The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
NEWS SU I'M NJ A RY


There are no signs of abatement in
the smallpox epidemic at Vienna. Du'
ring the last few days 10000 persons
haze been vaccinated
Building construction in Havana is
at standstill because OF a strike OF
masons, who have demanded the pay.
ment of wages in American money.
Six men were blown to pieces at Bos-
tov-on-the-Don, Russia. by the acciden-
tai discharge of two bombs which
they were carrying through the streets.
William H. Abercrombie, formerly
United States consul at Nagasaki, ia
pan, committed suicide by asphyxiation
at his apartments in Washington, D. c.
John J. Phillips, prominent coal
operator, was shot by burglar at his
home in Cleveland, Ohio, and died a
few hours later. The murderer es-
capped.
A heavy wind and rainstorm, with
binding electric flashes, passed over
Fort Gaines, Ga, causing much dam
age to property, but no loss Of life is
reported.
A political sensation was caused in
Pittsburg last week when the grand
jury indicted four prominent politi.
clans for participation in the alleged
tax receipt frauds.
The finding of the dead body of Jer-
ry Johnson, colored, with five bullet
holes piercing it, is believed to be the
sequel of an attempt to assault Mrs.
W. w. Ellard, at North Birmingham,
Ala.
Mrs. George P. Clifford, of Grand
Forks, N. D.. was probably fatally in
jured near Ashby, MinnL by the over
turning of an automobile in which she
and her husband were touring to st.
Paul.
King Edward has commissioned Mrs.
Leslie Cotton, portrA pit painter of
New York, to paint bis portrait. Two
sittings already Have been given and
the results s9 far are most satisfac-
tory.
The general land Office. announces
that the total cash receipts from the
disposal of public land for the fiscal
year ended juno 80 last, were $S,494,-
1888, an increa$e for the year of
81 ,S99,414.
Moronto Chico, matador, was caught
on the horns Of bull in the ring at |
Ell Paso, Texas, land horribly mangled |
in the presence OF thousands of specta-
.ors 1t is believed his injury will |
prove fatal.
Mrs. Louisa Hill Cartbajal, wife of
4 farmer, and seven children, were
drowned in food, resulting from
leavy rains, in Alamo creek, Sierra
county, New Mexico. The flood caused
lamage estimated at 100000.
General Pleasant Porter, the noted
thief of the Creek Indian nation, died
It Vinita, I. T., following a, stroke of
paralysis, aged &c years. Second
thief Mety Tiger will succeed General
Porter as chief of the nation.
The navy department has decided to
kristen the 20,000-ton battleship No.
g, sister ship to the Delaware, the
Jew York. This can lie effected by
hanging the name of the armored
ruiser of that name to the Saratoga.
A wireless outfit which the police
elieve was used for transmitting race
ews to the pool rooms of New York
'ity, was seized in cottage near the
Bay race track on the 3rd.
'wo men were arrested in the apart
lent.
Fifty persons are SAID to have been
uried alive by vast avalanche of
now that has rolled down the noun
lin side and obliterated the Chilean
lstom house at Juncal This station
on the Argentine frontier, high up
/ the Andes.
By the explosion of lamp in an up
airs room, the two young children OF
aron Anderson of Cowan Hollow, Pa,
ere burned to death Anderson and
s aged father were hciplessly ill and
ere so badly burned that they, too,
ill probably die.
The Korean insurgents are abandon
g organized resistance to the Jap
lese. They now destroy the rail
avs and telegraph lines and murder
harmed Japanese, of whom they al
ady have killed seventeen, shocking
mutilating the bodies
A dispatch received in Paris from
e governor general Of Indo-China |
,clared that Thanh Thai, the deposed {
ng of AMMAN, has abdicated in favor c
his S-year-old son, who now rules t
mann with the aid of regents, con S
sting Of the counsels Of ministers.
James Bellows McGregor, said to be t
e oldest Mason in the world, COM u
eted his 106th year with public re- +
ption at Mount Sunapee, N. Y, On p
e 9Th. He was born in 1901. His q
ming of the Masonic order in 1927 Il
axes him member OF 80 years
anding. !,
Twelve persons were killed and v
elve Others injured in a wreck of an s.
press train on the Rock Island rail. Il
ad at Norris, la. The express train, IT
Itch was north-bound, jumped the Il
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