The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-07-12
NEWS SU M MA RY

The captain and six men aboard the
| tug were drowned.
There were 116 fires In Greater New
York during the 4th. These figures
break all Fourth of July records for
the big metropolis.
Three miners were hurled down the
shaft of the La Sale County Carbon
Coal company, at Cedar Point, H.,
and were instantly killed. The men
fell a distance of 525 feet.
The centenary of the birth Of Gil
useppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot,
was observed in Rome with great re-
joicing 1t is estimated that 10000
persons marched in line in Rome.
Twenty-one persons are now known
to have been killed in the tornado
which swept path 100 miles long and
from mile to few rods in width
through the counties of central Wis
consin
Firecrackers and fireworks were
barred in San Francisco on the 4th,
but the parks and pleasure grounds
were thronged and music and athletic
sports furnished entertainment to
thousands.
Secretary of the Navy Victor M.
Metcalf, In an interview with the Oak
land Tribune. confirmed the report
that large part of the United States
navy will be seen in Pacific waters
next winter.
1t is announced that the Italian gov
eminent granted amnesty to all politi-
cal and press offenders, with. the ex-
ception of anarchists, on the occasion
Of the centennial jubilee of the birth
Of Garibaldi
The crusade against the deadly toy
pistol seems to be bearing fruit, as
this year only 205 victims are report
ed throughout the United States after
the celebration of the 4th as against
304 last year.
Forest Fires are ranging In the ella
reserve near Silver City, N. M. One
thousand acres of timber have already
been burned. There Is no water avail
able and rangers are fighting the
flames with backfires.
The recent Tennessee legislature
passed an act allowing Nashville to
confine the saloons to the uptown dis.
tricts This saloon segregation act went
into effect on July /. 1t puts about
100 saloons out Of business.
Mayor Harper, of Los Angeles, has
decreed that he will exert all his au-
thority to prevent renewal of racing
at Ascot park, which, by special
election held last winter, was brought
within the limits of the city.
All records of fatalities following
the celebration of Independence day
at Pittsburg were broken this year.
Nineteen violent deaths were report
ed to the coroner's office, while the
number of injured was three more.
During a heavy rain at Youngs-
town, Ohio several men took shelter
under train when switching en-
CINE backed into the cars and
knocked the men down, one being
killed and several seriously injured.
Carlos Waddington, son of Luis
Waddington, who was charge dat.
flares of Chile at Brussels, has been
acquitted Of the charge of murder
ing Senior Balmaceda, secretary of the
Chilean legation, on February "a, 1906.
1t Is stated In military circles that
Major Alfred Dreyfus, the former
captain of artillery, who was SEN
fenced on a charge of treason to i'm
prisonment on Devils island, Is shortly
to retire from the army, accepting
pension.
Two cars, heavily loaded with steel,
becoming separated from a train ar
the steel works at Bethlehem, Pa,
crashed into shifting engine, killing
w. A. Gross, Harry J. Marsh, Will
liam Dorney and Rudolph Nuss, en-
ployes.
Fire started by burglars who loot
ed small grocery store at Houston,
Texas, caused the death of three boys,
sons of Jacob Prayer, the storekeeper.
who lived on the upper floor. Prayer
succeeded in rescuing his wife and
two daughters.
The town of Polk, Nebraska, was
badly wrecked by a wind and hail
storm early Sunday morning. The
best business buildings in the town
were demolished or damaged, and
crops over a considerable distance
ruined Mrs. Lee Miller was slightly
injured.
A special dispatch from Mellila,
the Spanish seaport upon the north
coast of Morocco, says that heavy
but indecisive engagement between
Moroccan rebels and imperial troops
looks place on the 4th, and that among
the killed was the rebel chief Sith-
aldy.
Four pounds of giant powder explod-
ed in a rowboat, near Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, killing two persons and injur-
ing five others. The powder was to
be used to make the noise for a
small picnic. The survivors say that
one OF those killed threw cigarette
on top of the can.
Honduras ia TO remain neutral of any