Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-10-12
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No sooner has Dana Gibson turned
his back on Paris than European
newspapers commenced to cast doubts
on the hitherto unquestioned beauty
of the Gibson Girl"
The indictment charging manslaugh-
ter against VIII ]. Davis. manager of
the Iroquois theater at Chicago. at the
time of the fire in that building. which
caused so many lives to be lost, has
been set to be tried at Danville, Ill.
The date has not yet been decided
upon.
report comes from Honolulu that
the transport Sheridan has been float
ed. The transport ran ashore near
BARRIERS point on August 81. The YES
sel was foated or October 1. but COM
menced to founder and was beached
near Pearl harbor.
II is understood that Lloyd Griscom,
at present ambassador to Brazil, is to
be transferred to st. Petersburg
ia place of Ambassador Meyer
when the latter becomes a member of
President Roosevelts cabinet.
Rock Rapids.-Because her husband
insisted on attending the street car
niyal at Sioux Falls, Mrs. Bert Smith
opened fire on him. Smith retailiated.
and an exchange of shots followed.
Smith was wounded in the back and
will die. Mrs. Smith received a slight
hesh wound in the arm.
It it authoritatively reported that
Senator Plat will soon resign on ac-
count of i'll health.
Reports from Cahuenga ranch near
Los Angeles state that the disastrous
mountain fires which swept clean 300
square miles of lands, are fast dying
out
A brillian meteor passed over Phoe-
nix. Ariz., from east to west recently,
having been witnesses by many peo-
pie. When a short distance beyond
the zenith 1t exploded with a report
like thunder. Witnesses say the spec
tacular effect was very like the explo-
sion of huge rocket.
The disarmament of the rebels can
not be successfully completed until
the volunteers organized by the Gu
ban government have been paid off,
disarmed and disbanded.
Leading negroes Of Birmingham,
Ala, have formed a society for the
people. 1t is known as the Represen-
tative council.
The torpedo boat destroyer Preble
went on the rocks on the coast north
OF Santa Barbara, Cal. Sunday night
while going to the aid of the steam
schooner Shasta. She was soon float
ed
Bishop Walters, president of the
Afro-American council, issued a call
to the colored people throughout the
country. appointing Sunday, October q
as a day of prayer.
Mrs. Andrew Miller. aged SO, was
seriously burned at Walla Walla by
the explosion of a lamp that set fire
to the house, which was totally de
stroyed, with all its contents. The
accident was caused by knocking the
lamp from a table.
Private Thomas Anderson of Com
pany M, Fourteenth infantry, fatally
shot Corporal Anthony Bridger, also
OF Company M, at Van Couver las
Saturday. Bridger died from hi'
wounds an hour later.
The thirteenth annual Spokane In
terstate fair came to clase Saturday
night. The complete figures for thu
10 days of the fair place the tota
number of persons who paid admis
sions to the grounds at 1898.
A city without a saloon, brothel, the
alter or Sunday cigar store is in pro
cess of incubation for the state o
washington. William Arthur, a wei
known architect of Omaha, Neb.. IN
tends to establish city in which tn
prohibitionists will control and he ha
selected this state for his colony.
]. White of Livingston was seize
with heart failure and fell into tn
rock crusher where he was at worl
in Portland, Ore. He was mercilessl
torn and bruised before the eyes
his fellow workmen, and he was dyin
when removed. An autopsy shove
that he had heart disease. He wa
married In Butte in 1894 and is SUI
vived by a widow and two children.
JAP CONTROL IN MANcHURIf
Railroad to Be Exclusively In Hand