The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-12-06
NEWS SUMMARY

Saturday.
Reports from the famine districts of
Russia show that the distress is
steadily growing acute.
The Adams Express Offices and the
railroad station at Keyford, W. Va,
were looted of $4,000 and burned by
robbers.
The National Grange in session at
Denver, voted to hold its forty-first
annual convention in 1907 at Hart
ford, Conn.
The steamer Panama has been
found wrecked on Mineral reef point,
Lake Superior. The crew has prob
ably persisted.
Three loggers were drowned while
endeavoring to prevent break in
log boom in the Cumberland river
north of Wasioto, KY.
BY a viva vote and without
word of debate, the French Chamber
of deputies voted to increase the depu-
ties salary from $1,000 to $4,000 a
year.
The Hawaiian sugar crop for 1906
promises to be the biggest in the his
tory of the territory. 1t will prob,
ably amount to more than 45O, 900
tons.
General Polkownikoff, commander of
the garrison at Pattava, Russia, was
shot dead and a soldier who was pass
ing at the time also was killed by I'M
known parties.
Gen. Willard Warner, ex-United
States senator from Alabama direct
ly after the Civil war, died suddenly at
Chattanooga, Tenn, last week, of d.
seases incident to old age.
The crop reports received here from
II provinces and districts of Russia
show the yield of wheat to be 49,
054, 100000 pounds which is 1855, OO0,-
900 pounds below the average
The supreme court of Iowa has
affirmed the decision OF the lower
court sentencing Louis Busse, convict
ed of numbering his wife and burning
the body, to hang December IA.
In a message sent to the editor OF
the Buffalo Evening News, Senator
Platt says: The question of my resig.
nation l will discuss hereafter l am
not considering it seriously now.
Henry Papineau. of Chicago, has
been held to the grand jury on
charge of numbering his paralytic
wife by pouring gasoline on her
clothing and setting fire to her.
The fuel supply in Carlsbad, N. NJ,
is exhausted, and people have been
forced to burn bacon to keep from
freezing. Schools have been dis
missed in consequence of the terrible
cold.
Mrs. Dora Drogmund, aged 20, who
shot and killed her husband, Ed
ward Drogmund, last April, in Kansas
City, has been convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced to one year
in jail.
Helen Lambert, the actress who
was injured in the automobile col
lision in New York City in which
Tom Cooper lost his life, is dead.
This makes the third death from the
accident.
The five unions of cotton mill OPP
eratives, of Fall River, Mass, at
special meetings, voted large ma.
jorites to reject an offer of a five
per cent advance in wages, and TO go
on strike.
The first official printed report on
the representatives of the Sixtieth
congress has just been issued by the
clerk of the house The Republi-
can memberhip is 222, and the
Democratic membership 164.
Mrs. Aurelio Schreck, widow of Joel
Schreck, for whose murder in Los An
geles, July 14th last. Ernest Stackpole
is now under sentence of life impris-
onment, has been freed from a charge
of perjury and discharged from
custody.
Two masked men in an attempt to
hold up the st. Charles hotel at Ar.
kansas City, Kans., shot and instant
ly killed William Goff, the night
clerk, and wounded S. A. Halpin, an
actor, so badly that he died a few
hours later
The steam barge Resolution, from
Erie, Pa, to Toronto, Ont, sprang
leak and sank. The crew put on in
two boats. One containing FIVE men
reached shore safely. while the second
was swamped, her six occupants be
ing drowned.
John Fusick, proprietor Of lodging
house in Los Angeles, was shot and
instantly killed by two policemen
who had entered his place in search
of supposed blind pig" Fusick. II
is claimed. drew a pistol on the ofi-
sers, whereup they shot him.
Frank Lynch. of Grand Rapids.
Mich, who promoted the boxing
match between Mike Ward and Har-
ry Lewis, in which Ward met