The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-03-26
NEWS SUM NJ AR Y

! VI
age is estimated at 100000
A bomb exploded in the central
| market place at Barcelona, Spain, on
F., Sunday, severely inJuring a woman.
Another bomb was found near by.
At the first automobile race held in
! Egypt, at Heliopolis, on March /. a
policeman and two spectators were
| killed and fourteen persons were in
jured
John Hays Hammond, the mining
! engineer, who has been Ill In San
/ Francisco for several months and
whose sickness finally resulted in an
operation, has fully recovered.
Fifteen hundred operatives were
! affected by the closing at New Or
leans of the Lane. Maginniss cotton
mills A poor demand (, for cotton
! goods was given as the cause.
John l.. Smithmeyer, the architect
who designed and superintendent the
construction OF the Congressional IL
| brary, died In Washington on March
IL. aged 76 years. He was born In
| Austria.
A special dispatch to the Daily Mail
from Berlin says that the emperor
sent warm personal congratulations
70 President Roosevelt on the arrival
of the feet at Magdalena bay, ahead
of schedule time.
Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who
attempted to shooot Attorney s. X.
Hamill during the trial Of John r.
Walsh, at Chicago, has been commit
ted to the general hospital for the in
sane by commission.
The senate has ratified two more
of the Hague treaties. They relate
TO certain restrictions with regard to
the exercise TO right to capture in ma
val war and prohibit the discharge
OF project from balloons.
Instructing them to vote for any
proposition favorable to the candidacy
OF William Fl. Taft for the presidency"
the Oklahoma Republican state con-
vention elected four delegates at large
to the Chicago convention.
Charles J. Glidden, OF Boston, and
Mrs. Glidden arrived In Jerusalem on
March 10 in motor car from Hafia,
Syria. 1t was the first motor car ever
seen In Jerusalem. and created SEN
sation among the populace.
John Browns Anticipated wagon, In
which he made many pilgrimages
during his crusade against slavery,
was destroyed by fire at Iowa City,
Iowa, last week. The wagon was left
there by Brown forty-eight years ago.
President Roosevelt has directed
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau
methods of stock trading, with view
OF furnishing the basis of possible fu.
ture legislation regulating such prac'
tees.
The jury In the trial at Jackson.
KY. of John Abner, charged with
aiding in the murder of Town Marshal
James Cockril during the Hargis-
Cockrill feud In 1902, reported hope.
less disagreement, and have been dis
charged.
N. r. Anders president Of the Com
mercial bank OF Jackson, Miss. and
former director of the Central Bank OF
Mississippi, has been indicted by the
Hines county grand jury on the charge
OF embezzlement of $4,000 from the
latter bank.
The Supreme court of the District
OF Columbia has dismissed the pro-
ceedings instituted some months ago
by George w. Austin of New York
to compel Secretary Cortelyou to Is
sue to him $3.000.000 worth of Pana'
ma canal bonds.
News has been received from Ital'
ian Somiland to the effect that local
tribe. helped by soldiers Of the Null
lah, attacked another tribe under the
protection of Italy and killed thirty
Of their opponents. They then drove
of number OF cattle.
The spectators at the cycle races at
the Galleries des Machines, Paris. en- |
ragged over the decision of the UNI
pires, wrecked and set fire to the |
grandstand. Police reserves to the |
number OF 300 had to be called ont
before order was restored.
The revenue cutter Thetis has been |
ordered to proceed to unimak Island |
one of the Aleutian group, to rescue
the survivors OF the American schoon.
er John #, Miller, which was wrecked
In severe storm at Boar Harbor,
near Cape Pankoff on January s.
Application for new trial for ]. r.
Walsh. ex-president of the Chicago
National bank. convicted of illegal use
of It's funds. has been made. One hun.
bred and fourteen reasons for the
granting of new trial were present.
ed by the attorneys for Mr.. Walsh.
An unknown young woman. well
dressed. jumped into the Monongahela
river at Pittshurg and was swept
away by the swollen river. Nothing
is known concerning the woman, and
It Is probable her body will not be re-
covered until the high water subsidies
William Adix, mining inspector
from Nome, Alaska, who was said to
have been addicted to the use OF
opium. crawled undo the sidewalk In
san Francisco and died. The body was
found several days later in horrible
state. having been attacked and partly
eaten by rats.
The health OF Sir Henry Campbell
England's prime minister.
has caused renewed anxiety. During