The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-11
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

John Murphy, a butcher in
Someryille, Mass, packing house be-
came suddenly insane and driving
his fellow-workmen before him, slew
five and wounded four others.
Public Librarian Chas Lummis,
of Los Angeles, has framed an in
tellectual pure food law for library
use, and hereafter will paste poison
labels" in all inaccurate or tainted"
library books.
William Williams, the new United
State commissioner of immigration
at Ellis Island, has issued an official
notice advocating more rigid eXami-
nation of aliens entering the coun-
try at this port
Lewiston, Idaho, is experiencing
the highest water since Is years ago,
when practically one-half of the
business district and much of the
residence section was submerged.
Secretary of Interior Ballinger has
designated an area of 100000 acres
of land in New Mexico and 46,04S
acres in Montana, as coming within
the provisions of the 32O-acre homo
stead law.
Two full grown lions running
through the streets of st. Charles,
Mo-, scattered a carnival crowd in
terror and emptied the big car shops
where they were driven to bay in
the shop yards.
The militia is in complete control
of McCloud, Cal. The strikers have
not offered the slightest resistance
to the soldiers and the light plant is
in operation under strong guard.
A plague of caterpillars has de-
veloped such serious proportions
that the Victoria, B. c., fire depart
ment is engaged with chemical en-
gines in the work of determination.
Reports from southern Texas show
that the first of this seasons wheat
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tracted for at $1.35 and upwards.
At Wilmington, Del, the jury in
the case of A. G. Click, tried for en-
tering upon government property
and soliciting contributions from
federal employees for campaign pur-
poses, returned a verdict of guilty.
Click was fined $500.
Harry X. Thaw must remain in
the state asylum for the criminal in
sane at Matteawan, by decision
rendered by the appellate division of
the supreme court in Brooklyn.
Timber fires are reported from
several parts of western Canada.
Along the Prince Albert branch of
the Canadian Northern railway in
the Saskatchewan river districts the
fire extends 100 miles and 1t is
feared many lives have been lost.
The street car strike in Philadel-
phia has been settled. The men will
receive 22 cents an hour and 10
hours will constitute a days work.
E. r. Moores, superintendent of
the Oregon state blind asylum at
Salem, is in Washington, d. c.,
studying the blind educational meth
cd at Kendall Green.
Albert T. Patrick's application for
a writ of habeas corpus releasing
him from Sing Sing prison, where he
is under life sentence for the murder
of w. NJ. Rice, has been denied by
the supreme court.
Judge Stewart Denning, one Of
the most noted criminal lawyers of
Idaho, died at Moscow last week.
Police authorities at Riverside,
Cal, have arrested Mexican who
has confessed that he is the murder
err of Annie Poltera, 9 years old.
The Russian council has adopted
the marine budget, restoring the ap-
propriation of $1,700,000 rejected
by the Douma. This amount is to
go toward the construction of four
new battleships authorized in 1908.