The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-01-28
SHORT ITEMS FROM EVERY
WHERE, ALL The TIME.
A Review Of Happenings n Both East
ern and Western Hemisphere During
the Past Week-National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.

once a nurse in the home Of John D.
Rockefeller, and a widely known local
character, is dead, aged 100 years.
Ezra Kendall, comedian, died Of apo
plexy recently in a sanitarium at Mar
linsville, Ind. The first news Of has
death received by friends outside the
immediate family was when the body
was brought to Cleveland.
~Thirty-seven unsolved murders in II
months was the record of New York for
1909. Seven more have been added IN
the first three weeks Of the new year,
according to a report just issued by the
police department.
The body of Alma Cunningham, a
daughter Of P. Cunningham Of San
Francisco, who has been a patient IN a
sanitarium here ever since the disaster
of 1906. when her nervous system was
shattered, was found recently floating
in a reservoir several miles from a
sanitarium in Mill Valley, Cal. 1t is
unknown whether the girl fell from the
steep hillside above the pool or threw
herself into the water.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Educational association an
nounced that the 4sth annual conven-
ton will be held in Boston July 2 to s.,
1910. San Francisco was under consid-
Grafton, but the choice of Boston was
deemed advisable, as the association
met in Denver in 1909.
George II. Sehumann, president of the
Louisville Anzeiger company, and one
of the Oldest German-American news
D men in the United States, died
recently at Louisville, KY, aged 70
years. Mr.. Sebumann had been at the
head of the Anzeiger for 80 years.
Miss Jennie ROsen, a young woman of
Denver, whose leg was broken and who
received other injuries when she was
struck by a Denver & Rio Grande rail
road train on August 81, 1907, has beer
awarded a verdict of s13,422 by a jury
in her suit for damages against the
railroad.
Native reports estimate that a thou
sand deaths from smallpox have oe-
CURED at Chang Chow, one of the
largest cities in China, in the last week,
principally among children. The bu-
bonie plague also is reported to have
broken out again at that place.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt will sail for
Naples February Is on the liner Ham
burg on her way to upper Egypt. Ac-
eording to news received from East
Africa recently, ex-President Roosevelt
will arrive at Khartoum March IS.
After remaining two or three days at
DA- l. in -z-,% NJ Pn1anra1+
He will be back in the United States
June 1.
Richard II. Rushton of Philadelphia
president of the Fourth Street Ma
tioual bank, one of the largest fnan'
ciai institutions, died recently from
a complication of diseases. Three year:
ago his nervous system was almost
wrecked by a bomb explosion. An un
known man who had been refused
money, dropped a bomb at Mr.. Rush
tons office door, instantly killing him
self and the cashier of +he bank.
Drastic proposals for dealing will
drunkenness are contained in the 20
lice jurisdiction and summary ofense
bill, which is now before the Queens
land parliament in Australia. For
Arst offense the eulprit will be fine.
20 shillings, for a second within si
months 40 shillings, and for any sub
sequent conviction within a simila
period so shillings. After a third cor
vietion the offender "shall be deeme
a habitual drunkard," and power
given the court TO remand a drunke
person to some hospital or asylum fc
curative treatment at his own expens
John R. Walsh has been initiated int
the Office as reading cleak in the b
reau Of criminal Identification at ii
federal prison. His duty IS 10 rea
and clip from them "writ
ups" of criminals, which are preserve
at the prison. Walsh s hands are draw
up with rheumatism, gripping him
such a manner that he is unable
work deftly. He worked with a pr
occupied air and made slow progre
through a large pile of newspapers.
Jeffries and johnson viii meet TO q
eide their argument over the title
heavyweight champion of the world
Ely, New, next July 4, according TO
statement made by a close friend Of Il
Richard, one of the promoters Of d
match. Jeffries and Richard met
Salt Lake recently and held sever
hours secret conference. No ofiei
announcement of the outcome Of q
meeting was made, but a friend
Rickard, who claimed to be Gin on Z
know" whispered "Ely."
One of two charges Of criminal
against American railroad men in Me-
co that have attracted nationwide
%tention in the United States was d
posed Of recently, with the release fro
prison at Monterey of Joe Woods,
engineer who has been confined f
three months on a charge growing o
of the accidental killing of a fellc
engineer. The othe- case, that Of Co