Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-13
NE WIS SUMMARY

Schutler Holly was instantly killed
at Logansport. Ind. by trap he had
prepared to kill a thief that had been
raiding his chicken house.
Missouri will likely haze a chance
to vote on statewide prohibition. The
senate has passed the prohibition con-
stitutional amendment, which already
had passed the house.
A tornado struck Kentuckytown.
Texas. May s. The Baptist church
and school house were destroyed and
other property damaged. No casual
ties have been reported.
Buenos Ayres is still in the grip
of the strike inaugurated as a
protest against the action of the au-
thorities in firing upon a crowd of
demonstrators on May day.
The entire yellow pine lumber
schedule of rates west Of the Missis-
sippi river is involved in complaint
of excessive rates filed with the inter
state commerce commission.
Judge H. II. Willis, in delivering
charge to a jury at New Martinville.
w. Va, instructed them to indiot all
church workers who obtain money
through the medium of raffles.
The Chinese government has invit
ed Sir Robert Hart, former director
general of Chinese customs, to return
to China. Sir Robert has reached no
decision regarding the invitation.
According to report received in
New Orleans, the Honduran govern
ment has taken back the inter-
Oceanic railroad, the transfer having
been made by the Valentine syndi-
cate about May l.
| Governor Hughes. of New York, has
| signed a bill aimed at immoral plays.
The new law makes 1t a misdemeanor
to advertise or present any obscene,
immoral or impure drama, play, exhi-
bition, show or entertainment.
NJ Forsinetti, the military governor
Of Monaco, died May 6. He was com
mandant OF the Cherche Midip prison
at the time of the Incarceration OF
Major Dreyfus, but lost that position
because he gave testimony favorable
to Dreyfus
More than 100000 is given to char
ity in the will OF Ohio S. A. Sprague
late president of the Sprague-Wanel
company, of Chicago, who died in
! Pasadena, Cal, February 90. The rest
of the estate, valued at $4,000, 900, is
| left to his children.
During April seventy-seven new
cases of bubonic PLACE were reported
In Guayquil, Ecuador, with twenty
three deaths. During the same pc
Rod there were seventy-five new
cases of yellow fever. of which sew
onty-two cases were fatal.
William F. Eberhard, wealthy
plantation owner and Memphis mer
chant, his sister-in-iaw, Mrs. b. F
Chiles, and her daughter, Virgins
Chiles, were drowned while crossing
the Mississippi river near Pecar
Point, Ark, in small craft.
Camille Guyot de Villeneuve, a mem
Der of the French chamber Of deputies
who was prominent in the Dreyfus af
fair, died May A. In 1905 he made
sensational revelations in the chambe
on army officers by Masonic lodges.
Believing that kidnapers killed sew
en-year-od Antonio Malfetti, an,
threw his body into the East river OF
discovering that no reward would b.
paid for his recovery, the Brooklyn
police have arrested two men on sus
picion. Antonio disappeared March Ia
Francis l.. Wellman. the note,
cross examiner and authority of cour
procedure, declared in a speech t
the Catholic club, in New York City
that perjury Is increasing to an alarm
ing extent There is scarcely tria
where it does not appear" he said.
The situation in Central Americi
appears to be getting more complicat
ed every day, judging from the newi
that comes slowly into Panama. TRAY
lelers say Nicaragua, in spite of thu
vigilance of the American warships
is trying to invade Salvador by wa.
OF Honduras.
Fred ID. Warren, business manage
OF the Appeal to Reason, a Socialis
publication, charged by the govern
famatory matter through the mails
was found guilty by a jury In the fed
eral court at Fort Scott, Kans. An ap
peal will be taken.
Fourteen thousand acres of land II
one of the richest reclamatons of thu
San Joaquin valley of California, tn
principal crop Of which is barley
were flooded last week. The loss will
approximate 100000. It is believed
that the flood was due to gophe
holes in the levee.
The police of Paris last week foun'
a ragged starving Italian boy on
bench in the boulevard, Through al
interpreter he said all o. his friend
had persisted in the earthquake a
Messfna, and that he had made hi
way afoot to Paris in the hope o
earning his living.
The situation at Suadia, where
number OF Armenians have been mas
sacred. has been relieved as a resul