The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-04-20
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a building in Pittsburg.
The Bangor schooner Sallie b.
f%oundered and four of her crew per-
ished off the Maine coast.
The marriage of King Alfonso anc
Princess Ena of B~attenburg has
definitely been fixed for June 1.
Two men were killed and eleven
probably fatally injured in a collision
of two coal cars at the Territory mine
at Charleston, w. Va.
Lewis Persell, a military prisoner
at Fort Mcpherson, Ga, was shot and
instantly killed while making his third
attempt within four months to escape.
An official cable from Caracas states
that department secretaries are still
filling the cabinet positions made va
cant by the resignation of President
Castro.
Capital invested in the carpet n
rag industry in the United States In
creased 20 per cent from 1900 to 1904,
according to a report issued by the cen
sus bureau.
The negotiations between the for
mer Russian finance minister, M. ko-
kovsoff, and the French bankers for a
loan of $500, 900, 900 r proceeding
satisfactorily.
The Kiel Gazette says the German
Crown Prince intends to send his new
small yacht, the Angela II, to Boston
to compete for the Roosevelt cup late
this summer
Luang Prabang, capital of French
Indo-C China, has been almost destroyed
by fire. Five hundred houses and the
French school were burned. No fatal
tiles are recorded.
Mrs. Maud Calvin and two of her
children were killed and two other
children were injured near Greene
vile, Pa, their carriage being struck
by a train at a crossing.
Gen. Cipriano Castro has retired
temporarily from the presidency OF
Venezuela. Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez,
first vice president of the republic, is
the present executive head.
The output of the Transvaal gold
mines for March was 343, 1928 ounces,
valued at SO, 4,O75, which constitutes
a new record, being 10000 ounces over
the previous highest monthly output.
The Uunited States will have the
support of Great Britain in the effort
to secure a postponement OF the Sec
ond peace conference at The Hague
to a later date than proposed by Rus
STA.
The British ship George T. Ray,
bound for Argentina, being in a sinking
condition, was abandoned and burned
off Port Elizabeth. The captain and
crew were brought to port by a Ger
man vessel.
Mrs. John Pruitt, wife of a travelling
evangelist, while brooding over her
husbands absence and the hardships
she and her children were subjected
to, committed suicide at Crowder, l. T.,
by taking carbolic acid.
According to advices from the City
of Mexico, published in Los Angeles,
SIS, 600, 900 will be expended by Los
| Angeles capitalists in the institution
| and operation of a chain of banks along
the west coast of Mexico.
Frank A. Antonini, a barber, aged 81
years, committed suicide at Sonora,
CAL, by shooting himself through the
head while seated in a chair in his
shop. Ill health and u%nrequited love
is given as the reason for the suicide.
Alanazkovic, one of the plotters OF
the assassination of King Alexander
and Queen Draga, was placed on the
ISIlIcu lioI dI ITO oWu ICquool last
week. 1t is hoped that this marks the
beginning of the wedding out of the
%regicides.
A Great Northern passenger train,
| eastbound, was derailed at Cass Lake,
Wis. Engineer O'Flaherty of Superior
was killed. The fireman jumped and
was severely injured, but will recover
| The passengers suffered nothing more
than a shaking up.
Fred Miner, aged %, and an I'm.
known companion jumped from a train
at Richmond, CAL, when they both
struck a picket fence and were thrown
on the track. The train passed over
their bodies, which were mangled be.
yond recognition.
The Laborites have rejected the pro
posed arrangements with the Protec
~tionists for common action in the com
ing federal elections, says a Mel
bourne dispatch, and therefore will
contest every seat where there is a
possibility of success.