Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-12-25
NEWS OF The WORLD
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.

Both houses of congress have ad-
journed until January 4.
Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio has
opened his campaign to succeed himself.
William B. McNutt, first fire chief
of st. Joseph, Mo-, died recently, aged
II years.
William ]. Bryan is in Pennsylvania
this week, where he will deliver several
addresses.
Judge Lawlor again has postponed
until Thursday the sentencing of Ruef,
convicted of bribing Supervisor Furey.
Mrs. Isabella Martin, convicted of
dynamiting the home of Judge Ogden
of Oakland, Cal, was sentenced to life
imprisonment.
According to report eight hours from
Helena to Spokane is the time which
will be made over the Northern Pacific
after January 1.
Harry b. Suydam, L curb broker, of
Plainfeld, N. j., was fatally shot re-
Gently by man giving the name of
John G. Lunsden, investor.
The threatened strike of the New
York cab drivers and Chauffeurs oper-
ating taxicabs, which has been pend
ing, for some time, is now on.
"Three generations more and don t
believe there will be real Indian left
in the country" says Special Agent
Samuel Cone of the Indian service.
E. c. Ward, for many years city
marshal and ex oficio city tax collec-
tor at Petaluna, CAL, is the self-con-
fessed embezzler of $1,000 of the city 3
money.
Captain John w. Battin, chief of the
bureau of steam engineering, has been
found to be incapacitated, and will be
placed upon the retired list with the
rank of rear admiral.
President Roosevelt is seriously con
templating reviving his plan for the
appointment of special commission
to reorganize the navy department by
eliminating the bureau system.
John Bruce Woodward, student at
the state university at Lexington, KY,
died recently as the result of the burst
ing of a blood vessel in his lung while
blowing into lung testing machine.
With 10000 persons in Berlin unem-
ployed and the number constantly in
creasing, the officials of the Prussian
government face a serious situation
and are trying to devise ways of deal
ing with the problem.
Standing before mirror in the bath
room of his apartments at Joplin, Mo-,
Colonel Henry B. Marchbank, SO years
of age, a prominent stock broker, sent
bullet through his brain. Narchbank
left note to his sister ascribing his
action to i'll health.
-Four remaining indictments against
j. Dalzell Brown, the banker who
pleaded guilty to a charge of hypothe-
eating securities of the California Safe
Deposit and Trust company, and who
was sentenced to 10 months in the
penitentiary, have been dismissed.
Advices received at the headquarters
of the National Window Glass Workers,
Cleveland, indicate that the members
of the organization quit work gener-
ally throughout the country Saturday
in order to enforce the adoption of the
new scale, which carries an increase of
practically rs per cent.
The official investigation to place
the responsibility of the death of IL
men of the Eighteenth infantrv attn
toned at Keithley camp, Mindanao
island, Philippines, is being held. The
men died after drinking an extract
from root found on the island. The
liquid called vino is used as a drink
by the atives of the island.