The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-12-20
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS Of THE GLOBE
4 Review Of Happenings in sotn
Eastern and Western H~emIsPheres
During the Past Week-NatienaF
Historical, Political and Personh
Events.

of Mrs. Louisa Tart, Woo" VI JU"sS
AIphonso Taft, former United States
attorney general. was placed recently
After January / beer will cost 81 a
barrel more in New York than 1t 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 Comm 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
2. E. Toalson to hand them $4,000 in
cash from the safe.
The Olson-Mahoney Lumber COM
pany of San Francisco was the lowest
bidder, at $124,372, for furnishing the
Isthmian canal commission with ap-
proximately 6,OOO,O 900 feet of lumber.
An effort will be made to get the
delegation from Iowa for Cummins for
president
Liethon Coleman, Episcopal bishop
of Delaware, is dead.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Otto Seidel, 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 rumor
to the effect that James Bryce, the
British ambassador to the United
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 oil
the mint, was sentenced in.New York
to six years at Sing Sing prison and
to pay the government $3.50 in rea-
money.
C. NJ. Colby, a janitor in the OK
ford fat building, Minneapolis, recent
ly killed his wife.
William H. S. Wood, president o.
the Bowery Savings bank, New York
is dead.
chihuahua, Mexico.-Acting Gov
ernor Sanchez has committed the
death sentence of DR.. C. II. Harle
William Mitchell and C. T. Richardson
to 20 years Imprisonment.
1t is announced that between thu
LIST and the 18th of January one o
the railroads in the southwest will la,
off Il, 900 men for an indefinite period
James Smith, a brakeman in tn
employ of the Canadian Pacific raj,
] road, was accidentlly killed by fallin
between cars ear Cranbrook.
Five directors of the defunct Mi
waukee Avenue State bank were free
recently, when Judge Windes held tina
. the statute under which they had bee
: indicted is unconstitutional.
. The engagement of Miss Cornell
d Hartman, second daughter of Mr.. an
d Mrs. E. H. Hartman, to Robert Lii
d ingston Gerry, elder son OF Mr.. an
Mrs. Eldridge T. Gerry, is announce,
Bordeaux, France, is in utter darl
ness as the result of a strike of ga
men and employees of the electr
light company.
The r~eichstag has adjourned for ii
y Christmas recess. 1t will reopen ia
l. uary 8.
Viscount Aoki, the Japanese az
bassador, who has been summone
home, is preparing to get away fro
Washington by the last of the mont
An extra appropriation of $780,
for the trial of Harry X. Thaw h;
been made by the New York board
estimates.
Rutt and Stol, the German teal
won the six-day bicycle race in Ne
York. This is the first time in Il
: history of the sport that a Germ;
team has captured first honors of Il
struggle. The two leading teams hi
= rode 1912 miles and five laps when Il
race was stopped and the teams wit
drawn for the final mile sprint of L
leaders. The final score: Rutt al
Stol, 1912 miles 5 laps; Fogler al
Moran, 1912 miles 5 laps; Georget a
Dupre, 1912 miles 4 laps; Downing al
Downey, 1912 miles 4 laps; Calvin al
Wiley, 1912 miles 4 laps. The reco
is 273S miles 4 laps, made by Mill
and Waller in 1899. Last years ma
was 1892 miles 2 laps. Urban n
Donald of this city, who was injur
in the race on Friday, died tonight
the New York hospital, where he W
taken.
The French press is interested
President Roosevelt's decision that
would not stand for a denomination.