Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-30
news OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

All harvest work has been suspend
ed throughout the Palouse country.
The Unionists have elected Walter
Guinness to the house of commons from |
Bury st. Edmonds, England
The danger is thought so great at
Fee that all foreign residents have
been ordered to leave the city.
The bodies of the late President and
Mrs. Mckinley are to repose perma- |
nently in especially made bronze cas-
kets.
Charles Murphy, Tammany leader,
says that Tammany would contribute
1000 every week to the striking tele-
graphers.
1t is reported that the French cruis-
er Duchayla has captured a German
vessel loaded with rifles and flying
the Spanish flag.
A California man has been accused
of stealing 200 bicycles. 1t ought not
to be hard for his lawyer to prove
that he has wheels.
Five persons were soffocated by
smoke from a fire in the tenament at
449 Norfolk street, Bonneville, Mass,
recently and two others were over
come.
1t is reported that the pope has APP
pointed Rev. DR.. Edward j. Hanna,
professor of dogmatic theology at st.
Demands seminary, to be coadjutor
at San Francisco.
At. La Crosse, Wis, recently Fred
Kersters, age IL, helped get his four
brothers out of their burning home
and then persisted in the flames be-
fore his mothers eyes.
Lieutenant Colonel Sherwood has
sent out orders offering a reward Of
$500 for Bill Miner, the highwayman
who escaped from the British Colum-
bia penitentiary on July %.
, The big fire at Cincinnati was put
out after superhuman efforts on the
part of fireman had confined it within
the block. The total loss will be near
ly million and a half dollars.
. The number of employees in the di-
visions of building and construction,
municipal work and engineering on
the Panama canal has beep reduced
. 25 per cent because the appropriation
is less this year than last.
Montreal, Que, labor unions are to
. petition the Ottawa and Quebec gov
. ernments, requesting that in future
all government construction work
throughout the province be given only
to union men at a current rate.
. AMI Smith, aged GA, for many
c years in charge of the document room
: at the senate, is dead. He had a re
markable memory for faces, facts and
I the location of thousands of docu
ments.
The Nebraska railroad commission
has ordered the Great Northern tC
cease discrimination against Omaha
in favor of Minneapolis in refusing
cars for loading grain destined for the
Omaha market.
One of the most disastrous hail
storms that ever visited North Dakota
has devastated a strip about 25 miles
long and from one to six miles wide
destroying one of the finest whea
sections recently.
In his annual report to the depart
ment of trade and commerce, Lore
/ Strathcona emphasizes the necessit!
| of Canadians striving to steadily i'm
prove the quality of products sent tC
the British market, as higher stand
| ard is demanded every year.
II From the references that are being
made in the press to the National II
rigatlon congress, to be held at Sac
ramento, September to z, the inter
| est in this annual event is becoming
more widespread and the benefits o
irrigation more generally recognized
| A courier from Morocco city con
7 firms the reports that the sultan
- brother was proclaimed sultan on Aug
ust 16 and assumed the throne. TIL
R new sultan declares his intention o
Is appointing another brother kallt o
Z Fee and then proceeding to take CON
g mand of the Moorish forces besiegini
% Cncn blanca