Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-05-03
news OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Warrants are out in Paris for the
arrest of the 81 signatories of the re-
cent antimilitarism manifesto, but only
seven of them have been captured.
John D. Rockefeller has decided to
the University of Chicago a tract of
land consisting of 10 city blocks valu-
ed at 100000. The tract extends
from Cottage Grove avenue to Madison
avenue, in Chicago.
E. G. Russell, executive agent of the
Grand Trunk Pacific railway, COM
mitted suicide at Port Simpson recent
ly.
On account of i'll health, David S. w
Wilcox, who recently resigned the
presidency of the Delaware & Hudson
railroad, is said to have shot himself
while on board the steamship Bar
borossa near New York
st. Louis-Aeronaut Allen Hawley
of New York city made an ascension
here Saturday in the balloon Orient,
and was carried 81 miles before COM
ing to earth. He landed in safety
seven miles east of Carrollton, H., aft
er being up for one hour and 55 min
utes.
Joaquin Cassarto, a young million
aire of Pueblo, was shot and killed by
a revolver which is supposed to have
fallen from the pocket of a priest
while the couple were riding together
in an automobile and to have thus
been accidentally discharged. The
priest has been arrested and will be
held pending an investigation.
Mrs. Ida Won ClauSsen, who is
much angered over the refusal of Mr.
Graves, United States minister to
Sweden, because of his refusal to pre-
sent her to King Oscar has given out
the text of letter which she has sent
tc the prime minister of Sweden, de-
handing that Graves be expelled be-
cause of what, she says, are insults to
the king.
Russell Sage Raphael of New York,
with his mother and sisters, may come
into the possession of a fortune as a
result of a suit which he has brought
against the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road and Rio Grande Western rail
road as holders of property of the
Wassatchan e. Jordan Valley Railroad
company, upon which Nathan Raphael
held $630,000 worth of second mort
gage securities. Through an error
made by law clerk in the foreclosure
of the first mortgage those proceedings
may be invalidated.
A Seattle woman who withheld her
name, signing only Mrs. j. B." has
donated to the famine stricken Chinese
articles of valuable jewelry.
Rock Island-Nine women and three
children were injured, one woman in
jured, one woman seriously, in the col
lapse of a sidewalk at the opening of
a 10 cent store.
A more than usually determined agi-
tation against things English has been
inaugurated in industrial Ireland
Taft, secretary of war, announces
that American troops would not be
withdrawn from Cuba until September
1, 1908.
Fallon, Mo.-A locomotive on the
Wabash railroad blew up recently and
killed three trainmen.
The a-Yukon-Pacihc exposition
may cost $10,OO0,OOO.
Charles Purdy and William Binkley
of Los Angeles who in the United
States district court at Pocatello plead
ed guilty to unlawfully shipping ell
teeth and elk heads from Idaho into
California, and who were sentenced bJ
Federal Judge DIETRICH to pay a fine
of 5000 each on consideration that the
other two indictments against then
would be dismissed by the government
were rearrested on complaint of the
federal authorities of Wyoming on tho
charge of killing elk in Yellowstone
park, and of wantonly slaughterins
elk in the Jackson Hole country. The
killing of elk in the park is a felon!
punishable by Imprisonment. Thi!
move on the part of the government
will have far reaching effects in the
preservation of elk in the northwes
as urged by the president in a letter
to Grand Exalted Ruler Melvin of the
b. p. o. Z.