The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-04
NEWS SUMMARY

Snnh fa tne North sea, with the loss
of twenty-one lives.
The upper house of the Danish diet
has passed bill carrying the adop-
ton of the metric system of measures
In Denmark
The Russian evacuation OF Manchu-
ria is complete. The last battalion of
Russian troops left Hardin Thursday
OF last week.
Thirty woman suffragists were ar.
rested Wednesday afternoon for at.
tempting to force an entrance into the
House Of Commons.
Six former or present attendants of
the State hospital for the insane at
Cleveland, O.. were indicted last week
for alleged attacks on patients.
a passenger train and a freight train
at Turuschiche station, seventeen per
sons were killed and thirty-iive in
jured.
Mrs. James Tolbert, wife of former
Mayor Tolbert of Fairmont, Ga, was
brutally assaulted and her 2-month-old
baby was murdered by a negro at their
home.
Secretary Taft and party which is to
accompany him to Panama, Cuba and
Porto Rico will go on the Maytiower,
which the navy department has placed
at their disposal.
Peasants have again invaded Botos-
sahni and set fire to different parts of
the town. especially the Jewish quar-
tiers. Troops interviewed and several
of the peasants were killed or
wounded.
Every man in Fort Dodge, Iowa, be-
tween the ages of 25 and As years
must become a married man or pay
a fine. as the result of an ordinance
introduced by Mayor Bennett and
passed by the city council.
Count Arco, in his wireless telephone
experiments, says Berlin dispatch.
has succeeded In obtaining distinct ex-
changes OF words in tolerable natural
voice at distance of two miles. by
using poles thirty feet high.
Two corps of Western Pacific en-
gineers are surveying the proposed
line between Ely. Nevada, and the
main line of the Western Pacific, and
will complete their preliminary work
within the next thirty days.
Mrs. Fred Belasco, wife of the senior
partner of the Alcazar theatre and
known on the stage under the name of
Juliet Crosby, died suddenly in San
Francisco. and an hour later M. L.
Mayer, Mr.. Belasco's partner, died of
the shock.
Edward Howell, one of the most in
fiuential negroes in southern Missis.
sippi and president of the Peoples
bank, of Hattiesburg. Miss, was shot
in the back and killed while on his
way home late at night. No motive
IL known.
A Santa Fe freight locomotive boiler
exploded at Simms, Cal, killing Fire
man J. B. Kerr and fatally scalding
Engineer p Barnum. Brakeman J. l..
McElery was badly hurt. Four cars
were demolished and the track blocked
with wreckage.
A murder trial presenting features
of unusual interest began at Garnet,
Ills. Monday, when Jennie Burch, a
fourteen-year-old girl will be called
on to answer the charge of poisoning
Wilbur Winship. a two-year-old child
whose nurse she was.
President Baer of the Reading Rail
road company has been authorized by
the board of directors of his company
10 advance the age limit of employees
from 35 TO as years. This is in line
with the recent action of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad company.
When Mrs. Levi Jet, of Ashland.
Ky, was bathing her infant. she sud
denly was seized with a pain in the
head, II is said, and fell dead The
babe fell from the lifeless arms of
its mother into a tub of hot water
and was scalded to death.
Governor Folk of Missouri has
signed the bill passed by the last leg
fslature making it felony to operate
a bucketshop in this state: the penalty
clause also includes any telegraph or
telephone company which furnishes
information to bucketshop.
Arthur Bean killed his wife with an
ak at North Baltimore, O., and then
committed suicide by shooting himself.
Bean had forbidden his wife visiting
her family. She visited her parents
at night, and he induced her to go
home and then murdered her.
Thc court Of inquiry appointed TO
determine the cause of the explosion
of March IL on the battleship lena. de-
cided that the disaster was caused by
a spontaneous explosion of +B" pow.
der. due to decomposition and the ele-
walton of the temperature of the mag.
azine.
Major c. W. Penrose, OF the Tween
with infantry has been acquitted