Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-06-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Natonal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Mrs. William ]. Bryan and Miss
Bryan have sailed for Europe.
The wheat harvest this year in Kan
sas is earlier than it has been for
five years before.
A part of the business section of
Johnson City, ILL.,, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, 100000.
Senator w. A. Clark of Montana
says he and Mr.. Hartman are on
friendly terms in railroad affairs.
Otis Bolts, 81 years old, was execut-
ed in the county jail at Peoria, ILL.,,
last Saturday for the murder OF his
wife in January last.
The law prohibiting the wearing OF
feathers taken from all kinds of birds
except those of domestic fowls, has
gone into effect in Missouri.
Great alarm is felt at Baku, especial
ly among the Armenians, as it is fear
ed that in the street fighting massa-
ores may commence any day.
For the first time in the history OF
the West Point military academy, two
representatives of the Chinese empire
have been admitted as cadets to that
institution.
The president has appointed a COM
mittee of five to report to him on I'M
proved methods of doing the public
business in the various bureaus and
departments.
A check for $4,000 is said to heve
been given by Charles H. Thaw OF
New York to Frances Rush, formerly
chorus girl, who received a divorce
from Thaw recently.
Frederick Arnold, aged 20, and New
: ton Andrews, aged FL, were hanged
at the Colorado state penitentiary Fri
day for the murder of Mrs. Amanda
: Youngblood in Denver two years ago
Mystery surrounds the death Of Mrs
: John Young and Miss Media Pyle, Ii
: wears of age, whose bodies were founC
y close together in Pecatonica river a
o Freeport, Ill. A suicide compact Il
D. believed to have been entered int
! by the two.
Secretary of War Taft has emphat
. lcally put an end to reports that h
- would succeed Chief Justice Fuller o
- the supreme court. A report was cui
- rent that Fuller was to be appointed
- member of the Hague tribunal to max
h way for Taft.
=, Mrs. Paul Kress has killed her fou
"A small children and committed suicid
a. at her home near Killer. Wis. Sh
M used a butcher knife, cutting thei
threats. The eldest was six and Tn
Youngest a baby. The woman ha
been in i'll health.
General Kuropatkin has telegraphe
IL to a marshal of nobility at Mosco
f. expressing his regret at the peace ag
lie tation among the zemstvos and mum
o. cipalities. in view of what he consider
Is, the complete certainty of victory b
Is. the Russian army.
he Admiral Bob" Evans, on receI
er visit to a Japanese man of war. wa
sc surprised to be saluted Familiarity
en- the commander, who, he found, ha
re formerl served as his boy or pc
ST. sonal attendant on his flagship. Tit
Nv is the reason no more Japs are to
used in Uncle Sans navy.
he Commissioner of Pensions Ware hi
IT. decided that after July l all orders Il
NJ the medical examination of penslC
20 claims shall emanate from the medic
"a branch Of the bureau, under the dire
'e- ton of the medical referee. The pr
llo posed change will dispense with Il
ICE use of more than 200 examining ST
10 geons.
ne In a recent decision handed doy
'ne bv the supreme court of West V
30 pinia. the ruling of Tax Commission
,no Dillon that oil, gas and coal leases a
e. subject to state taxation is sustain
-0- and will bring up on the tax boo
s40O 100000 of valuation and sever
million dollars annual revenue to t
state and counties.
Y A requiem mass was celebrated >
to urday at the naval chapel in St.
the tersburg for the repose of the sol
the of the officers and other members
nto the crew of the battleship Alexant
400 ILL.,. who, the admiralty announc
hat went down to a man in the battle
eep the Sea of Japan. There was OF
at one survivor of each of the CONF
the ments of the battleships Borodino
am Navarin.
hen
'wn Bunker Hill Day Is Observed.