~onspirators betrayed
it to the government.
General Hagron, who has been CHIEF
in comand of the French army since
the retirement in June, 1906, of Gen
eral Brugere, has now been retired a
his own request.
Clasped in each others arms
George and Herbert Shire, twins, IL
years old, fell into an open sewer IN
Philadelphia and we're swept into the
| Schuylkill river and drowned.
Eight Boston master teamster'
have been sued by a New York con
Germ which makes a business of fur
nishing strikebreakers. 1t is charged
the teamsters have failed to pay tRt
lagreed wage scale.
There is renewed and more pro
nounced criticism by Americans II
London on the way in which p~resenta
! lions in court are made by the Amer