The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-05-19
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set Tor nearing by the United State
court Of appeals for October 3.
A destructive windstorm struc
Lawrence, Kans., on the 10th, doin
considerable damage to buildings.
Hiram Cronk, said to be the onl
survivor of the war OF 1912, died a
Ava, N. Y, on the 18th, at the age O
los.
Excavations near Pompeii have re
suited in the finding of human skele
ton and nearby a large quantity o
jewelry.
During storm at Marietta, Ohio
circus tent was struck by lightning
one person being killed and severa
injured.
A windstorm at Kingman, Kans., die
much damage to buildings, and John
L. Franks was fatally injured by a
falling building
A dispatch from Odessa says It ia
reported that thirteen Jews have been
killed in riots at Melitopol, in the gov.
eminent of Taurida, Russia.
J. C. Teller of Colorado was indicted
at Cheyenne by the Federal grand jury
on charges of having cut and removed
100000 railroad ties from government
land in Wyoming.
AS an initial step in the rapproach-
ment with Chile the Peruvian govern
ment has appointed it's minister to
Washington, Senior Manuel Juarez Cal
deron, minister to Chile.
1t is reported from Szatmar, Hun.
gary, that a rowboat containing four
teen peasants was capsized while
crossing the river, with the result that
eleven women were drowned.
Two prospectors, brothers named
Killings, were found dead in their cab
In near Three Forks, B. c., under cir
cumstances which point to either muir
der and suicide or double murder.
Returns to the chief of the bureau OF
statistics, department of agriculture,
up to May l, show the area under
cultivation of winter wheat on that
date to have been 29,723,000 acres.
Truman Mason, aged 65, shot and IA
tally wounded DR.. V. Davis at the post
Office in Wapella, ILL.,, and then killed
himself. The shooting grew out of an
assault on Davis by Mason six months
ago.
In view of the situation in the island
Of Crete, the Italian battleship Sar-
dogma and the cruiser Giovanni Bau-
san have been ordered from Rome to
go to Sunda bay, in the northern part |
Of that island.
Police Sergeant James Higgins, who
had been in service twenty-five years,
was murdered at Erie, Pa, while ar.
resting burglar who was coming out
If the Central school building. The
burglar escaped.
Ten persons were hurt in the wreck
If the Frisco Meteor" the Oklahoma
md Texas limited train, in the Rose
lale, Kan, railroad yards by the
Meteor" crashing into five box cars
which stood on the main line.
Because of unrequitted love Peter
katheister of Lincoln, Neb, shot and
Tiled Miss Grace Townsley, Is years
I'D and a lieutenant in the volunteers
# America. He then shot himself
vice, dying in few minutes.
John Hewitt of Adel, Ca, shot and
Tiled his wife, shot her sister and
rother wounding them slightly, and s
Vhen surrounded by a posse of citi- s
ems, shot and killed himself. Hewitt's c
aind had been affected by ill-health. +
-Four men were killed and two score
theirs were more or less seriously \
urned by the collapse of an immense
asholder at the Point Breeze works
the United Gas Improvement com.
any, in the southern part of Philadel.
hia.
Louis J. Rens, one of the best :,
nown men in Oconto, Wis, agent for =
ne McEachern company, has commit
cd suicide by shooting, in barn near ,
nat city. A shortage of more than {
100000 has been found in his &C.
cunts. Il
Reports from the island of Crete
epresent the situation there as ex-
remedy grave. Prince George, repre-.
enting the powers. is unable to con-
rol events and it is expected the in.
urgents will attack the International
roops.
Four armed men attempted to break
nto the magazine of the Fourth Don
regiment at Schuchin, Rus
ian Poland, to blow up the stores of
but were driven off by the
guard after revolver fusillade. They
eScaped.