The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-04-12
NEWS SUMMARY

It Is now said that more than 500
painters are on strike In Greater New
York.
The army transport Sheridan ha!
sailed for the Philippines with .
cargo of supplies.
James Wesley has been convicted
at Bemidji, Mimi, of the murder o.
N. o. Dahl and his daughter, and sen
fenced to death.
It is estimated that Is per cent Of
the wheat and rs per cent of the oats
crop in Oklahoma has been destroyed
by the greenbug.
Engineer William Cornell was
killed and two firemen injured in q
read-end collision in the Santa Fe
yard in Los Angeles.
A bill making it unlawful for brew
ers and wholesale liquor men to own
saloons has passed both houses OF the
Nebraska legislature.
A police inspector named Fiolofl
was killed at Soropul, Russia, by a
16-year-old school boy named R1znet.
SOW, who was captured.
A jury at Kenosha, Wis, found Ed.
ward Collier guilty of manslaughter
in running down and killing William
Dryer with his automobile.
Twenty Italians were burned to
death and score or more seriously
injured by the confiagration of al
Italian clearinghouse in San Fran
cisco.
Six trainmen we're killed in head
on collision between two freight
trains on the Missouri and Texas
railroad, six miles south of Fort
WORTH Texas.
The Federal grand jury at Chicago
has returned an indictment contain.
ing It's counts against John r
Walsh, the former president of the
Chicago National bank.
j. s. Williams and Sam Nesbit
miners, were burned to death in their
cabin near Packard Station, Arizona
Their charred bodies were found in
the ruins of the cabin.
A. B. Jacquith, 48 years old, one of
the promoters of the Omaha Grain
exchange, shot and killed himself at
his home in Omaha He is believed
to have been respondent over finan.
cial reserves.
: Catherine Waugh McCullock, who
conducts a law Office in Chicago, and
who is known all over the country
as champion of woman's rights, was
elected justice of the peace in Evan
ston, ILL.,, at the recent election.
Great Britain has not withdrawn OF
in any way altered her request that
the reduction of the expenditures on
ornaments should be placed upon the
programme of subjects to be discussed
at The Hage peace conference.
The comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
for March, 1907, shows the total re.
ceipts to have been $54,221,95 and
the expenditures, $43,6O2,OO7, leaving
a surplus for the month of $1O,619, 1854.
The man arrested in Brooklyn on
suspicion that he murdered Mrs. A.
w. Gentry, of Chicago, has admitted
that he is Considine He said that
he did not kill Mrs. Gentry, but that
she committed suicide in his presence.
Mrs. Phiomena Sotupo and her
four children persisted in tenement |
house fire at Passaic, N. J. Many
and children were taken down
ladders by the fremen, but the So
Lupo family probably were suffocated.
In view of the constant conflicts be-
tween the prefecture, the faculty of
The university and the students, the
at Moscow has been shut
down for one year. The faculty will
endeavor to hold the final eXamina-
ton in May.
Jose Ayala, ex-chief of police of
1uinez, Havana province, was assas-
sinated at Guinez on the 3rd. The
crime apparently was political, as the
victim led the government forces in
he vicinity of Guinez during the Aug
list revolution.
Rev. J. J. Blackshear, who came to
Ohio, from Marshall, Tex,
'ecently to take the pulpit made va
ant by the death of the noted colored
Rev. James Poindexter, was
atally injured by an explosion Of nat
lraI gas in his room.
Edward Murphy, who was employed
Ipon the new Business Mems club. in
he course of erection, in Memphis,
'enn, climbed to the roof of the
uilding and, pouring gallon of