Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-01-10


Heres attempted In Paris.
15-Powder explosion on battleship
Georgia kills seamen and injuries 49,
1S-Emperor of Korea abdicates.
300 killed in Pere Marquette wreck |
near Salem, Mich.
21-Steamer and freight boat collide
of California coast and $50 lives are lost.
23-Death of Col. Will S. Hays, ballad
writer.
27--Death of Senator q. w. Pettus of
Alabama.
2S-Jury in Boise, Idaho, acquits Will
liam d. Haywood of murder of Gov.
Steunenburg. Big fire at Coney Island,
n Y.
standard Oil Co. fined S29,0OO.000
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
X. M. Lands of Chicago.
S+Beginning of telegraphers' general
strike.
12-Death of Robert A. Pinkerton.
15-Joseph Joachim, violinist, dies in
Berlin.
19-Prince Wilhelm of Sweden at
jamestown exposition.
26-Great fire in Hakodate, Japan.
27-Nelson Morris, Chicago packer,
dies.
29-Great bridge over st. Lawrence
: river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying 81
workmen to death.
3O-Death of Richard Mansfield
SEPTEMBER.
death of Edward Grieg, Norwegian
: composer.
7-Anti-Japanese outbreak in vancou'
yer, 3. G.
9HJapanese battleship Kashima blows
: ur at Kure with loss Of 40 lives.
15-25 lives lost in wreck of excursion
train near Canaan. n. H.
- 17-First election in Oklahoma. -. OH
Fl" cago defeats new charter.
21-Frank J. Constantine convicted
murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicag
u 49,. Grandstand blown down in Higgins
u Pa, and 80 people hurt.
25-Flood in Japan browns 600 pei
sons.
" 2S-Eight lives lost in B. & o. wrec
L. at Bellaire, Ohio.
3O-McKinley mausoleum dedicated i
Canton, Ohio.
OCTOBER.
= 6-Death of Mrs Mary j. Holme
n authoress.
1O-Steamship Lusitania crosses a
h lantic ocean in four days twenty hours.
~ Death of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick in q
lumbus (Ohio) penitentiary.
.st 12-Steamship Cypress wrecked
Lake Superior and % lives lost.
49,. 14-Town of San Jose del Cabo, Low
California, destroyed by cloudburst.
15-Du Pont powder works near Flo
tanet. Ind, explodes, killing 90 people.
sc, 16-Wall street furry causes gre
cw slump in copper stocks.
26. 22-23-Panic in New York and
II East marked by suspension of knick'
res booker Trust Company and OF vario
financial concerns, appointment OF rece
CO. ers for Westinghouse Electric and Mar
ar featuring Company, and wild scenes
Stock Exchange
IN 23-Germans win balloon race from
Louis with France second.
ted 27-New S2O,O00,OO0 Union stat
opened in Washington.
)hi- 3O-Earthquake and mountain slide
and stloys town of Karatagh. Russian t
kestan, and causes $4,000 deaths.
ted NOVEMBER.
y Great railway strike in Great b
-, ain called.
Oh 5-End of telegraphers' strike. e
tons in many States.
Elk 11--Death of Dexter NJ. Ferry, see
=, man, of Detroit.
Siils 15-Death of Moncure D. Cow
American author. Fire destroys tc
of Cleary, Alaska.
III 16-Oklahoma admitted to statehood
24-Jury in Steve Adams case in III
lres drum, Idaho, disagrees.
25-Thirteen lives lost in New \
en- tenement house fire.
lauo 26-Death of Gen. B. ID. Pritcharc
dge- Aregan. Mich. whose regiment captu
jefferson Davis.
ol DECEMBER.
! .. 1-Explosion in mine at Fayette |
~ Pa. kills 40 miners.
2-Sixtieth Congress opens.
49, liking Oscar of Sweden resigns
III" eminent into hands of Crown Prince
,itad regent
''teu 6-Explosion entombs 400 miners
or;s Monongah, w. Va.
-, S-Denth of King Oscar ii. OF Sw'
e'' and accession of his son as Gustat V
11-President Roosevelt reiterates
g of declaration that he will not again
candidate for chief executive.
NJ. 16-Dust explosion kills 10 mer
mine at Yolande, Ala. Great war
0 in calls from Hampton Roads for Pacif
In 17-Death Of Lord Kelvin, Ems
scientist.
elist.
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800 A new principle in engineering