The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-12-02

congress.
On thousand persons were drown
ed and four hundred barks were lost
during floods In the province OF
Quangnagai. in AMMAN.
Mayor Gaynor of New York has
made it plain that all gambling hous'
es must go.
Miss Leneve, to marry whom Grip
pen killed his wife, has sailed from
London for America.
Lack OF scientific methods was
charged against railroad managers at
the shippers hearing.
| The population of New York state
is 9,113.279, of which more than hall
Is in the greater city.
| Demand for tariff revision VIII be
made to the coming session OF con-
gress by the knights Of labor.
President Taft got home from his
Panama trip in time to eat Thanks
| giving turkey in the white house.
A limited parcels post for rural free
| delivery routes will be recommended
by Postmaster General Hitchcock.
At Troy. Ala, the Atlantic Compress
destroyed by fire. Nearly 1900 bales
| Of cotton were burned.
Hon. W. J. Bryan appeared at the
| Trans-Missfssippi Commercial Con-
gress in San Antonio. Texas, and was
given enthusiastic greeting.
The whole of Manchuria is official
ly declared to be inflicted with the
bubonic plague and not with cholera
as was enormously reported.
Jacob NJ. Dickinson. secretary OF
war, received word of the death OF his
son Overto hutchinson at Belle Meade
stock farm. near Nashville, Tenn.
Governor-elect John A. Dix spent
s4.372.30 in aid OF his campaign, &C.
cording to q statement of election ex-
penses filed with the secretary OF
state.
Employees of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company were notified OF 5
per cent increase in wages to take ef-
feet at once. About 1880 men are
effected.
A threatened split between the la
Dor unions of the United States and
Canada was smoothed over in the
American Federation of Labor at st.
Louis by President Gompers.
At San Antonio. Tex. r. o. Gray.
a mining engineer of st. Louis. Mo-,
was found dead in bed. He was fully
dressed and bullet wound was In
his head. In his hand was pistol.
John w. knight. managing partner
of the defunct cotton firm of Knight
Yancey & Co., which recently failed
for about $6.000,O0O, was arrested
charged with fraudulent use of the
mails.
Oda Hubbell, a farmer near Bar
nard. Mo, and his wife and two chill
dren, were shot and killed at theiI
home by an unknown person who sci
, fire to their house to conceal the
crime.
The condition of Moses c. Wetmore
retired millionaire manufacturer ant
, democratic national committeeman
/ from Missouri, is reported critical
, He was run down by a horse ant
| wagon.
Following mental collapse brough
on from overstudy. William Mitchell
10 years old. of South Dakota, a can
didate for entrance to the West Poin
Military academy. died In a hospita
; at Baltimore.
Senator T. p. Gore. of Oklahoma, II
: an interview, said that at the comini
: session of congress the deomcrat
should revise the wooden schedul
4 and also the tariffs on wood pulp
3 and print paper.
Unless unforeseen complication
+ arise, the indicted members of the sc
l called beef trust" will be placed o.
trial Dec. 20. Counsel for the govern
+ ment and for the packers in the Uni
|. ed States district court agreed upol
this date.
!, W. II. Field. former treasurer of tn
!. Houston & Texas Central railroad
who retired from service two year
i. ago on account of i'll health and n
a moved to New York City, died Q
Montgomery. Ala. He was a high d.
= gree Mason.
n The opening gun In fight of reta
hardware dealers OF Pennsylvania an
n neighboring states for the eliminate
4. of jobbers and catalog houses wa
r fired in Pittsburg at n meeting of har'
ware merchants. The object Is
- combat and 10 cent stores and sim
" lar establishments.
s. The federal governments title
Q. the property in dispute in the case {
oberlin NJ. Carter, former captain |
IL the United States army. the GU
1t growth of the Savannah river and ha
n Dor improvement frauds, was confirm
K ed by the United States circuit coul
z. of appeals in New York.
1t Isaac and Manning Phillips. men
o. bers of the firm of l. & NJ. Phillip
r. importers, at New York. were arres
le ed. charged with having defraude
IL the government out of duty on woole
wearing apparel imported fro
N France by means of false consular 1
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