The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-01-11
NEWS SU NJ NJ RY

boat Urania went on the rocks nea
Ancona, Italy, and was wrecked. Thir
teen of the crew were drowned.
1t may be several weeks before thu
charges filed with Postmaster Gener
al Cortelyou against the New York
cotton exchange are given a hearing
Edward Main and Stephan Joke
wich, two victims of powder mill ex
plosion at Kenosha, Wis, died early
Sunday Three others injured cannot
live.
In a riot of 400 Greek laborers en-
ployed on the United Railroads in San
Francisco, Markos Romantics, a Greek,
was struck on the head by brick and
killed.
A westbound Rock Island passen-
ger train ran into an open switch
near Kingsfisher, Oklahoma. One pas
senger was killed and number SER
iously hurt.
Brigadier-General George A. Bell.
U. S. A., retired died at his residence
in Washington on the End He was
brevetted four times for gallant con-
duct during the Civil war.
Snowstorms and billiards. of excep-
tional severity are prevailing through.
out southern and southwestern Rus
STA. Traffic on the railroads is inter-
rupted and great loss of life is res
ported.
The discussion of the episode in
Brownsville, Texas, which resulted in
the discharge of three companies of
negro troops, will continue this week
the topic of paramount interest in the.
senate.
One man is dead, one severely
wounded and another slightly injured,
as the result of a desperate fight
which occurred between Mexicans in
the public road nine miles east Of
Ell Paso, Texas.
Mrs. Lena Margaret Lillis of David
City, Neb., in the penitentiary for
life for the murder of her husband
Harvey Lillis, four years ago, has been
granted an unconditional pardon by
Governor Mickey.
Advices from Lowell, Ariz., are to
he effect that the damage done to the
own by the explosion of the Dem.
Arizona company's magazine contain.
ng $500 pounds of dynamite, will be
ess than 100000.
The elective state officers of Mi.
'higan, with the exceptions of Cover
Tor Warner and Acknowledgement
Bird, were administered the oath of
fice on the 1st Governor Warmers
Illness prevented his being present.
A plenary council of the French
ishops to discuss the situation of the
hurch in France, has been summoned
} meet January Is at the Chateau
e la Muette, where Louis XVI and
larie Antoinette passed their honey
loon.
State Senator Smith will introduce
bill in the Kansas legislature pro-
ding that all marriage engagements
ust be published in local papers and
lurches at least thirty days before
lie wedding ceremony is to be per-
rmed.
Six hundred and fifty miners went
/ strike at Grass Valley, Cal, on the
Id. Every union miner, with the ex-
ption of fifty, who are employed
four of the smaller mines, went
It. The miners demand an eight
,ur day.
Mrs. Harry German, daughter of
'vernor J. Frank Hardy, was shot
her home at Laporte, Ind, by an in
ne man while she was walking with
r husband. The shots struck both
r. and Mrs. German, but did no
rious injury.
There is little doubt that the senate
Il order an immediate investiga-
N of the discharge of negro troops
the Twenty-fifth infantry on &C
unit of their alleged participation in
J shooting up of the town of
ownsvile, Tex.
At the boarding house in Joplin,
y, where he lived, F. w. Troy ia
ly shot his wife, Patosia, aged 80,
'ough the head and breast, and
1t Ralph Quinn, aged "a, son of the
ID lady, through the shoulder.
inn will recover.
according to information sent to
lge George B. gray of Wilmington,
a., the dispute between the Sou
IN railway company and it's ma
nlsts has been adjusted He was