Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-27
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationsI
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

B. p Oliver, recently elected pres
ident, declares the California Safe Do
post & Trust company hopelesslv IN.
solvent, and the only thing to do is To
appoint a receiver.
London's greatest shipping paner
prints a statement that England has
decided to establish a new naval
squadron in the Pacific, but is denied
The business part of Baltimore was
threatened by fire when blaze wiped
out three big establishments and three
smaller ones, causing a loss of $3.50.
900.
At Springfield, ILL.,, three lives were
lost and property worth $500, 900 de.
stroyed in fire which started in tho
Christmas stock of Johnson & Hatch.
er's department store.
Property to the value OF 5000. 0Oo
was lost in a fire in the furrier estah.
lishment of Edwin S. George at De.
troit Saturday.
Mrs. William o. Boatright and her
grown daughter were fatally shot re.
Gently while asleep by an unknown
assailant on farm near Merryville
Mo.
King Edward has signed a proc
lamation definitely summoning parlia Il
ment to meet January 20.
Those who participated in the 70. &
cent conference of the tobacco grow.
ers and buyers at Frankfort. XIV
called by Governor Wilson believe
that the tobacco war will be amicablv
settled.
The antagonistic attitude of the pub.
lie against the Jap walters in the ferry
boats Of San Francisco bay caused the
Southern Pacific to lay them on.
At Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. James
Scofeld was killed, Miss Louisa
French hurt, and third woman seri =
ously injured when train backed into .
the buggy in which the women were 81
riding.
Albert Filley, farmer living south.
east OF Cannon, Mo-, killed his wife
and daughter and his brother by shoot. ~
ing them recently. Filley is supposed Il
to be insane. Officers have gone TO Il
arrest Filley.
owing to the present financial strin. ii
sency the union boilermakers are said III
20 have offered to go back to work for "a
me railway companies against whom &
'ney are striking, under the same con- "a
iitions they had before the strike with IA
ne increase offered by the camptny at IA
he time of the walkout.
Z. Haugh, the Norwegian minister to jk
he United States, died recently in 81
Norway while on a snowshoeing trim III
WI Ting Fang, who has been reap H.
pointed to the post of minister to the III
United States, has left for Washing
on. ~ l,
Dealng in grain futures is prohibit nc
ID by bill introduced recently by 1fg
representative Scott of Kansas the I'm
lew chairman of the committee on 8lol
griculture.
M. Paquin, the famous French dress IN
maker, is dead. Nv
Falnters at work on the dome of the to
1ain building of Oklahoma university 4on
ccidentally set fire to the structure Her
ecently. The loss is estimated al ~
rom s125,OOO to s15O,OOO, partially Gov lin
red by insurance. Mon
william Henry Rice, one of the bes 81 v
hown minstrels in the United States ihe
; dead. stfer
iron Shield, the Sioux chief, died re pr
emily. eml
Advlces from Tutuila, Samoa, state
lat the volcano in the island Savi *Ey,
German Samoa, is working with "a
reater activity. a
hdward Price of New York city, frs "sric
usDand OF Fanny Davenport, ths he
'tress, died recently in Omaha. in