Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-27


offered for the insulting expression Of
Swine" addressed to the reporters
gallery by Herr Groeber, leader Of the
Center party.
The Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago
was practically destroyed by fire.
President Frank W. Lyle and Vice.
President Ira B. Gage, of the closed
City bank of Dowagiac, Mich, were
followed by an angry mob of nearly a
thousand jeering citizens hurting
rocks and other missiles as they drove
from town at gallop in the custody
of police officials on their way to the
county Jail at Cassopolis.
Mounted Customs Inspectors Charles
Logan and Charles Jones mistook
each other for smugglers and killed
each other at Ell Paso, Tex.
Wholesale arrests of foreign labor.
ers on the charge of violation of the
ahen contract law were made at
Clarksburg, w. Va.
The marriage of Miss Violet Pierce
daughter Of H. Clay Pierce of st. Louis
to James A. Deering, a New York law
yer, was announced.
Two hundred Bulgarians, out of en-
ployment, and on the verge Of starva-
ton, petitioned Gov. Buchtel of Colo
RADIO to get them work or ship them
back to Europe.
The New York Democratic state
committee voted in favor of an unin-
structed delegation to the national
convention.
The Davis bank at Hoffman, Okla,
was robbed of 5000 by two men.
Rev. H. E. Zimmerman of Omaha,
Neb., was sentenced at Scranton, Pa,
to six months in prison and fined 800
for sending obscene pictures through
the mails.
Two men were killed and seven
badly hurt when a homeseekers' ex-
cursion train from Kansas and Okla.
homa was wrecked at Pearsall, Tex.
Serious damage was done by the
flood at Pittsburg but the water did
not rise so high as was expected.
Ankodine Ziteso, believed by the pc.
lice to be Russian anarchist, and the
man who once attempted to kill the
car by throwing bomb at the Tsar-
koe-Selo palace near st. Petersburg,
was arrested in Chicago on suspicion.
An investigation into the affairs of
the United Home Protectors fraternity
OF Port Huron, Mich, ended with the
announcement that Supreme Secre-
tary w. L. Wilson is short a sum in
excess of $4,000, and his arrest on
the charge of embezzlement.
At Kattowitz, Prussian Silesia, dur.
ing fire drill in the city school
there was a. stampede among the chill
dren which resulted in ten of the lit
tie ones being trampled by their COM
rades until they were unconscious. No
lives were lost.
The Republican state convention of
Iowa elected four delegates.at-large
to the national convention, instructed
them to vote for William H. Taft, in
dorsed Senator William e. Allison by
vote of 672 1924 to 507 7-24, and ap-
proved the plank of the Ohio platform
calling for revision of the tariff at a
Lieut. Gen. smirnoff was probably
fatally wounded in a duel fought in st.
Petersburg with Lieut.. Gen. Fock
whose bravery he had questioned in a
memorandum on the defense of Port
Arthur
The old warship Monongahela
burned to the waters edge at her
station at Guatanamo bay. No one
was injured.
The plant Of the ]. j. Newman Lum-
Der company at Hattiesburg, Miss,
the largest sawmill in the state, burned
to the ground with 50,O00,000 feet Of
lumber. The loss will approximate
| 100000.
The New Jersey Methodist Episco.
pal conference adopted a resolution
asking the United States senate to
close the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposi.
ton on Sundays.
The emperor of Russia confirmed
the death sentence passed upon Lieut..
Gen. Stoessel, and also the courts rec.
ommendation for Communication of the
sentence to ten years Imprisonment.
Three officials Of the defunct First
National bank Of Ladysmith, Wis,
were indicted for making false reports
to the comptroller Of the currency.
Mayor Busse and other officials of
Chicago received letters threatening
their death by means of pistol that
would shoot poisoned steel points.
About $500 brewery employees in st.
Louis went on strike.
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