The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-15

III I'll explosion anu lEiuIC III =" H"o'
ing picture show at Al%brightsvllle,
Preston county, w. Va, twenty-nine
persons w%ereinjured.
Houston, Texas, had a ~confagation
entailing a loss of several millions.
A higher duty is proposed for SILK
stockings to make up the sugar de-
felt.
Provisions for a parcels post are
included in the postoffic %appropria-
ton bill.
The prosecution is ready to pro-
coed any day in the trial of alleged
dynamiters.
The Presbyterians are planning to
aged clergymen.
Kuhn, Loeb Co., announced the pur-
chase of $4,000 900 of 5 per cent
City of Toxic bonds.
The Iowa retail hardware dealers
association adjourned after re-electlns
all the old officers.
The Italian chamber of deputies
passed a bill for the annexation OF
Tripoli by Italy by a vote Of 431 to 80.
Lieutenant Du Corneau was killed
at Pau, France, in an aerOplane acct
dent.
Mrs. Mary Z. Arbuckle, wife OF
James A%rbuckle, Spanish consul at
st. Louis. is dead in that city.
Grand jury indictments were re-
turned at Chicago against a number
of railroads charged with rebating.
Viscount Chinda, the new Japanese
ambassador to Washington, made his
first call at the state department.
Newman Erb, financial associate of
the late Edwin Hawley, was elected
a director of the Pere Marquette rail-
road.
A bill that would create a bureau OF
tariff statistics as a substitute for the
present tariff board was introduced
by Representative Peters, democrat
of Massachusetts.
A bill authorizing the president to
prepare for withdrawal of sovereignty
of the United States from the Philip
pines was introduced by Representa-
tive Ferris of Oklahoma.
Brigadier General William P. Hall
automatically assumed the office of
adjutant general upon the retirement
of General A~insworth, in the opinion
OF officers of that department.
Mrs. Clara Murray was acquitted at
St. Louis Of a charge OF numbering her
husband. She shot him with a rifle
last October, after. according to her
testimony, he had kicked her.
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of John J. Richkels and his IA
year-old stepdaughter, near Topeka,
Kansas, brought in a verdict that the
man murdered the girl by shooting
her to death, and then killed himself.
President Taft told Mayor Fitzger-
aid 70 Boston that he would pin a
shamrock to the lapel Of his coat.
look around for a good shillalah and
ride at the head Of the st. Patrick's
day and ~"evacuation day parade.
when he visits Boston Monday, March
the 18th.
A c%ablegram was received at h
American school of ~osteopathy telling
of the death in Dundee, Scotland, of
DR.. William Smith, who received the
first diploma in osteopathy and who
was for nearly twenty years instruct
or in anatomy and surgery at Kinks
vile, Mo.
The purpose of the majority of the
house ways and means committee to
abolish the tariff board and substi-
tute for it another kind of a commits
sion was manifested by the introduce
ton Of a bill for a revenue board by
Representative A. Nj. Palmer, of Penn
s~ylyania.
Louis P. Lochner, for three years
editor of the Wisconsin Alumni Maya
zine, and secretary of the association
of cosmopolitan clubs, has been ap-
pointed to assume charge of the de-
partment to assume charge OF the de-
partment for colleges and universities
Of the worlds peace foundation.
Joseph Baker, II years of age. who
first discovered lead ore in Kansas,
died at Joplin, Mo. He came to Jop-
lin il 1885 in the early mining days.
Believing ore abounded across the
state line, he went to Galena. kas.,
two years later and found lead in the
first shaft sunk.
Adjutant General Maloney Of Ten
nessee urged before the house MILL
tary affairs committee a bill for gov
eminent acceptance OF 5000 acres OF
land near Tullahoma. Tenn. donated
for maneuvcr camps for troops of Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Mississippi. Alaba-
ma, Georgia, Florida and Carolina.
Representative Hobson of Alabama
precipitated a lively debate in the