Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-04
SUMMARY
OF NEWS
SHORT CONCISE ITEMS
FROM DISPATCHES.
NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE
WORLD REPRESENTED
HEREWITH.

Seven business blocks in the center
of Cody, Wyo., were destroyed recent.
ly by fire. The loss is estimated at
$35, 900.
At Beattyville, B. Fulton French, &C.
cused of completely in the assassina.
ton of James B. Marcum, has been
acquitted.
The slight activity of Mount Vesu-
vius continues.
Senator ]. B. Foraker made it clear.
ly known that he will contest the Ohio
delegation to the republican national
convention with Mr.. Taft.
Florence Nightingale has been deco.
rated with the Order of Merit by Ming
Edward. She Is the first woman to
receive this distinction, which. up to
the present time, has been bestowed
only upon 10 men.
Professor Nicholson of the Univer-
sity of Chicago Is to be awarded the
Nobel prize for physics. DR.. Nicholson
is the discoverer of a new method of
determining the velocity Of light.
1t is said the financial question will
receive first consideration in congress.
Five factory employees were killed
at Waterbury, Conn.,, when a freight
train crashed into a trolley car con-
tanning rs passengers. bound for the
pin factories in Oakville.
A fire which started from the over
turning Of a lamp in a barber shop
recently destroyed three-fourths of the
town Of Granite, a small town east of
Leadville, Cole.
Mrs. Louisa Taft, mother of the Sec
rotary Of war, is quite Ill.
Wong Leung, the Hop Sing Tong
highlander, was shot nine times in
the pistol battle between Oakland,
Calf, police and Chinese tong men.
assisted by white gun fighters.
Operations will be resumed within
week at practically all the Holyoke
paper mills, which were closed re.
Gently.
BY the arrest and sentence Of B. A..
Belisle, Fernie, B. c., officers believe
they have captured one of the shrewd-
est tin horn" gamblers that ever oper.
ated in the northwest.
Chicago's new nickel-in-theslot
street cars have been tried, and, &C.
cording to the public, have been found
wanting.
Mrs. Max Roseman of New York
city recently presented her husband
with triplets, weighing total Of Is
pounds.
Joseph z. Smith resisted Oncer
John M. Lyon at Salt Lake City and
was shot and killed. Smith had
knocked the officer down and was beat
ing him when the latter fired.
Habeas corpus proceedings failed to
release Harry Kleinschmidt. accused
murderer of Frank Bellows. and the
student had to go back to Jail in Oak
land, Calf.
Sheriff Bartell of Boulder county,
Colo, arrived in Spokane recently to
take back to Longmount, Colo, Elmer
Bratt, who had stole $4,000 worth of
jewelry there.
At Des Moines, in fit of jealous
rage. Ray Howard, soldier, fired a
shot at Mabel Dair last night. The
bullet went wild and killed her sister,
Mrs. Martha Pickering.
Poisoning by arsenic caused the
death of Arthur Baker, young man,
who is reported to have been wealthy,
at Bogota, N. J.
1t is reported Americans who are
now living in Japan are making every
effort to leave the country without
jeopardizing their interests.
Congressman George w. Smith died
at his home in Murphysboro, ILL.,, re-
Gently.
Robbers recently dynamited the safe
of the New Franklin (Mo.) bank, ram
sacked the vaults and escaped with
$4,000 in coin and currency.
At Elmhurst, ILL.,, John Holman, a
machinist, Saturday shot and killed his
wife and then fatally wounded himself
David Rankin, Jr., capitalist and
philanthropist, has decided to the
David B. Rankin Jr. School of Me-
chanical Trades titles to real estate
in st. Louis and railroad stock valued
at more than 100000.
w. H. Mcvay, prominent citizen
Of Yankton. 8. D., is dead.
DR.. George Shrady, the noted physi-
clan and surgeon of New York, is
dead.