The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
NEWS SUMMARY

| tor FL ArafSn. 1ney were escortet
by troops
A passenger train carrying Secretary
Of War Taft was wrecked near Spring
Hall, Kans., but none CT the passen
gers were injured.
There will be no str.,e of the team
sters employed by the meat packing
firms of Chicago. Committees repre-
senting both sides have agreed to q
compromise.
The historic Dent farm of 43S acres,
outside the city limits of ST. Louis,
has changed hands for $4,000. The
log cabin occupied by General Grant
still stands.
Louis Glass, vice president of the
Pacific States Telephone company,
was convicted on the first ballot by
the jury, for bribery of the super
visors of San Francisco.
A platform erected by Oporto, Por.
tugal, newspaper on the occasion of a
lottery drawing collapsed, hurting to
the ground about 500 persons, of whom
ten were killed and eighty injured.
An unidentified girl aged about sew.
en- years was killed by tramp, near
Gary, Ills. When discovered by work
men, the girl had sufficient strength to
tell of the attack, but died immedi-
ately.
Searching for an exit, hemmed IN
on all sides by fire, Walter and Sadie
Ward, Lillian Rave and Verge Wallace
we're burned to death in Oklahoma
City. The fire is believed to be incen-
diary.
A fast passenger train on the st.
Paul railroad collided with crowded
street car at crossing in La Crosse,
Wis. One man was seriously injured
the other passenger escaping with
bruises
Witness fees and mileage claimed
by John D. Rockefeller for his appear
ance before Judge Lands in Chicago
some weeks since were paid last week.
A check for $50 was mailed to him in
Cleveland
Raymond w. Clark, Alate captain OF
troop 80 OF the Indiana regiment, and
a veteran of the G. A r., killed him.
self in Oaklah I'D by gas asphyxiation
His action isl attributed to financial
embarrassment
Advices received from the American
at Hakodate place the loss
caused by the confagration there at
s10,000,000. About $4,000 houses, vary
in in value, were burned and $4,000 |
people were rendered homeless.
Miss Josephine Murphy, teacher in
The high school at San lose, CAL, was
drowned in Coyote creek by the cap
sizing of row boat in which she was
seated in company with Miss Kate
BELOW, daughter of wealthy rancher.
A dispatch from Morocco, dated
August Is, says Mulai Hafig made sew.
'ral charges, in his ministry before
departing for the east and also re-
eased all the prisoners incarcerated
t Morocco City during the reign Of
abdul Azaz.
AS the result of tornado at Eu
,laire, Wis, Mary Thompson and Thos.
Hague are dead and one boy was in
ured. Five residences u barns, two
chools, one church and many hay
lacks were destroyed. The loss Is
yer $4,000.
Severe foods throughout central
apan has caused many millions OF
ollars damages, and have not yet
bated 1t is not believed that the
,ss of life will be heavy, although
etailed reports from the flooded dis
ricts are lacking.
John Oster, youth, is dead a,
Ills, of wounds alleged to
ave been inflicted by his father. The
der Oster had quarrelled with his
life, and the son went to his mothers
efense, engaging the father, who then
tackled the son.
The war department has declined
, grant the request of the mayor Of
an Francisco for tents to accommo-
ate the patients in city hospitals who
e to be removed from the buildings
reduce the chance of extending the
wages of the plague
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon, oil
inois, is quoted as replying, in an
yer to the question as to whether he
as a candidate for the presidency:
IN candidate for the Republican
animation for president? No, have
t the bee, personally"
Charles A. Andrews. a former rest
rant keeper of Elkhart, Ind, shot
d killed Ethel Blaine of Flora, Ind,
d then committed suicide In Chica-
hotel. Andrews had been infatu.
ed with the Blaine woman, and had
t his own wife and children in In.
ana.
Wesley Christopher, q youth who
led Charley L. Stanley, CONNER
Il traveller at st. Joe, Mo-, March
last, has been sentenced to ten
ars in the penitentiary. Christopher
saulted a woman in an alley anC
len Stanley went to her rescue the
y shot him.
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