The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-23
NEWS SUMMARY

| In Chicago.
John Dogan, railroad flagman, sho
his sister dead at Philadelphia becaus
she refused to lend him money.
Robbers blew open the safe IN tn
Farmers State Bank at New Foulden
Mimi, secured $4,000, and escaped.
A trial for murder at Tchita has es
tablished the fact that voluntary slav
cry exists in many districts of eastern
| Siberia.
A census of the canal zone just com
pleted shows nearly $4,000 inhabitant.
of the zone. About 20 per cent Of thu
total are whites.
A large portion of the business sec
ton Of Princess Anne, county seat Of
Westmoreland county. Va, has beer
destroyed by fire.
Suit is to be instituted by the gov
eminent against the International Har
vester company, for alleged violation
of the Sherman antitrust act.
BY an explosion in dynamite fac'
tory at Doemitz, Germany. nine per
sons were killed, twenty dangerously
injured, and sixty slightly hurt.
Dispatches from Saloniki report thir.
ty Bulgarians killed in battle with
Turkish troops near Menelik. The
Turkish losses were also heavy.
President Roosevelt has issued an
executive order making Labor day,
September 2, a holiday for govern
ment employees and laborers who are
employed by the day.
The National Christian Endeavor So
ciety has planned to raise half mil
lion dollars for building in Boston
as memorial of quarter of CEN
fury of Christian Endeavor work
The American bark Prussia has been
wrecked in the Straits of Magellan
The captain committed suicide when
the vessel ran ashore, and fourteen
passengers in addition to four sailors,
lost their lives.
The Korean supreme court has
passed sentence upon the members of
the Hague deputation. Sang Sol has
been condemned to be hanged and vi
Wi Chow and vi Chun have been SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
Announcement is made that great
artillery training school will be added
to the United States army and estab-
lished at Fortress Monroe, Va, for the
higher technical training of the Off
GERS and enlisted men of the coast ar
tillery corps.
Mrs. Esther Davis, an inmate of the
Home of the Daughters of Jacob, New
York City, was 112 years old Sunday,
and the day was duly celebrated in
the home. Mrs. Davis, to show that
she was still spry, danced few steps
for the guests.
City Food Inspector Cutler of Kan
sas City has notified the national gov
that his tests of California
and Arkansas dried fruits cured with
sulphite shows that this fruit when
cooked is entirely wholesome, and
Kansas City will accept it.
The news comes from Lima, Peru,
to the effect that the British steamer
Columbia, from Panama, struck Saenz
Point, August 8, on Lobos TERRA isl
and, and is total loss. The report
states that both passengers and crew
IT the Inflated steamer were saved.
An alleged Japanese spy, captured
n the Philippines, brought prisoner
o this country for the disposal of the |
military authorities in San Francisco
IN the transport Thomas was ta-
Ken to Mare Island for observation.
The mans name is Tanaki Tsutsuti.
The Trans-Mississippi Commercial |
Congress which convenes at Musko.
zee, in the new state of Oklahoma,
November 1922, will not only be the
,uest of the city of Muskogee, but
will be the guest of the Creek Nation,
n whose ancient territory the city of
1uskOgee is located.
Having in his possession a new
lress suitcase, stuffed with $40 gold
amounting to $4,700, Win
ield Marson, aged Is, was arrested at
)ldtown, Maine, on the charge of steal
ng $4,000 from the Chicopee, Massa-
husetts, National Bank, in which he
lad been employed.
Dispatches from Shanghai state that
he dowager empress has announced
er determination to abdicate at the
ext Chinese new year and hand the
to the emperor. Since 1898,
'hen the dowager took control from
he emperor, she vigorously has kept 4
i'm in the background
Jakob MoIengo, the chief VIII,
aused the Germans more trouble in
leir South African territory than all
theirs, and who has been in British
lstody since he sought refuge in Cape
olony after the last hostilities, es-
aped last week, and with 400 follow. +
RS is again marauding.
A cage containing five miners who
ere about to descend to work at
Pa, shot upward instead OF
onward, struck the top of the tipple
ghty feet above the ground and over.
rned, precipitating the men to the
)ttom of the shaft 400 feet below.
II five were killed
Theodore Olsen, former Danish vice