Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-02-08
NEWS SUMMARY


The senate has passed a bill plac
ing the control of the Panama railroad
under the Isthmian canal commission
The snow which has fallen upon the
west 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 coal
mines at johnson City, his, five were
killed and eleven hurt.
|. The Indian appropriation bill re
ported to the senate carries s14,509,
2O1, net increase of $6,3O6,132 over
the bill as passed by the house.
Otis Eddy, aged 102, 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 ir
the printing shop in Sing Sing lasi
week.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given mil
lion donars to the Rensselaer, Poly
technic Institute. Announcement OF
.he 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 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 s1,OOO,OOO.
The Alabama senate passed 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 /
3-year-old child and burning it with
a hot poker
The overlooked Mississippi river,
which is filled with great blocks OF
floating ice, has swept away two resi-
dences and the school house at Dorent
a village twenty-five miles south OF
Mo.
John S. Corsyee, proprietor OF
lace store in West Hoboken, was sho'
and killed in his store at night by one
of a gang of nine men who broke into
the store to rob it. They also wound
ed John Ged, an assistant.
AS the result of fire which de
stroyed the Columbia building, in Buf
falo, ~ Y, occupied by about twenty
tenants, three firemen are dead ano
eighteen are more or less injured. The
fire loss is estimated at 100000.
Archbishop S. G. Messmer, in an in
-erview at Milwaukee, favors re-estab
ishment of the canteen in military
posts and soldiers homes. Il am
firmly convinced that the canteen is
4 strong temperance factor" he says
Mrs. F. B. Green of Oak Park,
suburb of Chicago, was bitten by her
,-year-old-son whom she was treat
ng for scarlet fever, and may as
'esult lose her hand Infection from
he bite caused blood poisoning. Am
,utation of one finger has failed to ar
est the malady. The child died
January rs.
Henry Magruder, son of the Confed
rate general, John Bankhead Magru
er (who died in Houston, Tex, in
SID, is dead. Mr.. Magruder has been
raveling in Italy with his niece. Miss
who nursed him during his
lness-
While suffering from fit OF tenn
orary insanity, Hamilton Wright, a
rominent citizen of Sharon, Pa, shot /
nd killed his wife in their bed room ,
Wright then telephoned the police sta
ion and was found sitting near the
ody of his wife.
On account of the failure of the 10 /
al wheat crop, Russia this year viii (