Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-07-07
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The interested eyes of 100000 en-
thusiastic Epworth Leaguers are turn
ed upon Denver, Col, this week for the
seventh annual international conven-
tion of the Epworth League was call
cd TO order Wednesday, and the ensu-
ing proceedings will be the theme of
conversation in Methodist homes all
over the land.
There are persistent rumors current
in Washington that the unexpected
visit to the United States of Major |
General Leonard A. Wood is due to
the fact that he is obliged to undergo
a serious surgical operation. 1t is
said that he has had some trouble
with his head which necessitated his
return from the Philippines to consult
specialists.
Mrs. Augusta Chaplin, one of the
hest known woman's rights agitators
in the country, is dead from pneu-
monia in a hospital at New York. She
was SO years old, and had been i'll.
Charles II. treat of New York has
succeeded Ellis H. Roberts as treasur-
er of the United States. Mr.. Roberts,
who had held the position for eight
wears, has left for Utica, N. Y, where
he will make his home.
Oyster Bay, L. Henry Seymour
of Vantage, l.. l., unarmed and ap-
parently harmless, was arrested at
Sycamore Hill while making repeated
and persistent efforts to see President
Roosevelt He was released on prom
Use to leave town at once.
II is believed IN official circles Hay
will be succeeded by Joseph II. Choate.
Society has now a rare bit of Cos
sin in the rumored intention of Lieu
tenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. 5.
A., retired, to lead to the altar the
blooming widow of Philadelphia's IA
nous DR.. Huidekoper.
John Deeny, 10 years of age, messen-
ger, while returning from the bank
with $500 in a wallet was held up at
Chicago by man who threw red pep
per in his eyes and grabbed the money
and escaped.
The St. Petersburg police have dis
covered eight completed and p hall
completed bombs and so cannisters OF
explosives in house occupied by a
government employe in the village OF
Vera near Tsarsko-Selo.
One of the tallest buildings in the
world is to be erected on the site OF
DR.. Parkhurst's Madison Squire Pres
byterian church, New York, by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company
st. Petersburg.-The resignation OF
Minister of the Interior Bouligan is re
garded as impending. He probably VIII
be succeeded by Count Ignatieff, form
erly governor of Kief.
More than $50 policemen, under the
personal direction of Director of Pub
lie Safety Potter and aided by agents
of the law and order society, recently
raided numerous houses of i'll reput'
and other disorderly places, making
500 arrests.
Santiago, Chile.-Tenders will b.
made November Is for the building o
a railway from africa to Lapaz, Bolivia
Chile will give a per cent guarantee
during a period of 20 years, and dc
post of $25O,000 will be made to tax
part of the tenders.
Three soldiers of Company L
Eleventh infantry, while rowing O.
Sloan's lake, some miles north of Che
yenne. were drowned owing to tn
boat leaking.
Admiral Sigsbee's squadron, wit
the body of John Paul Jones, expect
to leave France July and to arriv
aff TlIlV ~
Disastrous floods in the neignpol
hood of Valdez, Alaska, are reporte
in special cable advices received tooa
from the north by Major Glassfor'
There has been no loss of life, but
cabins were swept away and fully
mile of telegraph poles washed GU
There are continuous disorders
Borisoff, Russia, and adjacent countr
district, and scarcely a night passe
without shooting ARRAYS
At bingham, Mass, Commander
Chief w. w. Blackmar of the Gran
Army of the Republic is i'll at his sur
mer home.
King Oscar has relieved G. Hagu
secretary of the legation OF Swede
and Norway at Washington, OF n
functions at the legation. Mr.. Hag'
is a Norwegian.
Cherbourg,-The municipality
Cherbourg has arranged an elabora
program in honor of the America
feet, consisting of concerts, illumin
tons and receptions.
1t was suggested recently by Il
delegates to the convention of the !
dustrial union that May 1 be made
Dor day instead of the first Mond'