Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-26
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.


the papal legation at Washington that
he had been appointed auxiliary bish-
op of Chicago.
One man is dead, another is miss
ing and nearly a score of others were
injured recently by an explosion on
board the German steamer Arcadial
which arrived in New York from Ham
burg.
The American Federation of Labor
has filed in the district court of ap-
peals the transcript of record in its
appeal from the decision of the dis
trict supreme court in the case of the
Buck Stove and Range company of
st. Louis against the federation, in
which the lower court had restrained
the labor organization from publish
ing in it's Federationist the company's
name as unfair"
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation declaring the adhesion
of the American government to the
Paris convention of May, 1904, for the
suppression of the white slave traffic.
/ There are 10 nations signatory to the
convention, and three have declared
their adhesion to it,
w. l. Woodman, warehouse manager
for the Whittier Coburn company,
wholesale dealers in paints and oils in
San Francisco, is in Jail charged with
embezzlement. Woodman, it is said,
today confessed to his employers that
he had embezzled between $4,000 and
and $4,000 during the past two years.
, Pasadena, Cal.-Chas. William Lewis,
night engineer of the municipal light
ing plant, was found dead in the pit
beneath a big fiywheel, his skull frac-
tured. his arms broken and his body
sawed almost in two.
The buildings of the keystone and
= the Booth Fish companies plants al
Erie, Pa, were destroyed recently by
l fire. Loss, 100000. Three tugs il
the harbor were also burned.
London theaters are suffering from
. a shortage of chorus girls who are
;, good both to see and hear.
A terrific storm struck Chicago a
- midnight Saturday and swept out int
- - Lake Michigan, and fears are enter
~ tanned for the safety of 60 of the 10
small sailing vessels which were mai
- ing a cruise to Michigan City.
The supreme couicil of the Order {
, Foresters has decided on an advanc
~ in insurance rates of from 40 to 10
- per cent.
%, The John Mitchell boom for go
-, - ernor of Illinois on the democrat
d" ticket was formally launched Sunda
at the convention of the Illinois Stat
:. Federation of Labor.
-, Between 4 and o'clock p. m. Sa
81 urday a severe wind swept over sout
ri' ern Minnesota and northern low
Ho causing great DANCE to property.
The mammoth 100000 auditoriu
is practically completed for the dem
cratic convention July Z at Denver.
ne Federal Judge c. H. Hanford h
ooi filed a memorandum decision dismis
'Ss ing the suit brought by Ernest
90 Cowell of San Francisco against Jol
.ne S. Mcmillan and the Tacoma al
rus Roche Harbor Lime company to co
.on mel Mcmillan to make restitution
ine moneys and stock alleged to ha
Ecu been fraudulently absorbed by hi
INC Control of the Roch Harbor compar
'ne valued at more than 100000, was
stake in the fight, and Mcmillan wi
E a clear-cut victory.
GU An automatic governor on one OF
On flood gates in the Casadero pow
ioi plant of the Portland Railway, Lis
10y and Power company Sunday preve
uei ed the closing of the gate and star
the generator connected with 1t
.no racing. This generator flew to pie
~ and one of the pieces of flying me
CIV struck the governor to a second g
and started the second generator
a"e racing. The second generator flew
pieces, causing a similar accident
7a the third generator. which hkeW
onu flew to pieces. Before disintegrati
INC the generators became excessiV
AS0' heated and one piece of flying me
landed on the wooden flooring OF
uncompleted portion of the build
90 setting it afire. All the WOODWORK
''A0 the building was destroyed.
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