The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-03-20
INTERESTING FACTS.

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!. INTERESTING FACTS.
Prince Luitpold, regent Of Bavaria.
celebrated his .eighty-seventh birth
day Thursday.
"a memorial profeasorship in honor
OF Carl schurz is to be established at
WISCONSIN university.
The Philippine assembly asks the
American congress to suspend per.
petually the Frye shipping act.
Fraudulent vendors Of eyeglasses
are overrunning New York, and are
being driven there from other states.
Bubonic plague is again growing
worse In A~ntofagasta. China. with 20
new cases.
The British Columbia provincial
natal act, barring Oriental immigra.
tion, has been annulled by the courts,
The game Of football is gaining q
steady toothold in Venezuela, and bids
fair to become popular form ofsout
door amusement. / 5,ss~ u y
/ The German steamship Graf Wal:
dersee brought into New FORK quar-.
antine Saturday q case Of smallpox in
the ssteerage.
Trucks and goods on trucks valued
at $91,105 were stolen in the streets
OF New York during the last nine
months.
Owing to the increasing number Of
automobile accidents ii Paris more
rigid regulations have been made to
govern this tramc.
The scout cruiser Birmingham dur.
ing her speed test made an average
Of 24.32 knots an hour. Her contract
contract called for "a knots,
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~ Plans have been made to introduce
into Northwestern university, near
Chicago. a department Of Fart appre.
ciation," q chair OF; cultivation .oi
good taste"
IN. . ~ 60 ss4, (
Gharlemagne Tower. the American
AMBASSADOR to Berlin, has completed
arrangements for the Arion Maen-
nerchoir Of Brooklyn to- to- ainpg before
William this p N,
~ . $ ." .
model 81. the proposed statue to
General Philip Sheridan which is "a
be 'erected in washington, has been
received and approved BY the sheri-
dan Monument Commission.
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inspection Of the 36o public and 200
private and parochialG school build
In Chicago disclosed that about
so: schools were unsafe. INSTRUCTIONS
were given that changes be made i'm
A. Borisotf, the Russian painter OF
Arctic scenery, left st. Petersburg
for the United States. He
with him EGO paintings and
sketches Of scenes made during his
recent expedition to Nova Zembla.
:
Mrs. Louise Morse, probably the
Oldest active player since the death Of
Mrs. Gilbert has .the distinction OF
one part, that Of Aunt Matil-
da in. 1.-THE Old Homestead" for %
years.
The trust proper is less highly de
veloped in Germany than in America
but in nearly every branch Of indus
try syndicates. agreements and con-
ventions or "kartells," rs they are
termed. are controlling largely the
business situation.
Nine. Games 80 injured her knee IN
the death scene Of IN Trovatore' 9
few days ago in.:New York that she
unable to appear in aida" Fri
DAY night. . " ISL. 7.
Clifford Pinchot. chief forester of
the department Of agriculture, told q
New York audience that there Is II
this country now timber enough for
less than 80 years, and coal enough
to last less than 100! years. !.
II eat humble pie. said Mayor
Of cincinnati. when the
b. Anthony club bore down
upon him for ordering police to forbid
women. from acting, as .chau6eurs.
The obnoxious order was rescinded.
William waldorf. Aston originally