The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-14
NEWS SUMMARY

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As the result of a premature explo-
sion OF dynamite at Venice, Pa, four
men were killed.
| Rumors that the Pennsylvania rail-
road will lay off between 10000 and
1 10000 men are denied by high officials
OF The company.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, wife of a
| Milwaukee millionaire, has been in
dicted on six counts, alleging burglary
and receiving stolen property.
Mile. Ragoznikova. who. on October
%, killed General Maximoffsky, d.
| rector of prisons of the ministery of
the interior, was hanged October 81.
| A committee has been organized at
| Madison. Wis. to promote the eandi-
| dacy of Senator Robert NJ LaFollette
for the Republican nomination for
| president
| Bank robbers in. Pskof, Russia, at
| tackled seven men who were escorting
cashier carrying 1900 roubles, MUIR
dered the whole party and decamped
with the money.
There appears to be no immediate
occasion for alarm among silver pro-
ducers that the price of the white
metal will drop in sympathy with cop
per, lead and zinc.
1t is reckoned by the shippers that
there are 141 ,000,0 900 bushels Oh wheat
available for export to Europe this
year. There will also be very heavy
expectation of -four.
Because he failed to carry out an
errand of vengeance, Vito Greinaldi,
member of the Black Hand society,
was stabbed to death by members OF
his own band in Brooklyn.
The supreme court, in deciding
against the validity of voting ma
cnine in Massachusetts,, declared that
any method of voting which hides the
ballot from the voter is unconstitu-
tional
John Mitchell day was observed as a
holiday throughout the anthracite re-
gion of Pennsylvania ON October 20.
Many meetings were held and prayers
were offered for the recovery of Mr..
Mitchell.
An unknown man was killed at On
tario, Oregon, trying to board a
through freight train. Both legs were
cut off and the body was mangled
There was nothing on the body to
identify it by.
The official cholera statistics pub.
hshed in st. Petersburg for the week
ending October 20. show that with the
APPROACH of winter the epidemic is
being checked There were 1,o99 new
cases and 416 deaths reported.
The Inflated French submarine boat
Lutin, which sank with all hands at
Bizerta, on October 10, 1906, had an.
other accident last week, and went tC
the bottom second time, but no lives
We're lost this time.
One hundred and ten feet is tie
width which the navy department has
finally fixed upon as desirable for the
locks of the projected Panama canal
This 10 an increase of ten feet in
width over the plans on which the
commission is now working.
The supreme court of the United
States has begun the hearing of the
important case involving the constitu.
tionality of the act of congress of 1898
making it misdemeanor to discrimi-
nate against employees because they
are members of labor unions.
suit for collection of a judgment
against Charles W. Clark, son of for
mer United States Senator Clark of
Montana, which was filed in the fed
eral court at Helena last week by a
Mexican bank, charges that certain
transfer OF stocks by Charles w. Clark
to his father was fraudulent device
to hinder and delay creditors"
northwest storm of short dura-
ton, with heavy rain, struck Calves
ton, Texas, on the Both. The wind at
tanned velocity of seventy-two miles
an hour. One woman was killed by
being crushed in a falling house.
Twenty frame houses were blown
down.
1t is stated that railroads in the
Ohio River Passenger association
have succeeded in increasing their
passenger earnings this summer to
such an extent that it Is now deemed
doOACoS ny luC lllOSl CoAStTFdiifS 10
upset the 2-cent fare maximum pas
senger rate law.
Judge Grosscup of Chicago, of the
United States circuit court, has been
served with warrant charging him
with manslaughter as one of the di-
rectors of the Electric railway in the
electric railway accident at Mattoon,
where several were killed. The bail
of $4,000 was furnished.
Ocean freight rates to Europe are
from ten to twenty per cent higher
than last year. and they are likely to
go still higher before they reach their
former level. but there is no fear of
a scarcity of room, in spite of the in
creased exports to which the shippers
are looking forward this fall
Tho United States court of appeals
held that Judge Holt of New York had
no authority to issue an order re-
straining the Chase national bank and
other banks from disposing of eollat-
eral, enabling them TO secure loans.
The banks are permitted to sell col
lateral to protect the loans.
BY deal contaminated at Hender.
son. KY. the Imperial Tobacco com
pany purchased the entire 1907 to-
haeca eron rladpad IN tho Aparf~ap