The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-07
NEWS SUM Ia RY

has cIOSSu uO"i
300 men out of work.
Four men were killed as the result
~ an explosion which blew up the
,Vo mills of the Atlantic Dynamite
,ornpanv at Ashland, WIS.
President Roosevelt has issued his
THANKSGIVING proclamation, through
mo sacretarv Of state, naming the last
Thursday in November, the 18th.
contract for steel rails amounting
30 Il ooO tons is said to have been
,loged between the United states
steel corporation and the Imperial
railway of Japan
Three armed men held up freight
train within FIVE miles of Los Ange-
"a wounded one of the tram crew.
robbed them Of $3.50 and two watches
and made their escape.
The physicians in attendance on
Fmperor Francis Joseph have decided
NOT 10 issue any further bulletins, as
they consider his convalescence Is
progressing satisfactorily.
The stockholders of the Norfolk &
southern railway have confirmed the
nlan of the directors to issue $25,OO0,.
| 400 in bonds for the purchase OF roll
ing stock and other improvements.
What is known as the Little Alton
| ,ase against tie Standard Oil COM
| many of Indiana has been set for trial
IN January 6. by Judge Bethea of the
United States district court at Chi
| cagO.
! Miss Helen Gould was accorded the
7onors of q general officer OF the
| American army by the officers and
enlisted men of Fort Ieayenworth,
Kans. in the review of troops last
week.
The British steamer Cape Corso and
| he schooner Albert Meyer, the latter
sailing from Bellingham, Wash, were
IN collision Oct. 10, while off Cape
Flattery. Both vessels sustained
slight damage.
A dispatch from Moji reports that
ME Japanese freight steamer Kokwo
Naru, from Hongkong to Yokohama
went ashore in a storm off Rishma
and is a complete wreck. The crew
was rescued in life boat.
The purpose of Secretary Taft's Wis
it to Subig Bay Is to endeavo. to rec
,ncile a difference of opinion between
the army and navy respecting the con.
tinuance of expenditures on a large
scale for the fortification of that bay
Seven foreign workmen were in
jured, four fatally, in an explosion al
one of the blast furnaces Of the Clair
ton Steel company, at Charlton, Pa
It is said that the accident was the
result of a premature discharge OF
dynamite.
Davis James one Of the owners OIL
the Globe Electric Light & Gas com
pany, was shot and probably fatally
wounded at Globe, Arizona, by H. S
Buckner 1t is understood the reason
for the shooting was trouble oyer min
ing claims.
Mrs Jonathan Culp received tele
phone message at Oregon, Mo-, saying
her daughter, Mrs. Silas Allen, had
| Uttu hlllCu II Ou q olloSh liolh ola OiCS
trio wire, and she dropped dead
Mother and daughter will be buried in
the same grave.
Relentless war against the bubonic
plague has been declared by the city
and county boards of health at Bel
ban on all vessels arriving from
plague-infected ports, including Seat
tie, has been placed.
Asserting that they could not make
wages on the mileage under the TWEEN
ty-five miles an hour speed limit re
Gently imposed on the Missouri Pa
cific, the engineers of that road have
complained to the state railway com
mission of Nebraska.
The report of the board of inquiry
into the cause of the grounding of the
battleship Kentucky, fully exonerates
from blame Captain Barry, the com
mander. 1t is shown that the acct
dent was due to the crowded condi
ton of the roadstead.
Herbert Parkin, passenger ON the
steamer Baltic, which arrived at New
York Saturday from Liverpool, leaped
overheard last Sunday night and was
drowned. Parker gave a fellow-pas
senger the address of a woman in
Hull. England. asking that she be no
| titled.
The supreme court Of the United
States has declined to allow the Kan
SaS vs. Colorado caSa 70 ha raopo,od
The case was an attempt on the part
OF Kansas to prevent the state of Colo
rado from using for irrigation pur
poses the waters of the Arkansas
river.
The unexpired portion of the sen
tence suspending from duty Captain
William Swift, who was in command
OF the battleship Connecticut when il
went aground on Culebra island, has
been RENTED and the captain will be
assigned to duty other than command
ing ship.
On October "a, at Sterling, H.. Hon
j, T. Henderson touched a gate, which
thereupon raised, permitting the water
TO flow through the Illinois Missis
slppi canal This marked the com
pletlon OF the work on the $500, 00t
government undertaking. which was
started by Mr.. Henderson twenty-five
years ago.
sylvester Harrison, a noted charac
Ter OF southern Kansas, is missing
from Wichita, and charges have beer
MED against him by Mrs. Kate Cath