The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-31
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL over
The ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical Political and Personal
Events.
a cOaI shortage looms in Chicag0.

a coal shortage looms il Chicago.
Slough j. Fletcher, millionaire owner
OF the Fletcher National bank OF In.
dIanapOAs, died the 25th.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt
was the man 10 initiate d typical
Yankee Christmas IN King Daudi
LAwag territory Saturday.
At o~paTtausburg, y. e., Miss Myrtle
Hicks, one OF the three women mail
carriers IN the United States, was
fatally injured by a train the 25th.
Christmas brought to New York a
suowstorm, cheering all who delight in
wIutry holidays and gladdening the
heart ot the small boy with his new
sled.
King Edward spent Christmas in the
good, OId-fashioned English way, with
his own family, and as a private eoun-
try gentleman, at Sandringham house,
Norfolk.
The railway labor situation at Chi
cage has been aggravated by a fiat re-
tusal Of the Chicago & Northwestern
TO grant the demands OF the locomotive
Gremen for increased pay.
Mexico now harbors Zelaya, the de-
feated and unpopular ex-president of
Nicaragua, embarked under heavy
guard at Corinto on a gunboat for
a trip to Mexican port Saturday.
Nine persons were crushed and
mangled Christmas when an i~nterurban
car struck the rear end of another
car while rounding a curve two miles
from Mount Pleasant, near Pittsburg.
Made respondent through illness and
the desertion of his "afinity," who
returned to her home and family in
Auburn, N. Y, j. T. Hill, a young liv-
eryman Of Sacramento, ended his own
life.
The first section police of Russian
secret service here arrested two men
and four women charged with being
implicated in a plot to kill Car Mich
olas and the czarina while at Moscow
this week.
Reports from various parts of Spain
about the recent storm state that the
damage is incalculable. Railway com
with Portugal has been cut
off except by one route, which was re-
Gently inaugurated, and 20 villages in
Leon have been inundated.
Reports which have been received at
the British legation in Picking regard
ing the suppression of opium smoking
show that considerable progress has
been made in the northern provinces
md in Knnnon anH KuvorHt,,- ]
Brussels.-The Twentieth Century,
an organ of the government, quotes
an authoritative person" as confirm
ing the religious marriage of King
Leopold on his deathbed. 1t also says
that a few days prior to this, Baroness
Vaughan received holy communion.
Judge Horace IL. Lurton has ten
iered to President Taft his formal res
as judge of the United States
circuit court. This step is preliminary
10 his assuming his place as a justice
Of the United States supreme court in
succession to the late Rufus j.
Peckham.
Berlin.-Owing to the defective
means employed in heating the church
u uelIeesJ IN upper bavaria 80 men
and women and all the school children
in the gallery were rendered uncon-
scious by poisonous gases during the
Henry S. Yamishita, a japanese, and
Maude Lawrence, a pretty white girl
Of Is, were married at Tacoma Satur-
day by Justice Graham. The pair came
San Francisco accompanied by
the brides mother and will return to
that city to make their home.
Rumors that will not down link the
names of Mrs. Alva Willing Astor, di-
yorced wife of Colonel John Jacob
Aston, New York, and Lord Curzon of
kedleston. Another rumor has it that
he beautiful young woman with $1O,
is to marry Captain Ponsonby,
he hero son of the earl of Bessborough.