The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-24
NEWS SUMMARY

1
.gives the population of the District OF
Columbia as 3Ss,591, of whom s6,1ss
are negroes.
There will be no strike of the train
men of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad as a result of the differences
over the wage scale.
Harry Marshall, bystander, was
killed and another man was wounded
as result Of row growing out Of
the 'longshoremen's strike in Hobo
ken.
Three hundred and seventy-two
banks of California were represented
in ne bankers convention which
held three days session at Santa
Barbara
David W. Ross, general purchasing
agent of the Panama canal commits
sion, will resign shortly to become
president of a large manufacturing
concern In chicago.
The village of Goreville, ILL.,, has
been swept by fire, entailing loss
of $4,000. Sixteen, buildings were
destroyed. It is believed the fire was
started by incendiarism.
Governor Carter of Hawaii arrived
in San Francisco on the steamer ST.
ezra. He will remain in the United
States several weeks and will visit
President Roosevelt at Washington.
Orrin w. Potter, the pioneer steel
man and multi-millionaire, retired,
whose life was linked with the devel
opment of the steel industry of the
United States, died in Chicago on
the 18th.
The military has taken charge OF
the Jail at Brunswick, Ga, to protect
a negro, Lee Holmes, who is charged
with killing A. A. Sands at Darien
Junction. Sands was prominent
white man.
Governmental returns show that
the deaths from the plague through.
out India for the six weeks ending
May II reached the appalling total of
455,892. In the Punjab alone 2S6,777
deaths occurred.
The sultan of Morocco has decided |
to comply with French demands for
PREPARATION as the result of the muir
der of DR.. Mauchamp, according to
letter from Fee, handed to the French |
minister at Tangier.
No special delivery postage stamps !
will be needed after July l to insure
the immediate delivery Of a letter
The affixing of 10 cents extra postage
and marking the covering special
delivery" will suffice.
: Five masked men at Elletsville
Ind, bound and gagged the town
marshal, took from him the Jail keys
and secured the only prisoner, Oscar
Morris, whom they dragged to a tree
and whipped severely.
The imperial conference at it's clos
ing session in London adopted the
motion of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in ia
vor of an all-British subsidized steam
skip route from the United Kingdom
to Australasia, by way of Canada
The street cars of Evansville, Ind,
began to operate again Saturday with
men imported from ct
Louis and Nashville. Mayor Bohne
has ordered the enlistment of special
patrolmen to handle the situation.
Governor Hughes of New York has
been elected president of the North.
western Baptist convention. This &C
ton was taken at the general meet
ing of the delegates to the general
Baptist Societies in session in Wash
ngton.
The lockout in the building trades
began in Berlin on the 18th. About
$4,000 men are directly affected anG
10000 are affected indirectly. 1t is
he most serious labor difficulty IL
Germany since the great coal strike
If 1905.
After ordering supper and stating
lie would return in a few minutes,'J |
). Clarkson, a prominent mining man
of Detroit, left his boarding
louse in Guadalajara, Mexico, three
weeks ago, and he has never beer
'een since.
B. w. Franks and David McCul
ough, charged with being members
II the gang that robbed the Bank oil
Asher, Okla, last Christmas, OF ,
$4,000, with another prisoner, have
escaped from the county Jail al
Shawnee, Oklahoma.
The strike in the textile mills at ,
)rizaba, Mexico, involving more
han $4,000 operatives, had been
Practically settled by concessions, ana ,