Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY Man
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts Of
the Globe-Latest Home and For.
eign Items.
Tornadoes devastated the towns Of
Tyler, Tex, and Mossville, Soso and
Service, Miss, blowing down many
houses and causing a number Of
deaths.
The American feet of 16 battle
ships, under the command of Rear Ad-
miral Evans, passed Valparaiso, Chile.
where it was reviewed by President
Mont and thousands of Chileans, and
continued on its voyage northward for
Callao. Peru, the next stopping place.
The Wisconsin delegation to the ma
tional Democratic convention at Den
yer, Col, was instructed to vote as a
unit for William j. Bryan as the
Democratic nominee for president,
first, last and all the time.
Damage amounting to probably $751;
600 was done, oil paintings of judges
who have presided in Brooklyn in the
last half century were water-soaked
and valuable records narrowly escaped
destruction when fire swept through
the upper part Of the Kings county
courthouse in Brooklyn.
An explosion of a boiler in the base
ment of the public school at Adrian,
Mo-, tore away the floor of the pri-
mary department and sprecipitated
teacher and 60 pupils into the base
ment, burning and scalding many Of
them in a frightful manner.
Prof. w. F. G. Hasson of the Aca-
demic force at the naval academy at
Annapolis is dead.
Seventy-two men, representatives
OF all the classes of labor employed
on the New Orleans river front, and
who compose q union known az the
Dock and Cotton council, were in
dfcted BY the United States grand jury
on the charge Of conspiring to restrain
trade in violation Of the Sherman
antitrust law.
Deputy Chief Charles w. Kruger of
New York lost his life while leading
his men in desperate fight against
flames in Canal street. He fell
through q trap into a water-filled
basement and drowned.
The American ship Emily Reed was
wrecked on the Oregon coast, ten Of
her crew perishing. !
Adolph Stemwetz, paying teller of
the National Bank of Commerce of
Minneapolis, was arrested for an al
legged shortage of $3,45O.
There was an unconfirmed rumor in
Vienna that the shah of Persia had
been assassinated.
The will of Mrs. Rylands, widow of
John Rylands, of the famous Manches-
ter (Eng.) cotton firm, bequeaths
$2,365,00O to various charities, includ-
ing $1,000,O00 to the John Rylands H.
trary at Manchester.
Aa explosion in a coal mine at
Glencoe, Natal, cost 81 lives.
Macon county, Georgia, went dry
by a majority Of 900. Seventy of the
ia counties of Missouri have now
voted for local option.
Following the indicated preference
at a primary vote, the Republican
county convention at Lincoln, Neb,
adopted a resolution declaring for
Theodore Roosevelt for president and
jnstructfng its delegates to the state
convention to work to that end.
DR.. Leo Danziger, a prominent Ger
man physician, was shot and instantly
killed in Cincinnati by Robert Colt,
the uncle Of Anna Bell Stangley, IT,
year-old girl, at whose bedside the
physician was giving medical atten-
ton.
Yves Summerlin and his son Charley
were hanged at Carrollton, Ca. for
the murder of Jethro Jones, q wealthy
farmer.
Women suffragists of London went
to jail for six weeks rather than give
sureties for their good behavior.
Because of interference with plans
for marrying his sister, Henry Bean,
a prosperous young farmer of Prich.
ard, w. Va, was shot through the
head and instantly killed by Virgil
Hatten.
A. c.. Tisdelle of Chicago. who is
charged with accepting deposits after
his private bank had become insolvent
surrendered himself to the police.
New York detectives hunted in vain
for Henry s. Snow, former treasurer
of the New York and New Jersey Tele
phone company, who was indicted by
the grand Jury on a charge of grand
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