Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-15
NEWS SUMMARY

ture.
The international congress on tuber.
culosis is In session in Stockholm. /
Sweden.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Rawalpindi. India. ny s. several
houses collapsing, but no lives We're
lost.
Harry X. Thaw is again trying for
release from the asylum. and declares
he has high hopes Of securing his
freedom.
Heavy rains in Mexico the past
week have caused damage to the rail
roads of at least three quarters of
million dollars.
The state supvem court has handed
down decision upholding the val.e
ity Of the Colorado local option law
passed two years ago.
An epidemic Of typhus fever is rag.
ing at Monterey. Mexico. and scores
OF people are dying, the death list
among the poor class being very
heavy.
The long expected coal strike at
Sydney, c. b.. is on, three thousand
men having refused TO enter the pits.
but at least that number remaining
at work
The German and Austrian railroad
authorities have informed Russia that
they are about to take steps to insti-
tute a quarantine on the frontier
against cholera.
James Corcolan, of Lowell. Mass.
aged % years. an aeronaut, was killed
by falling 200 feet from a parachute
during the Fourth Of July celebration
at Portland. Maine
During a celebration in Reservoir
park at Camden, n. j., a cannon ex-
Dloded, piece OF which killed Mrs.
irma Hebel and ner six weeks old in
FAINT and fatally injured two boys
Seventeen inspectors and four rev
enue agents on the denatured alcohol
rolls of the internal revenue depart
ment have been dismissed because
their services are no longer needed.
The trial of d. w. Woods, Fred
/ Torgensen. James Gordon and Jack
DH'ANOhf A4ldA ecu OAl@A TIE AHlOn 1d-
cific mail robbery at Omaha. on May
%, has been postponed until Septem-
Der 90
Working the combination Of the
safe in the Offices Of the Los Angeles
Pacific railway, at Los Angeles, a
thief, believed by officers of the com
pany to be an employee, procured
$500 in gold and currency.
Miss Isola Kennedy, of Morgan Hill.
near San Jose, Cal, is in a critical
condition from injuries inflicted by q
mountain lion. Miss Kennedy was
taking an outing with two young men
when the animal sprang upon her
Verne Yohn. an amateur aeronaui
Of Chicago, fell nearly a thousand
feet under his debated balloon, at a
celebration at Waukegan Both
wrists and ankles were broken and his
back was injured, but he will recover.
George A. Pollock. assistant com.
missioner Of the general land office
during the Roosevelt administration
widely known in the west and north
eest, particularly n the forestry and
land services, died at his home at
Boyds. Md. July G.
Ambassador Reid has been in
formed that the fifth cruiser squadron
Of the fifth British naval arm, consist.
ing of four ships, has been designated
to attend the Hudson-Fulton celebra.
ton, to be held in New York, August
is to October 8 next.
Mrs M. Lecumber, who keeps a
boarding house at a mining camp near
New Idria, in the southern part OF
San Benito county, CALIFORNIA, and
her four children, were burned to
death as the result of an alleged in
cendiary fire last week
In the Fourth Of July cowboy tour
nament at NOgales, Sonora. the
worlds record for throwing and tying
a wild steer was broken by Ed Hall,
of Mutt, N. NJ, who performed the
feat in p seconds fiat The previous
record was 21 1-5 seconds.
The mysterious shooting Of Mrs.
Lorena de la Montanya, in her apart
ment in San Francisco. last Friday
night, which the police at first thought
to have been suicide, Is said by par
ties present at the time to have been
a case Of accidental shooting
Ira w. Lamunyon, aged 50, the only
surviving member of the Massachu-
sets convention held in jackson,
Mich, July G. 1854, at which the Re
publican party was organized, died at
Denver, Colo, July 2, at the home Of
his daughter, Mrs. Michael Doyle
Frank Cecil Hopkins. the 12-year-
old boy Of Modesto, Cal, who recently
shot and killed his baby brother and
then buried the body in a pig pen,
has been sent to the reform school.
The boy will be confined in the insti-
tuition until he reaches his majority.