The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-20
NEWS SU M NJ A RY

newspapers will continue at work. This
decision was reached at meeting of
operators held in Chicago.
The great council of Red Men, in
session at Norfolk, Va, adopted an
amendment prohibiting membership to
all saloon keepers and bartenders.
This is not, however, retroactive.
The board of police commissioners
has elected w. J. Buggy chief of po-
lice of San Francisco. Buggy served
short term as chief of police under
Mayor Phelan several years ago.
Five negroes who were shooting
craps on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad track near Newbery, W. Va,
were run down and killed by train,
The bodies were horribly mangled.
w. F. Lawrence, a liveryman of IA
doka, S. D., shot his wife at Sioux City,
Iowa, as she was boarding an outgo-
ing train He then committed suicide.
! The woman had refused to live with
him.
dispatch, has accepted the delivery of
an armored motor car, capable of re-
sisting rife fire, Carrying a machine
gun and having Accommodations for ten
men.
The Siberian postal train was held
up by highwaymen at a point near
Tomsk, Siberia. They separated the
engine from the freight cars and then
seized $4,000, with which they es'
capped.
w. H. Rogers, the only colored mem
Der of the Georgia legislature, has re-
signed his seat. He gave no reason,
but it is believed that the passage OF
the negro Acknowledgement bill infiu'
enced him.
A general railroad strike is threat,
ened in England as the result OF the
long struggle of the Railwaymen's
union with the British railway COM
panies for the recognition of theil
organization.
Anthracite and bituminous operators
say that the coal situation is grow.
ing serious throughout Pennsylvania,
and it is freely predicted that before
midwinter there will be famine in
many places.
Chester R. Runyan, paying teller OF
the Windsor Trust company, of New
York, who confessed to sealing $780,.
900 of the company's funds, has been
sentenced to serve seven years in
Sing Sing prison.
M. Borodulink, superintendent of the
Aquitita political prison at Trans,
Baikalia, Russia, was asassinated by an
unknown person on the streetssof Pa
koff, his home village, where he was
spending a vacation.
The anniversary of the admission of
California into the Union was celebrat-
ed at San Jose, in splendid style, by
the Native Sons of the Golden West
A parade in which 10000 persons par
ticipated was the feature.
The coroner's jury has rendered a
verdict that it could not state the real
cause of the fall of the Quebec, Cana
da, bridge, but declared that, according
to the evidence adduced, all necessary
precautions were taken.
Emperor William, it is stated, will
make a special effort to give the Amer
lean secretary of war, William Fl.
Taft, hearty reception and memora-
BILE entertainment during his sojourn
in Germany two months hence.
The United States army transport
Thomas, which sailed recently for
Manila, was in communication by wire
less telegraph with San Francisco
while off North Head, Wash, dis
lance of 720 miles from San Francisco.
AS measure to promote the eradi-
cation of the plague, the San Francis
co board of health has offered boun-
ty of ten cents on every rat caught
in the city and county of San Francis
co and properly delivered to the health
officer.
John r. White, wealthy South Da-
kota stockman has been convicted in
tho federal court at Deadwood, S. D.,
of illegal fencing of government lands,
and sentenced to thirty days impris-
onment in the county Jail and to a fine
of 5000.
An insane man named Loiski, arrest |
ed on suspicion that he was the rip |
per- who murdered several school
girls recently, has escaped from the |
observation ward of the prison hospit- +,
al at Berlin 1t is feared he will per. |
petrate fresh crimes.
Mark Twain will not pilot President /
Roosevelt's steamer down the Missis- !
sippi when the president makes his
southern and western trip. Mr.. Glenn
ems has declined the invitation to at
tend the waterways convention in
Memphis next month.
Edward w. Vanderbilt, the aged re-
tired merchant of Brooklyn, who mar
ried May s. Pepper bright Eyes,, the
spiritualist medium, Is incapable OF
his affairs because of lunacy,
according to verdict returned by a
sheriffs jury in Brooklyn.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, of"afinity"
fapoa hoe raturned Tn New York He