Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-03-29
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Events.
Harry Thaw's lawyers believe him
sane.
H. Clay Ewing, who was attorney
general of Missouri from 1872 to 1874,
is dead.
"a. l.. Lawshe has been appointed
third assistant postmaster general to
succeed Edwin G. Madden, resigned.
The Chicago Orchestral association
has been given $4,000 by Mrs. Flor
ence Lathrop Page of Washington,
| D. c.
Edward A Slack, receiver of the
land Office, a we'll known newspaper
man and a pioneer of Wyoming, is
dead.
The navy department has ordered
the equipment of the United States
ship San Francisco as a mine laying
vessel.
George ]. Woodruff of the forestry
service has been appointed assistant
attorney general to succeed Frank l..
Campbell.
Mrs. John Comeau and three chill
dren were frozen to death in a snow
recent blizzard.
| The 18th annual meeting of the
Trans Mississippi Commercial con-
gress will be held at Muskegee, l. T.,
November 10 to %.
Ward M Synder, son of a Pittsburg
millionaire, has been indicted at Sap
ulpa, l. T., by the grand jury on the
charge of bigamy.
Officials of the Pennsylvania rail
road are satisfied that robbery was the
motive for wrecking the Chicago linn
tied near Stewart, Pa.
A statement of the business of the
general land Office shows material
increase in the number of entries,
filings and selections made.
Fire at Ironton, o., caused 100000
loss in two hours. The entire plant
of the Ironton Lumber company and
nine residences were destroyed.
The government will enter on
thorough prosecution of all men in
Gicted for fraudulent dealings in coal
and agricultural lands in Nebraska.
The French committee on hygiene
has reported favorably on the prohi-
bition of the manufacture and sale
= of absinthe, after one and two years
:, respectively.
u James w. Van Cleave of st. Louis
is in Boston agitating the formation
) of a gigantic employers organization
on the plan of the American Fedora
. lon Of Labor.
Secretary Taft has reconsidered his
decision of an earlier date in regard
to the eight hour law, saying it does
{ not apply to cooks, captains, deck
hands and pilots.
The steamship Northwest, formerly
i the Orizaba of the Ward line on the
Atlantic, lies a wreck on the south
end of La Touche island on the south
i western coast of Alaska.
AT North Baltimore, Ohio, Arthur
Bean killed his wife with an AK and
y then committed suicide by shooting
/ himself. Bean had forbidden his wife
visiting her family.
/ A fire which started in the boiler
room of the Bluff City Lumber com
> pany at Pine Bluff, Ark, destroyed
: several residences and the plant. The
less will exceed 100000.
President Roosevelt has expressed
his disapproval of the verdict of ac-
quittal Of Captain Lewis M. Koehler,
of the Fourth cavalry, U. S. A, COM
J mander at Jolo, Philippine islands.
According to the weather bureau
Friday was the hottest March day
ever experienced in Washington, ID.
c., the thermometer registering 80 de-
grees at o'clock in the afternoon.
The rehearsal of the closing ex-
u ercises at a country school house west
. of Carmi, ILL.,, ended in tragedy and
: the arrest of farmer for the MUIR
> der of a man who had been his friend
: and neighbor for years.
J, Major c. W. Penrose of the Twenty
fifth infantry has been acquitted of the
. charge of neglect of duty preferred
against him at the instance of Presi-
dent Roosevelt for alleged misconduct
: in connection with the shooting up"
y of Brownsville, Texas, by negro sol
= d:eTs of the Twenty-fifth infantry, last
z August
Sacramento, Cal.-Because his lit
: tie granddaughter, Ellen Gum, re
= fused to sing a second song to him
Monico Echeverria shot her in the
= left side and then fired at his daught
= er, Mrs. Cato and Miss McKenna be
y fore sending a bullet into his OWL
. brain. The granddaughter is not ex
% pected to live.
Secretary of War Taft has recon-
mended mitigation of sentence of Cap
tain Will Cochran, Twenty-fourth
T. infantry, who was convicted in the
Is Philippines of drunkenness and sen
is fenced 10 dismissal The secretary's