The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-10
news OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Rumors of the illness Of the pope
are unfounded.
At Louisville, KY, recently Clarence
Sturgeon, 10 years old, was executed
recently.
The old cruiser Marion was burned
to the waters edge at Frisco bay re-
Gently.
A severe earthquake visited Cape
Prince of Wales Sunday, lasting two
minutes.
John H. Croxton, a well known law-
yer, who for many years practiced in
Denver, is dead.
Horace Boies, twice governor of
Iowa, is critically i'll at Providence hos
pl,a4, FL Paso, Texas.
Francis b. Peabody, the senior mem
Der of the banking firm of Peabody,
Houghtaling & Co., Chicago, is dead.
Major Joseph T. Crabbs of the quar-
termaster's department has been
placed on the retired list of the army.
Mrs. Van Ness Roberts, we'll known
in New York society, is dying of an
overdose of strychnine, self admins
tered.
The Rev. Father Dennis Stafford, d
D., pastor of st. Patrick's Roman Cath.
Ole church, in Washington, d. c., is
dead.
In the Elko, New, railroad yards
recently two men were killed, three
injured and IL cars smashed to spin.
ters.
The striking boilermakers in the
northwest shops are said to have bee
notified that the strike has been calle'l
off.
Charles G. Brockett and Mrs. RUBY
Pishsak, wife of a state bank X
liner, committed suicide in Chicago re.
Gently.
William ]. Daley, who with William
N. Byres founded the Rocky Mountain
News in 1859, died recently at his res
idence in Denver.
General Erwin L. Price, son of the
late confederate general, Sterling
Price, and who served under his father
in the civil war, died recently in St
Louis.
Labor conditions in the Panama
canal zone will be investigated by Sec
rotary T. J. Dolan Of the Internationa.
Association of Steam Shovelers and
Dredgemen.
A. C. P. r. freight train was wrecked
recently one mile west of Fernie
Eight cars in the middle of the train
were derailed and piled across the
track. No one was hurt.
The engagement of Miss Katherine
Noble of Baltimore, the heroine of the
Mohegan disaster, in the English chan.
mel, is announced. She will wed Err
nesto Trovi-S imondetti of Mexico.
Judge Garland of the federal court
in South Dakota, has issued a tenn
porary Injunction restraining the
South Dakota railroad commission
from reducing passenger rates from
3 to "a cents a mile.
Policeman Anderson of Portland has
taken into custody a man who gives
the name Of Howard, but who the DO
lice believe to be Joe Sullivan, wanted
in Salt Lake for the murder of Police
man Charles F. Ford in that city on
December ii last.
The Grand Trunk railway has given
up hope, apparently, of securing jar
labor for construction work on it,
lines next summer. Advertisements
are appearing in Amsterdam, Holland
asking for 10000 Hollanders to work
on the Grand Trunk next ummer.
Seven companies of United States
troops under command of Colonel
Reynolds have left Goldfeld. The
troops remaining in camp, about 13s
men, have been divided into two FIJI
companies. Captain William H. Wash
all and Lieutenant Goodwill will be in
command.