The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-02-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

the lower house Of the Kansas legisla
\ kure.
According to advices from Esser
Prussia, $4,000 men are idle as tn
result Of the miners strike.
BY q vote OF 43 to 70, the Nebrask
house defeated the Cunningham bill
making the playing Of football in tn
state q felony.
At a stirring meeting Chicago Slav
have organized to aid their country
men in the revolution which they dc
clare will come in the Austrian EN-
Pire.
The city of Shanghai is crowded.
with Port Arthur refugees. Most 0
them are orderly, and nearly all hav'
plenty Of money, but many are sleep
Ing in the streets.
Nine. Kuga, the opera singer, who
alluding to the events of January 20
recently congratulated the military
on Russia's first victory, has been ex
PEELED from Russia.
The drought from which the Riukiu
islands, between Japan and Formosa
suffered in 1904, has caused famine
and there is now much distress
throughout the islands.
Secretary Hay has signed with M.
Takahira, the Japanese minister, an
arbitration treaty between the United
States and Japan, identical with those
signed with the other nations.
According to report from Radon,
Russia, twenty workmen have been
killed or wounded in strike disorders
there, while at Skarzysko twenty-four
have been killed and forty wounded.
Advices from Monte Christi Repub-
lic Of Santo Domingo, state that all is
quiet there and the control of the Gus
toms at that port by the Americans
has been accepted by the authorities.
Curare, the most subtle and deadly
poison known to modern science, is
believed by DR.. Joseph Springer, for
merly coroner's physician, to have
caused the death of Johann Hoch's
wives.
The assassin of Soininen, pro-
curator-general of Finland, has been
identified as Earl Leonard Hohenthal,
formerly student at Helsinfors. He
maintains an obstinate silence under |
examination
It is stated on high authority that |
James Burton Reynolds of Massachu-
sets has been decided upon as the
successor of Robert B. Armstrong, as
sistant secretary of the treasury In
charge Of the customs.
Bigler Johnson pleaded guilty at To-
wanda, Pa, to the charges that he
murdered his wife, Maggie B. John
son, and her niece, Annie BENJAMIN,
10 years old, in September last, and
afterwards burned the bodies.
Mrs. Sophia Merritt, charged with
the murder and burning Of Maggie B.
johnson and her sons wife in Sep
TENDER last, was acquitted at Towan-
da, Pa. Bigler Johnson, the dead wo-
mans husband, pleaded guilty.
The opinion is generally expressed
that Arizona's chances for admission
have been greatly improved by the
favorable action as to New Mexico ,,
and that the territory will be admit
ted by the Fifty-ninth congress.
President pro tenn Frye on Satur-
day introduced in the senate the petit. {
ton of c. w. Post of Michigan, asking
for the expulsion of Senator Plat of .
New York. 1t was referred to the 6
committee on privileges and elections.
Ernest Blackmar and his 16-year.old =,
son, Earlin, of Meridian, Suffer coun. ,
ty were drowned in the Sacramento Z
river at Marysville, CAL, while cross :
ing in row boat A third man es- '
capped death by clinging to the over t
turned boat. +
At the close of the inquest held at
Watching, N. j. into the death of
George Williams, the grocer of that
town who was found shot to death in
his sleigh, the jury found that he
came to his death by pistol shot by q
George Wood. S
Emperor William will give his sup
port to officers drinking toasts in
water or non-alcoholic beverages. The
emperor's decision came about !
through DR.. Adolph Banner of Munich, y
member Of the society against the Z
misuse of spurious liquors v
The house committee on public
lands has authorized a favorable re.
port on the Brooks BILL increasing
from 100 to GAO acres the amount of /
land that may be taken up under the s
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