The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-02-08
NEWS 81 NARY

The senate has passed a bill plac
ing the control OF the Panama railroad
under the lsthmian canal commission
The snow which has fallen upon the
vest Alps is the heaviest in twenty
years. 1t is five feet deep at Grenoble
France.
By the explosion OF powder in the
Johnson City and Big Muddy Goa.
mines at Johnson City, Ills, five were
killed and eleven hurt.
The Indian appropriation bill re
ported to the senate carries $14, 500,
POI, a net increase of 5000, 1872 over
the bill as passed by the house.
Otis Eddy, aged lO2, died at Rock
ford, Ills, last week. He was believed
to be the Oldest Mason in this coun
try, having been initiated in 1926.
George Burnham, Jr., former gen
eral counsel for the Mutual Life In
surance company, was put to work IL
the printing shop in Sing Sing last
week.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given a mil
lion dolars to the Rensselaer, Poly.
technic Institute. Announcement of
the gift was made at a meeting of the
institution.
-Four men were killed and sixteen
others seriously injured as the
result of the explosion of an ice ma:
chine in the power house of Armour
& Co. at Chicago.
The Wheeler-Simon bill, to abolish
capital punishment, has passed the
house and senate of Kansas and now
only awaits the governors signature
to become a law.
Fire which started with an explo.
sion in the paint shop, destroyed an
entire section of the big Baldwin loco.
motive works At Philadelphia, entail
ing a loss of 81, 000, 900.
The Alabama senate passed a bill
classifying all the railroads in the
state and reducing freight rates on
more than 100 commodities. 1t is ex.
pected that the bill will pass the
house.
Masked men called Jesse Phelps
from his home at Morgantown, KY,
and whipped him severely. Phelps
was accused Of sticking pins in his
s-year-old child and burning it with
a hot poker.
The oyertlowed Mississippi river,
which is filled with great blocks OF
boating ice, has swept away two resi-.
1enceS and the school house at Dorent,
village twenty-five miles south of
Charleston, Mo.
John S. Corsyee, proprietor of a
lace store in West Hoboken, was shot
and killed in his store at night by one
Of a gang of nine men who broke into
he store to rob it. They also wound .
I'd John Ged, an assistant. >,
AS the result of a fire which de- !
the Columbia building, in Buff. t
alo, N. Y, occupied by about twenty
enants, three firemen are dead and q
eighteen are more or less injured. The i
ire loss is estimated at $500, 900. .
Archbishop S. G.. Messmer, in an in b
at Milwaukee, favors re-estab "
of the canteen in military :,
and soldiers homes. II ar n
Irmly convinced that the canteen is
strong temperance factor" he says A.
Mrs. F. B. Green of Oak Park, a a
uburb of Chicago, was bitten by her e
-~year-old-son whom she was treat, al
lg for scarlet fever, and may as st
asult lose her hand. Infection from a,
bite caused blood poisoning. Am n
utation of one finger has failed to ar e
est the malady. The child died q
anuary %. "
Henry Magruder, son of the Confed-
rate general, John Bankhead Magru. m
(Who died in Houston, Tex, in h;
S71), is dead. Mr.. Magruder has been &C
aveling in Italy with his niece, Miss al
uckler, who nursed him during his fo
mess. la
While suffering from a fit of TEN
orary insanity, Hamilton Wright, a 70
'ominent citizen of Sharon, Pa, shot tn
killed his wife in their bed room. ii,
right then telephoned the police sta M
and was found sitting near the tn
)dy of his wife. til
On account of the failure of the 10
wheat crop, Russia this year will at,
a purchaser of American wheat Sc,
ID the first shipload will arrive soon az
Riga from London, on it's way to off
The price on the Russian er:
arket will be $1.15 a bushel. go
being chased for four years,
Gomez, charged with being one Of in,