Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-14
NEW S SUMMARY

cense was denied I'm the probate court
The town OF Port Esslngton, B. c.,
has been partially destroyed by fire,
CAUSE by a defective fiue. the loss be-
ing 100000
Alonzo e. Horton, founder OF San
Diego. Cal. and it's oldest inhabitant.
is dead, aged 95 years, as a result OF
infirmities incident 70 old age
Philip Brushart. said to be the old
est man in Michigan. died at Jackson
last week, aged 104 years. His father
fought in the battle of Waterloo.
The Baldwin and Colonial theatres
in Springfield. Mo-, have been de-
stroyed by fire as the result of gas
explosion, causing loss of 100000.
The macaroni wheat trade with
Sicily has been ruined by the earth
quake. Messina was one of the big
gest durum wheat markets of the old
world.
Fire destroyed the home of Joseph
Kohl, near Dickinson, N. d. Three
young girls alone in the house were
burned to death and a fourth was
fatally burned
When the monitor Cheyenne steamed
out of the harbor at San Francisco or
January A. an oil burning warship
went to sea for the first time in the
history of the navy.
Julian Burns, wealthy Italian OF
New Castle, Pa, is probably vic
time of the Messina earthquake. He
arrived at Messina Christmas day for
the purpose of getting married.
A fast passenger train ran into an
open switch at Caperon, w. Va, kill
ing the engineer and fireman, the en-
CINE and four cars being ditched, none
of the passengers being seriously hurt.
While attempting to arrest ARIZONA
Jack" Elton, miner and cowboy from
Imperial valley, Deputy Constable
Charles De Manville was shot and
killed at Newhall, Cal. Elton made
his escape.
The stockholders of the American
Telephone & Telegraph company, at
a meeting In New York City, author
lied an increase in the capital stock
of the company from $3.50 100000 to
$300,O00,000
Colonel Zavarnitsky, chief of the Sc
secret police at vladivostok, has been
sentenced to four years penal servi
tude and the loss of his military rights
on the charge of having manufactured
evidence in political cases.
A tornado near Mineola. Texas
swept bare a section FIVE miles long
wrecking the homes of l.. c. Johnson
| H. E. Bryant and j. e. Burkhead. Sc
| far as known no one was killed, but
several persons were injured.
The emperor of Korea, accompanied
! by Marquis Ito of Japan and his min
| LEI - - y,
empire, it being his purpose to inves
tigate conditions. This is the frs
trip of a Korean ruler to the interio
of the empire.
dispatch received in st. Peters
| burg from Rome says unat M. Petroff
a prominent Russian basso, and TIVE
italian singers, Signores Catani ant
Cambi, tenors, persisted at Messina
These artists all appeared last white
in st. Petersburg.
An explosion which shook house
and shattered windows five miles dis
tant, occurred at Woodriver, Ill, whei
tank of oil of 100000 gallons capa
city caught fire. Henry Johnson,
Waterman, was caught by the iamiui
oil and burned to death.
Phillip Berkis, wealthy merchar
of San Fran cisco, reported to the pc
lice of Chicago that he had been rot
bed of a purse containing $4,000 Will
sleeping at the home of Jacob Bickov
Bickow was arrested, but denied a.
knowledge of the alleged theft.
The entire western coast of Me,
leo was shaken by an earthquake
January 8, which was most severel
felt at Acapulco, in the state o
| Guerrero, and at Oaxaca in the stat
of the same name. The damage wa
trivial and no fatalities have bee
reported.
Nah Hong, Chinaman. was hange
at Macleod, Canada, by Radcliffe. Can
adas official hangman. The Chinama
went to the gallows with the cust'
mary racial stoicism. Nah Hong she
his partner, Nah Ling. The latter ha
collected money for the firm and los
1t gambling
The Asiatic squadron, commando
by Rear Admiral Giles B. Harbor, ha
returned to Manila from cruis
through the southern islands of til
Philippine group. The fleet officers r
port enthusiastic receptions to til
ships at the various ports at whic
they stopped
] In a pitched battle near Mes
GRANGE, Cal, between a gang of ca
tie rustlers and members of the vic
lante committee, four rustlers wei
killed and one vigilante serious
wounded The other rustlers fie
across the border line into Mexico 3