Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-02-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerselY Told.

A son has been born to Prince
Chun, the Chinese emperor's brother.
Karl Joubert, the well known writer
on Russian subjects, died in London
recently.
A plan is on foot to buy the Abra-
ham Lincoln homestead and convert
it into national park.
Horace A. Taylor, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, has rendered to
the president his resignation.
Sir William Joseph Greene. who
came to Denver five years ago from
Boston, seeking health, is dead.
Two prolonged and severe earth
quake shocks were felt at Roseau,
Island of Dominica, B. w. l., recently.
James w. Alexander, former presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, is seriously i'll in New York.
Pat Grove is now a prisoner in the
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jail, and will be
arraigned on the charge of streetcar
robbery.
The shipping companies at Fiume,
Hungary, have yielded to the demands
of the strikers and work has been re-
sumed in all trades.
Nearly 5000 Americans, men, wom-
en- and children, are in peril of death
at the hands of Chinese mobs in the
threatened Boxer uprising.
The state department has received
a cablegram from Shanghai, China,
saying that the conditions in that city
are not such as to cause any alarm
The American consul at Fort de
France, Martinique, reports an earth
quake recently, the most terrific in
"a years. Little damage was done.
An urgent writ has been served on
Count Boni de Castellane, making him
defendant in the separation proceed
ings of his wife, formerly Anna Gould.
L. S. Montague, son of Sir Samuel
: Montague, the well known London
4 banker, will be the liberal candidate
; for the city of London against former
d, Premier Balfour.
! The city of Boston officially cele-
= brated the Longworth-Ro we'd
ding Saturday, the mayor ordering all
Il bells in the city to ring 10 minutes
beginning at noon.
Morris Caplin, who operates an
auction business in Denver, was muir
. dered in the dining room of his home
by a masked man, who entered for
the purpose of robbery.
Lord de Clifford of London was mar
ried February 10 at st. Margaret's
!, church, Westminster, to Eva Caring
2 ton, who is now playing a small part
10 in "Bluebell in Fairyland."
10 Governor Dineen of Illinois has re
ferred to the state board of pardons
the petition of Johann Hoch for a
. communication of sentence He is sen
fenced to hang February %.
The Iowa house of representatives
i has passed a bill making it a misde
y meanor, punishable by fine and i'm
~ prisonment, to discharge firecrackers
= or other explosives on July 4.
u In pursuance of his campaign fol
the betterment of the army, Lord
a Roberts has issued a manifesto tc
- the British nation advocating that
il drill and the use of the rifle be taught
in all public schools.
The largest picture ever painted In
France and perhaps the world, was
inspected by the Fine Arts commission
at the Gallerie des Machines. It is
. 246 feet square. and contains more
than 1000 life size figures. The pic
ture represents the mob, after the TAX
= ing of the Bastile, marching with La
% fayette to the Hotel de Vile. 1t IL
- the work of M. George Roussel.