Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

the bill providing for the reading OF a
chapter Of the Bible daily in the pub
lie schools of the state.
A bill was passed in the Minnesota
legislature last week, allowing the
councils of st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth to permit boxing matches.
William Cook, who enlisted in the
navy from Newark. n. j.. together
with three other men, were shot and
killed during a fight in the Philip
pines.
A sergeant OF police and two police
men have beeen sentenced to death at
vladikavkoz, Russia for the recent
murder of rich nobleman named Pc
karieff
Nine persons were injured as = re
salt of the wrecking of tenement
house in st. Joseph, Mo-, by an explo
sion of natural gas. All except one
are Italians.
Germany has indicated its desire
to resume negotiations for an agree
ment on general arbitration treaty
with the United States, which We're
broken off at the time of Baron Ster-
bergs death.
Failure of the house OF delegates of
Porto Rico to pass the deficiency ap-
preparation bill has resulted in the
closing of a number of night schools.
the insular library and other public
institutions.
Christian Scientists of Missouri
gained a signal victory last week when
the senate judiciary committee agreed
to amend the senate bill which sought
to restrict the practice of divine heal
ing in the state.
Richard c. Herens of st. Louis has
been offered and has accepted the
post Of ambassador to Austria. Mr..
Kerens is a native of Ireland. was a
Civil war veteran and is one of the
Il wealthiest men in the country.
Charles H. Morton, former president
of the Ohio and Pennsylvania baseball
league, who disappeared from Cleve-
land January 10 last, has been found
in Chicago, wandering around the
streets in a demented condition.
DR.. William Ray, aged S. an old
time and well-known physician OF
western Montana, died at Philipsburg,
March 10, from the effects of injuries
sustained by being thrown from his
buggy in a runaway accident near
Flint Station.
Prof Clark Kellar, principal OF the
high school at Laceyville, Pa, has
been arrested charged with threshing
Miss Ruth Russell, a 19-year-old girl
pupil. The charge was made by Jud
son Russell, father Of the girl, and
Kellar gave bail
1t is believed in Austrian official cir
cles that in the event of an outbreak
gary and Seryia the powers of Europe
will localize the field of conflict leav
ing the settlement of internationa
questions to later date.
For her heroism in saving the lives
of nine children during the burning
. of the General Slocum near New
York in 1904, Mrs. Mary Mccain was
, on March Is presented by Speaker
/ Cannon. on behalf of congress, wit.
: a silver life-saving medal.
A thumb-print alongside me name
L.
may prove a clew to the identity o
the murderer of Isidore Valanto, nigh
clerk of hotel in Whitehall street
} New York, whose body was found in
small room adjoining the office.
: That he would exhaust all tn
powers of the state before he 'woul,
$ permit the railroads to return to TIL
3-centa-mile passenger rate, was tn
declaration of Governor Hadley O
Missouri following the action of tn
5 railroad conference in Chicago.
Mrs Margaret Teal, wife Of Be
Teal, the stage manager, was las
week taken to the penitentiary o
9 Blackwell's islands to begin her ser
: tence of one year imposed upon he
d following her conviction of attempte
l. subordination of perjury in the Goul
divorce case.
e The court of appeals has decided !
effect that John John r. Hegemai
s president of the Metropolitan Life II
n surance company, must stand trial o
the charge of perjury in connectio
with alleged misstatements made
q his annual report of the Metropolita
lllt III lJOo
III An order has been issued prohibi
n ing the sale of liquor by news "bu
p cheers" on trains of the National line
y in Mexico. Hereto beer, tequila an
ed mescal has been sold indiscriminatel
On on the trains by the news vendor
In and its sale at times has resulted
%. much trouble.
Mexico's first attempt to fortify he
harbors with modern rifles will be III
dertaken at Salina Cruz. A commi
:. sion has been named to draw plar
:, for the installation of disappearir
q guns and the erection of proper fort
i fications. Other seacoast towns wi
s. also be fortified.
81 A national conference to consid'
10 the subject of uniform state legisl