The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-15
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Fire or 1ncendlafy origin near
ly wiped out the town of Wayne, w
Va.
American ConsulGeneral James R
Parsons, Jr., was killed by an electric
car in Mexico City
Harry Rowe, Is years of age, is dead
at Sidney, Iowa, from internal rupture
sustained in a football game three
weeks ago.
Senator Chauncey Depew of New
York has rendered his resignation a.
a director of the Equitable Life AS
surance society.
Ed Tomlinson, distiller at Keokuk
Falls, Oklahoma, was shot and killed
by F. M. Grundy, the result of a feud
of long standing.
The Constantinople correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph says
that the modified proposals of the
Porte are acceptable to the powers.
The Kaimakem of Yenidje reports
that he has. found in Lake Yenidje
the bodies of forty-four Greeks and
Bulgarians who were killed during the
recent fighting.
The Stockholm Aftonblat says that
two war vessels will be dispatched to
st. Petersburg to protect the Swedes
there and to bring home those who
wish to return.
At Horton, w. Va, seven coal mi.
ners were suffocated. They were
working in a drift, when wooden
stack of the ventilating furnace caught
fire and was consumed.
The budget committee of the Span.
ish chamber of deputies has approved
an extraordinary credit of $4,000,0O0,
to be distributed over four years, for
the purchase of new artillery.
Seven hundred postal and telegraph
officials are on strike at Warsaw.
About a hundred of the officials re-
fused to join the strikers. The strik.
ers have vitrioled the letter boxes.
E. Igoardo, who was employed on the
farm of J. Pacheteau, near Calistoga,
Cal made desperate attempt to kill
Mr.. Pacheteau, after assaulting Pache.
teaus neice, and then inflicted fatal
injuries on himself.
At the Plankinton cafe, in Mitcheh,
S. D., two masked robbers held up
crowd of fifteen men. While one rob-
Der stood guard, the other searched
the victims. The robbers secured sew
eral hundred dollars.
Senator Culberson has introduced
joint resolution setting aside one-half
of the unappropriated public lands in
the Philippines belonging to the Uni
ted States to create permanent pub
lie free school fund
Maj.-Gen. Macarthur, U. S. A., is
guest of Gen. Lord Kitchener, the Brit
ish commando r-in-chief in India, at
the military maneuvers on the occa-
sion of the visit of the Prince and
Princess of Wales to India.
John G. Hanley, who has received
good deal of public notice through con
nection with farmers cooperative
schemes, was indicted by the Federal
grand jury at st. Paul, on charge
of using the mails in furtherance of a
scheme to defraud
The American line steamship Hav
erford has arrived at Philadelphia
from Liverpool after rough voyage.
Among the steerage passengers were
more than 200 Jewish refugees from
Russia They included men, women
and children who lived in the sections
in which the recent massacres &C.
Cured.
Thirty thousand dollars is likely to |
be put into a home for aged and dis
abled sailors by the International |
Seamens union. This was practically |
the report submitted to the convention
in Cleveland, O., by Paul Scharren-
berg of San Francisco.
Many wealthy refugee families from
Odessa and Kishineff have reached
Jassy. They report an alarming
spread of the agrarian movement.
Their train was several times attacked
by maurauders at Bessara, a village
between Odessa and Ungehi.
On account of their being infected
with scales formed by a parasite dan
gerous to native fruit, State Horti-
cultural Commissioner Huntley has
ordered the local fruit inspectors to
fumigate all Japanese oranges re-
ceived at Puget Sound ports recently.
The Lauderdale school (colored),
located in North Birmingham, Ala,
was destroyed by fire Sunday night,
less of $4,000, with insur-
ance estimated at about $1,000. About
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