Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-28
NEWS Of A WEEK
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MOST IMPORTANT EvENTs cArH.
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notable happenings Prepared for the
Perusal Of the Busy Man-sun,.
mary Of the Latest Home and For.
eign Notes.
Attempts that had been planned
against the lives of exalted personages
were frustrated by St. Petersburg po-
lice by succession of arrests in va
rious parts of the city, aggregating so
men and women.
Former Gov. Pennypacker of Penn
sylvania emphatically denied that
there had been any official attempt to
white wash" the capitol scandal in
the inquiry by former Attorney Gen
eral Carson.
Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel, once known as
1.-THE Hero of Port Arthur" was con-
demned to death by a military court
in st. Petersburg for the surrender of
that fort to the Japanese
George Dixon, a carpenter on the
American collier Abarenda, killed Wal
ter Weichert, chief officer of the col
lier. at San Juan.
The Tri-City State bank closed at
Madison, ILL.,, and the home of a
trusted employee of the institution was
placed under police guard.
By the will of the late Mrs. Amy
Sheldon, filed at Newport, R. l., be-
quest of 100000. to Harvard univer-
sity is made in the codicil.
Without leaving anything to indi-
cate why the act was committed, Col.
Eugene w. Guindon, president of
Fuller's Express company, fired a bull
let into his brain while seated at his
desk in New York city.
An explosion at Pinole, Cal, was re-
ported to have killed "a Cinnamon and
four white men.
John Mitchell, the retiring presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America, may be asked by President
Roosevelt to go to Panama and make
report on labor conditions.
E. H. Hartman won complete con-
troll Of the Illinois Central railroad
when Judge Farlin @. Ball dissolved
the injunction restraining the voting
of 2S6,231 Hartman proxies.
Mohammed ell Torres, the sultan's
former representative for foreign af-
fairs at Tangier, has protested in the
name of Abd-el-Aziz against the Span
ish occupation of Marchica.
The marching of nearly 1000 for
eigners upon the Philadelphia city
hall, where they said they intended
to make demands upon Mayor Rey-
burn for work precipitated a riot in
which 20 persons were injured.
William F. Barrows, aged GO years.
a clerk in the Office of the Indianapo.
lis building inspector committed sui
eide.
The Illinois supreme court has de-
clared that labor unions unfair list"
Is an illegal boycott.
Attorney General Bonaparte has an.
pointed special counsel to prepare
railroad rate law test cases.
Dispatches giving further details of
the fighting in Morocco have been re.
ceived in Paris from Gen. d'Amade.
the French commander-in-chief. He
relates that the French lost four men
killed and ~ men wounded in two en-.
gagements.
With Chicago suffering in the after.
nath of storm which has broken all
records since 1884, traffic was partial.
~ paralyzed and want and destruction
are everywhere.
Senior Gomez has resigned as q
member of the Philippine assembly
1t is believed that he will not be q
power in insular politics in the future
The Illinois supreme court affirmed
the decision in the Cook county crimi
nal court in the Billik murder case.
Senator Asbury G. Latimer of South
Carolina died in Washington of peri
tonitis.
The will of Vernum Lincoln. lust
probated, leaves $500 to provide prizes
for annual old-fashioned spelling
matches at Andover, Mass.
The formal reception of Baron
Takahira, as ambassador Of Japan to
the United States, took place at the
White House.
Three business blocks, hotel and
a livery stable, which comprised the
larger part Of the business section Of
North Woodstock, N. H., were de
: stroyed by fire at an aggregate
damage of approximately 100000.
Investigation into the affairs Of the
American Ice company, promoted and
formerly controlled by Charles w
Morse. was formally begun in New
York.