The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-22
NEWS SUMMARY

signed the pronipltion O''
January /, 1908.
Ioseph Johnson has been electea
limited States Senator To succeed SCH
ator Pettus of Alabama
In accordance with the imperial de-
cree recently issued. all the opium
dens in Canton were closed On .he
9th without disturbance
DIR. c. p. Dinsmore of Deep Vaiey'
w Va. is dead and four others are
diving. as the result Of FAMILY HIS
taxing toadstools for mushrooms
Mrs. A. l.. Ferguson was killed and
her sister Miss Henrietta Sharke'
seriously injured. by falling from the
same street car at Long Beach, Cal
The British bark GIencairn, Captain
NicboI. from Rochester, England, lor
Seattle, has been wrecked on oan
PaoIo. Two of the crew were
drowned.
BY the capsizing OF boat. MISS
Lucretia Evans and Emory McDougai
were drowned in Bear Lake, y. NC
Dougal. in trying L. save the girl, was
drawn under by her.
Seven freight handlers of the North
ern Pacific road were run down by
tug in the Duluth harbor Sunday even
ing while returning to their moves III
a rowboat and drowned.
Leon Maille, the naval reservist,
who fired two revolver shots at Pres
ident Fallieres on the streets OF Paris
July IA last, has been declared insane
and was sent to an asylum.
Severe fighting is reported from For
mosa. where the natives are making
strenuous resistance against the Jap
anese troops. At Taikokan the Jap
anese casualties numbered ZOO
Representatives of silk mills IN
Lackawanna and Luzerne counties,
Pennsylvania, have refused shorter
work day to silk workers More than
J 1000 persons are now on strike.
John Butts shot and killed Tom
Crowley on the latters' ranch, four
miles east of Laytonville. Cal. Butts
and his son. while hunting, had a
quarrel with Crowley over dog.
Commander Robert E. Peary's dash
for the North pole has been postponed.
Failure to complete the repair on his
ship, the Roosevelt, compelled the ex.
plorer to put off his trip until next
year.
August Rowe was brutally murder.
ed near Buda, Neb., his head being
beaten into a jelly with hammer.
Ludwig Korcek, neighbor of Rowe,
is under arrest on suspicion and ia
in jail.
Tom Hall, negro living at Golfaa,
Texas, was arrested charged with an
attempted assault upon two young
white women. The next morning his
Lody was found hanging to tree in
front of the Jail.
A detachment of infantry, com.
manded by two lieutenants, has been
massacred by rebels in the Mort dis.
trict of the island Of Celebes. The
victims, including some convicts,
numbered forty-five.
Thomas Myer. who claimed that he
hoisted the stars and stripes over
Santiago de Cuba during the Span
| ish-Ameiican war, was drowned of
Courtown while practicing for an at
tempt to swim St. Georges channel.
| Randolph Rucklow, a structural
ironworker, who weighs 270 pounds
fell from the fourth story of build
ing in the course of construction in
San Francisco and escaped with NO
more serious injury than a broken
ankle.
| 1t is surmised that Shirley David
son, son of Judge Davidson, and Miss
Kingston, daughter of the late Sill
William Kingston, the great Canadian
surgeon, were drowned in the River
st. Lawrence Sunday, as their sail
boat was found drifting and empty.
One of three robbers who attempt
ed the robbery of the Farmers and
Merchants bank at Strongsville. Ohio
was found later wounded and uncon
scious in a gully near Strongsville. He
had been shot by citizens immediate
ly following the attempted robbery
Mrs. Robert e. Peary. wife of the
Polar explorer. has announced hel
Intention of remaining all winter a
Eagle island, their summer home, ant
foregoing all social engagements
Eagle island is a rocky bit Of lant
in Casco bay and four miles out t.
| sea.
The police searched the imperia
technical schools at Moscow and dis
| covered the central revolutionary lab
oratory for manufacturing bonds of ,
new pattern and tremendous explo
sives, regular supplies of which wer,
being shipped to various interio
points.
| A sensational suicide has occurre,
at Antwerp. M. Jacques Simon, a sill
merchant, In the presence Of a crow,
! that thronged Cathedral square
jumped from the second gallery o
the cathedral tower, a distance o
more than 200 feet. Death was in
Simultaneous.
Congressman Nicholas Longworth
in speech made at the Commercia
clubs luncheon at Honolulu, said h
hoped that the Philippines would no
long be with us. In the meantim
free trade with the Philippines woul,
be square deal and free sugar woul
not iniure Hawaii"