The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Nest Important Happenings Ct tse
Past Seven Days.
1Dferesting Items Gathered from All
0orts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
0enent of Oar Feeders.
PersDAaL

ly been employed two weeks and this
was his third regular trip.
Robert Hall, the young man who is
thought TO have murdered Mary Glass
in a school house near ElDoradoj
Kan. has died without making any
statement.
Gov. John S. Little of Arkansas suf-
fered physical collapse and his ply
sictans say he cannot resume his Of
ficial duties for several weeks.
MOhammed Ali Mira has been
crowned shah of Persia in the palace
at Teheran.
The condition of President Costro
of Venezuela is again reported to be
very grave,
King Peter of Servia, denies tina:
he has any intention Of resigning or
permanently leaving the country.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee. who COM
manded the battleship Main when
that vessel was destroyed in Havana
harbor in 1898, has been retired on
account of age
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, has an
nounced his candidacy for the demo-
cratic mayoralty nominatiin in that
city.
Senator Reuben r. Adams has been
expelled from the state senate OF Ar
kansas for accepting q bribe.
Albert B. Cummings has been In
augurated for his third term as gov
ernor OF Iowa.
John D. Rockefeller has been re-
elected superintendent Of the Euclid
Avenue Baptist Sunday school at
Cleveland. o.. He has served in that
capacity for 25 years
Senator Bailey recently made an
impassoned address to the Texas
Legislature denying that there was
anything wrong in his connection
with the Waters-Pierce Oil company.
John r. Walsh, former president OF
the Chicago National bank, which
failed December 1G, 1905, has been in
dicted by the federal grand jury for
alleged misconduct in the manage
ment of the finances of the bank.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was
reelected president of the American
Breeders association at the annual
meeting at Columbus. O., recently.
Horace E. Hand, social leader and
chief clerk of the Frisco railroad at
st. Louis, was arrested, pleaded
guilty to forgery, received a sentence
OF five years and was taken to the
penitentiary all within a space of Is
hours.
IN ms TO nf ha
Nebraska asylum for the insane, has
appealed to the emperor of Germany
to secure his release. He is citizen
of Germany and there is considerable
doubt Of his insanity.
ConxressiOnal.
The senate committee to investi-
gate conditions in Indian territory
has submitted report recommend
ing various changes in the present
laws. Secretary Hitchcock was GEN.
sured for Withdrawing lands from al
lotment.
Senator Tillman adopted the role
of humorist in the senate and held
his colleagues up to ridicule SO sue
cessfully that the senate went into
marks expunged from the records.
BY a vote of 1873 to 95 the house
agreed to increase the salaries of SEN
ators and representatives to $500.
and fixed the pay of vice president,
speaker and cabinet members at $l2.-
600.
The house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries, by vote of
eight to seven, recommended ship
subsidy bill Seven subsidized mail
lines are provided for.
AiscelIans"ss.
More than 100000 worth of the
capital stock of the lola Portland Ce
ment company stock has been sold to
capitalists said to be connected with
the United States Steel Corporation
which carries with it control of the
plants at lola, Kan, and Dallas, Tex.
The locomotive on a Santa Fe
freight train blew up on a bridge near
Desoto, Kan. killing the engineer
and fireman. The engine and IA cars
went through the bridge
twenty-five persons were killed in
the wreck OF a Big Four passenger
train near Fowler, Ind, 20 of whom
were cremated.
Severe earthquake shocks are re-
ported from Alexandrovsk, the port
of Sakhalin and Elizabethpol.
A carload of powder standing on a
siding at Sanborn, Ind, exploded and
wrecked a passenger train that was
passing. Fifteen persons were killed
and 20 or more injured.
The MacAndrews & Forbes COM
pany, of New York, and the J. s.
Young company Of Baltimore, have
been fined an aggregate OF $4,000 in
the federal court at New York for