Idaho State News Highlights From Boise to Nampa
Idaho appoints Elmer as adjutant general succeeding the late General Vickers. Shoshone sees property gains of about 800 percent in a year. Jerome gains water works and electric lights. Camp meeting of Nazarene church held in Boise with outside visitors. Burley eyed for a future sugar beet factory. Nampa firm reports strong sales of mowers binders and threshing outfits. Fatal railroad coal unloading accident near Nampa. Concrete pavement upgrade underway in Shoshone. Rupert back from lot sale funds to public improvements. Fire at Council warehouse causes $5,000 loss. Emmett approves $25,000 municipal waterworks bonds. Bank of Idaho opens in Boise with strong first day deposits. Payette Boise irrigation project nearing completion. Idaho Falls marks grand Fourth of July celebration. Fremont County attracts new settlers. Teton plateau suited to dry farming. Continuous regional prosperity noted.
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E-C
Elmer
Idaho
David Vickers
Church of the Nazarene
Boise
Jerome
United States Deputy Surveyors of Idaho
Utter
Burley
Nampa
F. A. Fean
Bitter Root National Forest
John Wesley Osborn
Tijia
Shoshone
Rat
Rupert
Adolph ‘ Giese
Bose
Judenbor
Muldoon
Joseph ‘Moran
John T. Fallon
Moran
Halley
Harry Criss
Council
Bank of Idaho
Capital State Bank
Payette-Boise
Idaho Falls
gFremont County
Teton Plateau
Teton
Cleveland
Bloody Revolt in Paraguay Tops Buenos Aires News
Advices from Asuncion report a street battle lasting several days with about five hundred dead or wounded. The revolutionary faction has overthrown the Paraguayan government and installed Dr Emilio Gonzales Naviro as president. ministers sought refuge at the Argentine legation.
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Buenos Ayres
Paraguay
Legation
Asuncion
Revolutionary Party
Emilio Gonzales Naviro
Omaha Delegate Dunn to Nominate Bryan at Denver
Ignatius J Dunn of Omaha has been chosen by the Nebraska delegation as one of four at large delegates to the national Democratic convention in Denver to nominate William J Bryan for president. He is an assistant city attorney and longtime Democratic activist, regarded as a steady, capable partisan with a clear voice ready to speak for the party in a united Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
Ignatius J Dunn
Nebraska
Denver
William J. Bryan
United States
Mr. Dunn
Mr. Bryan
Democratic Party
United Party
Dunna
Rikovsky mine disaster leaves hundreds trapped
In European Russia's Rikovsky mine a gas explosion trapped over 200 workers. One hundred sixty dead bodies recovered, with 75 wounded and many dying. Rescue efforts faced dangerous conditions as six rescuers died, troops restricted access, and families gathered at the shaft head amid heartrending scenes. Cause of the blast remains unknown.
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Yuzovo
European
Russia
Rikovsky
Etbart
Revolution Proposed Against Honduras Under Bonilla
Uprising rumors reach the state department about a planned revolution against Honduras led by former President Bonilla. Salvador and Guatemala move to prevent any cross border movement. Honduran Minister Urgade discussed with Acting Secretary Adea. American interests at Porto Cortez are noted and a warship could be sent if needed.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
Honduras
Bonilla
Salvador
Guatemala
Urgade
Adea
Porto Cortez
Mexico Presses US Over Del Rio Invasion Case
Mexico charges that Americans allowed Las Vacas raid participants to cross the Rio Grande into Texas and that Del Rio authorities failed to stop meetings plotting raids murder and robbery in Mexico. Washington actions are praised as helpful and prompt with troop moves to the border.
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Mexico
United States
del Rio
Texas
Las Vacas
Washington
Mariscal
Socialist Candidates Nominated by Party Convention
New York Socialist Labor party gave its national convention on Sunday selecting Martin R. Preston of Nevada for president and Donald Munroe of Virginia for vice president. The platform repeats the four year old call for cooperative commonwealth amid plantless production and social disorder. Preston is serving a 25 year Nevada penitentiary sentence for shooting a restaurant keeper during the Goldfield strike.
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New York
United States
Socialist Labor Party
Martin R. Preston
Nevada
Donald Munroe
Virginia
Cooperative Commonwealth
Preston
Goldfield
Battling Nelson Wins World Title in 17 Rounds
In San Francisco over 10,000 spectators watched Battling Nelson defeat Joe Gans in seventeen rounds to claim the world championship. Gans admitted defeat saying the best man won and noted aging as a factor while Nelson thanked the crowd and praised his own bold wager on the fight.
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San Francisco
Joe
Nelson
Gans
Frank
Democratic Mascot Arrives for Denver Campaign
A Rocky Mountain burro was presented to Thomas Taggart at the Brown Palace hotel in Denver by the Denver Times as the Democratic party mascot. The donkey bore the slogans My name is Denver, ask me and I belong to Tom Taggart on its sides, shocking the national committee leader with the surprise gift.
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Denver
Colo
Democratic Party
Thomas Taggart
National Committee
Denver Times
State Board Orders Sweeping Health Measures in Montana
Helena Montana key health board imposes immediate vaccination for all students teachers and janitors and requires cities to acquire sewage farms to stop stream contamination. Nominal prosecutions expected. The board will not intervene in Bozeman smallpox case while local authorities manage the situation.
Japanese Cabinet Resigns Prompting Possible Non-Partisan New Cabinet
At noon on Friday the cabinet resigned and Marquis Katsura is expected to form a new government. Announcement likely July 7 or may be delayed until Prince Ito arrives from Seoul May 12. The next cabinet is expected to include Yamagata adherents and be non-partisan.
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Tokio
Katsura
Prince Ito
Seoul
Yamagata
October Peak in Commodity Prices Reported
Washington bureau of labor statistics reports that prices for commodities rose to their highest level in eighteen years with October the peak of the year long increase. The average for the year stood 26.6 percent above the 1890 to 1899 ten year average. Farm products led the gains among nine groups across 258 commodities.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor
Department of Commerce and Labor
Terrific gas explosion at Rikovsky mine in Usovo
A gas explosion at the Rikovsky mine in Usovo, European Russia, leaves many dead or injured. About 157 bodies recovered with severe burns, death toll feared to reach 200. Seventy three rescued alive but in serious condition. ten died after extraction. Troops ordered to enforce his orders amid rising turmoil.
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Usovo
European Russia
Rikovsky
Beir
Struck Down From Behind in Reno Gambler Assault
Reno Nevada. Ed Hall, a gambler, was struck from behind by an unknown man during a July Fourth dispute and knocked to the sidewalk. He remains in a local hospital with a concussion and is judged to have no hope of recovery. A prior report naming a woman was false. Police made no arrest.
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Reno
Nev
Ed_ Hall
Los
Hall
Floods in Southern China Cause Hundreds Drownings
Detailed reports from floods in southern China show hundreds drowned and thousands starving in destroyed villages. Chinese and foreigners combine to raise a large relief fund. Large food consignments arrive nightly from Hongkong. Government grants 320000 and Standard Oil subscribes 5000.
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Hongkong
China
Standard Oil Company
Tornado destroys Fort Sumner region in New Mexico
Five people die and forty are wounded as a tornado devastates Fort Sumner in Guadaloupe County. Governor George Curry and congressional delegate W. H. Andrews oversee relief efforts, while residents face extensive destruction and homelessness. Dead include Henry Gerhardt and spouse, a Miss Alvarado, and two unidentified sheep herders.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Fort Summer
Guadaloupe
George Curry
W. H. Andrews
Congress
Henry Gerhardt
Murat Halstead Dies in Cincinnati at 78
Murat Halstead longtime American journalist and editor died at his home in Cincinnati on Thursday afternoon in his seventy ninth year. His wife son Robert and daughter Mrs Arthur Stem were at his bedside. The celebrated writer and editor had celebrated a golden wedding a little over a year ago and his health had grown frail in recent years. The death was not wholly unexpected.
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Cincinnati
Murat Halstead
This City
Robert
Arthur Stem
Halstead
Insurgency in Korea Expected to End Soon
Reports from Seoul say the campaign against insurments continues in the disturbed region with daily insurgent losses around thirty. Six or eight engagements occurred in various sections, yet activity is fading after arrests of leaders, and it is believed the insurrection may be quelled within thirty days.
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Tokio
Seoul
Korea
Army
New Bedford Crowd Injuries After Hall Grounds Incident
In New Bedford on Saturday at the New England hall grounds preachers blamed the event for injuring about 200 spectators. Five men were hospitalized including George P. Brock, a civil service agent, not expected to recover. Fourteen others were moved to their homes, many with minor injuries.
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New Bedford
Maya
New
England
George P. Brock
Civil Service
Homeward welcome for Republican vice presidential candidate
In Utica on Thursday night a notable homecoming for Congressman Jas S Sherman occurred. The nonpartisan, personal celebration marked his return from illness with trains, bands, fireworks, and church chimes as the candidate for vice president was greeted at the station.
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Utica
Jas
S. ‘Sherman
Tha
Foir
Orchard spared death by Idaho commutation
Harry Orchard, condemned to death for murder in the 1905 Caldwell assassination, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the Idaho board of pardons. Judge Wood had urged clemency, saying Orchard told the truth at Haywood and Pettibone trials, though Orchard himself opposed any interference with the court’s sentence.
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Western Federation of Miners
Charles H Moyer
William D. Haywood
George D. Pettibone
Denver
Idaho
John Simpkins
Federation
Simpkins
Haywood
Pettibone
Orchard
Moyer
Caldwell
Wood
Board of Pardons
Jacob F. Jacobson Nominated for Minnesota Governor
Minnesota Republicans nominate Jacob F. Jacobson of Madison for governor at St. Paul convention. The party endorses Chicago convention platform and vows continued railroad regulation in Minnesota. Former Congressman Eddy introduces Jacobson with a quip about him eating pie with a knife.
Sheriff Accused by Lawyer in Post Office Meeting
Grand Junction lawyer Colen O N Hilton, counsel for Steve Adams on a murder charge, filed a complaint against Sheriff C A Fitzpatrick of Telluride alleging the sheriff threatened him with a revolver. The confrontation occurred at the post office on the way to the courtroom. Fitzpatrick was disarmed and bonded at $1000 for further hearing.
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Grand Junction
Colen O. N
Clark Heads Delegation to Denver Nomination Vote
Butte Montana state Democratic convention at Bozeman on Wednesday instructed six delegates to the national convention at Denver to vote for William J. Bryan for the presidential nomination as long as Bryan’s name appears before the convention. W A Clark heads the delegation with T J Walsh Walter Hartman George B B Smith and R S Ford among the others.
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Butte
Montana
Bozeman
Denver
William J. Bryan
United States
W. A. Clark
T. J. Walsh
Lewis
Clark
County
Walter
Robbery Suspect Captured in Kansas City Area
Washington D C McMillan chief inspector of the post office department was notified of the capture at Monroe Michigan of Charles Stevens alias Charlée Brivage a new grove in connection with a recent robbery at Kansas City Missouri of 350 000 through a registered pouch from Los Angeles to New York City The Black man was identified by a photograph and officials assume he is the man wanted for the alleged robbery.
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Washington
F. ©. McMillan
Post Office Department
Monroe
Mich
Charles Stevens
Charlée Brivage
Kansas City
Los Angeles
New York City
Jury Solving Bank Mystery Indicts Cashier Nelson
Salt Lake City report states A W Nelson cashier of Jordan State bank at Bingham Junction was indicted by a United States grand jury on six counts for abstracting funds from the Utah National bank reserve. The grand jury labored thirty eight days, examined over 125 witnesses, with government costs exceeding $1,000. Nelson seeks to clear his name while facing a potential sixty year sentence if convicted on all charges. The case follows a January 5 through 17 vault heist reveal, with losses initially pegged at 43 percent of a larger sum later reported as 106,250, and stockholder adjustments noted. Nelson posted a $10,000 bond for November 1 federal court appearance.
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Salt Lake City
A. W. Nelson
Jordan State Bank
United States Grand Jury
Utah National Bank
Nelson
Bingham Junction
Utah National Aa
Jordan Bank
Utah National
Bingham Junction Bank
Grand Jury
Evidence of Prosperity in Dubuque Iowa
In Dubuque Iowa workers resume duty as 400 Milwaukee Road employees return to shops on a ten hour six day schedule. News follows Illinois Central announcing 8,000 workers rehired across divisions, seen as a sign of nationwide recovery despite regional storms and crop challenges.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Illinois Central Railroad
Milwaukee Road
Masked Men Kidnap California Girl for Ransom
In Fresno California two masked men burned Adolph Domengine’s barn and seized his 18 year old daughter as she fled the house. They demanded a $5,000 ransom but were later captured in the hills and the girl returned to her parents.
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Fresno
Cal
Arnold
Coalings
Chittenden
Adolph Domengine
Gray May Secure Second Place for Gray Benjamin Ticket
The article notes many Democratic vice presidential contenders, but analysts in Denver believe George Gray of Delaware could win the second spot if he agrees to accept it. Josiah Marvel of Wilmington leads Gray’s backers, though Marvel has not given consent.
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Denver
George Gray
Delaware
Josiah Marvel
Wilmington
Del
Collapse of Avery stable kills two in Minneapolis
Two men died and three were seriously hurt when a brick Avery stable at Forty seventh Street and Booth collapsed during tearing down. Injured include Joel Benson with a fractured skull. seven others sustained minor injuries as fourteen workers faced the falling roof. C W Hardy of 22 South Eighth Street and George Johnson of Wilmar Minn were killed.
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Minneapolis
Avery
C. W. Hardy
Eighth Street
George Johnson
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