Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-11
NEW s SUMMARY


New York City policemen April IA
1908. was electrocuted on February
According to dispatches received in
FL Paso, Texas, it is openly predicted
in Mexico City that the gubernatorial
Campaign in the state OF Mozlas viii
result in bloodshed.
Reports received from orange grow
ing sections south of New Orleans In
dictate that serious damage to orchards
was done by the freezing weather
which extended to the Gulf coast.
Mrs. Sydney M. Colgate, a wealthy
woman of Orange, N. j., and Mrs. Ed
ward Olds, of New York. were severe
ly injured In an automobile collision
on the Meadow road. near Kearny.
N. j.
Eighteen persons, including several
women and children. were carried
out of a blazing tenement house IL
Brooklyn, by policemen, after some
| of the former had been overcome by
smoke.
Seventeen men are dead as the re-
suit of an explosion in the Short Creek
mines of the Birmingham Coal & Iron
company, near Birmingham, Ala. Five
I OF the dead are white and twelve are
negroes.
Six men were killed and several in
| jured when a construction train on
| the New York Central railroad ran
down party of Italian trackmen
near University Heights, in Bronx
borough.
Ex-Chief of Police s. G. Hodgkins,
of Oakland, Cal, was shot twice and
seriously, but not fatally, wounded
while attempting to capture Charles
! Clifton, who had attempted to hold up
drug store on Telegraph avenue.
The lower house of the Texas leg
islature has, by vote of S5 to A, de,
feated the resolution to submit state
wide prohibition to a popular vote
The prohibitionists lacked two votes
necessary to a two-thirds majority
The home of Mrs Frank Lathrop
near Brentwood. Ark, was burned on
| February a, and her two sons, Will
lam and Frank, aged Is and 25 years,
respectively, and George Burris,
young visitor. were burned to death
The International Harvester com
uany will pay the fine of $4,000 as
sessed against it by the district court
of Shawnee county, Kansas, and ap
proved by the Kansas supreme court
for violating the Kansas antitrust law,
The house committee on public
buildings and grounds has agreed to
favorable report on the Rodenbere
bill to purchase the Oldroyd collec
tion of Lincoln relics now located in
the house in Washington in which
Lincoln died
Before a special master In Cleve'
land O., February 10, Government At
torney Frank b. Kellogg will seek ia
show. if possible, that the merger OF
the Union and Southern Pacific rail
roads under the control of K. II. Har
riman is monopoly.
Mayor Taylor of San Francisco has
issued a proclamation setting aside
FIVE days in October for celebrating
the one hundred and fortieth anniver-
sary of the discovery of San Fran
cisco bay by Gaspar de Portola, first
governor of California.
AS the result of family troubles, Dee
Brown fred two shots at Henry Loeb
ard, near Madison, Ind, whereupor
Lochard returned the fire, shooting
Brown in the head, killing him in
stantly 1t is said the trouble grew
out of Browns wife deserving him.
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of Bruce Shelter, San Dssgo
Cal. contractor, who was shot te
death, returned verdict finding Mrs
Effie Duden, sister-in-law of the deaC
man, had fired the shots. Mrs. Duder
has been held in jail without bail.
A bold daylight robbery in Chi
cago's most crowded retail street was
successfully perpetrated by a lone
robber. The thief hurled a bricl
through the window of the Jackson
Jewelry company, and secured $4,000
worth of watches, rings and dia
monds.
Mrs Mary Wright is on trial a
Devils Lake, n. D., charged with thu
murder of Beulah Wright aged six
teen years. The state alleges tina
Mrs. Wright strangled the girl ant
then smeared carbolic acid on th'
girls lips to make it appear case o
suicide.
When the British steamship Shi
mosa leaves New York for the IA
east she will carry away the remark
able cargo of 5000 dead Cinnamon
From all points east of the Mississip
pi trains have brought numbers o
coffined Chinese, to be sent to tn
F'lowery Kingdom.
Wireless telegraphy has saved It
first Mexican ship. The revenue cut
ter Jose Yves Limantour became dis
abled fifty miles off the coast nea
Culiacan and her calls for assistance
by wireless were caught up by tn
Alamos. which Immediately steame'
out and brought her to port.