The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-09-10

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i, establish an air line through Nashville
connecting the grain fields OF the
northwest with the Atlantic coast
Additional reports from the Monte
rey tMexico) floods show Increased
| loss of life.
The women ticket agents on the
| elevated loop OF Chicago have refused
to accept a raise in wages. Their &C.
ton is said to be without precedent
| in ANIMAL of local labor unions.
The bureau of the census an
nounced that approximately three
thousand temporary clerks would be
appointed in connection with the work
of taking the thirteenth decennial cen.
sus.
| Ormsby McHarg. assistant secretary
of commerce and labor, will retire
| from office September /.
| Several suspected cases OF cnoiera
nave been reported in Rotterdam since
| the discovery of the disease there,
notably among the occupants OF a
barge on board of which a child had
died previously.
| Ambassador David E. Thompson EN-.
phatically denied the report that he
| had purchased the Pan-American rail-
road for $4,000. 600. acting as the
agent for Z. II. Hartman.
Henry Farnam. the English aviator.
| broke all records for distance and
time in the air at Rheims.
Pinning his last hope on his belief
| that he would regain his eyesight III
he bathed in the sea on the feast day
of the Blessed Virgin. Peter Kelly,
| Brooklyn, found that it failed him and,
| concluding that he would never be
| able to see again. committed suicide
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
The cotton manufacturing plant OF
the York Manufacturing company at
| Augusta, Me-, has shut down indefin'
itely in consequence OF wage strike
| If sixty.two weavers.
The Renault car, driven by Charles
Basic, won the Neutrality-suspicious. auto.
mobile race at New York in go-as-you.
/ please fashion The car travelled 1850
! miles. III miles less than the record
made by Robertson and Lescault last
year. bat lie miles more than Its
! nearest rival in this race.
| Thomas A. Wood. newspaper man.
club man and civil war veteran died
in st. Louis. aged "a years. Until his
retirement two years ago he had beer
! business manager for the ST. Louis
/ Globe Democrat for thirty-nine years.
! Sedgwick and Barnes will have frs
and second places for the supreme
! iudgeship In Nebraska. Hamer anc
Fawcett are running close, and the re
suit is uncertain.
President Taft has accepted an In
vitations to visit Mexico on October
with President Diaz of Mexico at L
Paso Cuidad Juarez.
Washington.
The postal deficiency for August
amounted to 100000 as compared
with half that amount for July. Th'
war department used over $4,000 90,
during the last month. while thu
maintenance of the navy called FOL
little more than s10,000,000.
The public debt, less the cash bal
ance in the treasury at the beginning
of business September /. wa,
sl.047.s Eli 900. This does not include
$3.50, Eli 1853 in certificates and treas
ury notes. which is offset by an equa
amount of cash in the treasury. Tn,
recapitulation of the debt show
s913,317.490 in interest bearing debt
2.s14,475 in debt on which interes
has ceased since maturity and $3.50
4i7.144 in debt bearing no interest.
President Taft has refused to cor
sent to pardon w. S. Harlan. former
ly of Iowa. who was convicted of peor
age in Florida. to escape n prison ser
tence. He has committed his sentenc
to six months Imprisonment.
The interior department official
who have been called In By Presiden
Taft to report to him as to their eours
in the Cunningham coal land cases |
Alaska are busy preparing their r,
ports. In the beantime the Pineho
Senator cnmmins' bill to give the II
: terstate commerce commission II
/ creased authority. SO as to enable
] to fix general schedule OF rates fo
the whole country. promises to attra,
much notice next winter.
i A lot of old French junk that ha
+ been accommodating along the line ,
i the Panama canal is about to be sol
/ by the Isthmian canal commission
+ The amount has been yariously estit
i. ated at from $4,000 to 10000 tons.
~ The federal circuit court ut Ct
cago made q ruling in what Is know
!. as the Missouri river rate cases.
}. favors the railroads.
n Authorities at Washington refuse
await a test before continuing seizur
. OF bleached -four.
Z Personal.
Hartman. at his mountain home,
70 said to be improving daily.
% The sickness of Hartman. /. is sal
cannot be cured by an operation al
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