The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-01
NEWS SUNNI RY

.uv when a street car Juulpeu nv
track in Chicago.
At DaIhart, Texas, eight con'i
saved through the Jail ceiling ana %
caped, making ropes OF their oia'ih1
waterspout caused damage Within
r.aius NJ Is miles Of Leayen~or'h'
kansas. estimated at half m'ii'on
| dollars.
Governor Hughes of New YORK mas
signed a bill making adultery d ciimo
punishable with fine OF SZoo Ut siA
months IN prison or both
Thousands of acres of farming iahu
,,,,rg along the smaller streams III
,ha Kaw valley. of Kansas, are uhder
water az the result OF heavy rains
nuriug the past few weeks 100 de-
ssrters have been listed and anVer'
Used from the battleshfp Minhesota'
go ~ the warships in Hampton
| Roads.
p,rolars broke into the postofiice al
| South San Francisco at an cary lout
in the morning and secured sl'ooV III
STAMPS and money. The robbers es-
capped.
lanes Fl. Wood, an alderman Oh
| Asheryille. n. c., has been sentenced
to thirty days on the chain gang ~
selling tickets in disregard OF the h7"
rate law.
Henry Berg, a retired grocer COM
mitted suicide by throwing hiniseh
over the railing from the t"eiith
soor of the Chamber of Commerce
building in Chicago
Governor Vardaman, OF Mississippi
has pardoned Mrs. Angie blrdsohg.
She was sentenced to five years IN tle
penftentiary for the killing OIL Dr' but
Ter In Lawrence county
Captain August Avail, leader OF the
Mexican band, which organization ac-
COMMANDED the Ell Paso, Tex, lodge OF
Elks 10 Philadelphia, was drowned
while bathing at Atlantic City, n. j.
The constitutional convention OF OK
lahoma has adopted the election ordlh-
ance calling the state election lor
Sent 7. when the state officers as well
as the constitution viii be voted upon.
Richard Croker, according to adj
vices from Dublin, has declined the
nationalist nomination for member OF
parliament for East Wicklow to re-
place d. j. Cogan, nationalist, re-
signed
At their home at Fort Smith, Ark,
# O. Gholston, a well-known educator,
kissed his wife and then cut her
throat, killing her instantly. The cause
of the murder was jealousy Gholston
was placed under arrest.
Returns of deaths from the plague In
India show the appalling total OF l,o6o,-
OCT for the six months ending June
80 The monthly total is at present
decreasing, however, the death roll for
| June being placed at 69,064.
AS a result of exceedingly heavy
rains all the streams of Poland have
overlooked their banks. The water
is damaging the crops, number OF
persons have been drowned and many
small houses have been carried away.
P. o. milford, former cashier of the
defunct American bank at Manila, has
been sentenced to imprisonment for
eight years and ten months on convic.
ton of having falsified notes purport-
ing to be part of the assets of the
bank.
Tchun, member of the Korean mis-
sion to the peace conference, which
was refused official recognition, died
suddenly on the 10th. There were ru
mors that Tchun had not met a natur
al DEATH but doctors state the man
, died of apoplexy.
In a pistol duel at Petersburg, Va
John w. Wheelhouse was shot and
Richard Wheelhouse, perhaps fatally
wounded. The fight between uncle and
: nephew was the elimination of a fam
, lily feud of long standing.
: Katsunoske Itouyea, the ambassador
of Japan to the German empire, ha:
been recalled The reasons for this
action are not given. 1t is reported
+ however, that he is to be promoted
to membership on the committee of ell
e der statesmen of Japan.
The bathhouse upon the estate o
Count Tolstoi at Yasna Polyna. Russia
T was burned at night by incendiaries
= This gave rise to the report that The
e manor house had been DESTROYED b,
a fire and that several members of tn,
family, including the count had per
Y ished
An unknown man who was walking
with a crutch and cane leaped int,
the rapids above the Niagara falls an,
was carried over the American cata
ract. His crutch and cane he lef
behind, with a note signed ID. j., say
ing Tell my friends that have gop
Q to glory"
Smolyany. small town. in Russia
has recently suffered severely at tn
hands of incendiaries. One hundre
:. and fourteen houses occupied by Jew
and fifteen tenanted by Christians a
well as seventy shops, have bee
burned. Several persons persisted i
: the flames
: Fire destroyed the Southern Pacifi
= depot and hotel and the McCloud Rive
;. Exchange depot at Sisson, Cal. an
Miss Laura Sake, of New York,
school teacher, who had Just arrive
TO meet friends and climb Noun
shasta. lost her life. Several other
=, wera badly burned.
5. I James Courtney is uapta5 I, ~,