Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-28

speaker CANNON WAS S00Or0o0- o.
unanimous vote for the Republican
nomination for president ct the meet
ing Of the Illinois Republican state
central committee IN Springfield. The
resolution of Endorsement also praised
President Roosevelt.
Private BENJAMIN @. Steenerson Of
the marine corps. who was drowned
in Narragansett bay, lost his life In
trying to save his comrade, John M
Mcintosh. from death in the water,
according to the naval board which in.
vestigated the case.
Former Gov. Pennypacker took the
stand in the Pennsylvania state cap
itol graft case as witness for former
Auditor General Snyder, former State
Treasurer Mathues, and former Su.
perintendent Shumaker, Pennypack-
er's colleagues on the board Of grounds
and buildings during the equipment
Of the capitol.
Gen. Tung Fuh Slang, the leader Of
the Boxers in the uprising In 1900. is
dead. He had been banished to
Kan Su.
Rev. w. g. Whitaker of Exeter, Neb..
accused of using the mails to defraud.
was bound to the federal grand jury in
the sum Of $500 at Springfield, o.
The president Of the republic Of
Brazil, to commemorate the visit Of
the Atlantic fleet to the city of Rio
Janeiro, signed a decree authorizing
the continuation Of rebates on tariff
charges on articles Of American mer.
chandise during the fiscal year of
1908.
All but one Of the % men and boys
who were entombed in the VALLEY
colliery were rescued. Frank Orloskie
fell down a chute after the accident
and was killed.
The court Of appeals of New York
decided that Chester Gillette Of Cort-
land must die in the electric chair for
the murder of his sweetheart, Grace
Brown Of South Otselic, Chenango
county, at Big Moose lake in the AID.
irondacks on July II, 1906.
The West Point (Ia.) bank closed
its doors. It is owned by Riley Smith
Of Colusa, Ill.
Out of a total of $14,750,000 that
will be paid in dividends by the
Standard Oil company at the rate Of
SIS share on March IA next. John
d. Rockefeller, who owns rs per cent.
Of all the stock, will get $3,750,00o,
bringing up the total of his returns
from Standard stock for the six
months to $e.250.0O0.
F. L. Smith, the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas brakeman on the Ell Dorado
train, which was robbed of a package
containing $4,000, confessed to the
robbery and gave up the money.
George Chester Of West Livingston.
N. j., dreamed three times of seeing
his wife's lost wedding ring under
stone and then went out and found It
at the spot indicated.
A general strike Of marble cutters
all over New England is threatened.
because Of the employers refusal Of
an increase Of wages and Saturday
half-holiday.
Reports have been received at
Tififs from Armenia that all the
Turkish army reserve forces In Van,
Mush and the other vilayets Of Asia
Minor have been called to the colors
and are proceeding rapidly for the
frontier. In st. Petersburg the reports
of impending war are taken seriously.
The jury in the Smell 100000 will
case at Clinton, ILL.,, was discharged
by Judge Cochrane, being unable to
reach verdict.
James p. Hayes, agent of the
Traders Dispatch in Kansas City, Mo-,
and John O'Donnell, a well-known
cigar dealer, were shot and seriously
wounded by ]. D. Cosby, proprietor Of
the Cosby hotel, in the Office Of the
hotel because they assaulted his clerk.
A roundhouse worker, name un-
known, was found dead, his head
crushed in water tank at Harvard,
Ill. He had been robbed of his pay
check.
Mr.. Madden Of Illinois introduced a
bill in congress appropriating 100000
to be paid to the Lincoln Farm asso.
citation to build on the Lincoln birth
place farm in Kentucky a national
patriotic shrine which shall consist of
memorial hall, costing not more than
$250.000, Of which sum $4,000 shall
be paid by the association.
Heavy snowfalls and high winds
throughout the states Of the middle
west partly tied up rail traffic and
caused serious interruption of bust.
ness. In southern Indiana there was
great suffering due to the foods.
1t has developed that r. Fred An.
derson, who committed suicide at
Cobalt Ont WA tho ahsnon ding trans.