The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-05-27
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemisphere During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.
The Oregon census shows 675,s79.

The Oregon census shows G7j,s79.
A. d. Pelton, owner OF the Toledo
Blade from 1857 to 1868, died Saturday
aged 81.
The Rev. Billy Sunday is headed for
California to start a campaign against
the big fight.
The Rev. DR.. John W.. T. Booth, one
Of the oldest and best-kuown Baptist
cIergymen in the United States, is
dead at his home in White Plains, y. \.
James NJ. Lynch was reelected presi-
dent Of the international Typographical
union by 5000 votes in the election
throughout the country by the organ
ization May Is
Annoy, China. Conditions arising
from the continued drOuth are serious.
There has been no rain for four months,
food supplies are running low and the
crops are Z failure.
A severe storm in Clay county, Kan
sas, Saturday night did much damage
to crops, trees and outbuildings. Tele-
graph wires are down and the full ex-
tent Of the damage is not known.
General Louis Botha, premier of the
Transvaal, has been summoned to form
the first union ministry cabinet OF
United South Africa Of which Viscount
Gladstone is the first governor-general.
Harry Pike, formerly of Chicago, and
whose divorced wife now lives there,
shot and fatally wounded Hazel Ritter,
aged 25, of Laramie, Wyo., and then
attempted suicide at Denver, Colo, Sat
urday.
Arrangement Of the administration S
sale Of the Philippine friar lands and
of the activities of the so-called sugar
trust" in that archipelago, was made in
the house Saturday by Mr.. COvington
Of Maryland.
John NJ. Simpson, California argonaut
of 1S49 and Oregon pioneer of 1866, died
at his home in South Tualatin, Washing
ton county, Cal, Friday, FROM the effects
of injuries sustained in a runaway acct
lent near there some time ago.
George Turner, former United States
senator of Washington, has sailed from
New York to The Hague to act as one
of the attorneys of the United States
in the adjustment of fishery and boun-
Diary questions between Canada and the
United States.
With the approach of the time for
the maneuvers at American Lake, Wash,
in August, when the posts of the north
west will be all but deserted by all
soldiers and officers, interest increases,
and all activities bear relation to max
ing preparations to go.
Seven hundred n~onunion miners en-
ployed at the Providence electrical and
at White Dog zinc mines, Webb City,
Mo-, have struck upon the refusal OF
the company to increase the wages to
figures which obtained before the de-
creased price of ore forced a 10 per
cent reduction.
Twenty-one students of the mining de-
partment of McGill university, Mon
treal, are at the c~oncentrator of the st.
Eugene mine, Moyie, b. c., where they
will remain for four or five days devot-
ing their energies to the acquiring of a
practical knowledge of the various
modern methods of silver-lead ore treat.
ment.
a heavy snowfall delayed railroad
traffic and threatened telephone and
telegraph service around Trinidad, Colo.
Saturday. Six inches Of snow is re
ported in the Stonewall mountains. The
snow is melting rapidly and the mois
ture means thousands of dollars to farm
ers and stockmen in this section in pros
pective crops and grass for stock.
A lockout il the building trades o.
Germany, affecting 100000 men, is il
full swing. 1t is expected the lockou
will spread even further. Although tn,
employers of Berlin, Hamburg anC
Bremen have not joined the movement
it is expected that work there will b
suspended. Negotiations for a peaceful
settlement are under way at Munich.
The body of Martin p. Case, ~presiden
of the Independent Oil company, an.
for a number of years known in inau
cial circles as a wealthy man, was foun
in the basement of his home in ClevC
land, Ohio, Saturday night. lie ha
died Of n bullet wound apparently sell
inflicted. He was 70 years old. TIL
dependency of old age is thought t
be the cause Of the suicide.