The Libby herald., 1912-01-11
SUMMARY OF news
FROM WORLD over
SHORT items Clipped FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-Nationa1, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs for the Busy.

Speaker Clark of congress is suffering
with a severe cold
A coal famine threatens Minneapolis
if the cold weather continues.
Uncle Sam has officially placed the
ban on baldheaded men for service in
the army.
1t is said Colonel Bryan resents hav-
presidential candidate.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy has been filed against the Fed
eral Biscuit company.
Charles Taylor Catlin, prominent for
80 years as a dramatic reader and re-
otter, is dead at his home in Brooklyn,
aged u years.
The state department is taking no
further steps to have the war depart
ment embark troops now in Manila for
duty in China.
Governor General Forbes of Manila
denies that he has any intention of re-
signing, but intends to visit the United
States in March.
Fred Plougher, conductor of New
York trolley car, was killed and five
Others were seriously hurt when the car
was derailed Saturday.
A settlement of the strike of the la aun-
dry workers in New York city, which
has involved more than 30 900 workers,
is expected this week.
New Mexico, the 47th state to enter
the Union, ceased to be territory Sat
urday, when President Taft signed the
proclamation Of statehood.
The federal government is now ready
to begin the construction of the Grand
Valley irrigation project in Colorado.
The project will irrigate about $4,000
acres.
W. II. Taber, president of the Amer
can State bank of Terre Haute, Ind, is
in jail charged with embezzlement of
the bank s funds. The shortage is
$4,000.
Buildings Of the Industrial Cotton Oil
teompaav, containing 10000 tons of seed
and other produce, were burned at
Houston, Tex, recently, entailing $780,
200 loss.
Two very high personages, one Ital-
ian and the other Turkish, met in
Paris Monday to discuss the question
of opening peace negotiations between
Italy and Turkey.
At Wickliffe, KY, Saturday, Frank
Turner shot and killed John Clay, a
years old. Turner said he killed Clay
because he had given Mrs. Turner a
pair of shoes at her request.
Schedules in bankruptcy of William
J. Cummins, former officer and director
Of the Carnegie Trust company, filed in
ahe federal court, show liabilities of
$4,6so,o1Q and assets of $135,ooo.
George W. Miekcrsham, attorney gen
erai of the Unitea States; J. J. Jusse
yana French ambassador, and =. Have
nith, Belgian minister at Washington,
with their party, are visiting IN Cuba
Professor Frederick Starr of the uni
yersity of Chicago has been appointed
commander of the Order of Leopold IT,,
the highest honor in the way of deco
ration given by the government of Bel
gfum.
Wholesale registration Irregularities,
involving probably 20 per cent of the
democratic voters of Acadia parish, La,
are alleged in a series of 800 suits, the
ti,,,lg of which is under way in the cir
quit couGt.
The case against Barney Stevens, a
wealthy real estate dealer Of Kansas
City, Mo-, charged with receiving nearly
$4,000 worth Of plunder from Henry
Barr, confessed Spokane burglar, has
been dropped on account of the great
expense.
The possibility of an eventual inter
vention by the powers in China in some
form is an absorbing topic Of discus
sion in diplomatic circles at Paris. The
feeling, however, is that nothing of a
concrete nature is justified or can be
carried out at present.
When the American Hawaiian
freighter Nebraskan arrived in San
Diego from Salina Cruz, the master,
Captain Knight, reported to the collec-
tor of customs the discovery by him of
81 tins of opium, valued at $75 each, in
storeroom of the ship. He threw it
overload.