Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-01-10
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-NatlonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

, Rumors of the illness of the popG
! are unfounded.
At Louisville, KY, recently Clarence
q Sturgeon, 10 years DID, was executed
, recently.
The old cruiser Marion was burned
to the waters edge at Frisco bay re
Gently.
A severe earthquake visited Cape
Prince of Wales Sunday, lasting two
minutes.
John Fl. Croxton, a well known law
yer, who for many years practiced in
Denver, is dead
Horace Boies, twice governor of
Iowa. is critically ill at Providence hos
pi.al, Ell Paso, Texas.
Francis B. Peabody, the senior men,
Der of the banking firm of Peabody,
Houghtaling & Co., Chicago, is dead.
Major Joseph T. Crabbs of the quar-
termaster's department has been
placed on the retired list of the army.
Mrs. Van Ness Roberts, well known
in New York society, is dying of an
overdose of strychnine, self admins
tered.
The Rev. Father Dennis Stafford. d
d., pastor of st. Patrick's Roman Cath
olic church, in Washington, d. c., is
dead
In the Elko, New, railroad yards
recently two men were killed. three
injured and IL cars smashed to splin-
tiers.
The striking boilermakers in the
northwest shops are said to have beea
notified that the strike has been callei
off.
CHARLES G.. Brockett and Mrs. RUBY
Pishsak, wife of a state bank exam.
ner, committed suicide in Chicago re-
Gently.
William ]. Daley, who with William
n. Byres founded the Rocky Mountain
News In 1853, died recently at ibis res
ldence in Denver.
General Erwin l.. Price, son of the
late confederate general Sterling
Price, and who served under his father
n the civil war, died recently in st.
Louis.
Labor conditions in the Panama {
lanai zone will be investigated by Sec.
'etary t. ]. Dolan of the International |
Association of Steam Shovelers and ]
)redgemen. {
"A. Z. Z. X. freight train was wrecked I
ecently one mile west of Fernie q
eight cars in the middle of the train A
we're derailed and piled across the L
rack No one was hurt. t
The engagement of Miss Katherine
'oole OF Baltimore, the heroine of the
lohegan disaster, in the English chan
el' Is announced. She will wed Err. Ii
este Trovi-Simondetti of Mexico, n
Judge Garland of the federal courr n
I South Dakota, has issued a tenn W
idry injunction restraining thu r
outh Dakota railroad commission l.
ON reducing passenger rates from
to 21s cents a mile =,
Policeman Anderson of Portland has =,
iken into custody a man who gives re
he name of Howard, but who the no. m
&c DeneVe to be Joe Sullivan. wanted te
Salt Lake for the murder of Polic..
ian Charles F. Ford in that civ on in
ecember IA last. ~
Inc Grand Trunk railway has given q.
? nope, apparently. of securing Jan 81
Dor Tor construction work on it, ~
nes next summer Advertisements ex
e appearing in Amsterdam. Holland w
skiing for 10000 Hollanders to WI, 40
the Grand Trunk next summer fo
seven companies of United States in
oops under command of Colonel
have left Goldfeld. The We
oops remaining in camp, about 1a5 Nj
en- nave been divided into two full III
Captain William H. Wash. 81,
ana Lieutenant Goodwill will be in re,
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