Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-11-06
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The steamer Willie hume, san
Francisco to Everett, in ballast, was
wrecked en- Protection islands, Straits
of Juan de Fuca, recently during a
storm.
Joseph Dangel, president of The
Dollar Savings bank at Akron, Ohio,
was appointed receiver of that insti-
tuition in consequence Of the suicide
of Fred A. Boron, cashier and treas
urer.
In a recent address Senator J. P.
Deliver said that the army canteen
will never be reestablished.
The telegraph operators at Pitts
burg are applying for their former
positions. The Western Union has
full force, but several were taken
back by the Postal.
Driven insane by scandal, Gustav
Lehman, a wealthy merchant of Chi
cago. is believed to have drowned
himself in the Mississippi river.
Judge Brentano of Chicago receiv-
ed a remarkable letter recently from
Richard Walton, the negro slayer of
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, who is I'M
der sentence to be hanged on Deem
Der 10. He confessed.
In a headon collision on the North
ern Electric railroad at Live Oak sta
ton, 80 miles south Of Chico, CAL,
seven persons were injured, two sew
erely.
j. j. Hill is in New York using his
influence to secure between one and
two million dollars in cash for the
purchase of grain.
Notwithstanding the active efforts
of detectives in the district attorneys
Office and the New York police depart
ment, no trace has been found of Ray
mond Hitchcock, the missing actor.
Minneapolis bankers will make for
NAL demand on Secretary Cortelyou
to place several million dollars in the
banks of the northwest to be used
in moving crops.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will not be a
witness when Harry X. Thaw is plac-
ed on trial for the second time, within
three weeks, for killing Stanford
White
For publishing in the College Month
ly, Of which he was the editor. an ar
ticle accusing women students of
forming cigarette smoking club,
David l.. Levy Of the University of
California, was hazed by so under
graduates and compelled to admit
there was no truth in the offending
article.
The dark ages never saw worse con-
ditions than prevail in southern Nor
rfu H%n1n t< thN
who can seize 1t. Holman life is less
than nothing. Free lance cutthroats
fill the towns, and petty chiefs make
travel almost equivalent to suicide.
The Second cavalry at Fort Des
Moines has received orders to pro.
coed to South Dakota, the scene Of the
Ute Indian trouble.
An Austrian electrician Is attempt.
ing to obtain financial support in Ber-
lin from the American colony for an
invention which he says will nullify
wireless messages in war time. The
inventor declares that his apparatus
will make unintelligible all messages
sent within a radius of 700 miles.
Financial troubles in New York,
with their later echo in the west,
have not alarmed the farmers of Ne
braska. For the last decade the farm
ers of this state have disposed of their
crops by contract before they were
harvested, but this year conditions
are changed. During the past week
word came to Lincoln from all Sec
tons of the state that farmers were
building bins to store away corn,