The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-01-20
NEWS SUNNI AIRY.

Inc Japanese captured z0,OUU prls
oners at Port Arthur. The total mum
Der of inhabitants Is $4,000, of whom
10000 are sick.
John Alexander Dowie has gone t,
] Mexico for the purpose of inspecting
an extensive tract of land on which h
expects to build a second Zion City.
The savings bank of Treyner, Iowa
was dynamited at night and the build
: ing badly wrecked. It is not know
how much was secured by the burg
lars.
The British consul's residence out
side Tangier, Morocco, was attacked
by insurgents during the night of Jan
uary 4. Guards drove the attackers
away.
John Hathaway, negro, who sew
eral years ago rated high as a jockey.
was hanged at Winchester, KY, for
the murder Of Eta Thomas, his sweet
heart.
1t is said that twenty.four persons
lest their lives in the mountains dur
fng the recent blizzard in Switzerland,
fourteeRo Of the casualties being on the
st. BeraAsd pass.
BY the Barking of work train into
freight standing on the Northern
Central track near York, Pa, eighteen
men were injured, five SO badly that
their recovery is doubtful.
Justice Greenbaum of the New
York supreme court has denied the
application of Nan Patterson for bail.
pending new trial on the, charge OF
the murder of Caesar Young>
White Jetton, a negro, less than 10
years old, who, with a negro compan.
ion, assaulted farmer named hobbs.
near Spring Hill, Ark, has been taken
from a constable and lynched.
The fall of Port Arthur has taken
the heart out of the approaching fes-
tivities of the Russian Christmas. It
Is even proposed to dispense with the
Examinations and decorations.
Reports from all the mine in
spectors in the anthracite region OF
Pennsylvania for the year 1904 show
that 564 mine workers were killed in
the region, leaving 272 widows.
Sewing machine agents to the mum.
Der of 200 have decided to inaugurate
a strike in New York City. Nothing
of the kind has ever occurred before in
the profession, and no union had been
thought necessary.
One person was killed, another was
mortally wounded and two others were
wouded less seriously during an at
tempt by the police to capture Harry
Feinberg, wanted on a murder charge.
In Chicago last week.
In the United States district court
at Little Rock, Ark, Judge Byber de-
clared void the amendment to the
constitution Of Arkansas which re-
quires the payment of poll tax as a
qualification for voting.
William Rapson of Joliet, Ills, after
a family quarrel, fatally shot his son,
Herbert, after which the old man
called Herbert's wife out to the barn,
shot and killed her and then shot and
fatally wounded himself.
The British government has offered
Adolph Beck $4,000 in compensation
Tor wrongful Imprisonment Beck was
wrongfully convicted in 1896 of OBJ
aiming money and jewelry from wo
men under false pretences.
The supreme court Of Nebraska has
declared unconstitutional the sugar
'eet bounty law enacted at the legis-
alive session Of 1895. The law pro-
'ided bounty on sugar manufac-
ured from Nebraska grown beets.
Miss Muriel Byram, an heiress,
,nown as one of the most beautiful
women in Chicago society, was found
cad In her boudoir with bullet-hole
through her neck. It is believed she
accidentally shot herself whih clean
ne pistol.
Statistics regarding trade between
'anada and Japan show a decline
uring the past year. The value of
anadian goods exported to Japan and
Japanese goods brought into Can
da were considerably less in 1904
ian in 1903.
Lying across the threshold of his
ONE with bullet-hole in his brain,
ames Reed, aged 80 years, was found
his residence in Brooklyn, victim,
is believed, Of robbers. He lived
one and was known to have a large
I'm Of money.
The news Of the fall Of Port Arthur
as received in Rome at first with in
'edulity. Pope Plus, on hearing the
sws, exclaimed: LET us hope that it