The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-10-31
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Washington Notes.

4e0S9SNSAS
ders to suspend action in the matter
of cutting down the historic trees in
the botanic grounds in Washington
to make a site for the Grant statue
until he has time to investigate.
Porto Rico is endeavoring to secure
representation in the national guard
Of the United States, and to that end
the commissioner of the interior Of
that island has asked the war depart
ment what aid will be given in organ.
tzing q regiment in Porto Rico.
The report of the inland waterways
commission will follow closely the
outlines of President Roosevelt's
speech at Memphis, it is said. The
members Of the commission will as
semble again about Nov. Is in Wash
ington to go over the draft of the re.
port to the president.
President Roosevelt has returned
to the White House from his South
ern trip. The president took no
pains to conceal his delight at getting
home and was markedly cordial in
his greeting to those who had gather.
ed in the train shed to meet him. The
president expressed himself as thor.
oughly pleased with his trip.
Telegraphic advices received at the
public health and marine hospital
service from DR.. White, the medical
officer of that service at Seattle.
WASH, indicate that a fully developed
case of the bubonic plague, and which
proved fatal, has made its appearance
in the Chinese quarters Of that city.
James w. Westcott, brother of Mrs.
katherine Tingley and a widely
known and wealthy gambler, died of
diabetes at his home in New York.
Albert A. Wilson. formerly United
States marshal for the District of Co.
lumbia and a close fiend of Former
President Cleveland, is dead of dia.
betes.
John Temple Graves, editor of the
Atlanta Georgian and News, has &C.
cepted the chief editorship of the New
York American. Col. Graves will az.
sumo his new position about Nov. Is.
A courtship dating from an amateur
theatrical performance last winter
eliminated in Washington in the we'd
ding of Miss Catherine Ridgley,
daughter Of the controller of the cur
rency. to Phelps Brown, son Of the
late Sevellon A. Brown. who was chief
clerk of the department of state.
Grimes.
William c. Cummings, a laborer
aged seventy years, was held up and
robbed Of IL cents at Waterloo, Iowa,
It is alleged, by two Italian tramps.
Angered by the frequency Of his
wife's visits to a dentist prompted c.
Il. Burch of Chicago to kill his wife
and then turn his revolver upon him.
self. Both are dead.
Mrs. Bertha Niederpruden commit.
ted suicide by throwing herself in
front of a trolley car at Detroit. Her
body was wound up in the gear of the
car and dismembered.
Following quarrel over transfer
slip on Polk street car at San Fran.
cisco, Charles Moss was shot and in.
stanty killed and two other passen.
gers wounded by the conductor.
Crazed with drink and jealousy,
William Rainey, young grocer Of
Brunswick, Ca, shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife. He then placed
the revolver to his head and fred, dy.
ting instantly.
Engaged in a fistic encounter at
Marquette, Mich. with a playmate
aged 1burteen. Edmund Leroux, sew.
enteen ye4rs old, suddenly fell to the
ground anh expired. The quarrel orig.
mated In 4 dispute at football game,
An inquesf will be held.
Amassa Campbell, the millionaire
lumberman from Amigo, Wis, slayer
Of DR.. Harris, is in the hospital at
the county jail in Chicago with a
broken le4 Cfhpbell received his in.
1uries in fgN swith his cellmate In
murderersI rdW According to story
tOlu ny nla atbQEney, Campbell, who Is
a most efeml6ary lprisoner, was at
tackled byj his0 celImate because of
some digit a4$nt|
.s| '&{a Happenings.
w. G. ALBRIGHT, twenty years old.
died In Chicago fro1h injuries received
during football game.
A five-story bull ling at 226 Lake
street, Chicago. wad destroyed by fire
The lefs is estimate b at 100000.
aF1veImep were drowned at katalla,
II Az! ska according to information
lfough b1 tive British steamship Sar
q osa:
"6I miners are known to have been
lflled and at least three injured in an
EXPLOSION at the Kimberly mines two
niles east of Jacksonville. Ohio. The
mine employees about $50 miners, but
It is not known just how many were
in the mines at the time of the eyrlo.
sion.
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