The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-12-20
NEWS OF The NORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS or THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

In the family lot in Spring Grove
cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, the body
of Mrs. Louisa Taft, widow of Judge
Alphonse Taft, former United States
attorney general, was placed recently.
After January l beer will cost 81
barrel more In New York than it does
now.
At Victoria, B. c., Alfred Francis,
clerk of the st. Francis hotel, com
mitted suicide recently by shooting
himself with a revolver.
A man reported to be William w.
Walker, the absconding treasurer of
the New Britain (Conn.) Savings bank.
has been arrested in the mountains in
Mexico. He stole 100000.
Two highwaymen entered the Bank
of Aldrich, at Aldrich, Mo-, recently,
and at the point of rifles forced Cash
Ter James Vaughn and Vice President
z. f. Toalson to hand them $4,000 in
cash from the safe.
The Olson NJ ahoney Lumber com
pany of San Francisco was the lowest
bidder, at s124,372, for furnishing the
Isthmian canal commission with ap-
proximately 100000 feet Of lumber.
An effort will be made to get the
delegation from Iowa for Cumnins for
president.
Liethon Coleman, Episcopal bishop
of Delaware, is dead.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Otto 5eidel, a
wealthy member Of the city council,
fatally shot himself recently.
patrolman Charles Ford Of Salt
Lake was shot, probably fatally. re-
Gently, by holdups
1t is officially stated that the rumot
to the effect that James Bryce, the
States, is to leave the Washington en-
bassy is absolutely untrue.
Herman Hense, who made silver dol
lars so well that only experts could
distinguish his product from that Of
the mint, was sentenced in New York
to six years at Sing Sing prison and
to pay the government $3.50 in real
money.
c. NJ Colby, a janitor in the Ok,
ford fiat building, Minneapolis, recent
ly killed his wife.
William II. S. Wood, president OF
the Bowery Savings bank, New York,
is dead.
Chihuahua, Mexico.-Acting Gov
ernor Sanchez has committed the
death sentence of DR.. c. H. Harle,
William Mitchell and G. T. Richardson
to 20 years imprisonment.
It is announced that between the
list and the 18th OF January one OF
the railroads in the southwest will lay
! off 1000 men for an indefinite period
| James Smith, brakeman in the
employ Of the Canadian Pacific rail
road, was accidentlly killed by falling
between cars near Cranbrook.
| Five directors of the defunct Mil
waukee Avenue State bank were freet
recently, when Judge Windes held tina
| the statute under which they had bee1
indicted is unconstitutional
The engagement Of Miss Cornell;
Hartman, second daughter OF Mr.. ant
Mrs. E. IT. Hartman, to Robert lily
ngston Gerry, elder sen OF MIR. am
Mrs. Eldridge T. Gerry, is announced
Bordeaux, France, is in utter dari
ness as the result OF a strike OF "a
men and employees Of the electri
light company.
The reichstag has adjourned for tn
Christmas recess. 1t will reopen Ja1
uary s.
: Viscount Aoki, the Japanese an
bassador, who has been summone
: home, is preparing to get away fro1
: Washington by the last OF the mont
: An extra appropriation Of $4,000
! for the trial of Harry K. ThaW hs
2 been made by the New York board
) estimates.
Rutt and Stol, the German tear
: won the six-day bicycle race in Ne
y York. This is the first time in Il
u history of the sport that Germ;
team Has tdptl1 Cu LA AAo1Aoa - VA u
$ struggle. The two leading teams hi
q rode 1912 miles and five laps when t
. race was stopped and the teams wit
drawn for the final mile sprint Of t
leaders. The final score: Rutt a
Stol, 1912 miles S laps; Fogler a
n Moran, 1912 miles laps; Georget a
Is Dupre, 1912 miles i laps; Downing a
Id Downey, 1912 miles laps; Calvin a
l. Wiley, 1912 miles laps. The rece
N is 2733 miles A laps, made by Mil
and Waller in 1899. Last years ms
y, was 1892 miles laps. Urban I
IT. Donald of this city, who was injul
IN in the race on Friday. died tonight
IN the New York hospital, where he Y
co taken.
The French press is interested
"a President Roosevelt's decision that
W would not stand for denomination
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