Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-04
NEWS SUMMARY

demolished by windstorm and a
child killed.
Burglars dynamlted the safe in |
the Southern Pacific railroad station
ri Sour Lake, Tex and secured sew
raj thousand dollars
Six persons were killed. more than
score were injured, several seri-
ously, and practically every building
in the town of Fisher, Ark, was
wrecked by tornado February %.
While handcuffed and sitting in the
sheriff's office at Bessemer. Ala, Jim
Brown, negro, was shot and killed
by James Robinson. white, father of
the girl the negro had attempted to
assault
The Servian government has given
orders that until further notice no
passports are to be issued to men
under As years of age. The object
Of this measure is to keep all men
Of military age at home.
Mrs. Odessa Norris was shot twice,
but not seriously injured, by Fred
Knoblock, who killed himself after
shooting the woman. the tragedy oc-
curing in Los Angeles, jealousy be-
ing the cause for the deed.
After pleading guilty to rebating
In the case Of shipment of glass
TO California, the Illinois Terminal
association was fined $4,000 and costs
and the Illinois Glass company $l2,-
coo and costs. Both paid.
DR.. f. w. Sells of Osceola, Iowa,
president of the Osceola hospital, has
been sentenced to twenty-five years
in the pententiary, He was convicted
of committing an assault upon Miss
Stella Hartman. a patient in the hos
pital.
According to a dispatch received
az Euenos Ayres the minister OF ma
iine states that forty persons lost
heir lives in the wreck of the Ar
! gentine steamer Presidente Roca-
The Presidente Roca went ashore
and caught fire.
Ex-Queen Lilioukalani of Hawaii
otherwise Mrs. Lydia Dominis, has
teen sued In the district court at
Washington by DR.. Charles H. En-
glish to recover s11, 900 alleged to
be due for breach of contract in the
payment of a medical bill
Two masked robbers forced an en-
trance into the home of S. l. Andus-
Ky. wealthy resident of Ration, N.
NJ, and after beating him into In
sensibility forced Mrs. Andusky to
reveal the hiding place of money and
iou,o1c o,,aOt,utip orfo Ct d00
From 80 cents each to $40 is the re-
markable rise in the 'possum market
within the past month, as result OF
the featuring OF this marsupial in the
recent Taft banquet. Atlanta dealers
are swamped with orders from the
north and east at $40 each.
Orville Poland, aged 10. who was
arrested at Hutchinson, Kan.
charged with the murder of Jesse
Haymaker,, a. welfs-Fargo express
clerk, found dead in the company's
office at the depot, has confessed tha
lie was guilty of the murder.
Louis Schulz, poet, magazine writ
er and "gaspipe" thug. convicted o
a murderous assault upon Sig Hur
tig, a San Francisco jeweler, whose
place he robbed, has been sentenced
10 thirty years Imprisonment in thu
state penitentiary at Folsom.
1t is learned that the attitude o
Russia is still doubtful in connection
with the Austro-Servian situation
Servia has neither received assurance
of Russian support in case of hos
. tilities nor has Russia intimated tina
assistance would be withheld.
. A boy aged 5 years and girl Of
: were burned to death and a baby wa
perhaps fatally burned In the destrut
ton by fire near Durant. Okla, of tn
home of Henry Gorday, farmer. TIL
mother had gone to neighbours an
Gorday was working in the field.
= Jesse Haymaker, aged % years
eight clerk for the Wells-Fargo e,
press company at the Santa Fe d.
: pot in Hutchinson, Kan, was shot an
= killed by a robber, who then loote
the express office safe. Haymake
| was killed by his own revolver.
The contract for making a statue {
Columbus, to be erected in the plaz
of the Union station in Washington
has been awarded to Torado Taft {
Chicago, a relative of the presiden
elect Congress has appropriate
| 100000 for the Columbus memoria
1t cost the city of Evanston, III
$2S for each ballot cast at last week
primary election. There was no col
test in the election and only tt
Socialist party had a ticket in tn
field. Twenty-Five votes we're cas-
at a total cost of 800 for holdin
the primary
i Retiring President Eliot OF Harval
! university, who addressed the Tex;
legislature, said regarding a publishe
y report that he would likely be offere
= the embassadorship to Great Brita