The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-10-28
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titude Of insurgents.
tice White of the supreme court may
be elevated to chief.
The West Indian hurricane has hit
Florida fearful blow, causing loss OF
life and property.
l. The Boston and Maine railroad will
not Interfere in the politics of the
state hereafter, says its president
The interstate commerce commits.
sion made an order that the long and
short haul rule must be adhered to.
A Kentuckian who pleaded guilty
to murder was tried, convicted and
sentenced to be hanged, all in six
minutes.
Rhode Island republicans renomi-
| mated present state officers and en-
dorsed the administration of Presi-
dent Taft.
The validity of the Carmack amend.
| ment to the Hepburn rate law is be-
ing tested in the United States su-
preme court.
The government has authorized the
into relations with the provisional
government
Announcement was made OF a gift
of s250.00O by John d. Rockefeller to
the medical department of Western
Reserve university.
Luigi Lucheni. who assassinated
the emperor of Austria in 1908, com.
mitted suicide in his cell in the pris.
on known as rEyeche.
The duty on lumber imported from
Canada will be waived by the United
States In the interest of the Mime
sofa forest-fire sufferers.
United States Senator Nelson w.
Aldrich. who, with the members of
his family. has been in Europe for a
month, returned last week.
English bankers have agreed to ex-
tend the period of negotiating cotton
bills OF lading under the present sys-
TEN from October 81 to December 81.
Secretary of State Knox has return
ed to his desk at the state department
after spending nearly all summer at
his country home at Valley Forge, Pa.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com.
pany was fined from $40 to S25 each
on four counts for violating the six.
teen-hour law In the federal court in
st. Louis.
The English government has invited
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener to be.
come a member of the committee on
imperial defense and Lord Kitchener
has accepted.
The population of Omaha Is 124,O96,
as compared with 102,555 in 1900 and
l40.452 In 1890. The increase from
1900 to 1910, therefore, is 21,541, or
21.0 per cent.
Superior Judge Walter Bordwen
has ordered the empanelling of
special grand jury of thirty men to
Investigate the dynamiting OF the Los
Angeles Times building.
John ID. Rockefeller has given to
the Rockefeller institute for medical
research an additional s3,S2O.00O.
bringing his donations to this institu.
ton up to an aggregate of 81, 1000, 900. |
Thirty-six cigar factories out of the |
thirty-eight belonging to the Manu-.
facturers' association will open their |
doors at Tampa to all cigarmakers |
willing to work on the manufacturers |
terms.
Seventy-seven men heroically gave
their lives in their effort to subdue |
the disastrous forest fires which rag.
ed in the west during the latter part
OF August, according to figures given |
out by the forest service.
Joseph Nj. Huston OF PHILADELPHIA.
architect of Pennsylvania state
was sentenced to imprison.
ment for not less than six months /
nor more than two years In the east.
ern penitentiary at Philadelphia.
The twenty-first annual report OF
the Great Northern railway says that
In conditions during the
fiscal year ending June 80 last result.
ed IN the largest earnings for one
year ever reported by the company"
Announcement was made ut Cleye-
land of gift of s25o.000 by John ID.
Rockefeller to the medical department
Of Western Reserve university. The
gift. which is a personal one. is made
on the raising of $3.50.
900 more by the university.
Another chapter was added to the
history of aviation when the French
iirisible balloon Clement Bayard
made the voyage from compeigne to
London In the remarkable time of six
hours. a journey requiring seven
hours by the fastest express trains.
Acting Secretary of State Alvey A.
Adee. who has ridden over much of
his country and Europe on a bicycle
mishap, was injured while rid.
ng In Washington when he ATTEMPT.
I'd to avoid running over a yellow dog.