Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-02-24
AROUND THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF HEMISPHERE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Six men were killed and IA injured
at the Lytel colliery, near Pottsville,
Pa, recently.
The house of congress has passed
the pensions appropriation bill carry
ing s138,250, 700.
Several attacks have been made on
Governor White and Governor-elect
Dawson of West Virginia.
AS the author of ben Hur" the late
General Lew Wallace was known in
practically every country of the globe.
At Charlottesville, Ind, the funeral
of General Lew Wallace last Satur-
day was private, in accordance with
his expressed wishes.
Smelling at the new plant of the
Sullivan Group Mining company, at
Marysville, B. c., should start with the
first furnace about March 1.
Word from Warsaw, Russian Poland,
states that in that city hundreds of
prisoners, mostly strikers and revolu-
tionists, are daily executed.
Funds with which to prosecute the
inquiry into the methods of the Stan
dard Oil company was asked Of the
house recently by the secretary of
commerce and labor.
In diplomatic circles at st. Peters
burg, the opinion is quite generally
expressed that the recent tragedy may
be followed by the decision of the gov
eminent to conclude peace.
The empress of Russia has received
from the women of Moscow an address
piteously appealing to her as wo-
man and a mother to use her influ-
ence with the emperor to secure peace.
The professors who gave their SER
vices free to the st. Petersburg uni
versities by a vote of Ill to decided
not to resume their duties until fall
unless the present demands are grant
ed
Investigation of special dispatches
sent from Arizona points detailing
depredations and massacres by Yaqui
Indians in the state of Sonora, Mex
leo, fails to develop any foundation
for these stories.
Five persons were burned to death
in a dwelling house at Howebrook
A plantation, so miles from Island Falls,
\ Mo. The dead: Mrs. John Chorey and
daughter, Mrs Sampel Antworth and
4 two daughters.
The Arizona Rangers have present
q ed Governor Brodie the finest saddle
they could buy. The governor, who
leaves for the east soon, will present
n the saddle to President Roosevelt with
the compliments of the Rangers, who
# are mostly former rough riders.
One of the most audacious of the
many recent robberies in New York
occurred in the Bronx, when high
wayman attacked Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Cornish in front of their home,
snatched a $4,000 diamond brooch from
Mrs. Cornish's throat, and escaped.
The German consul at Chefoo states
that the taotai has ELECTED confes-
sion from two members of the crew
of a Junk that the German and the
French naval attaches, Guggenheim
and Cuverville, were murdered for rob-
berry and their bodies thrown over
board.
Harry Silverberg, alias a score OF
other names, has been arrested in New
Rest was in connection with swim
bling operation which was to have
reached it's climax on Monday, wher
The prisoner was to receive $4,000
Rom one of his alleged dupes.
Twelve men have been held up by
six armed robbers at the Office of MAJ
Mildenberg, proprietor Of the electric
Hight, oil and gasoline delivery at Chi
cago The highwaymen fired severa
shots as they entered, wounding two
persons. They knocked another un
conscious with blow from revolver
They then took more than $500 ant
escaped.
1t is difficult for an American t.
imagine the conditions under which
the people of Russia who do not hap
pen to be of the official class or mem
0ers of the Romanoff family are com
pelled to live. They are in constan
danger of molestation from the secre
police. either for purposes of black
mail revenge or because of some sus
picious action which might be con
strued as seditious.
Togal Noren of Rossland won thu
championship of Canada in both SIX
events in Rossland, B. c., in connec
tion with the eighth Rossland winte
carnival The ski run from the sum
mill of Monte Cristo mountain to Co
l1nbia avenue beat all previous rec
ords. In the flying jump on Monte
Cristo mountain, made on special!
constructed course, Noren jumped g.
feet without losing his balance.