The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-16
NEWS SUMMARY

Joseph F. Johnson has been elected
United States Senator to succeed Sem
ator Pettus of Alabama.
In accordance with the imperial de-
cree recently issued, all the opium
dens in Canton were closed on the
9th without disturbance.
DR.. C. P. Dinsmore of Deep Valley,
w. Va, is dead and four others are
dying, as the result of family mis-
taking toadstools for mushrooms.
Mrs. A. L. Ferguson was killed and
her sister, Miss Henrietta Sharke,
seriously injured, by falling from the
same street car at Long Beach, Cal.
The British bark Glencairn, Captain
Nichol, from Rochester, England, for
Seattle, has been wrecked on san
Paolo. Two of the crew were
drowned.
BY the capsizing Of boat, Miss
Lucretia Evans and Emory McDougai
were drowned in Bear Lake, 0. Nc
Dougal, in trying to save the girl, was
drawn under by her.
Seven freight handlers of the North
ern Pacific road were run down by
tug in the Duluth harbor Sunday even
ing while returning to their homes IN
q rowboat and drowned.
Leon Maille, the naval reservist,
who fired two revolver shots at Pres
ident Fallieres on the streets OF Paris
July IA last, has been declared insane
and was sent to an asylum.
Severe fighting is reported from For
mosa, where the natives are making
strenuous resistance against the Jap
anese troops. At Taikokan the JAP
anese casualties numbered 200.
Representatives Of silk mills IN
Lackawanna and Luzerne counties,
Pennsylvania, have refused shorter
work day to silk workers More than
{, 900 persons are now on strike.
John Butts shot and killed Tom
Crowley on the latters' ranch, four
miles east of Lay tonville, Cal. Butts
and his son, while hunting, had
quarrel with Crowley over a dog.
Commander Robert e. Peary's dash
for the North pole has been postponed
Failure to complete the repair on his
ship, the Roosevelt, compelled the ex
plorer to put off his trip until next
year.
August Rowe was brutally murder
ed near Buda, Neb., his head being
beaten into a jelly with hammer
Ludwig Korcek, neighbor of Rowe
is under arrest on suspicion and is
in Jail.
Tom Hall, negro living at Golian,
Texas, was arrested charged with an
| attempted assault upon two young
white women. The next morning his
| Iody was found hanging to tree In
front of the Jail.
A detachment OF infantry, com
| manded by two lieutenants, has been
massacred by rebels in the Mort dis
trict of the. island of Celebes. The
victims, including some convicts
numbered forty-fve.
Thomas Myer, who claimed that ne
| hoisted the stars and stripes over
| Santiago de Cuba during the Span
ish-American war, was drowned OF
Courtown while practicing for an at
tempt to swim ST. Georges channel.
Randolph Rucklow, structural
jronworker, who weighs 27O pounds
fell from the fourth story of build
ing in the course of construction In
| San Francisco and escaped with nc
more serious injury than broken
ankle.
| 1t Is surmised that Shirley David
son, son of Judge Davidson, and Miss
Kingston, daughter of the late Sir
William Kingston, the great Canadian
surgeon, were drowned in the River
st. Lawrence Sunday, as their sail
boat was found drifting and empty.
One of three robbers who attempt
ed the robbery of the Farmers and
Merchants bank at Strongsville, Ohio,
was found later wounded and uncon'
scious in gully near Strongsville. He
had been shot by citizens immediate
| Iy following the attempted robbery,
Mrs. Robert E. Peafy, wife of the
Polar explorer, has announced her
| intention of remaining all winter at
Eagle island, their summer home, and
foregoing all social engagements.
Eagle island is rocky bit of land
in Casco bay and four miles out to
sea.
The police searched the imperial
technical schools at Moscow and dis.
covered the central revolutionary lab,
oratory for manufacturing bonds of a
new pattern and tremendous explo'
sives, regular supplies of which were
being shipped to various interior
points.
| A sensational suicide has occurred
at Antwerp. M. Jacques Simon, SILK
merchant, in the presence OF crowd
that thronged Cathedral square.
Jumped from the second gallery OF
the cathedral tower, a distance OF
more than 200 feet Death was i'll
Simultaneous
Congressman Nicholas Longworth,
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