The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-14
NEWS SUMMARY

lHc senate mas pdsstu Diii ptac
ing the control OF the Panama railroad
under the Isthmian canal commission
The snow which has fallen upon the
west Alps is the heaviest in twenty
years. 1t is Ave feet deep at Grenoble.
France
BY the explosion of powder In the
johnson City and Big Muddy Goa
mines at Johnson City. Ills. five were
killed and eleven hurt.
The Indian appropriation bill re
ported TO the senate carries 3l4.5o9,
201, net increase OF 1896, 1872 over
the bill as passed by the house.
Otis Eddy. aged l02, died at Rock
ford, Ills. last week. He was believed
to be the oldest Mason In this coun
try, having been initiated in 1926.
George Burnham. Jr.. former gen.
eral counsel for the Mutual Life In
surance company. was put to work in
the printing shop in Sing Sing last
week.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given mil
lion donars to the Rensselaer, Poly
technic Institute Announcement OF
the gift was made at meeting OF the
Institution.
Four men were killed and sixteen
others seriously injured as the
result of the explosion OF an ice ma
chine in the power house OF Armour
& Co. at Chicago.
The wheeler-Simon bill, to abolish
capital punishment, has passed the
house and senate of Kansas and nov
only awaits the governors signaturs
| to become a law.
Fire which started with an expio
sion in the paint shop, destroyed al
entire section OF the big Baldwin loco
motive works at Philadelphia, entail
ing loss Of 81 200. 900
The Alabama senate passed a bill
classifying all the railroads in thu
| state and reducing freight rates OF
more than 100 commodities. 1t is ex
pected that the bill will pass tn
house.
Masked men called Jesse Phelps
from his home at Morgantown. Ky,
and whipped him severely. Phelps
was accused OF sticking pins in hi
s-year-old child and burning 1t witt
a hot poker.
The overiowed Mississippi river
which is filed with great blocks o
floating ice, has swept away two res
dences and the school house at Doreni
village twenty-five miles south Q
Charleston, Mo.
John S. Corsyee, proprietor OF
lace store in West Hoboken, was she
and killed In his store at night by on
of a gang of nine men who broke int
the store to rob it. They also woun'
ed John Ged, an assistant.
AS the result of fire which d
stroyed the Columbia building. in Blu
falo, N. Y. occupied by about tweni
tenants, three firemen are dead an
eighteen are more OF less injured. In
fire loss is estimated at 100000.
Archbishop s. G. Messmer, in an i
terview at Milwaukee, favors re-esta
lishment OF the canteen in militai
posts and soldiers homes. Il a
firmly convinced that the canteen
a strong temperance factor" he say
Mrs. F. B. Green Of Oak Park,
suburb of Chicago, was bitten by h
5-year-oid-son whom she was tres
ing for scarlet fever, and may as
result lose her hand. Infection fro
the bite caused blood poisoning. Al
putation of one finger has failed to Q
rest the malady. The child di'
January IS.
Henry Magruder, SON of the COME
crate general, John Bankhead Magr
der (who died in Houston, Tex,
1871, is dead. Mr. Magruder has be-
travelling In Italy with his niece. Mi
Buckler, who nursed him during b
illness.
While suffering from fit OF te
porary insanity. Hamilton Wright,
prominent citizen OF Sharon. Pa, SD
and killed his wife In their bed roo
Wright then telephoned the police s
ton and was found sitting near {
body of his wife.
On account of the failure of the
cal wheat crop, Russia this year "
be a purchaser of American whe
and the first shipload wifi arrive so
at Riga from London, on it's way
Rybinsk. The price on the Russi
market will be s1.15 bushel.
After being chased for four yea
Y. Gomez. charged with being one
the most brutal and reckless Of all
desperadoes that years ago made
border notorious. has been captur
, near FL Paso. Texas. long list
murders is charged against Gomez
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