The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-07-28

The fir~e.deylstated town of Bangor.
| Me-. will rise from the ruins.
Government finances for April made
a better showing than expected.
The Muscatine Uowa) strike is over
and button makers have returned to
work.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany will put the eight-hour working
day into effect on June 1.
President Taft says we have all the
territory we need and will not seek
an extension of domain.
A house committee has begun in
vestigation of charges of graft in
awarding of shoe contracts.
Early resignation of Diaz is expect
ed to be the first rock on which the
peace parley in Mexico will split.
State Treasurer George reports
81 ,O95,0 600 in the Nebraska treasury
and $421 900 of trust funds awaiting
investment.
John A. Hinsey, for many years
head of the Milwaukee railway, died
in Los Angeles from injuries received
by being hit by a street car.
Congressman Longworth says that
at birth a a has his choice between
a bald head and brains. His own
choice, he says, is apparent.
Captain J. H. Shawhan, formerly of
prominence in the mercantile business
OF western Iowa and eastern Nebras-
lia. was killed in a runaway in Idaho.
Members of the Illinois legislature
defeated the initiative and referen-
dun amendment to the state consti-
tuition. The vote stood 90 ayes and
10 nays.
Recent law passed by Illinois legis-
lature prohibits drinking of intoxi-
Giants on trains and in%terurbans, but
allows drinking on dining and buffet
cars.
Robert r. Moore, who ran for
comptroller 81 the same ticket with
Mayor Gaynor, was appointed city
chamberlain to succeed Charles H..
Hyde.
Lloyd c. Griscom. formerly ambas-
sador to Italy and a close friend of
former President Roosevelt. has re.
signed as president of the New York
county republican committee.
The draft of the arbitration treaty
between America and Great Britain
ton that it will be ready for submits
sion to the British gov crnment with
in two weeks.
Governor Aldrich, of Nebraska, has
announced hat he will not commute
the death sentence imposed upon
Thomas Johnson, the Omaha negro
who murdered Farmer FARMLAND. The
order of the court specifies the execu-
ton on May 10.
At White Plains, N. Y, Sydney G.
Love, the millionaire banker of Chi
cago and Seattle, Wash, was served
publication in the suit for absolute
divorce which his wife, Marjorie
Burns Love. of New York city, has
brought against him.
In New York only automobiles-12
limousine cars-followed the automo-
bile hearse in which the body of Mrs.
H. Carroll Brown. daughter of the late
Marcus DAILY, the Montana copper
king. was borne to the grave.
The international opium conference
which vas to have met at The Hague
on July L has been postponed for n
year. Germany, Japan and Portugal
are not prepared with the data which
Great Britain desired should be pre-.
scented at the opening of the confer.
ence.
The Japanese have robbed a on
sulate at Algun, a Chinese town of
Manchuria on the Amur, is miles
from the Russian frontier. and this
has caused the Russian government
to inquire the reason for this step and
whether it was taken for strategical
purposes.
HonOring the memory of a defeat
ed combatant, General Nogi, the Jap
anese hero of Port Arthur, arrived
in St. Petersburg on a special mis-
sion of placing a wreath on the tomb
of Major General K%ondratenko, COM
mander of the Seventh East Siberian
rifles, who was killed at the battle of
2O3 Meter hill in 1904, during the Rus
sO-Japanese war.
Plans were filed for the construc-
ton in New York of the highest
building in the world, $50 feet.
The ex-Empress Eugene, of France.
whom some writer's are in the habit
of speaking of as the most tragic fig
85th birthday anniversary last week
and the occasion was marked by the