The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-01-09
NEWS SUM A r Y

Manila celebrated his 10th birthday
On December 70.
I,eopold Vilsack, millionaire banker
and brewer. dropped dead of heart
failure at his home in Pittsburg.
By a majority of 545, Raleigh, N.
e. on December Goth, voted out its
liquor dispensary and VIII become
prohibition city.
The Hamilton bank, of New York
City. which paid out $l.500.o00 during
the panic and then closed itsA doors,
has resumed business.
The Christmas present of Mrs. VIII
liam Luck of Roanoke. Va, to her
husband, was two boys and two girls
at a birth. All doing well.
The families of more than 200 men
who are serving terms in Sing Sing
ate Christmas dinners furnished by
Mrs. Darlington Booths Prison league.
bad fire in the snow sheds on the
Southern Pacific near Truckee de-
layed many trains and cut of all tel
egraph communication with the east
for a time.
Cracksmen entered the postOfice at
Campbell, Cal, blew open the safe.
and distracted $500 In stamps and
$500 in coin, overlooking 500 in
greenbacks.
The American board of commits
sioners for foreign missions has re-
ceiyed advices from the interior OF
Turkey showing unusually severe
famine conditions.
Five persons were burned to death
in a fire that destroyed the house OF
John Clark at Waterfowl. Mass.
Every member of the Clark family
met death in the flames.
AS the result of the explosion of
quantity of dynamite at Ottawa, Ills,
upwards of a dozen houses were
wrecked and glass was shattered In
more than fifty homes.
Bertram Sommers, of Los Angeles,
shot and killed his little boy, aged 8
years, having mistaken him for
burglar. The child. it is believed.
was walking in his sleep.
! Seventeen Italians arrested in
Pittsburg, charged with being men,
bers of the Black Hand society, have
received sentences of from thirty to
ninety days in the wOrkhouse.
John Andrews, formerly chief clerk
| in the comptroller's Office in Atlantic
| City, NJ j., has been found guilty on
charges of forgery and embezzlement
of sums aggregating about $4,000.
Robbers entered the home of Cam
eron Cool, the race horse breeder, at
West Pittston, Pa, and after fractur-
ing his skull with blunt instrument,
robbed him of $500. He cannot sur
vive.
In Roosevelt place, a street in Kan
sas City, triplets were born to Mr..
and Mrs Barton Curry on December
boys, and the mother is doing well.
Curry is laboring man.
Albert c. Loenhart, carpenter,
was mysteriously murdered at Tue
son, Arizona. 1t is believed he was
murdered by highwaymen who were
frightened away before they had time
to go through his pockets.
Wallace Dyal. a woodman employed
at turpentine still about eighteen
miles from Waycross, Ca, was shot
down by a crowd of negroes who were
fighting among themselves. Before
dying he shot and killed two negroes.
The Assizes court at Paris, France,
has sentenced Gustave Herve, the
anti-military leader, to one years i'm
prisonment and to pay fine of $3.50
for defaming the army and navy and
melting the troops to mutiny by his
writings.
Jackson Stilley, so years old. well
known resident of West Elizabeth,
Pa, while stealthily trying to escape
the eyes of the younger members of
the family and hide Christmas pres
ents, fell down stairway and broke
his neck.
Milton B. Owen, 10 years of age, is
under arrest charged with attempt
ing to kill the entire family of his
employer, Richard Owens, of the town
of Algoma, Wis, by putting poison
into the teapot Sunday night. He said
he thought it would be fun to kill the
family.
Charles Schroff. proprietor of a sa-
loon and bowling alley in Buffalo, N.
Y, was shot and killed by his son
Charles, aged %. Schroff. ST., had
been drinking heavily. and quarreled
with his wife, and, it is said. struck
her, when she called upon her son to
protect her.
A 25 per cent increase over the
same period last year in the immigra-
ton from all countries is shown in
the November statement of the bu-
reau of immigration. In that month
| 117,476 immigrants arrived at the
various ports, against 94.621 in No
vember, 1906.
William Bell, an animal trainer
known to circus men throughout the
country, dropped dead at Kansas City
of heart disease. Bell, who was
known as Texas" was SIS years old.
He was one of the few men who
could control Rajah, the famous man
killer elephant.
1t is estimated that about 500 able
bodied Mexicans with their families
are destitute in Los Angeles at the
present. An effort will be made TO