The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-09-01

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cruel methods OF repression, was
Ail!ed by a young girl as he alighJed
from a train AT tae station at Peter.
Au:.
The comet discovered by Professor
koptf al Heidelburg university Au-
gust - has been observed since by
Prof. Fs'h at the Lick observatory and
Prof. PrzybyleCk Al Koenigsberg.
The cuban government has offered
tionists except captured commanders
if they will lay down their arms.
The sudden drop in temperature
caused frost to appear in the low
lands in Iowa but not sufficient TO
injure the corn crop
The simplified spelling board Of
New York announces that two distin-
guished British scholars, DR.. j. A,
II, MurTy, senior, editor Of the Ok
ford dictionary, and Prof. Joseph
Wright, editor OF the English dialect
dictionary. have accepted member
ship to testify their sympathy with
Ghe aew movement TO improve En-
slish orthosraphy,
The federal grand jury al Chicago
has returned ten indictments against
the STANDARD OIL company. The in
dIctments contain 6.42S counts and
are all in connection with granting
rebates.
The negro troops who have been
stationed at Fort Brown, Tex, and
who created disturbance at Browns
INT.t
Reno.
President Roosevelt has issued
proclamation appealing for aid for
the sufferers by the Chilean earth
quake.
Mexico has decided to prohibit the
importation of arms and ammunition
into the state of Sonora in order to
stop hostile indians there from re-
ceiving supplies.
Revolutionists threw a bomb into
the residence OF Premier Stolypin of
Russia which killed % persons.
Twenty-four persons We're wounded
and the building badly damaged, but
the premier only sustained slight in
jury
Arms and ammunition for the Gu
Ian government consisting of $4,000
/ Remington repeating rifles, 100000
rounds of ammunition and six Cat
ling guns, were shipped from New
York on the steamship Mexico.
Mrs. Josephine Burton Young, a
member of the Holy Rollers" of
Southern California, poured oil over
herself and drank oil, then lit a
match and deliberately set herself on
fire, hoping by the martyrdom of
flames to reach the heavenly throne.
The street car men of San Francis
co made demand upon their enr
/ ployers for $500 per day of eight
hours and the demand not being COM
| piled with as quickly as they wished
a strike was called and all the prin
| cipal lines of the city tied up.
DR.. Thomas. of New York, has
made a second balloon ascension in
which propeller was used enab-
ling him to determine the course of
| flight. They were in the air nearly
"a hours and attained an altitude OF
/ 10000 feet.
President Riesco, OF Chile, in re-
ply to an offer OF help for earthq-
quake sufferers from the European
hanking firm of Rothschild. says he
hopes Chilean resources will be suf-
, ficient for the purpose.
The heaviest rain in nine years fell
at Ell Paso, Tex, recently.
Martial law has been proclaimed
at Valparaiso, Chile, pending rcnabiI-
itation of the city.
Nebraska republicans in state con-
vention nominated George l.. Sheldon
for governor and selected Norris
Brown for United States senator over
Edward Rosewater, the Omaha editor.
Secretary OF the Treasury Shaw has
taken steps to increase the deposits
OF public moneys in national depositor-
les in various parts of die country
to $50. coo each. the amount authorized
by law.
The Ohio democratic state conven-
ton at Columbus adopted a platform
jndorsing William j. Bryan for pres
ident and favoring the initiative and
referendum and the election OF SEN
ators by direct vote of the people.
The plank OF the Anii-Saloon league
favoring the local option for counties
I was defeated
A Unionist party has been formed
, in Salvador to form a Central Amer
lean republic which is 70 inc-':Ge all
the Central American republics as
now constituted.
| The medical department OF the Ger
man government. after an investlsa-
ton, reports many bakeries and
slaughter houses in that country in
an extremely filthy and unsanitary