Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
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Sioux City, Iowa, May IA.
A passenger train ran through an
open bridge into Bull creek, near Ran
dolph, Mo, and several tra'nmen arc
missing.
A. p Riddle, former lieutenant-gov-
srnor of Kansas. was killed near Sa-
lima, Kans., May IA, in an automobile
accident
Fifteen families have been burned
out In the Rush lake. Saskatchewan
district, by prairie fires, two children
losing their lives and others being
badly burned.
Salvador Rizzo, fruit dealer, who
died suddenly at his home in Cincin-
natl. having received threatening let
tiers from the BLACK hand" is believed
to have been poisoned.
A dispatch from Tangier says it is
reported from Megador that party Of
American tourists has been captured
by natives near Agadir, which is the
most southern part of Morocco.
Henry Goodale was fatally burned
and his son, Thomas, badly injured at
St Joseph Mo, by an explosion OF
gas, caused by lightning during the
worst electrical storm OF the year.
Rev. w. G. Barber, superintendent
| Of the Iowa Anti-saloon league, an
| nounces that the league has decided
| to abandon the fight for the re-su5-
| mission of constitutional prohibition
| In Iowa.
Fx-President Roosevelt, in the cur
| rent number of the Outlook combats
| the statement credited to Count Leo
| Tolstoi that Bryan represented the
party of peace in the last presidential
campaign
While clearing a lot in Burnaby, a
suburb of New Westminster, B. c.,
workmen found the body of a woman
| In an advanced stage of decomposition,
death having occurred at least six
months ago.
Five persons, four girls and a
young man, members of a party of
eight, were drowned when boat in
which they were attempting to cross
the river at Hackensack, N. j., during
a storm, capszed.
Fire accompanied by an explosion
in the big general storehouse of the
Seaboard Air Line railway at Ports
mouth, Va, entailed loss of from
5000, 900 to $250,00o and resulted in
the injury of four men.
Miss Clara Cooper, of Montaur
Iowa. was suddenly stricken blind on
the eve of her departure for Iowa, af.
ter a visit to friends in Redding, Ca
Miss Cooper had never had any pre-
vious trouble with her eyes.
George Hall, aged 81; R. H. Sweet
aged AS, Sweets wife and four chill
dren were drowned in Chippewa river
at Eua Claire, Wis. when Halls gaso
| line launch capsized in midstrean
upon striking some sunken piling
The mangled body of James Moore
waiter of Butte, was found lying
beside the tracks Of the Oregon Shor
Line, several miles south of Silver
Bow. Moore is supposed to have faller
from the southbound passenger train
In an explosion on the quarter boa
No at Goddess Key, about twent,
miles from Key West, Fla, on thu
/ |
East Coast railway, three men were
instantly killed and twelve badly in
jured.
BY a vote of IA to 104. resolution
by Mr. Garrett of Tennessee, directing
the speaker forthwith to appoint
committee on insular affairs to con
slider the presidents Porto Rican mes
sage was defeated in the house OF
May. Is.
A large rat" in her hair saved tn
life of Mrs. Richard Frost in an auto
mobile accident at Jackson. Mich, Mrs
Frost and her baby were both throw
from the machine when it collide
with telephone pole. Mrs. Eros
struck on her head.
julius Meyer, for many years
prominent figure in business circle
of Omaha, and president of the Me-
ropolitan club, committed suicide a
Hanscom Park, April TO- by shooting
Dependency on account OF i'll healt
is the supposed cause.
The war department at Washingto
has awarded to Amos Weaver, OF Dun
kirk. Ind. a medal for conspicuou
| bravery in the Philippines. Weave
on November 5, 1899, alone routed
band of fifteen insurgents, killing fou
and wounding several others.
| BECAUSE his son-in-law August Los
would not pillow furrow the way h
wanted it, Herman Rabner, a wealth
farmer, living near Des Moines, low
shot and killed the young man, an
then burned his body Rabner, VII
| was 10 years Of age, then killed hir
l self
| The Kochnische zeitung semi-of
cially announces that the Germa
banks viii rot deliver up deposits
Il the former sultan of Turkey, unless
Il voluntarily renounces them or a la
II court orders their delivery to the re
II resentatives of the new Turkish go
III | eminent
H Rats gnawing at matches in sma
III | store at Maturaua Mexico started