The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-05-26
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In a collision between two freigh
trains two miles south of Echols, KY.
eight men were killed and four in
jured.
Ivan Kaleieff, who assassinatet
Grand Duke Sergius,. February II, al
Moscow, was executed at st. Peters
burg on the 18th.
The total number of deaths as the
result of the tornado at Snyder, Okla
homa, according to the best estimate
obtainable, is ninety-seven.
The United Brethren general con
ference at Topeka, Kans., voted in
favor of union with the Congrega.
stional and Methodist Protestant
churches.
At Gale, l. t., a man named White
head shot and killed his stepdaughter,
also a man named Terrill and Terrill' s
wife and mother, and then shot and
killed himself
The $1O,OOOOO0 Carnegie fund to es-
tablish retiring pension fund for col
lege teachers has been formally incor-
porated at Albany, N. Y, with the Sec
rotary of state.
Most of the rivers in northern and
central Italy are overflowing, owing to
almost continuous rains for six days.
Thousands of acres of farming lands
are under water.
Morris w. Algoe has been held I'M
der bonds to the district court, under
the charge of having attempted to
blackmail Edward Rosewater, pro-
prietor of the Omaha Bee.
A policeman was found dead at
Alexandropol, Transcaucasia He had
ben knocked down during the night,
terribly beaten, his nose and ears cut
off and his eyes gouged out.
The Dutch steamship Wilhelmina,
captured by a Japanese torpedo-boat
destroyer while on her way to Vladi-
vostok with Cardiff coal, has ben de-
clared confiscated by the prize court
at Sasebo.
Seventeen men imprisoned at Bar
celonia, Spain, for connection with
anarchistic affairs, were released on
the 18th, on the occasion of the cele-
bration of the nineteenth birthday of
King Alfonso.
The flood waters of the Rio Grande
having completely washed away all
their crops, hundreds of people are
suffering near Berino, N. NJ, and ap-
peals have been made for aid to Ell
Paso and elsewhere.
News has been received in Manila
that Pala, the outlaw Moro chief, who
has been pursued the past two weeks
On the island of Jolo by troops under
the command of General Leonard |
Wood, has been killed.
The Calkins block at Kenosha,
Wis, in which the postoffice was To-
Gated, has been burned to the ground. |
John Smith, a painters apprentice,
was killed and one of the postoffice
was overcome by smoke.
The jury in the trial of DR.. G. R.
Koch, charged with the murder of DR..
|. A. Bebhardt at New Ulm, Mimi, last
was unable to agree on a
verdict and has been discharged. This
was the second disagreement in the
case.
The committee of the house of com.
mons has commenced the considera-
ion of the bill providing for the in
;tallation in London of electric light
Ind pneumatic tube systems similar
o those in use in America. j. P. Nor.
ian is among the promoters of the
company.
Representatives of Chicago street
ailway companies last week declared
heir willingness to sell their traction
to the municipality. The
1alue to be placed upon the lines and
he terms of sale were made questions
or future consideration.
A. D. McDougall of Prescott, Ariz,
S dead, and three other men, A. Pack
I'D, machinist; Charles Card and
William Kimball, were rendered un-
onscious as the result of poisonous
ases encountered in the city water
unnel at Santa Barbara, Cal.
Carl M. Spencer, a former trusted
mploye of the Des Moines Qowa) Ma
ional bank, has confessed to embez-
ling $4,000. Spencer claims he spent
he money in paying for medical treat
nent for his invalid son in an en-
leayor to save the boys life.
DR.. Frederick w. Spiers, editor of
The Booklovers' Magazine, is dead at
his home in Lansdowne a suburb of
Philadelphia, after a short illness. DR..