Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-11-15
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The Woods National bank has sus-
pended at San Antonio, Texas.
Silas Reid has been appointed Judge
of the district court of Alaska.
Engineer Thomas Hancock and Fire
man Claude r. Mcdonald were as
phyxiated by gas from their engine in
the Busk tunnel, nine miles west of
Leadville, Col.
The directors of the Bank of Eng
land have put up the minimum dis
count rate from 6 to per cent.
At Los Angeles, Cal, Judge Olin
Wellborn, in the United States court,
recently fined the Atkinson, Topeka
G Santa Fe Railroad company $4,000
for rebating.
Observation-Disclosures of State Jonk
heer Van Panhuys, his son, mayor OF
De Leek, and wives, were drowned re-
Gently while out driving, their carriage
falling into the canal Hoogvhork Dun
ing dense fog.
Four persons are said to have been
burned to death and six others are mis-
sing and may have lost their lives ]
a fire in Chicago Saturday.
A seat on the New York stock ex
change was sold Monday for 100000
the lowest price recorded since 1904
when seat was disposed of for $57
900.
Rear Admiral Henry w. Lyon wa
retired from the navy Monday on a
count of reaching the age limit.
In pistol duel at Reno, New, Police
man Charles Brown was shot and pre-
ably fatally wounded by a trio of thugs
Before he was shot Brown killed one
of his assailants, and Archie Burrie
an employee of the Southern Pacific
was shot in the side.
Mr. and Mrs. William K Vanderbilt
Jr., have an heir. The baby is boy
He will inherit fully $2O,OOO,0OO from
his fathers side of the house, and per
haps twice as much from his mother
who was Miss Virginia Fair
More than 500 men are now engaged
in construction work on the Rexfoi
branch, between Fernie and Michel
B. G.
Emperor William will see Secretary
Taft at Osborne house, Isle of Wight
during the formers visit to England
At Baltimore, Md, recently Mrs
Cornelia McKelvie twisted a United
States flag into a rope and with il
committed suicide by hanging herself
to a door.
At Muncie, Ind, the four-story build
ing occupied by the Joseph Goddard
wholesale grocery store and covering
quarter of a block, burned recently
Loss 100000.
The Roman Catholic church at LON
que Point, probably the Oldest church
in the province of Quebec, was des-
troyed by fire recently. The loss was
$751; with $4,000 insurance.
Lumber is the only industry of east
ern British Columbia whose condition
is not satisfactory. The mines are
working a greater number of men and,
with the rise in the price of copper
and the expected rise in the price Of
lead and silver, more properties are
yet opening
Advices from Rome say that Pope
Plus is suffering from an attack of
heart trouble
A hurricane swept over MarseilIes
recently, causing immense damage to
docks and waterfront property.
A self-propelling steam passenger
coach, the first to be operated in the
United States, is to be put in service
this week on a branch of the Rock
Island railroad. The car has made a
trial trip from Chicago to Joliet and
return. A speed of from 40 to so miles
an hour was maintained over a greater
part of the route.
Professor Joseph H. Drake of the
law department of the University of
Michigan startled his class recently by
declaring that he would favor electing
Roosevelt king of his country. The
students at first took the statement as
a joke, but it was reiterated. and Pro-
fessor Drake asserted that it was Civ
en- with all seriousness and sincerity.
AT monster open air demonstra-
ton in New York General Booth,
founder of the Salvation Army who
has since sailed for Europe, babe his
soldiers in this country and the Amer
lean people generally farewell Satur-
day.
By the arrest of Haynes Wimberly
and Otis Mayes detectives have frus-
trated plan to flood FL Paso, Texas,
with forged clearing house certificates
kentuckian Is Panama Judge.