Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-10-20
A Review of happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

spective copies Of the peace treaty,
thus officially ending the war.
Stockholm.-Both houses of parlia-
ment have unanimously adopted the
government bill providing for the rat
ifcation of the Karlstadt treaty.
The Costa Rican government has or
dered a census Of the Chinese in the
country in order that those who have
entered illegally may be banished.
The strike of the Berlin electrical
workers is ended. The workmen ac-
cept the associated companies original
offer of per cent increase in wages.
Mary e. Golding. cashier for the
Larkin Soap company, has confessed
that she has embezzled at least $4,000
from the company within four years.
The view prevails in official quarters
at Paris that month may elapse be-
fore a decision is reached as to what
steps shall be taken against Venezu-
ella
While the races at the county fair at
Bucyrus, Ohio, we're in progress the
grandstand was discovered to be on
fire. A panic followed and many were
injured
The line from Sioux City to Ashland.
which is to connect the Great Northern
and Burlington railroad system at
Sioux City, Iowa, will be operated by
the Burlington.
The final subscriptions to the latest
Japanese loan of S50,OOO,OOO financed
in this country three months ago, was
payable Monday. 1t amounts roughly
to about $40,000,000.
The International Harvester COM
pany has purchased the Vulcan works
near Norkoping, Sweden. A Swedish
corporation will be formed to manu-
facture harvesting machinery.
Colonel II. G. Loomis, past depart
ment commander Of the Kansas G. A.
r., is dead. He was lieutenant colonel
of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth
New York volunteers in the civil war.
Dispatches from Reggie Monteleone
and Messina say that further violent
earthquake shocks have occurred and
that considerable damage was done to
property. The people are panic strick-
en-.
The president has accepted the res
ignation of Eugene Tucker as associ-
ate justice of the supreme court of
Arizona, to take effect the 14th inst.
To succeed him the president has APP
pointed Paul lessen.
If the wishes of the people of Pan
anna are to be complied with Secretary
Taft will time his intended visit to the
isthmus to be there November 4, the
date of the anniversary of the sepa-
ration of Panama from Colombia.
Hostilities have broken out between
the Tartars and Armenians around
Elizabethport, Prussia, and bands of
them are firing on each other in viii
lagos. Two Armenian and nine Tar
tar villages have already been de-
stroyed.
Heart broken over the closing of the
Peoria Qll.) National bank, on account
of the alleged defalcation Of Professor
Newton G. Dougherty its president,
Calvin G. Lines, for twenty-one years
bookkeeper and officer of the bank,
died at his home recently.
over a thousand farm laborers, made
desperate by the famine, invaded Mar
ket place at Ecija, As miles from Sc
vile, Spain, recently, seized the stock
of goods and money, destroyed the
market and threw the town into a
panic. The authorities hastily applied
for military relief.
Pope Plus X, in consistory to be
held November Is, will name as the
first South American cardinal Mon
signeur J. A. Dearcovej de Alburque
Calvacanti, archbishop of Rio de ia
Metro. At the same time Monsigneur
Cagiano de Azevedo, major domo of
his holiness, will be created cardi-
nal.
The Missouri building at the Lewis
and Clark fair was destroyed by fire
two days before the fair closed. The
fire is supposed to have originated
from defective electric lighting. The
loss is estimated at $4,000 and the on
ly insurance was $4,000 on some art
exhibits. Practically nothing was saw
ed.
The appraisement of the estate of
William M. Rice, the octogenarian mil
lionaire, who died September %, 1900,
and for whose death by poison Albert
It. Patrick was sentenced TO death, was
filed recently. The gross personal es-
tate held by Mr.. Rice in New York
state is estimated at s3.300,577, and the
net personal estate comes to $50, OSO.