The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
NEWS SUN MARY

OF IWenIy-ono lives.
The upper house of the Danish diet
has passed bill carrying the adop-
ton of the metric system of measures
in Denmark.
The Russian evacuation of Manchu.
ria is complete. The last battalion of
Russian troops left Hardin Thursday
of last week.
Thirty woman suffragists were ar
rested Wednesday afternoon for a,-
tempting to force an entrance into the
House of Commons.
Six former or present attendants OF
the State hospital for the insane at
Cleveland, O., were indicted last week
for alleged attacks on patients.
AS the result of d collision between
4 passenger train and freight train
at Turuschiche station, seventeen per.
sons were killed and thirty-five in
jured.
Mrs. James Tolbert, wife of former
Mayor Tolbert of Fairmont Ca, was
brutally assaulted and her 2-month-old
| baby was murdered by negro at their
home.
Secretary Taft ind party which is to
accompany him to Panama, Cuba and
| Porto Rico will go on the Mayfiower,
which the navy department has placed
at their disposal.
Peasants have again invaded Botos-
sahni and set fire to different parts of
the town, especially the Jewish quar-
ters. Troops interviewed and several
of the peasants were killed or
wounded
Every man in Fort Dodge, Iowa, be-
tween the ages of 25 and As years
must become a married man or pay
fine, as the result of an ordinance
introduced by Mayor Bennett and
passed by the city council.
Count Arco, in his wireless telephone
experiments, says a Berlin dispatch,
has succeeded in obtaining distinct ex-
changes of words in tolerable natural
voice at distance of two miles, by
using poles thirty feet high.
Two corps Of Western Pacific en-,
gineers are surveying the proposed
line between Ely, Nevada, and the
main line of the Western Pacific, and
will complete their preliminary work
within the next thirty days.
Mrs Fred Belasco, wife of the senior
partner of the Alcazar theatre and
known on the stage under the name of
Juliet Crosby, died suddenly in San
Francisco, and an hour later M. l.. |
Mayer, Mr.. Belasco's partner, died of
the shock
Edward Howell, one of the most in.
fluential negroes in southern Missis.
sippi and president of the Peoples
bank, of Hattiesburg, Miss was shot |
in the back and killed while on his
way home late at night No motive
is known.
A Santa Fee freight locomotive boiler
exploded at Simms, Cal, killing Fire
man ]. B. Kerr and fatally scalding |
Engineer P. Barnum. Brakeman j. L. |
McElery was badly hurt. Our cars
were demolished and the track blocked |
with wreckage.
A murder trial presenting features
of unusual interest began at Garnet,
Ills, Monday, when Jennie Burch, a
fourteen-year-old girl will be called
on to answer the charge of poisoning
Wilbur Winship, a two-year-old child
whose nurse she was.
President Baer of the Reading Rail
road company has been authorized by
the board of directors of his company
to advance the age limit of employees
from IS to 45 years. This is in line
with the recent action of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company
When Mrs. Levi Jet, of Ashland
KY, was bathing her infant she sud
denly was seized with a pain in the
head, it is said, and fell dead. The
babe fell from the lifeless arms of
its mother into a tub of hot water
and was sca]ded to death
Governor Folk of Missouri has
signed the bill passed by the last leg
islature making it felony to operate
a bucketshop in this state: the penalty
clause also includes any telegraph or
telephone company which furnishes
information to bucketshop.
Arthur Bean killed his wife with an
ak at North Baltimore, O., and then
suicide by shooting himself.
Bean had forbidden his wife visiting
her family. She visited her parents