Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-04-09
News Summary.

dent of the National Mothers con-
gress.
In an amateur boxing tournament
in Philadelphia, Willie Robinson,
10 years, was killed while boxing
with Charles Wolf, same age.
The senate has accepted the
amendment to the Legislative bill
increasing the salaries of surveyors
general from So, to $4,000.
The steamer Pomona.l which plys
between San Francisco and Eureka,
was wrecked on March II. All her
passengers we're saved.
Three men were killed and two
injured fatally by the blowing up of
one OF ten wheel houses of the
United Powder company at Coal
mont, Ind.
Sen. Ben Tillman of South Caro-
lima is dangerously i'll at his home
in Trenton, S. c., suffering with a
return OF the disease which affected
his health three years ago.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury J. p. Edwards, whose reisgna-
ton was accepted last week has ac-
cepted the rcceivership of the New
Amsterdam National bank of New
York, which recently suspended.
Mrs. Mabel Medley, of Kalama-
ZOO. Mich, whose two-year-old son
died last Decembre while under the
treatment of two mental healers,
while suffering from pneumonia,
has been arrested charged with man.
slaug hter.
W. r. Day, secretary of state of
Kentucky under the republican re-
gime of Gov. Taylor in 1900, has
been sentenced to serve one year in
the penitentiary for forging the
name of his uncle to check for
S.
The bubonic plague in Ecuador is
increasing and the sanitary condi-
ton Of other towns is causing
great deal of alarm.
Frank Kito, a Japanese cook,
fired five bullets into the body of
Mrs. Lizzie Hulse of New York
city, who had spurned his love
Kito then drank carboilc acid and
died. Mrs. Hulse will recover.
Both mad been employed in a res
taurant.
The Notifications bill carrying
a total appropriation of $8,210,60O
instead of the $38, asked
for by the war department, has
been reported to the house by Chair
man Smith of the subcommittee on
Notifications
Under pressure cxerted by the
Transvaal government, which is
entitled to 90 per- of :the COM
pany's output, the Premier Dia-
mond Mining company has finally
refused to renew it's agreement with
the diamond syndicate and will
markell is own output.
In the arrest of Fanny Richie
and Harry McCuen at Denison,
Tex, the mystery of q wholesale
murder in Oklahoma City last Aug
ust, involving the death Of five per-
sons. is cleared up. The woman
declares McCuen committed the
murdesrs, robbery being the motive.
The government of the little Az
rican republic, has appealed to
America to protect her territorial
industry aginst France. The state
department is informed that dele
cation is new or is ay from Mon
IOWA 10 Wsst iuston make a per-
sonal appeal.
The suge csti)oL mas been made
in .nc Australian senate, and greet
ed with enthusiasm, that the fed
ccrsl government invite President
Roosevelt to come to Australia as
the guest of the commonwealth
during the visit next winter in
Australian waters of the American
battlcship fleet.
So badly do the farmers of Lam
caster county, Penn, require help
on the farms that the Farmers
league has issued an appeal to I'M
employed of the cities and towns to
go to the country for work, and an
appeal has been sent to the bureau
of labor and immigration.
The supreme court Of Missouri
has decided that city ordinances
prohibiting persons from lounging
or. loafing on street corners are I'm
constitutional.
The claim of the Countess of
Buena Vista aga nst Major General
Brooke for $3.50, 600 damages on ac-
count of his revoction while mill
tary governor of Cuba, of her Ii
cense to slaughter all the cattle for