The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-27
NEWS SUMMARY

board of health that twenty cases of
beri beri have developed among Jap
anese laborers at Alva, Neb.
The dock laborers strike at Ant
werp is ended, mixed commission
having been selected to examine and
pass upon the question of wages.
Final figures for the new state of
Oklahoma show a total population OF
1,141,O42, Oklahoma having 721,141 in
habitants and Indian Territory G29,901.
Minister Urgarte, of Honduras, has
informed the department of state that
on Sept. is the constitutional regime
was re-established in the republic of
Honduras.
The Nebraska supreme court has
handed down decision holding that
a person cannot devise an interest in
timber claim unless a patent has
been issued.
Panic-stricken when a barge in
which they were crossing the ALLIE
gheny river began to sink, six work
man of Pittsburg jumped into the river
and We're drowned.
The United States cruiser squadron
from the Asiatic station, consisting OF
the Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Vir'
ginia and Colorado, have sailed from
Honolulu for San Francisco.
The San Domingo congress has
passed a resolution delegating to the
executive of that government full pow
err and authority to act on the O,0O0,'
900 San Dominican loan contract.
At a session of the international
congress of miners at Salzburg, Aus
tria, resolution was adopted opposing
any restriction of the output of coal.
The Americans voted affirmatively.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has adopted resolution reduc'
ing the maximum passenger fares In
South Dakota from 3 to IN cents a
mile, to become effective October 10
| After chasing people into their
| homes at the point of revolver and
clearing saloons of patrons, George
White, a negro, was shot and killed by
, Deputy Sheriff Will Blake, of Collins
vile, III.
H. Czolgosz and his wife, parents
of the assassin of President McKin
ley have applied to the city charity
department of Cleveland, O., for as
sistance Czolgosz is SO and his wife
75 years old.
]. S. Cook, Southern Pacific brake
man residing in Los Angeles, was in
stantly killed while trying to board a
westbound passenger train at Cotton
Cal, on which his wife was returning
from the east.
| Acting upon the recommendation OF
Governor Post the executive council
has decided upon, compulsory yaccina
| ton on the Porto Rican island. Six
hundred thousand vaccine points have
| been ordered.
| Edward Richardson, an aeronaut
dropped 1000 feet to death at the Mi
ami county fair at Troy, N. Y. His
| parachute broke and he shot to the
| ground like an arrow, striking on a
tree and was killed.
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, kinder
! garten teacher in the public schools OF
| Chicago, was found dead in bed at her
home, her neck broken by piece OF
linen cloth twisted about her throat
| The police suspect a colored chore
| man.
BY mortgaging his own and his
family's property, State Tax Commits
sioner John Fitzpatrick, of New Or
leans, has raised funds to return SIG,
600 stolen from the state by Charles
! E. Letten, clerk in Fitzpatrick's
office.
Two Russians entered bank al
Montreaux, Switzerland, shot and
| killed the cashier, seized the cash
box and fled. A crowd gave chase
The robbers fred at and wounded -four
of their pursuers before they were
captured. ,
Under the will of the late Thomas r
liter, treasurer Of the grand lodge Of
Masons of Pennsylvania, his entire es
tate, valued at about $2,500,000, is de
! yised to the credit of the grand lodge
of Pennsylvania for the education ant
support of male orphans of the Master
Masons.
In San Francisco the Geary stree
line has resumed operations for the
first time since the strike began sew
eral months ago. The company has
agreed to pay the city, 10 per cent o
it's gross receipts. No discrimination
will be made between union and non
union men.
Five hundred members of the In
dependent Boot and Shoe Cutters
union of st. Louis have struck TO-
shorter hours and increased wages
All the shoe factories in the city arr
affected save ones which signed tn
union agreement.
agreement
Ludwig Szczygiel, the Roman Cathc
lie priest from Chicago who has beer
on trial at Pittsburg for the murde
of Andrew and Stephen Starzcynski
brothers, was convicted of murder il
the second degree by jury Th