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Show flashes from the Wire L.APORTE, Ind., Dec. IS. Frank llan-num llan-num of thla city, died today at Seattle. Wash., of Injuries rocclved In a football same. Ho was twenty-six years old. BUTTE. Mont.. Dec. IS. Elijah Mills, ncred thlrty-elBlit, formerly of Hooper. Utah, slipped and foil ovor a donkey on-Blne on-Blne at tho Belmont mine today and was killed. HONOLUTjI", Dec. 18. W. G. Trwin of tho William G. Irwin & Co., limited, today to-day purchased the Interest of Claus Spreckles In the banking- house of Claus Sprockles & Co. of this city. i PITTSBURG, Doe. IS. The directors of the WestlnKhousu Alrbrako company today to-day declared tlio regular ciimrtcrly dividend divi-dend of 2i per cent, payable January 0. ! The regular quarterly dividend of H per cent on the common and preferred stock of the Union Switch and Signal company also was declared today. CHARLESTON, W. Va.. Dec. 18. Miners and operators on Paint Creek, Kanawha county, where 1S00 minors havo qull work following a reduction of wages posted by operator?, are today considering consider-ing a compromise proposition, which, it Is thought, will end in a settlement of tho trouble. Tho proposition Is not disclosed. dis-closed. BUTTE, Mont., Dec. IS. A Miner dispatch dis-patch from Great Fulls states that as a means of putting a stop to the "rustling" of stock in northern Montana, the stock men of this section of the state have begun be-gun falsing a "war fund" with which special spe-cial detectives will bo employed to assist In running down the Cattle and horse thieves. HELENA, Mont-, Dec. 13. The biennial bien-nial report of the Carey land act board, just submlttj'.d to Governor Norrls, shows that Montana Is reclaiming upwards of l!0i"'.000 acres by this system and prediction predic-tion is made that the stato will soon reach tho prescribed limit one million acres. The Unanciul showing Is most satisfactory. sat-isfactory. WASHINGTON'. Dor. IS. General Tas-ker Tas-ker H. Bliss, in command of tho forces of the Philippines, has reported the death of cloven enlisted men of the Eighteenth regiment, stationed at Cnmn Kolthley, Mindanao, from methyl poisoning, resulting result-ing from drinking Columbian spirits. The names of the deceased soldiers ara not given. WASHINGTON. Dec. 18. The president presi-dent is considering tho advisability of having a thorough oxa-mlnaMon and report re-port made on the character of the foundations foun-dations that underlie tho locks and dams along tho line, of tho Panama canal. It Is regarded as Important economy to determine de-termine at this time the exact magnitude of the task of providing stable foundations founda-tions for theso lock3 and dams. LOS ANGELES. Cal Dec. IS Roy Knabenshue last night attempted to demonstrate dem-onstrate how an airship could 6all over a city unobserved under cover of darkness and destroy tho city by the use of powor-ful powor-ful explosives. His night over this city last night failed In this respect, however, as his airship was easily discernible, and the whirr oi the motor nnd propeller could be heard at a great distance. WASHINGTON. Dec. IS. Tho president presi-dent will soon send to the senate the nomination of Sherman Moreland of El-mlra, El-mlra, N. Y., to bo associate justice of tho pupromo court of tho Philippine Islands. The vacancy tx which Mr. Moreland Is appointed was created by tho resignation of Judgo James F. Tracy, to whom' the president has written a strong letter In commendation of his services to the government. gov-ernment. WELLESLEy, Mass.. Dec. IS. Revised rulos of chaperonage ovor th,o young women of Woliesley college are to go Into effect with the heglnnlng of tho midwinter midwin-ter term In January. Thereafter tho hour for closing houses on tho campus will bo 0:15 p. m.. Instead of 10, but In the village the closing hour will not be changed. A girl may not stay in Boston, according lo thu now regulations, later than r.:3i) p. m., without a chaperon. This Is tho first time that tho rules governing gov-erning students at Wellcslcy have been changed In ten years. GREAT FALLS. Mont.. Dec. IS. C R. Jones, licensed of sending blackmailing letters to Ranker S. S. Honson of Lewis-ton, Lewis-ton, demanding that ?2O.000 be left at a certain place or he would bn killed, was found guilty today by a Jury In that county. Experts disagreed as to whether tho writing In the blackmailing letters was tho same as that In the general letters let-ters by Jones, but tho Jury found that In both the admitted evidences, Jones's letters let-ters and In the blackmailing letters the word "llnd" was spelled "fclnd," and U1I3 decided them. His punishment was fixed at one year In the penitentiary. |