The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-10
NEWS SUMMARY

at Antivari, on the Adriatic.
All records for emigrants arriving
at the port of New York was broker
on the End, when 20,729 emigrant:
from all parts of the world arrived.
The ironworkers' strike in Sar
Francisco has settled down to siege
Practically all the iron works, foun
dries and shops in the city are
| closed
The bodies of eleven dead have been
recovered from the Whipple mine, al
Charleston, w. Va, where an expio
sion of gas occurred. This is thought
to be the full list of the fatalities.
Chief of Police Arlan, of Guatemala
| City, an American, has resigned, and
will return to the United States. The
! government paid him his salary for
| the time between now and the date
| his contract expires.
John Hamlin who has been on trial
at Grand Island, Neb., for the murder
of Rachael Engle, aged 10, was found
| guilty of murder in the first degree.
Hamlin shot the girl when she re-
fused to receive his attentions.
Peter Savage and Joseph Chan
owsky were sentenced to three years
Imprisonment and to pay fine Of $500
and costs for wrecking with dynamite
the Welsh Congregational church at
Edwardsville, Pa, two years ago.
The Rev. Jere Cooke, former pastor
of st. Georges Protestant Episcopal
church at Hampstead, r. l., and IT,
year-old Floretta Whaley, who disap-
peared simultaneously last week,
have been located at Peekshill, N. Y.
The Kentucky law inficting the
death penalty for criminal assault was
sustained by the court Of appeals last
week in affirming death sentence
imposed on Harrison Alexander, col
ored, for an assault on white wo-
man.
Eight men working in new tun-
mel at the new National Cash Regis
ter plant at Dayton, Ohio, were pain
fully burned in an explosion of natur-
al gas, They were shot twenty feet
out of the tunnel by the force of the
explosion
The results of the senatorial cleo
tons in Spain, as far as they have
been announced, show an overwhelm-
ing governmental majority, compris-
ing seventy-two conservatives, four
teen liberals and fifteen members of
other groups.
Prospects for settlement of the Los
Angeles transfers strike, have sud-
denly taken turn in the opposite
direction, and there is possibility of
serious strike in the immediate flu.
ture, with many other branches of la
Dor involved.
Thirty-three Koreans, most of them
of prominent rank as scholars, have
been arrested at Seoul on suspicion of
being ringleaders in a plot to assas.
sinate the five Korean ministers who
signed the convention for a Japan.
csc protectorate.
]. Henry Middlekarp, seventeen
years old, shot and killed his father,
who was Waterman at the United
States subtreasury at Baltimore, at
their home at Catonville. Middle
karp was beating his wife when the
son interfered.
The San DOMINICAN congress in rati.
flying the new treaty between the
United States and Santo Domingo
stipulated the acceptance of amend
nents to the treaty proposed by men,
bers of the Dominican committee on
foreign affairs April %.
At Portland Mayor Harry Lane.
Democrat, was renominated, and
Thomas A. Defvlin, Republican, pre-
sent city auditor, was nominated for
mayor at the party primary elections.
Both men were chosen by majorities
over their opponents.
Sir George Cough Arbuthnot, head
of the firm of Arbuthnot & Co., of
Madras, whose London house, P. Mac
Fadyen & Co., failed for a large
amo /lt in August last and caused the
head of the firm to commit suicide,
has been arrested at Madras.
William A. Brewer, Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In.
surance company, has been sentenced
to pay a fine of $500 for making O.
false report to the state superintend-
ent of insurance in regard to the finan-
cial condition Of the company.
The court martial which has been
trying Captain Edgar Macklin of the
infantry in connection
with the shooting up of Brownsville,
went into secret session at noon on
the End, and after sitting one hour re-
turned verdict of not guilty.
Saint Dominics church, San Fran
cisco, which was almost entirely de-
stroved in the earthouake and fire of