Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-09-28
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH lfEHS FROM
ALL PARTS Of The GLuBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week--NatIonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

LIT. Lappon1, physician to the pope,
Is ill with cancer of the stomach.
The German mission to the sultan
at Fee, headed by DR.. Rozen. the Ger
man minister. has left Tangier.
At Marysville, KY, James Chester
Savage, aged IL years, confessed that
he deliberately shot and killed his
cousin, William l. Savage.
John Frederick Wiessner, president
Of the j. F. Wiessner Banking COM
pany at Baltimore. died recently OF
Brights disease, aged Al years.
Simplified spelling in civil service
examinations will be accepted the
same as the old style, according to an
order just issued by the civil service
commissioners.
Three persons were injured and a
five-story brick building destroyed by
fire in Chicago in the paint and oil
factory of the Wadsworth-H oyland
company at Chicago.
At Springfield, o., Albert Davis, col
ored, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree. He murdered his
sweetheart Hazel Reed, last June, in
an unusually atrocious manner.
Captain Humphrey, depot quarter
master at Honolulu, states that the big
army transport Sheridan, which re-
Gently went on the rocks at BARRIERS
point, near that city, wouiI be saved.
The Goldfelds Daily Sun has been
sold to ]. M. Burnell, of Denver, and
its name will be changed. The trans
fer is a victory for the Industrial
Workers of the World, as they dicta-
ted the terms.
M. Santos-Dumont does not think
much of the success of Professor Bell.
the young Canadian vino is reported
to have Unanswered an aeroplane at
Brantford, Ontario, by means of wire
less" electrical power.
richly jeweled crown which cost
100000 and was known as the Grown
OF ST. Michael, has disappeared from
the church at Mont st. Michael.
France, where it was placed in 1875
by the parishioners, who subscribed
to buy it.
The Texas state synod of the Cum
Derland Presbyterian church passed
resolution repudiating the action of the
general assembly church in session at
Decatur last May, at which they de-
clared union of the Cumberland and
the Presbyterian church of the United
States of America.
With the departure of the flagship
Chicago from Bremerton navy yard
near Seattle the entire Pacific squad
ron will be in movement for Califor-
MIA waters, after having been there
the past six weeks, following the re-
lief OF command of Admiral Goodrich
by Admiral Swinburne.
Carl Daenzer, the Nestor of the Ger
man-American press, is at the age of
80 years, in Germany, where he had
spent the last few years since his re-
trement from the editorship of the
Anzieger des Westerns, the Oldest daily
newspaper in the West. having been
started in 1884.
While in some departments the
Washington State fair, which closed
Saturday, was far superior to any of
the FORMER ones in other departments,
IL tell Tar behind other years. The
races were the best ever held here,
while the poultry exhibit is acknowl-
edged by all fanciers to be the largest
and best ever given in the northwest,
not even excepting the Portland expo
sition. The stock and fruit exhibits
were both below former standards, the
stock being poor.
the competition of the two great
machinery producing countries of the
world, the United States and Great
Britain, is marked by several interest
ing features. Statistics show that
America leads in new and skilfful me-
chanisms to save the cost of labor,
while British leadership is In bulk of
production and export. Both coun-
tries are rapidly increasing their for
eign sales.
Announcement has been received Of
the engagement of Miss Gertrude Hill
OF st. Paul, daughter of ]. ]. ILL, pres
ident of the Great Northern Railway,
TO Michael Gavin, II. of Memphis. The
date for the wedding is not yet fixed,
but 1t probably will be celebrated just
before the Christmas holidays at the
Catholic cathedral of st. Paul It is
said that Archbishop Ireland will Of
nciate. Gavin is the son of the late
M. Gavin, one of the wealthiest gro
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