The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-07-04
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Personal.

Personal.
w. r. Spears, a widely known I'M,
dertaker, who had charge of the burial
of President Garfield and other nota.
BILE persons, died in that city, aged
sixty years.
Alfred Moves. the English poet. is
to marry Miss Garnet Wendell
Holmes. kinswoman of Oliver Wen.
dell Holmes. 1t is expected that the
wedding will take place next month.
Parry L. Wright. vice president and
general manager of the LuNfer Prism
company. died at the Homewocd
Country club, near Chicago. following
collapse on the golf course of the
club.
William S. Skunk died at his home
near Harrisburg, Pa. He was one of
the foremost engineers of the country
AID was formerly in charge Of large
operations of the Pennsylvania rail.
road.
Gen. William Duffield, for a number
of years superintendent of the United
States coast and geodetic survey, and
said to be the oldest living graduate
of Columbia university, is dead in
Washington.
Capt. w. ]. Downs, who laid out the
Miami and Erie canal, helped with the
construction of the St. Mary's reser.
voir, and surveyed the Panhandle road
between Pittsburg and Chicago, died
at Black River Falls, Wis, aged nine
ty-one.
Lieut.. Julius Van Demmer of the
German army, heir to $14,OOO,000 es.
tocracy, has joined the United States
army at Fort Leavenworth, where he
has been assigned to the Third bat
talon Of engineers.
Foreign.
The Russo. Chinese bank at Vladi.
vostok paid out $4,000 on forged
check. The man to whom payment
was made escaped.
A revolutionist dressed as an officer
of the Frontier guards drew $4,000
from the Russo. Chinese bank at Har.
bin on forged check and decamped.
Gov. Gen. Smith has returned to Ma.
Mia from months tour of inspection
of northern provinces. He declares
that Pulajanism is ended on the Isl.
ands of Samar and Leyte.
In fierce fight between the con.
stabulary and Moros in the Lake
Lanao district several of the constab.
ulary and many Moros were killed.
Detailed information is suppressed.
A dispatch from Odessa says it is
authoritatively reported that sixty Of
ficers of the Southern military district,
several of them connected with the
Odessa garrison, have been arrested.
Richard Croker has made record
in racing history. He won the Irish
Derby with Orby, which won the Eng
fish Derby of 1907. This is the first
time that these two great classics have
been won by the same horse.
An automobile in which the Ameri.
can, John Ryan, and his wife and three
other persons were riding, was ditch.
ed in trying to avoid cart at Deppe,
France. Mrs. Ryan was killed and the
others received serious injuries.
Public excitement at Toxic over the
American question has almost passed
away, but the agitation continues. 1t
is mostly the work of politicians of
the opposition, who are employing the
question as weapon of attack on the
ministry.
The Danish rigsdag has voted $45..
600 for the purchase of reproductions
of works by Danish artists, to be hung
in the waiting rooms of railway sta.
lions all over the country The object
is to increase the knowledge of art
and Danish artists among all classes
of the nation.
The Swedish government has Just
paid the city of Lubbock debt of So.
600 Rhenish forms, charged for army
provisions supplied in 1913, when the
war was in progress. A treaty signed
in 1852 postponed the payment of the
debt during the life Of the treaty,
which ended this year.
A plot to steal $50,0O0,O0O from the
Russian government Office at Tschita,
where the money was kept for enter.
prises in Siberia, has been discovered
and thirty Russians arrested. They
had made tunnel 100 yards long from
the hotel to the safe, and when the
plot was ripe it was disclosed, almos,
I'll the plotters being captured.
Casualty.
Thirteen persons were killed in q
balloon accident near Debreczin
Hungary.
The tug Constance. carrying Capt
Nielsen and crew of six men, all O,
New Westminster, B. c.. has been los,
with all on board at Rivers Inlet, 800
miles up the coast.
Gus Hammer 01o Do%arson = Loaf.