The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-11-21
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS,
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Mr.. and Mrs William Jennings
Bryan left Lincoln Sunday for trip
to Mexico
Maj, Gen. Frederick D. Grant as
sumed command of the Department
of the Lakes at army headquarters in
Chicago Friday.
Burglars on the night of the 14th
inst. plundered the South Bend, Ind,
postoffice of over $751; in stamps and
escaped.
l The new divorce law, increasing the
period of residence from six months
to one year, was carried November 3rd
in South Dakota, by vote of two to
one, according TO unofficial figures.
Fire early Sunday morning destroyed
the west half of the Nebraska Moline
Plow Company building at Omaha, to-
gether with its contents, large stock
of buggies, wagons and farm machin-
cry. Loss 100000.
Contrary to every expectation. the
voters of Minnehaha county. South
Dakota. returned a majority of TAI
for the new law, which will cripple
the South Dakota divorce industry
centered in that county.
In Chicago an automobile driven by
NJ. F. Wilson ran into a group of small
boys playing football and killed one
OF the players, John Armstrong Pierce.
The boys neck was broken and he was
dead when taken from beneath the ma.
chine.
Ralph Cameron, delegate to Con-
gress from Arizona, has received let
ter from President Roosevelt in which
the President states that he will in
his forthcoming message, recommend
Arizona for statehood and urge Con
gress to take action.
Nine people We're killed and several
others severely injured by collision
on the Union Pacific at Borie, eleven
miles west Of Cheyenne, Wyoming, on
the 11th inst A runaway freight
crashed into the locomotive and ca
boose of work train.
The names of twenty Nebraska
newspaper men holding Western
Union telegraph franks have been
certified up to the attorney general
prosecution under the anti-discrimina-
ton clause of the commission act.
Among the defendants are leaders in
both political parties.
AS result of a great number of
counterfeit $5 bills in circulation in
Chicago, Chief Wilkie of the secret
service, has renewed his efforts to Sc
cure an amendment to the federal
statute which would impose a fine OF
$50 on all national banks failing to
stamp the word counterfeit" on all
spurious bills offered to them.
Robert S. Brookings, president of the
Washington University corporation Of
ST. Louis, has given $25O,OOO toward an
endowment fund of 81 100000, which
the university is seeking to raise. The
general education board has already
subscribed 100000 to the endow-
ment, making a total OF $450,000 in
sight
In the trial at La Porte, Ind, of Ray
Lamphere for the murder of Mrs. Belle
Guinness and her three children, wit
nesses positively identified the female
body found in the ruins of the Guinness
house as that of Mrs. Guinness. Two
rings found on the fingers of the deal
body were declared to have belonged
to Mrs. Guinness.
District Attorney Francis Heney was
shot and dangerously wounded in the
courtroom at San Francisco Friday by
Morris Haas, an ex-convict, whose rec
ord had been exposed by Heney in
order to have Haas name removed
from the jury panel in the Ruef bribery
next day committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head with
revolver which he had concealed in his
clothing. 1t is expected that Heney
will recover.