The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-01-02
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ular vote.
|. The Filpinos are to have their rep
resentatives In Washington within a
month. just as the Porto Ricans are
represented by Delegate LarTinaga.
The Bank OF Mendenhair. at Men
denhall, Miss. has been placed In the
hands of a receiver 1t Is small state
bank, with capital stock OF s1s.500
and deposits of $4,000.
Van Leer Polk, one OF the editors
OF the News-Scimitar, ex-consul gen.
eral at Calcutta. and grand nephew
OF President Polk, died suddenly at
Memphis, Tenn. last week.
BY an almost unanimous vote the
Republican committee of New York
county refused to adopt a resolution
endorsing Governor Hughes for the
Republican presidential nomination.
At meeting OF the nut and bolt
manufactures of the United States.
held in Citts5urg last week. it was de-
cided to reafflrm the prices which
have raled for 1907 for the next year
| Thinking 1t unloaded. John Meyer.
farmer boy living near Holy Cross.
Iowa, pointed a shotgun at his sixteen
year-old sister and pulled the trigger.
Her head was blown from her shout
ders.
Senator Scott has introduced joint
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a committee of three sena-
tors and three representatives TO in
vestigate the recent explosions in coal
mines.
A. A. Wilson, prominent merchant,
shot and killed Bud Doughty,
wealthy planter, in the formers store
at Shaws, Miss. 1t is claimed that
Doughty was using improper language
| before women.
| Joseph H. Choate, in an address at
| the annual meeting of the State Char
tiles Aid association in New York
City, advocated adherence to the old
Mosaic law that one-tenth of all prop
erty be given to charity.
Judge Ball has adjourned the an
nual meeting of the Illinois Central
Railroad company to some day in Feb
4
later by the attorneys representing
Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. Fish.
Edward Clifford, aged 25. was
hanged at Peoria. H.. on Friday for
numbering his father. November rs.
1906. Clifford walked to the scaffold
with a firm step and repeated a
prayer, led by Father Samon.
/ Professor Anichkoff, who holds the
chair of literature in the University
of st. Petersburg. has been sentenced
to confinement in fortress for eigh-
teen months for being member OF
| the peasant league of Novgord.
/ The annual report of Commissioner
| Capers of the internal revenue bureau
shows that for the fiscal year ended
| June 20, 1907, the receipts of this bu-
reau were s269, 6G4 ,022S5, an excess
of $20.561 .2S4 over the preceding year.
| Eminent men in New York and
other cities have begun movement
for the release of Nicholas Tschaikov.
sky and Catherine Breshkovsky, the
Russian revolutionists now impris.
oned at St. Petersburg for political
| reasons.
Horribly mutilated and her body
riddled with shot. Mrs, Mary Nelson,
a most respected woman, was found
dead in Happy Woods roads, near
Hammond, La. Suspicion has fallen
upon a negro with whom Mrs. Nelson
had a quarrel.
1t has been announced authorita
lively that Governor Dawson will
within the next few days, call an ex,
ira session of the West Virginia leg,
islature to convene January 2S. for
the consideration of more stringent
mining laws.
The wife of Henry Clay Ward. a
well known millionaire of Pontiac
Mich. and son of the late David Ward
has petitioned the court to declare her
husband insane. Mr.. Ward is well
known in California. where he has
spent considerable time
Mrs. Nellie G. Cochran. who was
found with bullet wound in her head
at the home of her sister in Chicago
died at the hospital. 1t is believed by
the police that she was murdered by
NJ. l.. Dillon, a salesman. whose dead
body was found in the woman's room
Indictments charging j. Dalzel
Brown, general manager of the insol
vent California Safe Deposit and
Trust company, and Walter J. Bart
nett, director in the institution
with two counts of embeZzlement
were returned by the grand jury last
week
The woman who. on December 4
made an unsuccessful attempt to xii
Lieutenant Juerschelmann. governor
general OF Moscow, by means of 4
bomb, was executed at Moscow on the
goth. On the scaffold she said to ths
executioners: We will soon stor
your hangings."
Advices from Tutuila, Samoa. say
that the volcano In the island Savaii
in German Somoa. is working with
greater activity than IL has done since
the first outbreak. and the eruption.
are submarine and terrestrial. Laws
is flowing into the sea at the rate oi
1000 tons a minute.
A passenger train on the 500 line
from St Paul was derniled at Ken
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