Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-21
NEWS SUMMARY

choicfd are rtpolNcu III ol- Icbcio D
burg every day.
Gerry f. Carroll on January IA took
the oath of office and was sworn in
as Iowas governor.
Two men were frozen to death and
many persons suffered from the cold
owing to a gas shortage in Pittsburg
last week.
An increase of the navy, to the ex-
tent of 100000 has been agreed
upon by the house committee on
naval affairs.
Carrie Nation, the anti-saloon cru
sader, was arrested at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, England, last week while en-
eaged in a crusade on a saloon.
Latest reports show that the num-
her of deaths in the Lick branch mine
at Switchback. w Va, as a result of
sas explosion, will not exceed fifty
nine.
Juan Vincente, the mail carrier be-
tween Rodeo and Durango, Mexico.
was murdered on a recent trip and
the mail bags robbed of 500 il
cash
Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candi-
date for governor of Illinois, in the
recent election, has signed petition
asking for a recount of all votes cast
for that office.
The explosion of firedamp in the
Auloa coal mine at Veszprim, Austria
resulted in the death of fifty-six men.
OF 240 men entombed, 1S4 were
taken out alive.
Sweeping reforms affecting the
criminal classes in the District of Co
llmbia are recommended in a recent
report transmitted to congress by
President Roosevelt.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
declares that the time viii come
when in this country trees will be as
scarce as diamonds, unless steps are
taken to preserve our forests"
During the recent trip from Manila
uf the transport Sheridan, seven Jap
anese fishermen who were found
clinging to an overturned boat we're
rescued and landed at Nagasalxi.
Applications for pardon or commu-
tation of sentence have been filed by
General Stoessel and Admiral Neba-
Eotoff who are now confined in the
fortress of st. Peter and ST. Paul.
After attempting to rob a public
house in Omaha and shooting a girl
who resisted, an unknown highway
lnan shot and killed Patrolman l.. A.
Smith. The gir viii probably re-
cover.
The Nuvia de Orc Mining com
rany, in the Unique district of Chi
huahua, was robbed last week OF
$4,000 by bandits, who raided the Of
flee of the company and dynamited
the safe
The general assembly OF Ohio, In
Joint session. officially declared that
Congressman Theodore e. Burton, Of
of Joseph B. Foraker in the United
States senate.
James York, quarry worker, Of
Manloato, MINI, while respondent, cut
the threats of four of his children
and then committed suicide by hang
ing himself. The dead children
ranged from 6 to IA years old
Canadian Pacific freight traiI
ran into snowslide at Three Valley
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plunging into the lake, the engnee
and fireman being pinned in tn
cabin of the engine and drowned.
Representative Charles S. Lands
OF Indiana, when asked about thu
published report that ne had been OF
fered the position of public printer
said: Il am going home to live OF
my farm. I would not accept tina
} Office"
Venezuela and the United State
have agreed to the basis of a settle
= ment of the disputes between them
and a protocol is being drawn vi
Presumptively the cases in disput
\ will be referred to The Hague TO
arbitration.
Charles S. Cameron, president c
the Tube City Railroad company VIII
has been on trial at Pittsburf
charged with attempting to bride fol
mer City Councilman William A. Ma
tin, in connection with the passage {
: franchise ordinances, was foun
guilty.
Signs of renewed activity, no.
that conditions are becoming NOR
settled since the earthquake disaste
are noticeable everywhere in Me-
sina. Many persons who left the cit
Immediately after the catastroph
are returning, anxious to start lif
anew.
Heirs of George Washington al
urging before congress a claim {
s305,1O0 as reimbursement for 800
acres of land along the Little Milan
river in Ohio, which was granted
Washington, but was lost by contiic
ing grants made under the authorit
OF the United States.
The appeal from the recent d