The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-02-09
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Eighteen persons were injured as
the result of a passenger train wreck
near Towner, N. D.
According to the latest returns near,
iy a million persons in Japan are on
the verge of starvation.
Provincial Councillor Filonoff was
fred at five times and killed at Pail
tava, Russia, by an unknown assassin.
Many people are burning corn at
Lubbock, Tex, as it is the only fuel
they can get. Coal is worth $50 per,
ton.
Vast quantities of soft coal are be-
ing stored in vessels at lake ports in
anticipation of a possible strike Of the?
miners.
Fifteen persons were injured, two
probably fatally, in railroad wreck
near Durham, N. M, seven cars being
ditched.
It is announced upon reliable au-,
thority that Admiral Togo will visit.
America in April with two armored
| cruisers.
| One miner was killed and three
others were seriously injured by an
explosion in Ball Knob mine No. 2,
near Delorme. w. Va.
An agreement providing for the es-
adjustment of parcel post at cheap
rates between Sweden and the United
States has been concluded.
A race war has again broken out in
the region between Elizabethpol and
Shusha, where the Armenians and
Tartars are massacreing each other.
Four more anarchists, making six
teen during the past fortnight, were
shot without trial in the citadel at
Warsaw. Of the total fifteen were
Jews.
The double tracking of the railroad
across the Isthmus of Panama is pro.
crossing rapidly, and it is expected
that both tracks will be ready for ser,
vice in July
The funerals Of the thirty-two men
who were killed by machine guns at
Vladivostok January %, near the com.
mandant's house, were held in solemn
state on the 30th.
Rocco Bell who had been arrested
on a charge of burglary, committed
suicide in the county Jail in Chicago
hanging himself with a rope made
from the bed sheet.
The president has sent the nomina,
ton of James Smith of California to
be governor general of the Philippine
islands, vice Henry Clay Ide, resigned,
to take effect June 1, 1906.
Lady Grey of London, wife of Sir
Edward Grey, the foreign minister,
who sustained conclusion of the brain
by being thrown from her trap at Ell
bingham, Northumberland, is dead.
1t is reported in Vienna that mill.
tary convention has been concluded
between Italy and Montenegro, for the
purpose of breaking down Austrias
predominating influence in the Bal.
kans.
Frank Willard, halfbreed, who
murdered Sheriff Smith at Ukiah.
CAL, on December % last, has been
sentenced by Judge Burnett of Santa
Rosa to be hanged at San Quentin on
April 49,
Doubt as to the marriage of Mrs.
Charles T. Yerkes to Wilson Miner
have been set at rest by the filing of
the certificate of the marriage with
the bureau of vital statistics in New
York City.
House committee on the District of
Columbia has decided to report with
out recommendation the Adams bill,
'hS whipping pOSL DIS d pun
lshment for wife-beaters in the Dis
Erict of Columbia.
A statement prepared by the depart
nent of commerce and labor shows
hat the commerce between Italy and
he United States in the fiscal year
1905 aggregated $77,5OO,OOO, almost
equally divided between imports and
exports.
Informal negotiations for the float
ition of Russian loan have again
'een taken up in Paris. The amount
mentioned in official circles varies,
tut $4OO,O00,OO0 is generally spoken
#, with the price at 80 and interest
It 5 per cent.
William Walter Hamilton. a negro.
vas hanged in the Jail in Washington
or the murder of Lizzie Lyman, his
Common law wife. The drop fell at Z
'clock and death ensued twelve min
ties later. The crime was particu-
arly brutal one.