The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-08
NEWS SUNNI ARY

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Seventeen persons condemned by
court-martial for participating in the
recent rising at Tukum, were shot a,
Riga, Russia.
By a vote of As to 10 the senate rat.
flied the Santo Domingo treaty. This
was one more vote in the affirmative
than was required.
The announcement is made Of the
resignation of John F. Stevens as
engineer in chief of construction OF
the Panama canal.
Adolph Tingle, British subject,
was court-martialed and hanged at the
citadel at Warsaw for having robbed a
street car conductor
Governor Beckham has determined
to send troops to Jackson, KY, dur.
ing the trial of James Hargis,
charged with the Cox murder.
Robert G. Gill, broker, was fined
$3.50 in Chicago for operating buck.
ct shop for women. The court over.
ruled motion for a new trial.
The police and private detective are
searching San Francisco for William
Walker, the missing bank treasurer
Of New Britain, Conn. They be
lieve he is there.
The governor of Indiana has signed
the two-cent railroad fare act. 1t has
no emergency clause and goes into
effect with the publication of the new
laws about May Or June.
Two men were killed and five bad.
ly burned by an explosion of gas in
the Woodward mine at Kingston, Pa
The mine is very gaseous and the
men work with safety lamps.
Thomas Baldwin, a rich farmer and
former merchant of Colfax, Ills, shot
and killed Charles Kennedy and wife
and Mrs. Sim Eisman and daughter
Cora. Baldwin was arrested.
Replying to correspondent, Lord
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a suitable opportunity presents itself,
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Senator Joseph s. C. Blackburn OF
Kentucky, who will retire from the
United States senate ON March 4, is
to be made member of the reorgan
lied Panama canal commission.
James NJ. Parsons, formerly Of Bos
ton, Mass, was shot and probably
fatally wounded in Sonora, Mex, near
the Sinallo state line, in defending his
mining claims against two Mexicans
A. T. Lawshe has been selected to
succeed Third Assistant Postmaster
General Madden. Mr.. Lawshe is
from Indiana and was auditor for the
postoffice department under President
Mckinley.
A bill for the creation of commit
tee to consider and recommend leg.
islation for the improvement of
rivers and harbors was favorably re-
ported by the house committee on
rivers and harborS.
The nomination by the president
Of Amor Smith to be surveyor of Gus.
toms at Cincinnati, removes from the
list one of the places to which the
president had in mind the possible ap
pointment of a negro.
Bridge No. 1913, near Iser, on the
Southern Pacific, fifty miles east OF
Ell Paso, Tex, was destroyed by in
cendiaries with the evident purpose
of wrecking passenger train. The
fire was discovered by the crew OF
an extra train, which barely escaped
running into it.
Senator Bailey of Texas, who has
Just returned to Washington from that
state, was in his place on Sunday for
the first time this session. He re-
ceived a hearty welcome from both
sides of the chamber.
Nothing that has happened for a
long time in Hawaii has created the
same widespread interest as Cover
nor Carriers recent announcement,
in an interview, explaining his atti
Jude toward the Japanese; that he has
been willing that his daughter should
marry a Japanese.
Frank Mabry, well-known banker
of McGregor, Texas, entered a plea
Of guilty to the charge of embezzle'
ment and misappropriation of funds
Of a national bank and was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
The result OF the negotiations that
have been going on for some time be-
tween ce-President G. r. Hudson
and a committee representing the en-
gineers of the Mexican Central rail-
road Is an agreement by which the