The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-02
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ties, except for slight deafness, were
well preserved.
All the American employees on the
Parral & Durango railroad in Chihua-
hua, owned by Pittsburg. Pa, capital
lists, are on a strike for higher wages.
A heavy windstorm struck crowd.
ed Chautauqua tent at Ashland, Neb.,
creating panic and resulting in the
more or less serious injury of fifteen
persons.
Richard H. Halsey, president of the
Oshkosh Normal school and well
known in educational circles was ac-
cidentally shot and killed at Beoge-
bic lake, Wis.
A St Petersburg paper says the
minister of marine has ordered the
Baltic yards to prepare for the
prompt construction of several $4,000.
ton battleships
Lightning struck the steeple Of st.
Mary's church at Waterford, Wis,
killing one of the worshippers. Sew
eral others were knocked down and
severely stunned
Bowling Green, a negro, was hanged
at Pittsburg for the murder of his
wife. Green marched cheerfully to
the scaffold, singing, In the Cross I
Know I'm Anchored
The president has signed a procla-
nation notifying the public of the
conclusion of the Dominican treaty.
Similar action was taken in Santo
Domingo by President Caceres.
Ignacio Campisciano, his wife, Col
lagaro Gendusa and Tony Costa,
found guilty of numbering the La
mana child at Hahnville, La, have
been sentenced to life Imprisonment.
A revolutionary movement has brok.
en- out in one of the Argentine prov
lnces bordering on Brazil. The Brazil,
ian government has sent troops to the
frontier in order to prevent violation
of mentality.
Miss Esther Norling, aged 23, was
shot and killed in New York City, her
slayer, it is alleged, being Charles
Warner, her former employer, whose
attentions she had repulsed Warner
was captured.
The Grand Duke of Baden is strong
ly opposed ia the death penalty, and
it is believed he will commute the
death sentence imposed upon Karl
Hau for the murder of his mother-in-
law to life imprisonment
A terrific wind, hail and rain storm
destroyed fifteen dwellings, injured
twenty-five people, two of them prob
ably fatally and did much other
damage to property in Williston, N.
D., and the surrounding country.
The thirty-nine anarchists compos.
ing the entire national convention of
the German anarchist societies, who
were placed on trial at Monheim on
the charge of holding an illegal open
air meeting, have been acquitted.
The supreme court of Guatemala
has confirmed the death penalty on
all those sentenced in connection with
the recent attempt to assassnate
President Cabrera, and who had ap-
pealed their cases to the highest court.
Governor Folk of Missouri has
granted respite of thirty days to
Lord" Frederick Seymour Barring
ton, under sentence to be hanged at
Clayton, Mo-, on July 25, for the muir
der of James P. Mccain two years
ago.
A long drawn dispute between the
coal operators and miners over the
use of the Pate steam dump, labor
saving device which threatened to
close the mines of the Pittsburg dis
trict with a general strike, has been
settled favorably to the miners.
The chief sanitary officer of the
Isthmian canal construction reports
that out of 1900 white American en-
ployees there were only four deaths
during the month, and that out of
about $4,000 whites other than Amer
leans there were but fifteen deaths. |
Major Eugene Coffin, paymaster of
the United States at Manila, is dead,
following the amputation of his left |
arm. He contracted blood poison
from handling money in paying off |
troops, and amputation of his arm
was resorted to in hope of saving his |
life.
Following a quarrel, Mrs Alice |
Bruce, aged Is years, a bride of sew
eral weeks was shot and instantly |
killed at her home at Camden, N. j.
by her husband, Frederick Bruce.
who then fatally shot himself. Bruce
quarreled with his wife because she
away from home until late
at night without his consent
Germany will oppose the ordering
Of the British proposition regarding
the elimination of ornaments. She
contends it is impossible to acknowl-
edge the urgency of disarmament |
when no practical scheme has been
devised for the reduction of military
burdens.
Grief stricken by the receipt of
that her services would |
not be longer required, Mrs. Nielsen,
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