The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-05-11
NEWS OF TIE WEEn
ties. Important Happenings C .1ss
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Item. Gathered; from All
eGrts of the World Condensed
lktO Small Space for the
Bencnt of Our Readers.
PeroonAl.

pioSe es of the Shelby Steel Tube COM
pany charged with conspiracy TO de-
fraud the United States in connection
with furnishing tubes for war res-
sells. has turned state evidence and
| entered a plea of guilty.
William ID. Haywood is being tried
at Boise, Idaho. on the charge of
having murdered former Governor
Steunenbers
Felix Rodriguez, a Mexican Indian.
died recently at San Antonio, Tex, at
the age OF ils years. He was present
at the battle of the Alamo
Arcanselo Rossi, the noted tenor,
who attempted suicide at Milan recent
ly is dead as aresult of the wounds
inflicted
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Miller were
struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger
ain near Hope. Kan, and both were
Killed.
Gen. j X Hudson, for years a news
paper editor and publisher of Topeka
Kan. and a veteran of both the civil
and Spanish American wars. died at
his home in Tojeka of heart disease
complicated with dropsy after sever
al months illness.
Frank II. Butler who was charged
with the murder of the Marvin boy at
Dover Del, has been released from
custody, for want of sufficient eyi-
dence against him
A. E. Stilwell and a party of 80
capitalists who took a trip over the
,Nf h. fr, isn
have returned.
Admiral Dewey was the guest of
honor at a banquet held in Washington
to celebrate the ninth anniversary Of
the battle of Manila bay
Gen. Kuroki, of the Japanese army,
who won fame in the war with Russia,
is now in this country.
Charles H. Hinton, an assistant ex-
aminer of the patent office, dropped
dead in the lobby of the Y. NJ. c. A.
building in Washington, where he had
just responded to a toast at banquet
John Cudahy. the wellknown Chi
cago packer is critically i'll.
Capt Edgar Macklin, of the Twenty
fifth infantry, has been acquitted by
the court martial which tried him in
connection with the shooting up of
Brownsville, Texas
Arthur Melvin, chief editorial writ
= on the New York American. died
recently in Hamilton. Bermuda, of
heart failure.
Miscellaneous.
William Cross. his wife and two
sons were asphyxiated in New York
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
William A. Brewer, Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was fined $500 at
New York recently for making false
returns to the state superintendent
of insurance.
A warm welcome was extended Gen.
Kuroki and suite upon their arrival
in Seattle. In addition to the thous-
ands Of Americans, hundreds of Jap
anese were on hand to greet their
general.
Serious anti-European riots have
occurred at Rawalpindi, British In
dia. A Hindu mob burned several
buildings, pillaged mission church,
and looted the post office.
Newton Youngblood, a 16-year-old
Oklahoma boy has been sentenced to
prison for life for killing farmer.
A San Francisco newspaper carrier
has been arrested for selling counter
felt money. In his room was found
several hundred dollars of the "greel
good"
Counsel for Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone have issued formal state
ment denying that their clients were in
Idaho at the time of the murder of Gov
nuremberg.
Thirty thousand acres OF irrigated
land near Billings, Mont, are to be
opened for settlement by the govern
ment about July l.
Ten men Of the United States gun
boat Tacoma, while on shore leave at
Santiago, Cuba, were attacked by the
city police and badly injured. An in
vestigation by the authorities was i'm
mediately begun.
Charles J. Steedman, OF New York
and Philadelphia, son Of the late Rear
Admiral Steedman recently commit
ted suicide in a Paris hotel.
The second biennial session Of the
Missouri Federation of Women's clubs
was recently held in Joplin.
The Gath annual meeting of the
State Association of Congregational
churches of Missouri was recently held
at Joplin.
The first Kansas state convention of
the Society of Equity, the farmers
union, held a two days session in
Wichita recently.
The body Of little Horace Marvin Jr.
four years old, was found in the