The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

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h -Four Porto Rican students at tn,
University Of Michigan, at Ann Arbor
Mich, have been seriously injured II
= coasting accident.
The Arizona legislature has passet
unanimously joint resolution rSo
Resting against statehood with New
Mexico in any form and preferring ter
fitorial government forever.
As result of the fire in the stables
of the Decatur (ll.) Coal company
mine four miners are known to be
dead, one miner is missing, and anoth
er is probably fatally injured.
The Italian government has ISSUED
q decree providing for the abolition o.
slavery in Italy's East African colo
niles, which was denounced years age
by the American consul at Cairo.
The national convention Of the Unit
I'D Mine Workers of America, in SEES
sion at Indianapolis, adopted a resolu
tion forbidding membership to all sa
loon keepers, owners of saloons or bar.
Keepers.
Word was received that q man
named Nevins, alleged to have been a
member of the noted band of horse
thieves which operated in New Mexico,
was shot and killed at Folsom, N. M,
by Deputy Sheriff Thomas.
Shortly after leaving her fathers
store on her way home at night, Miss
Belle Bloodworth, daughter of we'll
known merchant, was found murdered
in an alley in New Decatur, Ills. So
far there is no clue to the perpetrator.
John Kenneth Mackenzie, a mining
engineer, and DR.. Robert G. Coy, a
dentist, both of Chicago, were killed
recently by Indians sixty-tive miles
from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, &C.
cording to word just receiced in Chi
cagO.
William Peterson, a longshoreman,
shot and killed William Nieberg, a sa.
loon keeper, in San Francisco. The
men had had trouble over the divorced
wife of Nieberg, and Peterson was
arrested last week for threatening the
woman.
The coffee crop of Hayti is almost
failure, according to report of the
state department from Minister Pow
ell. He says that not more than 80
per cent of the crop will be saved
This is sad blow to the government
revenues.
Booker T. Washington, principal of
the Tuskegee school for negroes, has
an option on $50 acres of land about
five miles from Montgomery, Ala, and
it is said he will establish thereon
school farm or experiment station for
negroes.
Benjamin Conigisky of Peoria, Ills,
has just been awakened from a five
weeks trance, having succeeded in
hypnotizing himself while studying art
and the occult at Washington, D. G.
Indications are that he will recover
his health.
At Wilson, Kans., City Marshal Till
man shot and killed Sam Hutchinson,
the postmaster and editor of pa
per, and then committed suicide. Sew
eral days ago Tillman whipped Hutch
inson's boy, and the latter scored the
marshal in his paper.
The dead bodies of Miss Mary Con-
way and Mrs. McMurry were discov-
cred in house in San Francis
co. The women had been asphyxiated
by gas and evidently had been dead
for several days. The police believe
that the deaths were accidental
In a recurrence of earthquake in
Thesaly, a village was destroyed and
several persons killed or injured.
Floods are general in Greece, especial
ly in Sparta, in consequence of the
continued rains. Much damage has
been done and traffic is suspended.
Because her husband unbraided her
for smoking cigarettes, habit which
had undermined her health and which
she could not conquer, Mrs. Sadie
Thompson of Chicago swallowed
dose of corrosive sublimate and died
after lingering and agonizing illness.
An explosion in stereopticon out
fit during a lecture on volcanoes mar
rowly missed causing serious panic
in the Oyster Bay, N. " high school
building. A blaze followed the eXplo.
sion and the crowd scrambled wildly
for the doors. No one was seriously
hurt.
James Abshire and his son fought a
revolver and shotgun duel with L. A.
Pradd and man AIMED Holley, near
Roanoke, w. Va. The three first
named are dead. One of the men is
alleged to have offered an insult to
the wife of another, which caused the
shooting.
The strike situation in Russia Is
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