The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-05-17
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perjury. and was released on bonds.
Shriners at Los Angeles selected st
Paul for the conclave of 1908, the
dates being July 13 to 18.
Gov. MagOon appointed Cuban dele
gates to the second peace conference
at The Hague as follows: Antonio
De Bustamente, Gonzalo De Quescda,
the Cuban minister 70 the United
States, and Manuel Sanguily. Owes.
tes ''errera has been made secretary
to legation.
V hen the trial of William D. Hay.
wood for the murder of former Gov.
Steunenberg opened at Boise. Idaho,
counsel for state and prisoner entered
at once in a businesS-like way upon
the examination of prospective jur-
ors, and kept steadily at the task for
five hours. No juror was finally ac-
cepted, but substantial progress was
made and the indications at the close
of the session were that jury would
be obtained in ten days. The case
| was adjourned three days to obtain a
new panel.
Queen Victoria, of Spain, gave birth
to a son and the entire country re.
joiced. The baby was formally pre-.
sented to the court and diplomats by
the king, who also proclaimed a pub
lie holiday and pardoned thousands
of prisoners.
The newly-born Spanish prince was
named Alfonso Pho Christins Eduardo.
lncendiary fires in Paris destroyed
cartridge factory and metal works,
the loss being about $2,000,000.
Two masked highwaymen held up
station agent of the Chicago MetrOpol-
itan elevated road and escaped with
s12.
Both the strikers and the street car
company in San Francisco refused to
arbitrate their trouble. Experimental
trips showed the cars could not be
run without heavy police guards and
that the police force is inadequate to
supply protection for a real resump.
tion of the service.
Mexico decided not to press to the
point of war her demand on Guate
mala for the extradtion of Gen. Jose
Lima but to show her displeasure by
sending her minister to Salvador,
leaving the legation in charge of
consul.
The heads of the steamship compan
les in New York inclu led in the Inter
national Mercantile Marine company
served notice upon tie striking long
shoremen that unless; the latter re.
turned to work within a week their
places would be filed.
Brig. Gen. Orlando E. Wilcox, U. S.
A., retired, former governor of the
National Soldiers home at Washing
ton, died at Coburg, Ont, aged IS.
The body of Miss Aurora Wittebort,
the artist, who lost her life in the de-
struction by fire of the University
building in Kansas City, was recov'
cred from the ruins.
Nine persons were badly injured
near Edwardsville, ILL.,, by collision
on an interurban electric road.
Harry Cole, suspected Of being one
on the North Coast train robbers, was
killed by Butte policeman as he was
trying to escape from custody, and a
mob tried to lynch another officer who
they thought shot Cole.
Mrs. Michael Pendergast, of Sterl.
( ing, ILL.,, stepped on a match, set fire
to her clothing and burned to death.
w. R. Fulton shot and dangerously
wounded his wife, from whom he had
been separated, in Wichita, Kan. Full
ton was pursued by a crowd and sur.
rounded in a freight yard. After a
battle with revolvers he escaped, but
is believed to have committed suicide.
! Two persons we're killed, two fatal.
ly injured and ten badly hurt when a
train broke through a trestle near
Flemingsburg, KY, and fell so feet
into a creek.
DR.. r. B. Rider was probably fatal.
ly Stabbed in Hot Springs, Ark, by
DR.. A. N. Williams, one of the best
known physicians in the city.
Thomas s. Marshall, cousin of VIII.
liam J. Bryan, and q member of the
Illinois state board of agriculture,
fled a petition in bankruptcy in the
United States court at East st. Louis,
| uAAu6 Ills IIdUDtIIcSf dI $oVV,VVV.
The heaviest creditors are the trus.
tees of the Chicago National bank, of
which John R. Walsh was president
at the time of it's failure. Among his
creditors is w. ]. Bryan, to whom
$4,000 is due.
The Penn-Wyoming Copper COM
panys smelter, tramway terminal and
crushers at Grand Encampment, Wyo.,
we're destroyed by a fire believed to
have been Of incendiary origin. The
loss was over 100000.
Troops and engineers have been
sent to Stromboli to render assistance
to the islanders, whose exodus, due to
the volcanic outbreak, continues,
while many of those who remain are
destitute.
Abraham Hummel, the New York
lawyer who was convicted of conspir-
acy in the Dodge-Morse divorce case,
was sentenced to one year in state
prison and to pay fine of $780,
The Master Builders association of
/ Berlin and it's suburbs decided to lock