The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-01-25
NEWS SUMMARY

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The Alabama senate has passed the
house resolution calling for an inves
tigation of the methods of the Booker
Il. Washington school.
A stove in the home of the Chill.
dren's Aid society, at Vancouver, l.
| c., exploded, wrecking two rooms OF
the building and injuring six children
Fred Elenbrock, who on December
21 attempted to assassinate Judge
Charles S. Cutting of the probate
| court, of Chicago, has been adjudged
insane.
Prof Matteucci, director of the OBJ.
servatory at Mount Vesuvius, re.
ports increased agitation of this vol
cano coincident with the Kingston
earthquake.
The chief of the rural administra
ton, N. Brollau, was killed at Smo
lensk, Russia, by school boy named
Boriokoff, az the chief was leaving a
concert hail.
Several hundred families of Ports.
mouth, Ohio, have been forced from
their houses by the rising river. The
school buildings were given up to
flood sufferers.
The chiefs of the Ben M'sur tribe,
with which Raisuli sought refuge,
are negotiating with the Moroccan au-
thorities to obtain pardon for them.
selves and Raisuli.
The boiler of Philadelphia &
Reading freight engine exploded at
Bridgeport, Pa, and five trainmen
were killed. A portion of the boiler
was hurled $50 yards.
The second lava flow from the vol
cano of Mauna Loa on the island of
Hawaii is now only two miles from the
sea and is half a mile wide. 1t is
moving at the rate of thirty feet an
hour.
A dispatch has been received at
Hamburg announcing that the Lucie
Woermann had been wrecked near
LONE, the chief port of German Togo.
land. Her passengers and mail were
saved.
Oliver Dyer, who is said to have
introduced stenography into this coun-
try and was the first short hand re-
porter in the United States senate,
died in Boston on the 14th, aged SO
years.
Mrs. j. c. Holman, mother of Evyln
Nesbit Thaw, denies report that she
was going to Europe to avoid testify
ing at the trial of Harry K. Thaw She
refused to say whether she would ap-
pear at the trial.
The need of merchant marine as |
a means to the greater commercial
development of the United States was |
urged by Secretary of the Treasury |
Shaw, in an address to Harvard stu
dents on Evolution of Self-Govern'
ment"
FrOm the eruption of Maunaloa, Ha-
wall, lava is flowing down the western
side at the rate of seven miles an
lour and in three streams. One
stream has crossed the government
Dad and reached the sea- thirty miles
rom its source.
The public gardens in Odessa on the
18th were the scene of triple exc
:ution. Three Terrorlsts were hanged
n row after having been condemned
o death for the robbery of shop.
Their trial took place before drum
lead court-martial.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
company of Pittsburg, announces an
ldvance of two per cent in wages to
III hot mill tonnage employees in tin
Hills. IL Is Sdlu tudt SuoeI iii Hill
nen will receive an advance of 2.6
'er cent about March 1.
United States Senator j. w. Bailey
addressed the Texas house of repre-
entatives on the 18th on invitation of
hat body. Senator Bailey's speech
vas an impassioned denial of anything
in his relations with the
Oil company.
King Edward has headed the man.
ion house Kingston relief fund with
subscription of $4,000, the corpora
ion of London Immediately adding a
imilar amount. The principal the
tiers are organizing special perfor-
lances in behalf Of the fund,
President Roosevelt has written a
etter to Chairman Foss of the Naval
fairs committee, urging that an APP
ropriation should be made at once
)r two first-class battleships Of the
laximum size and speed and with
rimary batteries, all of Pinch guns
Reports from Zelwan (Selouan)
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