The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-03-24

Forty-seven arrests were made in
in connection with the suffrage
demonstrations.
The early OF Dudley has been ap..
governor-general of the com
monwealth Of Australia, in succession
to Sir Henry Stafford Northcote.
The Jefferson City (Mo.) ordinance
lodnging on street cor
ners has been declared unconstitu-s
by the state supreme court.
William Nelms, aged 80 years. who
claimed to be the last survivor Of the
noble Six Hundred'' at Balaklava. is
dead, near La lara. Colo. ]
Representative Samuel Walker Nc.
Call, one Of the most active members
Of the lower house from Hassachu.
setts, was born in Pennsylvania and
educated In New Hampshire.
Jacob A. Riis and other kind-heartedi
citizens Of New York are planning to
send Wigge Peterson, a Danish car
penter who broke his back in, a fall,
last year, across the ocean to his
home.
An informal tender Of the position
Of dramatic art director Of the New
theater. New York. founded to develop
drama, has been made to
Barker, the English theatri-
cal manager.
Scott Cummins is the poet laureate
Of Oklahoma. He has been q soldier,
scout. frontiersman and pioneer set
tier in western Kansas and in. Okla
homa, He, lives at Winchester, and
he looks like an Indian.
Building q pipe organ OF the ordi-
nary church size and installing 1t in
his fathers home is the accomplish
ment Of William Barnes, 15-year-old
son Of Charles o. Barnes. in Chicago.
The building took three years.
Struggling for eight hours through
a mile Of Ice cakes Charles Snyder,
Edward Sprigg and Robert Jervis OF
whitehall, near Chicago, risked their
lives to save a collie dog marooned
for three days in Lake Michigan, of
Write Lake Harbor.
Owing to the discovery Of a case OF
smallpox on the cruiser Brooklyn at
the League Island navy yard all EN-
.ployes at the yard, and every member
OF the crew, together with the officers,
numbering in all about 1000 persons,
will have to be vaccinated.
The roaring well" on the Charles
Lathers farm, near Beloit, Wis, which
preceded the San Francisco disaster
ID again emitting ominous rumblnie
noises and a strong wind from its
cavernous depths, and residents o.
Rock county fear another catastrophe
somewhere,
The increasing popularity Of thu
self-playing plano has induced inven
tors to extend this style of music t.
other instruments. The most recen,
is an automatic sheet music corne
patented by Q Chicago man. Lik'
the piano player. the music is on
perforated roll.
The attempt to convert Brandywin'
creek, Ind, into . ditch, thus destroy
ing the identity Of "The Old swimmin
Hole" which James Whitcomb Rile;
made famous II. . poem. was defeate'
yesterday by . decision Of the indiana
supreme court.
Miss Wflhelmina Crawford. 30 year
old. adopted recently IN the superio
court at Lowell, Mass, as her soz
James Butter, who il IS. Miss Crav
ford says that Buffers parents die
when he was q boy. He was brougt
up in her fathers family, and she g
to entertain a motherly feeling e
him.
An agricultural college on wheel
with railroad cars as class rooms, an
professors Of the Ohio College {
Agriculture as teachers, is the late'
project Of the Pennsylvania railroa'
The college will be opened Friday
the Farmers Corn and Alfalfa sp
cial." It viii start from Lancaste
Ohio, and will run through to Mo
row. It will stop at various station
where platform lectures Will I
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