The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-02-15
NEWS e larry

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n destroyed the winter crops in sever;
r provinces.
The coolest weather of the preser
8 winter Is being experienced in ives
ern Pennsylvania, western Ohio an
> eastern Virginia.
The January statement OF the Lor
Ion board of trade shows increase
Of $35,331 900 in imports and of S21
10000 in exports.
Troops have been sent to the cope
: mines in the Ashio district, Japan
where the miners made an attacl
upon the property, using dynamite
freely.
The Texas legislature has passed {
bill providing that a special tax o.
$4,000 be assessed against every ex
press office in the state handling shin
ments of liquor.
Six miners were killed and twelve
or more injured in a wreck of a. coal
train on the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad near the corporate limits OF
Des Moines, Iowa.
Fifteen wood cutters were over.
whelmed by an avalanche in the Mus
Gel district of the Pennsylvania moun.
tains. All the men were dead when
dug out of the snow.
There is danger of an outbreak of
war in Central America, although eft
forts at arbitration are being made In
the city of San Salvador in the hope
OF preventing hostilities.
The state senate of California has
unanimously passed a bill making II
a crime to dock horse tails, and pro-
hibiting the importation into the state
of horses with locked tails.
Representative Hearst has intro
duced a bill in the house to prevent
corrupt practices in elections by max.
ing bribery a felony and prescribing
other safeguards for elections.
President Roosevelt hopes to visit
Alaska on a hunting trip after his pres
ldent1al term expires. He expressed
this desire last week to Robert M.
Wiley, who has spent several years in
that country.
1t is reported that Count Boni de
Castellane, from whom his wife. who
was Miss Anna Gould of New York,
secured a divorce in the French courts
last November, is about to appeal to a
higher court.
The body of John W. Smith, a
farmer living near Raven, l. T.. was
found on the Sth. He left home on
the 9Th during a severe blizzard, and
the supposition is that he lost his way
and was frozen to death.
Raymond Meyer, a ~schoolboy of
Brooklyn, who was bitten January II
by a mongrel dog, died of hydropho-
bia on the 9Th. Three other children
who were bitten by the same dog have
their wounds cauterized.
Seven miners are entombed in No.
l9 c~olliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes
BARRE Coal company at Wanamie, Pa.
ana miners acquainted with the work.
ngs or the mine say there is little
nope OF reaching any of them.
In the senate committee on agricul-
ure last week an unsuccessful at
empt was made to insert an amend.
nent to the agricultural apropria.
Ion Dill placing the cost of inspection
meat products upon the packers.
The opposition party are well in the
cad in the elections in European
,ussia, having twenty-four seats In
arliament assured and seventy-tive
radically certain. The conserva.
yes have five assured and thirty-nine
Congressman William Alden Smith
as been elected by the legislature IT,
II the unexpired term of Senator r.
u. Alger. Congressman Smith had al
lady beer elected as Ayers sue.
at the expiration of his term
arch 4.
While ignoring the anti-Japanese
cling in a portion of the American
'ess, the Japanese public is almost :,
luminous in demanding that the So is
ton of the San Francisco school c;
lestion must not involve the labor =,
VI
The Brazilian government has de. al
led, in order to avoid possible dis. &c
reeable incidents, to exclude negro ~
ilors from the Brazilian squadron
itch will visit the United States. The f.
position newspapers attacks the gov. -
nment for this step. ~
N a sensational speech before a Ne. pr
aska senate committee, Senator Pat. "a
k accused the brewery and distil- ce,
y interests of trying to corrupt the tn
and prevent the passage of ITO