The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-16

sG:rahce company, have been indicted
by the grand jury on charges of torg-
cry and perjury.
Four persons are known TO be dead
and several others are missing as the
result of fire in New York tenc-
ment which was occupied by 81 fami-
lies.
st. Petersburg newspapers are filed
with dispatches reporting agrarian
, trouble in the interior. in which the
hand of the revolutionists and CEN
trail directing brain are clearly man
ifest.
The steamer Westernland with 1000
passengers aboard went aground on
the shoals at the entrance to Delaware
bay. After being fast IL hours, the
big liner was finally foated without
damage.
Three cases OF yellow fever are un-
der quarantine at Ship Island, quar-
antine station on the Gulf of Mexico
between mouth Of Mississippi and Mo-
bile. Ala.
Fire which for a time threatened to
destroy Armour & Cos, packing plant
| at Omaha, Neb.. was confined to the
! oleomarcerine department with a loss
estimated at 100000.
Charles A. Tucker has been electro
cuted at Boston for the murder of
Mabel Page. March 81. 1904 after hav-
| ing carried his case to the supreme
court of the United States
More than 40 900 Christian Scientists
from all parts of the world attended
/ nf ba
temple erected by that denomination
at Boston.
The bill prohibiting corporations
from making money contributions in
connection with political campaigns
has been passed by the senate.
| r. E. Dewey, Kansas supreme court
reporter. dropped dead from heart
trouble at his home in Topeka
Edward +. Baumann, a clerk in the
United States land Office at Spring
field, Mo. has been discharged because
of alleged Irregularities.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed in St Louis against the principal
of central high school because he sus-
| pended pupil on the eve of gradua-
ton for class pranks in which she was
suspected of having had a part
New Orleans proposes to spend 5000
day during the summer fighting the
yellow fever mosquito following the
methods employed last summer dur
ing the yellow fever outbreak.
Dry weather has materially damaged
the Kansas wheat crop according to
the last report issued by the secretary
of the state board of agriculture.
April first the condition of the crop
was given as S95, while the last re-
port makes 1t 70.5.
Great Britain is planning a series OF
elaborate naval maneuvers, in which
325 warships of various types will be
engaged in testing the efficiency Of the
new admiralty plans for the protection
OF British commerce.
a severe tornado swept over the
country in the vicinity Of st. Paul.
Mimi, recently, killing one person
, and injuring many others. Many
buildings We're destroyed.
The Russian naval court OF inquiry
has presented an indictment against
Admiral Rojestvensky, who COM
manded the Russian fleet at the battle
of the Sea of Japan, charging incom-
potency and failure in the face of an
enemy. If convicted the penalty is
death.
Joseph Boyer, chief clerk in the
Office of the superintendent Of motive
power of the Pennsylvania railroad,
testified at the interstate commerce
hearing at Philadelphia that he was
paid a regular allowance of from
three to five cents a ton on all fuel
coal purchased. Besides this he was
the recipient OF many gifts Of stock
in various coal companies.
John w. Foster, formerly secretary
OF state OF the United States has been
appointed by the Chinese government
as its representative at the approach
ing Hague conference.
The Indiana state democratic con-
vention adopted a platform strongly
indorsing William ]. Bryan for the
presidency.
In clash between striking miners
and the state constabulary at Indiana
Pa, eight Of the strikers were wound
ed, three of them fatally.
King Alfonso, of Spain, has issued a
decree granting amnesty to all army
and navy deserters residing in Amer
| lea.
The Joint conference OF tho Ohio
coal miners and operators adjourned
without reaching an agreement. Both
sides declare the fight is now on to a
! finish.
The government has made all ar
rangements for the registration for the
lands Of the Grow Agency which will
be drawn July at Billings, Mont
The registration dates are June IA to
% at Sheridan and Billings and ex-
| cnntinnallY low rates are nffered To