Idaho News Highlights From Shoshone Journal Items
Idaho wood growers meeting in Baltimore begins January. Canyon County fair at Caldwell sets attendance records. Caldwell hospital planned by Mrs Holt. Bear river injuries to Charlie Hanson improve. Meridian apple orchard bought for 8000 by a New York firm. Fremont Woods packing expects one crop. Runaway accident at Mountain Home injures Edwin Wells. Boise grain price up to eight dollars a ton. State lands sales scheduled in Blaine and Owyhee counties in November.
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Edwin Victor Wells
Mountain Home
Welle
Idaho Blue Medical Society
Fremont Wood
Bolen
Mr. Wood
W. B Moree
Bote
Pierce
Bert
Idaho
Blaine County
Bolen County
Owyhee County
Supreme Court Denies Burton Rehearing in Grain Fee Case
The U S Supreme Court denied former Senator Burton of Kansas a rehearing in the case charging him with taking an attorney’s fee in a matter involving the Rialto Grain company. Burton faces immediate imprisonment unless counsel delays execution. The case traces to 1903 when Burton was indicted in St Louis for aiding the Rialto Grain firm to hinder mail use, with a prior reversal on a technicality and a second trial upheld by the court.
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Workington
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Burton
Kansas
Horton
St Laws
Rialto Grain Company
That City
Inc
Supreme Court
Caan
Castro Said to Be Dying in Venezuela Reported in Port of Spain
Dispatches from Caracas claim President Fidel Castro's health has severely deteriorated and he can no longer speak or move. Rumors say his death could come within days, while Caracas papers supposedly publish flattering telegrams and concealing reports to imply recovery. An expected widespread Venezuelan uprising is linked to his death.
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Port of Spain
Island
Trinidad
Caracas
Venezuela
Castro
Explosion at Wingate Colliery Kills Twenty Five Miners
A Wingate colliery explosion in Durham England killed twenty five miners and trapped about two hundred others. The disaster came from fire damp and shattered windows across Wingate town as rescuers worked amid the remains of the mine.
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Durham
England
Wingate
Wingate Town
Noted Evangelist Jones Dies on Rock Island Train
Noted evangelist Sam B. Jones of Carternville Georgia died on Monday of heart failure in a sleeping car aboard Rock Island No 4 near Perry Arkansas. He had been leading a revival in Oklahoma City and was en route to Georgia for a family reunion marking his fifty ninth birthday. His wife Mrs Jones and daughters Mrs Annie Pyron and Miss Julia Jones were with him.
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Little Rock
Ark
Hev
Sam B. Jones
Carternville
Rock Island Railroad
Perry
Women Beaten and Robbed on Oakland Road
Two masked armed men beat and robbed Mrs. B. Murre cow tien near Blair Park, leaving her insensible on a lonely road. Police have detailed every detective, but lack of clues hinders arrests. Mrs. Murro was attacked after a car left near the Blair Park line.
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Oakland
Cal
B. Murre Cow Tien
Blair Park
Oakland Police Department
Mra
Munro
IO GRANDE TRAIN HELD UP BY TWO BANDITS
Two armed men boarded the Denver and Rio Grande passenger train at Malta and forced the engineer to uncouple express and baggage cars. They attempted to blow open the safe in the express car but secured only about $60 in small packages. A posse led by Sheriff O Mahoney pursued the bandits, described similarly to those who recently robbed a safe at White Sulphur Springs.
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Leadville
Colo
Denver
Rio Grande
Malta
Freman
Kildare
Tiwae
Expres
St ‘A
Sherif O'Mahoney
White Sulphur Springs
Summit County
St Petersburg Soldier Rewarded for Killing Student
After the killing of Miles Semova, a young medical student jailed in St Petersburg, a garrison commander issued an order of the day thanking the soldier who shot her when she appeared at her cell window. The soldier, from the Seminovslty regiment, receives a $6 reward and is praised as an exemplary figure for duty.
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St Petersburg
Miles Semova
St. Petersburg
Seminovslty Regiment
Wife of Jeff Davis Dead in New York
Mrs Jemerson Davis wife of the Confederate president died at 10 25 PM Tuesday night at the Hotel Majestic New York after a week of illness from pneumonia caused by a severe cold from her summer trip to the Adirondacks Family members were at her bedside at the time of death
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New York
Mra
Jemerson Davis
The
Confederacy
Hotel Majestic
Tammany Opens It a Campaign in New York
The New York County Democratic organization opened its campaign with a large ratification meeting at Tammany Hall. Although William R Hearer was absent on a tour, lieutenant governor candidate Louis Stuyvesant Chanler led the ticket alongside Bourke Cochran and Senator Thomas F. Grady. Overflow crowds attended as not all could enter the hall.
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Tammany
New York
Democratic Organisation
New York County
Tammany Hall
William R. Hearer
Louis Stuyvesant Chanler
Chanler
Bourke Cochran
Thomas F. Grady
Hankow Fire At Hong Kong Wharf Kills Hundreds
The British steamer Hankow from Canton burned at a Hong Kong wharf Sunday morning. Two thousand Chinese passengers, plus crew, were aboard. hundreds of Chinese perished from flames and drowning as Europeans and crew escaped. Fire reportedly started by an opium smoker's overturned lantern.
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Hong Kong
China
Hankow
Canton
Branch
Olgner
Haakow
Magoon Succeeds Taft as Cuba Provisional Governor
Havana reports that at noon Saturday the Cuban government was transferred from War Secretary Taft to Charles B. Magoon. Taft issued an extraordinary Gazette copy noting he laid down the office of provisional governor of Cuba, assumed August 29, and turned over authority to Magoon.
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Havana
Cuba
Taft
Charles B. Magoon
United States
Charles E. Magoon
Collision on the Hudson Ends in Tragedy and Damage
A near head-on collision on the Hudson between the Adirondack of the Peoples Line and the Saratoga of the Citizens Line leaves one Saratoga oiler dead and a Adirondack crewman missing. About 1,000 passengers endure a harrowing ordeal as both steamers suffer extensive damage, with the Saratoga nearly out of service. The missing man is George L. Horton of Troy, a freight clerk on the Adirondack.
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Albany, N. ‘x
Hudson River
Adirondack
Peoples’ Line
Saratoga
Citizens’ Line
Adiron
Dack
George L. Horton
Troy
Looking Up Evidence Against the Standard Oil Company
Washington reports that Attorney General Moody says Morrison and Kellogg have gathered extensive testimony in the Standard Oil inquiry under the Sherman act. San Francisco police officer John Law is charged with robbery after an armed incident involving John Lovejoy, a Sacramento bartender, who was shot and robbed of part of a money roll at Park Emergency hospital.
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Washington
Standard Oil Company
Moody
Messrs. Morrison and
Kellogg
San Francisco
John Law
Law
John Lovejoy
Sacramento
Lovejoy
The
Park Emergency Hospital
Brutal Missouri family murder shocks region
John Hamilton, a 20 year old farmer, is jailed in Houston after confessing to killing farmer Barney Parsons, his wife, and their three children near Licking Missouri. Prosecutors say Hamilton shot Parsons, then clubs the family to death before dumping five bodies in Big Piney Creek.
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Houston
Barney Parsons
Licking
John Hamilton
Parsons
Hamilton
Missouri
Hamison
Big Piney Creek
Saltair sale to Electric Operating Con struction company sealed
Saltair pavilion and the Salt Lake and Los Angeles railroad were sold to Electric Operating Construction company. The interurban line will be electrified and extend to Garfield as part of a regional system. A Saltair pavilion is planned to anchor a large resort possibly including a hotel or amphitheater and will aim to be year round.
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Salt Lake City
Saltair Pavilion
Salt Lake & Los Angeles Railroad
Electric Operating Construction Company
Harry P. Clark
Commercial National Bank
Saltair
Garfield
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
General Wood argues against Philippine troop cuts
Washington. Major General Leonard Wood, in his annual report, urges maintaining a larger garrison in the Philippines. He cites a June 30 total of 20,043 troops and warns that abroad disturbances could threaten Manila, calling for a strong force until civil government stabilizes and local resentments fade.
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Washington
Philippines
Leonard Wood
Wood
Manila
Thousands of Guns Smuggled to Polish Revolt In Warsaw
A cargo of several thousand revolvers purchased by the Russian government in Berlin was seized by Polish revolutionists in Warsaw. A wagon load bearing restomts was diverted after soldiers and an artillery officer presented forged documents. The incident revealed disguises among the troops and forged credentials.
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Warsaw
Poland
Berlin
Alfred W Hulse Dies in County Jail Suicide
Ackersfeid Cal Alfred W Hulse awaiting supreme court appeal for murder of Deputy Sheriff William B Tibbet killed himself Sunday afternoon in the county jail. He shaved weekly, borrowing a razor from the sheriff's office. Hulse had been convicted as an accomplice.
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Ackersfeid
Cal
Alfred W. Hulse
Fife
William B. Tibbet
Supreme Court
Hulse
Sd Les
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