The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30

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Pr~esbyterians at PittsburS refused
o substitute immersion for sprink.
ing.
In population Of the United States
Nebraska is the twenty-ninth.
Kentucky democrats have endorsed
Champ Clark for speaker of the lower
house.
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
600 to hasten the abolition OF inter
national war;
Postmaster General Hitchcock tells
of the decrease of the deficit in his
annual report.
The Brazilian troops have quelled
the second mutiny in the govern
ment's naval forces.
The Ballinger-Pinchot congression'
al committee gave the secretary OF
the interior a clean bill.
In his annual report Secretary OF
Wal Dickinson recommends the neces'
sity of military aeroplanes.
Not a single net gain for either
side was the result OF the first week
OF balloting in Great Britain.
The liberals majority in the house
Of commons will be practically what
1t was before the dissolution.
Theodore Roosevelt narrowly es
capped being made the beneficiary in
the will OF a rich Indiana "a
Charles J. Bellamy, founder anG
publisher Of the Springfield, Mass.
Daily News, died. aged SO years.
A modification of the service pen
sion bill, so as to provide for a mini
mum pension of SIS. is proposed in 6
bill introduced by Senator Dick OF
Ohio.
A farm hand desperate in South
Dakota shot his employer, took pos
session of the house and deied the
sheriff. but was later wounded and
captured.
A national memorial to Abraham
Lincoln, to be erected in Washington
at a cost OF $2.000,000. is proposed ir
a bill introduced by Senator Cullom
of Illinois.
The machine has been set in motion
to provide for an issue of Panama
canal bonds to end a drain upon the
working balance of the treasury which
now threatens a deficit.
Salvatore TollizZanO. MORALLY
wounded by three revolver bullets or
Nov. SO last. told the Hoboken police
he had been shot for refusing to pay
tribute to the black hand.
Representative Macon of Arkansas
thro0tonc trn,,h1o Gov 10 ,tc;,, Dahorf
e. Peary. the arctic explorer. when
the question Of ~honorins him comes
upon the floor of the house.
The Iowa board of railroad commits
siOners announced a material reduc
ton in freight rates on soft lump and
nut coal within Iowa. The rates OF
steam or slack coal remain unchanged
At Fargo, y. D., More Brothers gar.
age and warehouse collapsed, killing
R. A. More and his bookkeeper. and
injuring two other employees. The up.
Per floors were oyerweighted With
corn.
Attorney General Byers, in a brief
filed with the Iowa railroad commits
sion, advocated government owner.
ship of express companies as the so.
luton of rates, which he say are ex,
ceSsive.
Referring to the disastrous forest
fires of the past summer, Secretary
Wilson has asked the house for a de.
ticiency appropriation of $915.0OO to
supplement the regular fund for
fighting forest fires.
The tWenty-eighth child has arrived
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jason
Bonner at Newcastle, Ind. Twenty.
one Of the children are living. Mr.
Bonner is 40 years old and his wife is
iour years his junior.
Melville De Lancy LandOn, better
known as Eli Perkins, the humorist
is critically i'll with locom0tor ataxia
at his home in YOnkers. Y. Y. He is
i years old and has been in failing
health for several years.
81 could not I'VE anything out of q
salary of $4,000 a year, and | have 8
family says Librarian of Congress
Hubert Putnam, in arguing before
the house committee on a%ppropria
TONS Tor an increase o. his salary
from $4,000 to SC, 500.
Orders were issued at the war de
partment for the transfer Of Rrigadiel
General Frederick Funston to the
Philippines, where he becomes com
mander Of the department Of Lllzon
lie is to be succeeded at Leaven
worth by Brigadier General Potts.
The Standard Oil company of New
York will have TO pay its fine of 81,
600 for accepting rebates on oil ship
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