The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-07
NEWS SUMMARY

carolina.
Senators Morgan and Pettus were
reelected by the Alabama legislature
In Joint session.
Robert J. Gable of Yonkton, has been
reelected United States senator by
the legislature Of South Dakota.
The house of representatives OF
Kansas, has passed what Is known as
the anti-Sunday baseball bill by a vote
Of so to 20
The house committee on agricul
ture has decided to recommend the
discontinuance of free seed distribu
ton by congress.
Representative Charles Curtis. re
publican, has been elected to the
United States senate from Kansas TO
succeed A. w Benson.
Nearly 10000 persons paid tribute
to the memory OF Senator r. A. Alger
as his body lay in the city hall in
Detroit, Sunday afternoon.
Five Americans and seven Italians
are known to be dead as the result OF
an explosion of fire damp in the Penn
sylvania company mine at Lorentz,
w. Va.
A coal laden ship. name unknown.
has foundered in a storm in the Black
sea. Sixty workmen. who were go
ing TO Eregli and the ships entire
crew were drowned.
Ten thousand people gathered at
the Juarez Plaza de Toreos Sunday
afternoon to witness a fight between
a buffalo and a bull, in which the
buffalo was the victor.
The North Dakota fuel shortage
is again becoming serious, inability
of the railroads to keep freight trains
moving being responsible in large
degree for this condition.
Trouble is threatened at Santiago
de Las Vegas. province of Havana,
owing to the refusal of the acting
mayor of that town TO turn over his
authority TO the actual mayor
Four men were killed and at least
York Central near Albany, n. Y. by
the collision of light" engine with
a caboose filled with railroad laborers
II is practically assured that the
house committee on naval Affairs will
recommend the construction of an
other gigantic battleship, in addition
to the one decided upon at the last
session.
Three fires at Richmond, Va, de-
stroyed $3.50 900 worth of property in.
Guiding the offices of the Adams and
| Southern Express and the plants OF
! the Surburg Tobacco company and
/ the b. +. Johnson Publishing Co,
AS the result of her anchor getting
/ afoul of something at the bottom OF
Hampton Roads, a fishing schooner
was the innocent cause of the re
covery Of the lost anchor and chain OF
the Confederate armor clad Merrimac
A smallpox epidemic has broken out
in the city Jail al Guthrie, Oklahoma
! located in the basement of the hal
where the constitution convention Ii
assembled Several members OF tho
convention have contracted The
disease.
As a result of general exchange o.
shots between the authorities and d
number of terrorists on the streets o.
Grondo, Russia. FIVE policemen. pris
on warden and one terrorist were
/ killed and number of persons
wounded
The probable loss Of the Norwegian
bark d. H. Morris, 114S net register
en- route from Norway to Gulf ports
was reported Sunday by Captain o
Hansen and his crew Of ten men, wh'
! arrived at New Orleans on gaso
line launch.
In Scoria. Miss, William Smith O
Scranton. Miss. burned to dealt
"Pinky" Tigg. with whom he formerl.
lived. Smith tied the woman down
set the house on fire, and with
shotgun prevented neighbors from
rescuing her.
Henry Ball, a negro. was lynched a
Greenwood, Miss, the home of Gov
ernor Vardaman. He had attacked
Mrs. Graves of that place. The core
ner's Jury has decided the negr'
had met his death at the hands Of un
known persons.
Enrique Mosa. the bandit of the pre-
vince of Santiago. who for more thai
two years had terrorizea eastern Cub
and defied the rural guards, and VIII
was wanted for various alleged mur
ders has been captured at Havana b
the secret police.
William T. Martin. Jr., formerly a.
employe Of the Dawes Indian commits
sion was convicted at Muskogee,
+. of unlawfully receiving from tn
government Office the Creek India
rolls. which later were copied and sol
to real estate men.
The senate committee on intei