The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-07-19
NEWS SUNNI RY

United States Senator A. o. Bacor
Of Georgia has been reelected for the
full term, beginning March 4. 1908.
The Wisconsin senate has passed
the two-cent fare bill on all lines
having a gross earning of $500 pei
mile.
Six workmen are believed to have
been killed by the collapse Of the
Bridgeman Brothers building in Phil
adelphia.
Six young men Of party Of seven
were drowned in Prescott bay, near
Bangor, Maine, by the capsizing OF
a sloop.
Benjamin Corey, of San Francisco.
was killed at Manchester, N. H., Sun,
day afternoon by being thrown from a
carriage.
William Henry Perkin Is dead at
London, aged IS. He founded the coal
tar industry by the discovery of the
mauve dye in 1856.
A dispatch from Odessa says that
seven persons were killed and many
injured in an explosion in secret
bomb factory in that place.
The Robertson insurance bill Oh
Texas became effective on Sunday and
nineteen insurance companies with.
draw from the state as a result.
The steamer Seguranco of the
Ward line, bound for Cuba and Mex
leo, went ashore upon the west bank
between Hoffman and Swinburne Is
lands, during fog.
County officers raided blind pig
operated by the postmaster, e. Fl.
Cooper, at Lake Bay. an island settle
ment twenty miles from Tacoma, SELF.
ing $500 worth of liquors to be de-
stroyed.
Mark Twain left London for home
on the 18th, A great crowd of ad
mirers at the station kept the Ameri-
can humorist busy shaking hands and
gave him a rousing cheer as the train
leIt 1Of lllDurS.
Joseph Hansbro, colored. an insane
prisoner in the penitentiary at Balti-
more attempted to shoot guard, but
instead fatally wounded colored con-
Wet. Hansbro had snatched the revol
yer from the guards holster.
A dispatch from Seoul, Korea, re-
ports the sensational discovery of
twenty-four men, who were concealed
in the Seraglio palace, 1t Is supposed
with the intention of assassinatng
some of the emperors ministers.
The will of the late Francis Muir
ply, apostle of temperance" has
been filed for probate. Mr.. Murphy
according to the petition, left an
estate valued at $4,000, the greater
portion of which goes to his widow.
The state department has received
advices that the republics of Guatemala
AMI Salvador have joined forces and
are beginning the mobilization OF
troops to resist any attack that may
De lndue ny lhe NiSaio 6 ue'h S''N'h
ment.
A terrific windstorm at Louisville,
KY, brought death to one man and
injury to several other persons. The
man killed was Frank n. Lehman,
an employee of the National Casket
company, who was crushed by fall
ing cornice.
The anti-saloon league scored vic
tory before the Alabama legislature
last week when the early closing bill
passed the senate and the bill prohibit.
ing shipment of liquor into prohibit
ton counties was taken from the adj
verse calendar.
Two ore trains upon the Great
Northern railroad came together head
on about twelve miles west Of Brooks
ton, Wis, with the result that one
man was killed and five were injured,
one of them so seriously that he Is not
expected to live.
The Sterling company at Barberton,
Ohio, has received an urgent request
from Washington to rush the boilers
for the battleships of the navy to
completion as fast as possible, and
Engineer Gay of the navy has arrived
to see that the work Is rushed.
Nine. Fromonki, who last March
attempted to assassinate General
Rheinbet, and who on May ID made
an attempt to murder the inspector
of the political prison at Moscow,
wounding him with pistol which had
been Struggled into her cell, has been
sentenced to death.
A vigorous protest has been re-
ceived by the government from the
Japanese land Korean expulsion
league, the headquarters of which
are at Seattle, Wash, against what
Is asserted to be an organized traffic
in Jaanese women, who are being
brought to this country.
John Mitchell. president OF the
United Mine Workers of America, in an
interview at Denver said he was conf
dent that Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone, now on trial In Idaho for the
murder OF former Governor Steunen-
berg. were innocent, and would be &C
quilted of the charge.
Walter L. Mason, formerly nation
al bank examiner, and at one time
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