Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
\ Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatlonaI
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

announce the death of Sonora Juan
Quesada, the Cuban Joan Of Arc, at
the age of 20 years.
Judge Lawlor of San Francisco has
postponed until Thursday decision on
the motions to set aside the indict-
ments against Patrick Calhoun, Eu-
gene e. Schmitz, Abe Ruef and others
because the minutes of Judge Gra-
hams department have not been
amended to conform with the facts
Schmitz is not allowed to leave the
county Jail.
Fire has destroyed the Southern |
Pacific depot and hotel and the Nc
Cloud river exchange depot at Sisson, |
Cal, and Miss Laura Sake of New
York, a school teacher, lost her life.
Several others were badly burned,
one, Miss Lizzie Walgamott, wait
ress at the motel, dangerously.
A divorce has been granted Count
ess Rosslyn, formerly Anna Robin
son, the American chorus girl who
married in 1905.
While Queen Maria of Portugal and
her son, Prince Manuel were auto
MODELLING they were stoned by hood
lums, but not seriously injured.
E. H. Hartman has bought the
home of the late Heber r. Bishop at
SS1 Fifth avenue, paying for it about
100000.
The armored cruisers West Vir-
ginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania and
Maryland of Admiral Dayton's Pa
cifc fleet, are expected to start from
Cavite for the United States in 10
days or two weeks.
Professor H. Magnus Olsen, the di-
rector of the Northwest Sangerbund,
which will give the annual northwest
sangerfest in Spokane the last of next
month, is making a tour of the diff
ferent towns of the northwest, procur-
ing singers and giving them an idea
of the general lines of work to be Ia
ken up for the sangerfest.
The body of Miss Lawley, nurse,
was found recently on the beach near
: Victoria, B. c., and there is every in
dication that a murder has been COM
mitted.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, wife of
the vice president, was in an auto acct
| dent 25 miles west of Amsterdam, N.
= Y, but escaped without serious in
jury. The loss of tire ditched the
machine.
| The trustees of the Knights of the
Maccabees have decided to move the
Pacific coast medical department
: headquarters from Oakland, Cal, to
| Salt Lake City, Utah.
The formal notification from the
American government that the French
chambers of commerce had been
placed upon an equal footing with the
German chambers in the matter OF
certificates in relation to the valua
, ton of exports to the United States
has been received with qualification
in France.
The whole Bohemian justice system
: is tied up by a passive resistance
strike of the junior judicial officials
The strikers are demanding more pay
and quicker promotion.
A rebuff from King Victor Emman
uel to one of the American immigra
ton committee visiting Italy studying
immigration conditions is the subject
, of much comment in government and
diplomatic and commercial circles.
The great dock at Callao, Peru
sank recently.
Oscar S. Straus, secretary of com
MERGE and labor, is visiting in Port
land.
| Sixteen thousand men employed by
the United States Steel corporation
and Independent mine owners on the
. Vermilion and Mesaba ranges, are on
strike, paralyzing the entire iron ore
industry of the Lake Superior region
The men ask for a general increase.
James F. English, 35 years of age
and pair clerk of the democratic eau.
Gus of the house, died in Washington
D. c., recently as the result of liver
complications.
The plot to capture or kill General
Alfaro, president of Ecuador, was
very cleverly conceived, but it failed
of its purpose because at the last mo
ment one of the conspirators betrayed
it to the government.
General Hagron, who has been CHIEF
. III COlnduu VI INC rlSHSH army 5inCe
the retirement in June, 1906, of Gen
eral Brugere, has now been retired al
his own request.
Clasped in each others arms
George and Herbert Shire, twins, 1C
( years old, fell into an open sewer in
Philadelphia and were swept into the
Schuyll1ill river and drowned.
. Eight Boston master teamsters
have been sued by New York con
! Germ which makes a business of fur