Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-03-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

company.
Ann Arbor.-Prof. A. p. Pattengill
OF tho University of Michigan. is dead
Starvation has forced blacks In the
northeastern Australian gold fields tc
cannibalism.
The average low temperature for
Nebraska Saturday night was sever
degrees below zero.
Plague is prevalent at Nouemea
French New Caledonia. A number Of
deaths have occurred.
The Dresses Machine Tool com
pany's plant of Cincinnati, burned re
Gently. Loss 100000.
Lyman j. Gage, former secretary OF
the treasury, has decided to resign as
president of the United States Trust
Martha Wolfenstein, authoress. the
daughter of DR.. s. Wolfenstein, died
recently at the home of her father In
Cleveland.
DR.. Y G.. Allen, 46 years old, a mis-
sionary to China, called upon the pres
ident recently and urged relaxation OF
the exclusion law.
OhAOhtoWnf nhdi1 nnCiAAl-
trick. believed to be the Oldest per
son in western Pennsylvania. Saturday
celebrated her 10Sth birthday.
dinner to the Gridiron club, the ia
nous organization of Washington cor
respondents, whose guest he had been
on many occasions during the past 22
years.
st. Petersburg.-There is already
evidence that only a check and not a
defeat has been administered to the re-
actionists who are conducting the an
ti-semetic agitation.
Non-negotiable bonds and mortgage
notes worth $4,000 were stolen re-
Gently by robbers. who blew open the
safe. In the office of Frank Troost. a
monument maker of Chicago.
Professor II. w. Smith of the Eng
lish department of the Spokane high
school has resigned his position and
has gone to Butte, where he has been
elected to the principalship of a gram
mar school.
One man was killed and three 9th
ers we're injured. one of them perhaps
fatally. during a fight In the saloon
OF Henry Dusing at Lakeview. near
Chicago. The dead man Is William
Curry.
No matter what the results of the
troubles in Russia-no matter whether
the first experiment into the realms of
a parliamentary government is or is
not a .,ocaoo tho c1or hfuooalf io aQa-
ing rapidly.
The United Mine Workers conven-
ton this morning voted $4,000 and as
much more as necessary to defend the
western miners arrested and charged
with the murder of Ex-Governor Steu-
nenberg of Idaho.
Berlin.-The police have just dis
covered that married couple by the
name of Schmolz, living at Gelsenkir-
chen. have since their marriage, in
1897. killed seven out of the eight
children born to them.
Charles M. Travers and o. c. Lille
pleaded guilty to misapplication of the
funds of the First National bank of
Conneaut, Ohio and we're sentenced to
six years Imprisonment. The bank
failed as a result of their crimes.
The finding Of the Canadian com.
missioners who Investigated the Va,
lencia disaster is ready and will be
presented during this week 1t is
stated to find the wreck due to error
of Judgment on the part OF Captain
Johnson.
The president has announced the
reappointment of Rear Admiral Endi
colt. chief of the bureau of docks and
yards in the navy department. Ad
miral Endicott will continue as a mem
Der of the isthmian canal commission
He will be placed on the retired list
next November
Columbus.-The American Express
company has brought suit against G
E. FLETCHER. who is serving a six years
sentence in the state prison for ar
son, for S4,311. It is charged thai
Letcher was the agent of the com
pany at Fayette Ohio, 20 years ago
and burned the office.
Judge Dillon of Columbus. Ohio has
sentenced frankie McHugh. formerly
featherweight champion of Ohio, t
four years in the penitentiary fol
knocking down w. A. Watkins Of
Pittsburg in the street and robbinl
him of $1,000. McHugh was assisted
by four other men. who received like
sentences.
Burglars recently committed a dar
ing crime at Longbeach. Cal. money
and drafts to the amount of $4,000
being stolen from a room in the Parh
hotel. Only a few minutes elapsed
before the robbery was discovered
but the thief had made good his es
cape. The money and the drafts were
the property Of Mrs. NJ. King, of Mon
tana