Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-01-23
General News Items.

The dates of the annual convntion
Of the Photographers Association of
America, to be held in Detroit, have
been fixed at July IA, Is, 16 and II.
Charles Hackenschmidt of Iowa de.
feated Ali Manogoff, the Terrible
Turk" in straight falls before large
crowd at the Olympic Athletic club in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Senator William Pinckney White
was elected United States senator to
fill the unexpired portion of the late
Senator Germans term by both
houses Of the Maryland legislature.
j. H. Sellers, an Iron Mountain
fireman, has sued the road in Pulaski
county, Arkansas. for $4,000. 1t is
charged that the engineer blew the
whistle SO loudly that the sound burst
Sellers ear drums and unbalanced his
mind.
Figures for 1906 compiled by the
state department of health of Pennsyl-
vania show the birth rate among the
foreign population was double the per
thousand rate among the native born.
There were more than 1000 more
boys born during the year than girls.
There were 1882 sets of twins and IS
sets Of triplets.
Great alarm has been occasioned in
Eastern Iowa by sudden outbreaks of
spinal meningitis at Wapello and 9th.
err points. DR.. A. c. Moerke and Dr.
E. ]. Wehman Of Burlington were
called to Wapello to consult concern
ing cases there. Every effort is being
made by. the local and state authori.
ties to stamp out the disease.
Judge Windes quashed the indict-
ment against George Williams. form.
er building commissioner in Chicago
The action was entirely ON technical
grounds. The Judge based his decis.
ion on defects in the indictment. The
decision disposes Of the last of the
cases growing out of the Iroquois fire.
Not one of the persons indicted was
convicted.
Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, widow Of
Gen. Custer, vino was killed in the In
dian massacre in the West in 1876, in
tends to erect home for aged literary
women as memorial to her husband.
She has purchased sixteen lots in
Bronxville, Westchester county, New
York, and will erect. the home there,
Mrs. Custer has written several books
and las long been interested in liter
airy women.
The annual convention of the West.
ern Retail Implement and Vehicle
Dealers association held three days
session at Kansas City. Sixteen hun.
dred delegates from the West and
Southwest were present.
The situation caused by scarcity of
teachers in the Chicago public schools
mas reached climax. In seventy.
three rooms, chiefly in elementary
schools, the officials found it impossi.
Die to provide teachers and had to
dismiss the pupils. More than 600
pupls spent the day at their homes
y. III me streets. Altogether moro
'Han lao vacancies We're reported.
r George Ade of Chicago, humorist
j. ana playwright, who owns a farm in
: hentiahd. Ind, whicI, lie calls his real
h nome and who recently declared him.
s sen candidate for delegate from the
:. ie'ieh ihoiara district to the Republic.
an nauonal convention, YESTERDAY an.
n 1lounced his withdrawal. Ado o;,oe
Y as the reason for his action that he
'. has no time for politics
J., state Health Inspector Wilso, WAS
# no'ihed that there were nineteen
d. cases OF smallpox in the state indus
st trial school at Kearney, Neb. He ~
aefea strict quarantine of the schoo,
''s wv inmates. officers and employees