The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-08-05

peOn pug1llBt, VIII live only about TIVE
weeks more. according to a state
ment made by his physician at Pres
colt, Arizona.
Nearly every bridge in Hancock
county, Kentucky. has been carried
away. many miles OF public highway
rendered impossible, and railroads
washed out in many places. as the re
suit OF a twelve-hour rain.
John Velton. an old-time resident OF
Clifton and Morenci. Arizona. shot
and killed f. +. Cook. conductor on
the Morenci Southern railroad. as a
result of trouble of long standing
Cook was unarmed.
At mass meeting of 1000 miners
at Springfield, ILL.,, on Wednesday, T.
l.. Lewis, national president of the
United Mine Workers, and the com
mittee which was selected to effect a
compromise Of the Peoria agreement,
were vigorously denounced.
In a speech at Pleasanton, Kans.,
Congressman Victor Murdoch said
that in the days of his power it was
harder to get into Speaker Cannons
chamber than into the White House.
Two persons were killed. one other
person fatally and another seriously
injured at Mantle, Ill, when an in
teruTban trolley car of the Decatur
Springfield line struck an automobile.
WASHINGTON.
war has appointed a board of engin.
GERS charged with the responsibility
of raising the battleship Maine in Ha.
vana harbor.
commander-in-chief of the Atlantic
fleet in his report OF operation for
the fiscal year ended June 80 urgently
recommends government control of
all wireless plants.
The enormous sum of $1,71S,0 100000
Is owed by the 1853 cities in the coun-
try having each population of more
than 10000. The figures show net in
debtedness and are given out by the
census bureau as a result of its can
vass for 1908.
The government census enumeration
is authority for the statement that
the birth rate of Oyster Bay, n. Y, is
only or 6 per cent more than the
death rate. Nearby localities make
twice as goodJa showing.
The original log book of the famous
Monitor, covering the period of her
engagement with the Confederate
iron-clad Merrimac, in Hampton
Roads on March 8, 1862, has been pre-
sented to the navy department, to be
preserved among it's historic records.
FOREIGN.
Explaining that he was terribly
bored with life, a man named Joseph
ReslowslSy committed suicide at
Budapest, at the age of 1872. He left
letter stating that after waiting pa
tiently half a century he decided to
take the matter in his own hands.
Congress, by vote of ia to "a rati-
fed the election Of Marshall Hermes
Forsec for president of the republic
of Brazil He will assume office No
vember Is next. Marshal Fonsec at
the present time is in Europe.
For the second time, the wife of a
peasant at Guillena, Seville, has
given birth to triplets. The woman
has been married six years and has
had twelve children-triplets twice,
twins once, and four others.
Emperor William is trying to solve
questions of Socialism by frequent
changes of the ministry. In the past
six weeks there have been no less
than five ministers appointed by the
kaiser
An unusual number of outrages
have been committed in Persia re-
Gently, robberies having taken place
close to Teheran. The government
troops have been defeated by Kurds
outside Kermanshah
Germany has declined to entertain
the request of President Madriz that
this government use it's friendly Of
fees to put a stop to what is termed
the Interference of the United States
III the dHdlTS Vi NlcdFdS I'd.
Erich Cristin. handsome young
German student, has been arrested
at Zurich on a charge of fraud. Girls
tins way was to become engaged as
often as possible to girls of good
families and then borrow money from
their parents.
Nine Rodier. wife of land owner
of Berne. was doing in her garden
when swarm of bees. attracted by
her picture hat. surrounded her. She
went over to an empty hive and
shook her hat into it. whereupon the
bees took possession without singing
her at all.
Paris is now fighting a plague of
mosquitoes. Inhabitants of the fash
ionable flats surrounding the Pare
Monceau are suffering from an in
vasion OF the pests, which swarm in
every part of the buildings from the
cellars to the roofs.
Health promoters. Endorsed by the
Wing of Saxony and by the imperial
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