The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-11-12
NEWS SUMMARY

| George Obacn, wei KNOWN TER
man butcher, shot and fatally wound
I'd his wife at Bridgewood Heights, L.
l.. and then killed himself No cause
is known.
Cadet G. Cooke Ferde of Norfolk
Va, Is dead from conclusion Of the
brain due to an injury in a game OF
football between Virginia Military in
stitute and Roanoke college.
Three firemen were hurt In a fire in
San Francisco which destroyed the
warehouse OF the American Can com
pany, badly damaged the plant itself
end caused loss Of 100000
At Sac City. Iowa, VIII II. Pettis,
former county treasurer, pleaded gull
" to embezzling $4,000 OF the funds
Of the county and was sentenced TO
ten years In the penitentiary.
Caught in a chicken-coop in Los An
eeles. Casper Benson, peddler. was
injured by a small-sized mob that
made the capture Only the timely ar
rival Of the police saved Benson from
being lynched.
1
Of the Hammond Mining company at
Gadsen. Ala, property damage to the
! amount Of $4,000 was caused. Thus far
one death has resulted, that Of Henry
KEEL, a foundryman.
r, G. Jones. aged so years, a promi-
| nent merchant at Holland, Va, was
| shot from ambush in his own yard
late at night and died the next morn
ing. Jones was to have given testi-
mony in a contested will case.
The assignment Of Brigadier Gen
eral Frederick A. Smith to command
the department of California it is
said at TIE war department. may be
cnly temporary. A general rearrange-
ment Of army commands is contem-
plated.
Grafton Starbuck, aged 4S, a miller
Of Gauley Bridge, w. Va, was shot
and instantly killed as he was leaving
his home by an unknown assassin.
Mr. Starbuck was active in the recent
fight against saloons in Fayette
county.
An admission that the Standard Oil
company benefited from a preferential
freight rate lower than that quoted
to any other slipper was drawn from
witness at the hearing in New York
Of the government suit TO dissolve the
company.
Deputy Marshal McAfee and w, f.
Bass of Sherman, Texas, who arrest
ed William Hatfield, the Durham sus'
pect, and accompanied him to San
Jose, Cal, have departed for Texas.
Their last words were: Hatfield is
Durham"
What is described there as a gas
explosion" occurred at the royal pal
ace at Oporto. Portugal General
Clbrao and three other persons suf-
fered injuries The palace was being
prepared for the coming of King Man
uel on November 5.
Ward building p, of the state Gus
todlan asylum for feeble-minded wo-
men at Rome, N. Y, was burned last
week. All the sick and helpless were
safely removed 1t will cost 500 900
TO replace the burned structure and
$4,000 to furnish It,
Wreckage picked up in the North
sea confirms the fears that the Var
mouth foundered while crossing from
the Hook of Holland to Harwich. The
Yarmouth was channel freighter
End carried crew Of twenty-four men.
all of whom persisted.
II is rumored that BATTLE between
Papago and Yaqui Indians has taken
place at Altar. Sonora. and that forty
Yaquis were killed According to re-
port. the Mexican government armed |
the Papagos, who lured the Yaquis
into ambush and slaughtered them.
According to newspapers received
from Venezuela. there is already on
foot In that republic on the part of |
the government party a movement to
bring about the election of President |
Castro for another term OF Office in
1911. when his present term expires.
II is reported from Turin that Dow
eyer Queen Marguerite remains i'm
in her attitude of opposition
to the marriage of the Duke of
Abruzzl and Miss Katherine Elkins,
but the duke has declared he will
have his own way in spite of opposi.
ion.
R;otous acts followed the loss on
September so of the steamer STAN
,oul plying between Smyrna and the
suburban town of Cordelio Turkey, in
which a large number of lives were
ost. Three piers were destroyed by
ire before the mob was gotten under
control
Union county, Tennessee. again
'oted for prohibition by about 500 ma
GRITTY out of 1.500 votes cast. During
he past three years of prohibition the
Irrests for drunkenness decreased so
ler cent and property valuations in
he county are said to have increased
e, 10000
7. Shelly Organ, member Of the
Chicago board of education. and
prominent in his public life during the
aud league agitation, died at his
tome in Chicago on October 81. aged
~ years. He was born in Ireland and
erved term in prison there for his
'olitical activities
Justice Wright, in the district court
[ Washington. postponed until No
ember 10 consideration of the case
I Samuel Gompers, president. John
iitchell, a yice-president, and Frank
torrison, secretary of the American
'ederation Of Labor who are charged
18th cOntempt of cpurt