The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-06-17

ton will take place at Bellevue June
%, % and "a.
DR.. W. NJ. Greene, an aviator, win
attempt on June q to fly from
Rochester across Lake Ontario to
Toronto.
King George and Queen Mary en-.
tertained Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt
at luncheon at Marlborough house IN
London.
Glenn H. Curtiss will attempt an
aeroplane fight from Cleveland to
Put-in-Bay and Detroit some time
next month.
In London, June s, Miss
Margareta A. Drexel, daughter OF the
Philadelphia banker, was married to
an Englishman.
The postoffice safe at Merriam,
Wis, was blown by burglars and
money and stamps to the value Of
$4,000 were stolen.
Charles Gridley, attorney OF Wiz
ginia, ILL.,, who represented the fisher
in the Springfield lobby, was given q
clean bill by Mr.. Burke, after he had
| testified.
Reports received at Bristol, Tenn.
are to the effect that two churches
and probably a dozen dwelling houses
were blown down in a wind and hail
| storm which visited that section.
Emil Seidel, the mayor of Milwau-
kee, in a speech declared the mon
opolies were labor-saving devices and
necessary. Mr.. Seidel added that all
monopolies, however, should be I'M
der the strictest regulations.
A mass meeting Of Pittsburg resi-
dents of British birth or British de-
scent decided to erect research lab
oratory for the tuberculosis sanitar-
ium of Pittsburg as local memorial
to the late King Edward VII.
The grand jury which was convened
May 16 by Governor Hughes OF New
York, to investigate alleged county
grating cases returned fifty indict.
ments against :wenty-seyen persons.
Thomas L. Watson, once a demo
cratic member of congress and once
named by the populist party for presi.
dent, announced in card issued last
week his return to the democratic
party.
In a desperate encounter between
revenue officers and "moonshiners'
in Wilkes county. North Carolina,
more than a hundred shots were fired
and several of the moonshiners were
injured.
When Colonel Roosevelt comes sail
ing home on June IS Collector Of the
Port William Loeb, Jr, and several
hundred loyal friends will meet him
down the bay in government vessels
and escort him up to Manhattan.
Attorney General Wickersham has
rendered a decision in which he holds
that Richard Parr is entitled to re
cover from the government the
amount of his claim for information
given against the so-called sugar
trust.
Charles Stuart Rolls started in ar
aeroplane in an attempt to fly across
the English channel from Dover Il
Calais. He had gone only few
yards. however. when the motol
postpone the flight.
Treasury officials figure that II al
the money in circulation In the Unit
ed States were divided equally, ever!
man, woman and child would hav,
S3459. This is IA cents per capt.;
more than they would have had b.
the same process Of reasoning |
month ago.
Notwithstanding recent threat!
that revolutionary movement woul'
be inaugurated in China Sunday. tn
date set for the opening of the Nan
king exposition. this ceremony wa
carried out without the slightest dis
order.
In O desperate encounter between
revenue officers and "moonshiners
In Wilkes county. North Carolina
more than hundred shots were fire.
and several of the moonshiners wer
injured. The officers destroyed fou
} Illicit distilleries and 1000 gallons Q
: beer.
At the Press Clubs dinner In homo
Of Glenn Curtiss. the aviator. j. Be-
? nard Walker of the Scientific Amel
lean announced that Edwin Goul
!. offers $4,000 as prize to the ma
J. who shall produce the first aeroplan
successfully employing two motor
: and two propellers.
Richard Parr, the officer Of the Me-
. York custom house who unearthed tn
gigantic frauds committed by tn
American Sugar Refining Compan!
= will get his reward from the govern
ment In a short time. Through Pal
! the government recovered almost 50
100000. His reward Is likely to b
= close to 100000.