The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-05-12
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4 q. H. Lewis, cashier of the Middle
ton bank at Waverly, Mo-, has disap
peared with $4,000 belonging to the
bank.
The lower peninsula of Michigan
was swept by storm which did 500,
600 damage to green houses and or.
chards.
A band of masked robbers rodeAinto
Gilbertsville, N. Y, blew open the safe
in the bank and made their escape
with $500.
Building operations in Brooklyn are
almost at a standstil as the result of
strike of ehod-carriers, bricklayers
and plasterers.
Tax Collector Smith, who disap-
peared from San Francisco with $62,-
900 belonging to the city, has been
captured in st. Louis.
Former State Senator Bunkers OF
San Francisco, convicted of accepting
bribe, has been sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
A typhoon which swept over the
coast of south China last week is said
to have damaged the Russian second
Pacific squadron considerably.
Four employees of the Southern Pa
cific railroad, on trains running out OF
El Paso, are under arrest at Lords
burg, N. M, charged with smuggling
Chinese into the United States.
All records were broken Sunday in
the number of immigrants that passed
quarantine. Within twelve hours 12,.
039 foreigners, arriving in steerage.
were permitted to enter New York.
1t is believed that body was placed
in box half filled with quicklime and
thrown into the sound near Vashon
island, Wash, about six weeks ago. 1t
is believed a murder was committed.
The grand jury of San Francisco
has presented an indictment against
Pietro Torturici and his wife, Rosa
Torturici, charging them with the
murder of Diagio Vilando on the night
of April 6.
China has informed the United
States that she is using every effort
to prevent the departure from her wat
ers of the Russian cruiser Askold and
the Russian torpedo boat now informed
at Shanghai.
The caucus of Republican members |
If the Connecticut legislature to nom
nate successor to the late Senator
D. H. Plat, chose Congressman F. D.
of New London on the
ballot.
A miniature Coxey army is forming
among the striking army boot-workers
n Northampton. 1t is proposed to
march on the war Office in London and
ay the mems grievances in regard to
BAY, ETC., before the officials.
Fred Bruhn, cadet at the state
reform school at Whittier, CAL, lost
lis life by falling from a dormitory
window while making at attempt to
escape. He fell fully forty feet, strik-
ng on the cement pavement.
The court of appeals for the District
If Columbia has decided that the Sec
'etary of the treasury cannot be en-
oined from paying the $4,000 900 ap-
by congress for the pur-
'hase of the Panama canal property.
Mrs. Nettie Craven, who claimed to
re the common law wife of Senator
Fair of California, died in hospital
t Washington, Iowa, last week. She
vas brought to the hospital recently
rom Burlington, deranged mentally.
E. J. Smiley, secretary Of the Kan
as Grain-Dealers' association, was
asst week placed in Jail at Lacrosse,
IAN, to serve a ninety days sentence
t the United States supreme court
Or the violation of the antitrust law.
The government has. granted per-
Mission to M. Tereschtenko, a rich
ugar refner of Kieff, whose property
as greatly damaged by rioters in
[arch, to organize military company
$50 men to protect his factories and I
Their property.
A report from Crete, which wishes
unite with Greece, says the situa-
on in that island is very grave, the {
having taken the charac-
n of brigand methods, with theft, :
urder, incendiarism and outrages
pom women.
The Paris Mathis correspondent at
ez learns from an authoritative
ource that the sultan of Morocco rec
gnizes the necessity for the reforms !
roposed by France, but only consents
0 their carrying out by a concert OF
European powers.
The Krunps' immense contracts