Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-01-10
,..aoueua and Direfui
Accident Furnish Long l'''
of Dead.
cy1ronE OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
Financial Disturbance-okia'
hOma state-Fine ana '
of Millions.

s,,osolf confronted by an eAnio
niii9' a4,on and disaster that ne nad
ue'' en-, onnrecIated before. Since the
nO' dov of the year the great ca
.astronhes that have been accoinp'n
'as nv large loss Of life have numbered
leu " average of slightly more than
~ a., zach month. Several OF these
w" hoan great commissions OF nature.
Tnora was the earthquake that destroy
a kingston, Jamaica, out Oh wnicn
oar,o the disagreeable Swettenham IN
s s'so0t. subsequently occurred other
..horol,es and volcanic eruptions In
Worico Chile and China. An eartn-
ouote and mountain slide that ue-
St~ovad the town of Karatagh, Russian
rurtestan. snuffed out $4,000 lives, and
friqhtful typhoon at Hongkong'
china. killed unknown hundreds OF the
,ubabtants. A hurricane in the Caro-
limo Islands wiped out 200 lives;
rroat flood in Japan caused 600 deaths.
among the catastrOphes originating In
n tho operatlons and enterprises OF hui
mainly there have been explosions
sororal Of them in mines, others In
HAST furnaces and on shipboard-col-
Il nsons of ships and of railway trains,
q tbe collapse of the great uncompleted
n bridge over the st. Lawrence river
near Quebec, and the blowing up of
81 tbe On Pont powder works in Fonta-
net Ind. All these produced long cas-
ualty lists.
4 The roll of eminent dead is also an
extensive one. Sweden has lately been
n called upon to mourn the decease of It's
beloved king Oscar II, and his sol
and successor has assumed the rein'
Of government. In Persia. also, the
old Shah has died and a new one rules
Not death. but abdication has als'
e changed the governmental head II
"a Korea. Politics. art, science, letters
and the platform have each paid 1t
toll to death in the loss OF some fore
most representatives. Among the name
may be recorded those of former Pres
ldent NJ. Casmir Perier of France
Senator's Morgan, Pettus and Algel
Galusha A. Grow. James III. Eckel'
Maurice Grau. Richard Mansfield, Jc
seph Joachim, Edward Grieg, Jane
McGranahan, Col. VIII S. Hayes, Pro
Alexander S. Herschel, Thomas Bale
Aldrich, DR.. John Watson Clan MAJ
laren), Theodore Tilton. Mrs. Mary
Holmes, Francis Murphy and Mr.
Helen NJ. Cougar. Mrs. VIM. McKil
ley and John Alexander Dowie are ais
In the list of the well-known dead.
financial disturbance OF widesprea
influence has made itself felt durlr
the last three months of 1907.
The number of States in the UniC
mas been increased to 46 by the a
mission Of Oklahoma.
That modern minds are not appall,
Dy large amounts is shown by two
The years transactions. The Standal
vi Company has been fined S29,00t
VOO by Chicago judge. and John
rockefeller has made donations of So.
WoOOO to educational projects.
Two great expositions have be-
hed. That at jamestown, Va, did II
receive the patronage expected and
III the hands Of receiver. The 9th
was In Greater Louisville, Ky.
public work Of vast MAGNITUDE W
begun when Mayor Mcclellan of n,
4 lork broke ground for the constr,
y uon OF the great Catskill aquedr
which In a few years is to convey
y Tue metropolis an inexhaustible SUPP
Of pure water.
The Harry Thaw trial in New Yo
a. anu the general strike Of telegraph,
u the country over were subjects of mr
ri tlnued
Inc principal happenings of 1907
ne 0rlefy given below:
10 JANUARY.
Z. wreck on Rock Island near 3,
y unu, Kansas, kills 80 persons. .Cf
~ ss rloyd, Republican, elected Cover
s'' view hampshire by Legislature.
bomb thrown in Fourth Street
test iOnal bank, Philadelphia.
nj Death Of Shah of Persia.
lied c;t- lanes Cullen lynched in Cha
por sa 'S, IOWA. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff
he L ANIMATED in st. Petersburg. 80 mir
i'd p,,,su Oy explosion in Pittsburg blast
hpi lO-rvnho
persons. ppines Kills
10. sn.. -f ar near Strassburg. Germr
\" Is u'ss 20 deaths. -. 81, COCOON fire
naica destroys kingston