The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-07-04
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented In Manner -
Catch me Eye Of the Husy Reader
MATTERS Of National. Historical
and Commercial Importance.

Missionaries say America Is to
blame for the japanese war scare.
Railroads report business generally
good, though somewhat less than last
year.
Governor Cummins, OF Iowa, will
resign and return 10 the practice Of
law.
The treasury deficit for the fiscal
year just ending will be the largest in
years.
A tramp was arrested at Hood
River who was found to have about
$1,000 in cash in his ragged clothes.
1t is generally admitted that Bryan
will be the Democratic nominee for
president, but a tight is expected on
vice-president
Mexican rebels arc reported 10 have
from 1000 10 1000 men under arms
A tornado IN South Dakota did inn
mense damage to crops and buildings.
and another in Minnesota killed seven
persons.
Filipino leaders have been studying
the Russian douma They will visit
other nations OF Europe before re-.
turning home They are travelling
under the auspices OF the American
war department.
Mrs Frank ] Gould is suing for
divorce.
Centralia. Wash, was swept by
disastrous FIRE.
Desperate fighting continues be-
tween factions in Persia,
Mexican rebels have captured the
town OF Viesca. The government has
sent troops.
Bryan expresses perfect confidence
that he will be the Democratic nomi-
nee for president
Cleveland was buried in Princeton
cemetery with simple ceremonies and
no military display.
There will be 1880 American ma
rines ashore in the canal zone to keep
order on election day.
A Portland fruit peddler was fined
s. for staying too long in one place
to sell his last box Of cherries.
James S. Sherman, Republican
nominee for vice-p president. is rapidly
recovering, and will soon be able 10
travel
Americas authorities do not expect
any open trouble with Venezuela.
They expect to just let Castro severe
ly alone.
Harvard beat Yale in the great in
tercollcgiate boat race. Secretary
Taft, who is graduate Of Yale, wit
messed the race. and was sorely dis
appointed
circus train IN St. Paul injured eight
persons.
A Chicago professor has fallen heir
10 an immense fortune. mostly in
Idaho mines.
Heney accused Ruef OF plotting his
death, and Ruef promptly called
Heney liar. &ksMi
a Pendleton man who is afraid to
trust the banks has $4,000 in postal
money orders.
The Venezuelan envoy TO the
United States is awaiting orders 10
leave this country.
Shooting and footing continue in
4
ing reign of terror.
A French passenger steamer was
wrecked on the Spanish coast and
about 100 persons persisted.
A Seattle man was killed by cake
of ice falling down an elevator short
and striking him on the head.
Flour and other provisions are get
ting SO high priced in Chicago that
many are scarcely able 10 buy enough
10 eat.
A weil-organized ring has been dis
covered in Southern California en-
gagged in smuggling Chinese coolies
across the Mexican border.
The youngest son Of the late
Charles Croker. the San Francisco
millionaire, has undergone his second
operation for cancer Of the stomach
A Russian paper predicts that when
reinforcements arrive for the Persian
reyolutionists, the shah's army will
be defeated and the government over
thrown
Thee Rivers, Quebec. had a million
dollar FIRE.
The wrapping paper trust has pleaded
guilty, and each member was fined.
The bribery case against TREY L.
Ford. Of San Francisco. has been
dropped
Eight persons died and scores we're
Frustrated from the heat in Chicago
4 second son has been born to King
Alfonso and Queen Victoria, of Spain
II is claimed many cures have been
effected in a leper colony in Louisiana.
Hyde and Schneider were convicted of
land frauds. and Benson and Dimond
acquitted.
Two men jumped from a speeding au
tornobile in California, thinking II was
beyond control Both were badly in
jured.
Thomas w. lawson. Of Boston. pro. |
poses 70 raise one million dollars for |
Democratic campaign fund TO elect |
Governor Johnson. OF Minnesota, presi- |
dent. and w J. Bryan. yiee-president.
Taft says he would like to SEQ a |
good game Of baseball; a game for
blood -
Woman spifragists ia London held
the greatest demonstration ever seen
there.
A collision of electric cars three miles
from Portland on the Mount Scott line |
badly injured six persons, slightly In |
1ured many more and wrecked two mo
tor ears