The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-04-05
NEWS SUMMARY

UlllS,
Fire has practically wiped out the
oyster settlement at Maurice river,
near Millville, N. ].
1t was made public last week that
General Kuroki will represent the Jap.
anese army at the jamestown celebra
| ton.
By the explosion of the boiler of
locomotive drawing a Santa Fe freight
train, near Onava, N. NJ, three mer
were killed.
Safeblowers robbed the Farmers
and Merchants National bank of Han
over, Mich, securing $4,000. The
robbers escaped.
On May l next, all the iron trades
in San Francisco, comprising twenty
one unions and 5000 men, will strike
for an eight-hour day.
The sealing steamer Greenland,
which became disabled upon the seal
ing grounds, has sunk. All members
of her crew were rescued
An unknown woman jumped to
death over the brink of the American
falls from Prospect park, according to
dispatch from Niagara Falls
Steve Zramski is dead and Frank
Holsinger is thought to be fatally
burned as the result of an explosion
at the Lowellville furnace, neal
Youngstown, o.
The explosion of coal oil lamp at
Hutchinson, Kans., started lire that
destroyed the Morton salt plant, the
largest in the world, including a new
$25O,000 addition.
Ripe peaches gathered months ahead
of time were picked last week in PA
uuemine Parish, La. Ghe mildest WIN
ter in thirty years was the cause OF
the early ripening.
Forest fires are raging in South Ala
bama, near the Florida line, and mil
lions of dollars worth of pine timber IS
in peril. Dry weather increases the
difficulty of checking the flames.
The report that Horace N. Marvin,
Il
Jr., the kidnapped boy, has been found
in the woods near the home OF his
father at Kits Hammock, Dela., upon
investigation was found incorrect
In duel over poker game al
Deserve, La, superintendent T. W.
Marcel, of the Ruddock-Orleans Lum
Der company was killed, and Benjamin
Bourgeois. the opponent, was serious
y wounded.
Premier Stolypin has sent clrcu
lar to the governors of provinces or
dering them to prohibit the printing
of news of the Agrarian disorders IL
Roumania, in the fear that they might
spread to Russia.
Harry A. Faulkner, former member
of the st. Louis house of delegates
| who was convicted of boodling ant
sent to the penitentiary for three
years, was released Saturday, having
| served his sentence,
A locomotive attached to an ore
train exploded at Lockwood, Ohio
The engineer, H. M. Watson, cannot
be found and it is thought that ne
was blown to pieces. The fireman ant
a tramp were badly hurt.
DR.. William Under, prominen
physician of Union, S. c., was sho
and killed by Lucy Litsey, who walked
into the physicians office, closed the
door and fired a bullet into his back
The woman was arrested.
An enormous flow of natural ga:
was struck near Huntsville, Ala, las
week. One hundred and seventy fee
of casing, weighing 1000 pounds, wa!
blown out by the pressure, and the
flow has not yet been controlled.
DR.. Marvin, father of Horace Marvin
aged four who has been missing from
his home near Dover, Della, for more
than two weeks, has deposited $l,Oo'
in gold with the cashier of a loca
bank. which will be paid for the return
of the boy.
Elmer Sheppard, a negro known
throughout the country as big Emo,
the heaviest man in the United States
is dead at Appleton, Wis, of fatty de
generation OF the heart. He weighed
$40 pounds, although only seventeen
years old.
That the revolted peasants of Rou
mania are at least temporarily beyon'
the control of the government force
in the field is amply evidenced by tn
stories of pillaging and incendiarisn
coming in from all parts of Moldavii
and Wallachia.
It is stated in Honolulu that Presl
dent Roosevelt has offered to apQoin