The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
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ton, Arizona, in the recent floods.
Bubonic plague is raging in Yoke
hama, according to latest advices.
The business portion of Arcadia.
Fla, has been dtsoroyed by fire. Loss.
$250,O0O.
Emperor William opened the Reich
stag, himself reading the speech from
the throne The speech was occupied
chiefly with domestic affairs.
1t has been formally decided at To-
kio to elevate the Japanese legations
at London, Washington, Paris, Berlin
an / st. Petersburg to embassies.
EX-Councilman James P. Davenport
WAS killed and seven other persons
were more CT less seriously injured in
a trolley car collision in Los Angeles.
During the fury of storm at SUI
perior, Wis, four prisoners, after at
tempting general Jail delivery at the
county Jail, escaped by boring through
brick wall
William S. McWilliams has con-
fessed to the murder of his wife and
five children whose mutilated bodies
were found in their home near indie.
pendence, Iowa.
Andrew Hamilton, to whom the New
York Life Insurance company has paid
hundreds of thousands of dollars,
charged to legal expenses, has been
located in Paris.
The British allotment of $31,350,000
of the Japanese loan of $125,00O,000
was so largely over-subscribed that the
lists were closed three hours after
they were opened.
His iugular vein severed and his
neck broken, the dead body of Frank
w. NoetZel, aged %, was discovered
in Detroit, Mich. He had been muir
dered for his money.
The monthly coinage statement is
sued by the director of the mint shows
that the total coinage executed at the
minis of the United Staes during No
vember, 1905, was $3,447,21O.
The Indiana supreme court has de-
cided that telegraph companies can
not be compelled to furnish market
quotations to brokerage firms which
do a so-called bucket-shop business.
Work on the great dam which will
conserve the flood waters of the Rio
Grande and reclaim a quarter of
million acres of land above and below
Ell Paso, Texas, has been authorized.
The town of Stafford, Ariz., is entire
ly cut off by high water. The Globe
ella valley railroad is washed out on
both sides of the town. Heavy rains
have fallen all over southern Arizona
Growing out Of trivial cause, a
suspension of work occurred on the
river front at New Orleans The re-
suit is that no cotton Is being hauled
and other laboring organizations are
die
The American Exchange bank,
owned by j. M. Mitchell Of Mt Car
mel, ILL.,, was robbed early Tuesday |
Of $1,000. A part of the safe was |
blown through the building and across
he street
Col. Wilder S. Metcalf, who succeed |
ed Frederick Funston as colonel of the |
Twentieth Kansas regiment in the
Philippines, has been reappointed to
the office of United States pension
agent at Topeka
Nearly score of persons were in
jured when a crowded passenger train
on the Long Island railroad crashed
into a section of freight train which
had broken apart few minutes be-
fore at Newton, L. l.
Several Panaman and foreign cap
italists are endeavoring to obtain from
the government of Panama a conces-
sion to build railroad across the
lsthmus, the probable route of which
would be from Chiriqui to Bocas del
Toro.
According to advices received by
The steamer Iyo Maru, agents of Ha-
waiian planters are endeavoring to in
duce numbers of Russian prisoners in
Japan to emigrate to Hawaii, offer
ing them work on the sugar planta-
lions.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close of
business November 30, 1905, the debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted
to 1899, 752,831, which Is a decrease
as compared with last month Of $12,-
S93,294.
A terrific blowout of gas has oc-
Cured in the Humble oil field, Texas,
tearing hole in the earth 100 feet in