The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-04-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both East
ern ard Western H~emispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Professor Richard Won Zeyneck of the
University of Prague has discovered a
method of warming the interior of the
human body by electricity.
A second great strike has just been
made in the famous old War Eagle
mine at Rossland, B. g., now the prop
erty of the Canadian Consolidated com
pany.
Thirty-one civilian candidates for APP
pointment as second lieutenants in the
Coast artillery corps have successfully
passed the required examinations and
will receive appointments.
Five million dollars will be spent on
improvements to it's northwestern gas,
electric and telephone systems by IL.
NJ. Byllesby & Co. of Chicago, ILL.,, ac-
cording to recent information.
George b. French, president of the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad,
announces that 81, 0 900 will be ex-
pended in improvements on the line
between Portland and Spokane during
the present year.
Bud Stephens, the former cowboy who
shot and killed Dodd Mackenzie, son of
Murdo Mackenzie of Colorado Springs,
Col, was found not guilty at Aver
deem, S. d. The plea of self-defense
was accepted by the jury.
Every one of the torpedo boat de-
stroyers composing the Atlantic torpedo
fleet except the Preston and the Lam
son exceeded it's contract speed on the
recent run from Key West to Pensa-
cola, a distance of about $50 knots.
A prairie fire started near the town
of Dickens, Neb., Saturday, swept
northward, carried by a terrific wind,
to the Platte river. 1t swept a path
Is to 20 miles wide. A number of per
sons lost their homes and live stock.
Robert c. Clowry of the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph company
denies the rumor circulated over the
country to the effect that his company
and the Postal company had decided tC
increase the wages of operators by II
per cent.
Europe is to see again many of the
ships that made up the great American
: naval fleet that encircled the globe
, Secretary Meyer stated that it was hi
: present intention to order the Atlantic
fleet to the Mediterranean some time il
: November next.
Mrs. Henry w. Page of Trenton
: N. j., has brought suit for $4,000 dam
! ages against Professor Howard MeLen
\ ahan and Edward Plymton of Princeton
i university, alleging that they burne,
her husband so severely with X-ray
" that he died of his injuries.
The twelfth annual convention o
! the Inland Empire Teachers associa
ton came to an end at Pendleton, Ore
: with the selection of Spokane as tn
place for the next meeting, and wit
Z the selection of officers. Henry NJ. Han
! of Spokane was elected secretary.
a The historic old Dutch Reforme
20 church at Bloomfield, n. j., built j
1900, is a mass of smolder1ng ruins q
ls a result of a fire that swept throug
A the structure Saturday night. tt
church was one of the Oldest in tt
"A state. The fire was caused by burnin
h. grass in nearby fields, lighted by mi
- chievous boys. The loss will excee
$4,000.
ed George Fassell, owner of a grocer
he in the residence part of Salt Lake Cit
n was shot and killed by holdup men Il
is. other night. Fassell was alone in b
IN store when three men entered and col
PEELED him to hand over the conten
of the cash drawer, amounting to abo.
~ $25. AS they were leaving the sto
Fassell attempted to give an alarm, al
one of the robbers turned and shot hi
- Harry Thorn, later arrested, confess
:. to the crime, naming John Hays al
= a man called Curly as associates.
We By the terms of a contract recent
lis. signed between the Western Steel CT
its poration of Seattle, and the Hang va.
Steel company of Hankow, China, t
her Seattle company is to obtain 1000
Ita tons of pig iron and ore per annJ
Pa. from the Hankow company. The &C
tract is to run Is years. Coincide
hut with the signing of the contract I
ed. the importation of the pig iron FRI
: . China it is announced that the st,
her company Immediately will begin I
construction of new plants involving I
expenditure of $40, 900 900.
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