Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-20
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week--NatlonaL
Historical, Political and Personal
EVents.

cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, the body I
of Mrs. Louisa Taft widow of Judge /
Alphonso Taft, fermer United States l
attorney general, was placed recently. ]
After January ! beer will cost 81 a
barrel more in New York than it does
now.
At Victoria, B. c., Alfred Francis,
clerk of the st. Francis hotel, COM
mitted suicide recently by shooting
himself with a revolver.
man reported to be William w.
Walker, the absconding treasurer OF
the New Britain Conn Savings bank.
has been arrested in the mountains in
Mexico. He stole 100000.
Two highwaymen entered the Bank |
of Aldrich, at Aldrich, Mo, recently, |
and at the point OF rifles forced Cash |
Ter James Vaughn and Vice President
q. E. Toalson to hand them $4,000 in
cash from the safe.
The Olson-Mahoney Lumber COM
pany OF San Francisco was the lowest
bidder, at $124,372, for furnishing the
Isthmian canal commission with ap-
proximately 100000 feet OF lumber.
An effort will be made to get the
delegation from Iowa for Cummins for
president.
Liethon Coleman, Episcopal bishop
of Delaware, is dead.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Otto Seidel,
wealthy member of the city council,
60 &o1I hot bf~,,oolf raNnnflV
,Patrolman Charles Ford of Salt
Lake was shot, probably fatally, re-
Gently, by holdups.
1t is officially stated that the rumor
to the effect that James Bryce, the
British ambassador to the United
States, is to leave the Washington en-
e bassy is absolutely untrue.
' Herman Hense, who made silver dol
0 lars so we'll that only experts could
] distinguish his product from that Of
the mint, was sentenced in New Yorl
r to six years at Sing Sing prison an6
j to pay the government $3.50 in rea
money.
n c. M. Colby, a ianitor in the OK
/ ford fat building, Minneapolis. recent
VI ly killed his wife.
e William II. S. Wood, president o
the Bowery Savings bank, New Yorh
d is dead.
j. chihuahua, Mexico-Acting Coy
is ernor Sanchez has commuted tn
n death sentence of DR.. C. H. Harl'
William Mitchell and C. T. Richardso
, c | on npf
lie It is announced that between tn
~ LIST and the 18th of January one
the railroads in the southwest will la
IN off II 900 men for an indefinite periO
James Smith, a brakeman in II
% employ of the Canadian Pacific raj
road, was accidentlly killed by fallir
u between cars near Cranbrook.
or Five directors of the defunct Nj
70 waukee Avenue State bank were free
he recently, when Judge Windes held tn
al the statute under which they had bee
on indicted is unconstitutional.
The engagement of Miss Cornell
as Hartman. second daughter Of Mr.. al
he Mrs. e. H. Hartman, to Robert Ii
nd ingston Gerry, elder son of Mr.. al
en- Mrs. Eldridge T. Gerry, is announce
ag. Bordeaux, France, is in utter da1
sit. ness as the result of strike of
ew men and employees OF the electl
light company.
he The reichstag has adjourned for t
-he Christmas recess. 1t will reopen ia
da- uary s.
ow Viscount Aold, the Japanese a
bassador. who has been summon
home, is preparing to get away fr'
Washington by the last OF the mon
est An extra appropriation OF $15O,C
lin for the trial OF Harry K. Thaw
the been made by the New York board
,or. estimates
rec Rutt and Stol, the German tea
the won the six-day bicycle race in N
for York. This is the first time in
history of the sport that a Germ
300 team has captured first honors OF
ate struggle. The two leading teams
r. rode 1912 miles and five laps when
lrly race was stopped and the teams w
the drawn for the final mile sprint OF
stall leaders. The final score: Rutt
dur Stol. 1912 miles laps; Fogler
Moran, 1912 miles laps; Georget
Dupre. 1912 miles laps; Downing
Downey. 1872 miles laps; Calvin
the Wiley, 1912 miles laps. The rec
l., o7oa milan 4 Ians made by Mi