The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-12-30

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Dther $4,000. GOO to the Chicago uni.
rersity.
At the conclusion of q six weeks
campaign at Waterloo, Ia, Billy Sun
lay, the evangelist, was given $500
~ citizens.
A London editor charged that war
;cares were created by armament
makers.
News comes OF the attempted as
fascination of Prince Ching, at Pc.
kin, Dec. 1st-
After research it has been found
hat McKinley's birthday occurs on
he 29th day of January.
A half-dozen firemen and as many
policemen were killed by falling
walls in a Philadelphia fire.
The senate passed the omnibus
claims bill in the face Of vigorous
objections Of Senator Bristow.
President Taft has authorized cabi.
net members to require longer hours
Of work by department clerks
There was an impressive funeral
service at Washington for Don Ami
bal Cruz, the late Chilean minister.
Charley Taft, the presidents young
est son. is home for the holidays and
things have begun to happen around
he white house.
A fight will be made by Represen-
tative Rainey OF Illinois to bring the
question of former President Roose-
velt's travelling expenses before con-
gress.
A postmortem examination of the
body of Mrs. Charles p. McKenna,
who was found dead In her home at
st. Paul. showed that the woman had
been murdered.
II Is announced that negotiations
have been completed for the amalga.
nation of the Western Union Tele.
graph company and the Anglo-Ameri.
can Cable company.
Nebraska Is making a hard fight to
capture the place on the Eighth cir.
cult made vacant by the promotion
Of Judge vandevanter to the United
States supreme court.
Twenty German army officers head.
ed by a major will be selected from
a number that have volunteered to
go to Brazil and give military instruc.
tons to the Brazilian army.
News OF another engagement be.
tween federal troops and revolution.
lists In Mexico was given in a tele
gram from Enrique Creel. Mexican
minister Of foreign relations.
In London 1t was announced that
negotiations have been completed for
the amalgamation of the Western
Union Telegraph company and the
Cable company.
in the interest" as he explained
II, "of true temperance in the army"
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri
introduced a bill providing for the
restoration Of the army canteen.
At Springfield. Mo-. Alonzo Bryant,
63 years old, was instantly killed at
his home when a folding bed in
which he and his wife were sleeping.
suddenly closed up. His neck was
broken.
Christmas day the oldest surgeon
in the point of service in the United
States army and an old-time Indian
fighter. In the person of Colonel 10.
seph r. Girard. chief surgeon Of the
department Of Texas. retired.
Robert s. Lovett, successor to Ed.
ward H. Hartman as president of
the Southern Pacific and the Union
Pacific railroads. told the railroad
securities commission that he was In
favor OF federal supervision OF rates
Miss Alma Stanley. an orphan and
a teacher In the public schools at
Atlanta, Ga, inherited 100000 by
the terms OF the will of Mrs. Jose.
phine Abbott. her great aunt. Mrs.
Abbott left an estate valued at $780,.
900.
BY doing its own sealing In Alaska
the United States government has
profited this year more than three
times the amount it ever did In any
single year when the sealing privil
eyes were rented to commercial!
company.
The location OF the Panama canal
exposition In 1915 will be settled SO
far as congress can settle 1t shortly
after the holidays recess. The com.
mittee on rules decided to bring II to
a vote by the middle of January, at
the latest.
The calendar year 1910 is going to
be the banner one for the worlds In
ternational trade. according to the bu
reau of statistics. Statistics from
every country show thai
both imports and exports are consid
erably greater than In 1909.
President Harry Pratt Judson OF
the University OF Chicago. made pub.
lie the letter from John ID. Rocksfel.
Ter. In which the latter made sugges.
ton as to how his last donation of
$i0.00o.000 to the university should
be spent. Religious instruction Ia
the chief aim Of university life the
donor provides for.
Personal.