The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-04-23
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rate the Europe American Navigation
society. which proposes to promote
the flights of dirigible balloons across
the Atlantic ocean.
A petition to Theodore Roosevelt
that he change his mind and not XIII
defenseless wild animals In Africa
was signed by 753 Des Moines school
children. 1t will be forwarded to
him.
Mrs. August Crap Of st. Ansgar died
from appendicitis. and when her
brother-in-law, Herman Schroeder.
looked at the corpse. he shuddered.
passed out into the yard and fell
dead.
Adyices received by the German
foreign ONCE from German East Afri.
ca state that sixty deaths from
plague have occurred In the Muanxa
district. which lies south OF the Vic
toria Nyanza.
The lower branch OF the Missouri
legislature passed. by a vote OF SIG TO
81, a resolution TO submit the prohi.
hilton constitutional amendment to
the vote of the people at the regular
election In November. 1910.
Frank waterhouse & Co. Of Seattle
have received advices from London
that Andrew Weir q Co. have placed
orders on the Clyde for four new
steamships to be operated In connec4
ton with the Waterhouse fleet on the
Pacific.
One of the strongest sections of the
Alabama prohibitory law was de-
clared unconstitutional by Justice
Mayfeld at Montgomery. The section
knocked out prohibited the storing or
Iossession OF liquor in any building
or apartment which was inhabited.
A brilliant electrical display opened
, at Louisville for two weeks. when
, President Taft pressed the connecting
button in the White House at Wash.
ington which started all the machi.
merry In motion. and the Southern
Electrical and Industrial exposition,
] as is its title, was oficially dedicated
and started.
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phia Judges Gray and Burlington in
the United States court fixed June
next as the date when counsel repre-
senting the anthracite railroads and
coal companies should complete theil
tsstin ony in tho suit instituted
against them by the government u
dissolve the so-called coal trust.
The Great Northern railroad and
the Seattle & Montana railroad have
filed with the county auditor at Sc
attic eighty-three deeds. showing theiI
ownership of a large section Of prop
erty situated in Seattle which the
Hartman interests have asked Il
have condemned for the benefit of the
Oregon 4 Washington railroad.
A medal in gold. the gift of the
French government. commemorative
OF the restoration Of San Francisco
and the earthquake OF three year,
ago, is to be presented in person Il
the authorities of that city by Am
bassador Jusserand between May u
and %. The medal is offered to the
American people and the city OF Ssr
Francisco As q token OF sympathy and
In admiration by the French republic
Because Ace Rains, eighteen year.
old. son Of the postmaster at Galena
) Kan. smoked . pipe he was takeE
ito jail. He will face trial on the
charge Of violating the newly enacted
) Kansas law prohibiting minors from
smoking.
An army balloon corps win b used
during the maneuvers 1t Fort Dsi
MONIES Sept. 20 to 36. The seronautil
drills viii be under the direction d
Capt ouray. and the squipmsnt vii
include . 1iTigfble ballooa q lAtssl
Dodel Attacks spoa imaginary bas
tleships vtA b Dads.