Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
NEWS SUNNI AIRY


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French exporters are greatly |
alarmed at the possibility OF tariff
war with America
Baron Monsieur, the Belgian minis
ter to the United States, has been
transferred to Constantinople.
AS the result of coasting acct
dent at Alfred. N. Y, six professors
and students in Alfred university
were injured
With both houses controlled by de
oided Republican majorities, the fifth
Hawaiian territorial legislature con
vened February IT,
Believing that war with Austria is
imminent, 800 Servians have left
Pueblo, Colo. for their native land
during the last month.
Three passengers were killed and
thirty-six injured when passenger
train was wrecked by running into
rroken rail near Murphysboro, Ill.
Three persons are dead and five
others in a serious condition at Mem
phis, Tenn, as a result of eating sau
sage supposed to have been poisoned
For fear that it might further strain
the relations of the United States and
Japan, the Kansas legislature killed
bill preventing the intermarriage OF
whites with Japanese.
Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, who
sailed for Europe after he had been
subpoenaed to serve as juror in The
supreme court. has ben fined $3.50 by
Justice Guy, of New York.
Pool selling at fairs in Kansas Will
be done away with entirely. il a bill,
passed by the house committee OF
the whole, becomes a law. 1t makes
betting and pool selling Illegal at all
times of the year.
The news comes from London that
one or more of the neutral powers will
very shortly offer its good offices TO
Austria and Servia in the hope OF
settling the differences between these
two countries.
Mrs Edward Wehn killed herself
at Seward, Neb., by setting fire to her
clothing and hanging herself Fire
| men found the woman's partly ere
mated body. Sudden insanity is the
explanation given.
1t is believed that the unknown man
who took his life in a cigar store at
Pueblo has been identified as Samuel
We'll of Greensboro, Ky. We'll is
said to have wealthy relatives In
Greensboro and in Evansville, Ind.
Patrick Kelly. mayor of Trout
Creek, Mont, and prominent in west
ern Montana affairs, died February 81
aged about 70 years He was a ma
tive of Ireland, and before coming to
Montana was a sailor on Lake Erie.
John Mcdonald, farmer near
Cages Mills, Wis, shot and killed his
sweetheart, Nancy Lenox. and her
mother, Mrs. Oscar Lenox, at their
home. The murder followed a love
ers' quarrel Both women were killed
instantly
A man known as Pap" Johnson, g
notorious ''jointist," or keeper OF ar
Illicit saloon, shot and killed Mrs
Frances Switzer at the woman's home
; IN Lawrence, Kans., and then commit
ted suicide. No motive for the trag
edy is known.
Word has been received of the dealt
, in the Philippines of Captain Charlie
, w. Mead. one of the most prominen
! of the National Guardsmen of Mon
, tana. Captain Mead went to the Phi
ippines with the First Montana at tn
outbreak of the Spanish war.
, Members of the committee on fol-
I eign relations of the senate have dc
. termined to press the treaties wit
;. Panama and Colombia for ratification
\ at the present session and to let tn
+ Canadian boundary waterways treat
go over until the next session.
Americans who have served tw
years consecutively in government
e service on the Panama canal zone wi
/ be presented with the Panama cana
|, medals, to make which one thousan
y pounds of old French scrap has bee
r shipped to the Philadelphia mint.
l. That a strict Interpretation Will b
Il Lut upon the court order allowin
l. Charles w. Morse to leave the Tomb
t prison for the transaction of urgen
II business was indicated last wee
o when he was refused permission t
e take an automobile ride with his wifi
J. and sons.
n The charity of a gambler was higl
Q ly emphasized at Reno, Nevada. whe
q j. c. Miller, a roulette wheel turne
r in a local resort, won in the neighbo
q hood of $500 at faro, and then invi
l. ed every one in the place to have
n square meal" Over $40 people a
cepted.
: Grant Haney. a ranchman, was II
tally stabbed at his ranch ten mile
: from Hugo. Colo, by Chas. and Wn
n Banning. The trouble grew out of
long standing quarrel over the brea
IN ing of fences on the Haney branch.
n posse has started after the Bannir
iii | brothers.