Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-04
NEW S SUNNI AIRY

The town of Milton, thirty miles
east of Pensacola, Fla, has been
wiped out by fire.
Emma Goldman. the anarchist
speaker has been acquitted of a
charge of calling an unlawful meeting
in San Francisco.
Slight earthquake shocks, accom-
panied by subterranean rumblings,
have occurred in the region near Beta,
Spain. No damage has been done
DR.. William o. Lillbridge, an au-
thor, died at Sioux Falls, S. d., jan
uary 90, of kidney trouble. He wrote
Ben Blair and other western stories.
Scores of constabulary have been
sent in pursuit of party of armed
Ladrones who looted three ware
houses at Laguna, P. l., and kidnapped
1870 persons.
Senator Cummins of Iowa made his
first speech in the senate on January
26, addressing the senate In support
of his amendment to the postal say.
ings bank bill.
The Spanish steamer Trinidad has
rammed and sunk an unidentified Bel
gian steamer off Cape Roca- Eight
members of the crew of the Belgian
vessel lost their lives.
The purchase of an oil painting OF
Abraham Lincoln for $4,000, to be
hung in the capitol, is proposed in
bill introduced in the senate By Sen
ator Carter of Montana.
Walter Zeller, the Finn boy recently
convicted of numbering his grand
father at Bndgeton, N. j., has been
sentenced to be electrocuted during
the week beginning March 4.
Three men were killed as the result
of q collision of coal cars on the In
cline railway leading to the mines on
the mountainside near Piedmont. w
Va, the cars having gotten beyond
control.
Senator Carter, in charge of the pos
tai savings bank and the omnibus
claims bill, declares that he will keer
the measures before the senate on
every opportunity until they are dis
posed of.
Fire destroyed several boarding
houses at Ardmore, Oklahoma. t. V.
Littleiohn of Mckinney, Texas, was
cremated and his wife probably ia
tally burned. They were on their
honeymoon.
The bill to repeal the whipping post
law was defeated in the lower house
of the Oregon legislature last week
and the bill prohibiting the wearing
of hatpins in excess of ten inches in
length was passed.
While fighting their way through
the storm near Fon Du Lac, Wis.
John Kettling of Oakland, and Pau
Keath of Marbehead. were run down
by a Northwestern passenger trair
and instantly killed.
Twenty persons were injured
twelve seriously, in panic at bull
fight at Marco de Canavezes, Spain
The bull charged the spectators, go
| ing right and left. An attendant final
! ly shot the bull dead.
The official messengers from Mon
tana and Oregon, bearing the electora
votes of those states, who failed to de
: liver them within the time prescribe'
by law, which expired on January 25
[ are liable to a $1,000 fine.
John Bedford confessed to tn
crime of killing Oscar Hoganson a
Marengo, Ills, last October, buryinl
the body and stealing Hoganson'
horses which he sold and shipped t.
Iowa, where he was arrested.
Fifty cottages will be built at tn
I. naval hospital at Fort Lyon. near La
! Animas, Colo, operated by the fed
eral government, for the treatment o
+. tuberculosis patients. The total cos
. of the buildings will be $4,000.
! Frank Kramer, the worlds bicycl
) sprint champion, announces that b
( has retired from the bicycle racin
4 game to take up automobile racing
4 He says there is no longer any none
for the professionals in the racin
r game.
q Thirteen men accused of gamblin
/, on Sunday were arrested in st. Loui
i after they had FABRICATED themselve
s in a room and resisted the police TO
d sixteen hours They will now face
!. charge of resisting an officer In add
ton to violating the Sunday closin
: law.
7 George Slosson Of New York Cit,
4, who eleven years ago won the chan
Q pionship at 1871 billiards, and lost
d two years later, last week Tegaine
r. the title, defeating George Sutton {
G Chicago at the Madison Square ga
den music hall, the score being 500
1928.
q Six persons we're shot in a revolve
y duel between Thomas Littleton,
& bricklayer, and police officers {
' Peoria, Ills. The fight started in
!. quarrel between Littleton and a
a aged man. Littleton was shot twic
In the stomach and once in the shcu
der.
Internal strife, rather than a was