The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-27
NEW S SUM MARY


house of commons prohibits smokin
under the age OF l6.
The Standard OIL company las
week announced an advance OF cent
in three grades OF oil.
A loss approaching s250,000 wa
caused by the storm which swep
across central Georgia last week.
II Is announced that there is pros
pect OF Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit
appearing on the variety stage In Lon
| don.
A document bearing the signature
of George Washington has been found
| In the Essex county, New Jersey
| courthouse.
Seven persons were burned to death
by fire. which destroyed the home OF
Lawrence Haacke, carpenter, near
New Liszard Ont
Mrs Martha Anderson was found
dead at GAINESVILLE, Wis, with ner
throat cut from cart TO ear. The dis
trict attorney is investigating her
death.
Newton Edmunds, former governor
of Dakota territory and president OF
the Yankton National bank, died at
Yankton, on the 18th, Of paralysis,
aged IS years.
King Manuel formally took up court
life on the 18th, when he received
deputations from several Lisbon asso-
Citations and correspondents, who as
sured him of their sympathy and sup
port.
David Kolich, aged 81, who has just
returned home after an extended SER
vice In the United States navy. acct
dentally shot and probably fatally
wounded his mother, Mrs. Olive Kol-
ich, In St. Louis.
The corporation commission of Ok.
lahoma has ordered the Santa Fe
railroad to appear before them and
explain why they ordered their recent
retrenchment in train service, cutting
off four trains on the main line.
1t Is said on what is believed to be
good authority that w. b. Ridgley, tho
comptroller of the currency, has de-
cided to accept the presidency of the
suspended National Bank of Commerce
of Kansas City. when it is reorgan-
ICED.
One hundred and seventy Japanese
are being detained in quarantine at
Victoria, b. c., failing to pass the edu.
cational test in the Natal act They
are likely to be excluded. Should this
happen, the case will be taken to the
courts.
Nearly fifty women suffragists, who
made raid on the house of commons.
were arraigned In police court and
sentenced to pay fine or one months
Imprisonment All but TWO OF the wo-
men preferred to go to Jail rather
than pay the fine.
John Grant, an unemployed printer.
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge and,
although he landed among floating ice
in the river, 200 feet below, escaped
with only minor hurts. He is now
at hospital under arrest on a charge
Of attempting suicide.
John w. Bookwalter, the millionaire
and the former Democratic candidate
for governor of Ohio, last week cabled
$500 to Mayor Burnett, of Springfield,
from Nice, Italy. The money is to be
used for the poor people of that city
who are out of work.
Five persons were killed by the ex-
ploslon of mixer in the starch fac.
tory of c. S. Tanner, at Providence.
X. |. Three other persons were in
jured. Their condition is not regarded
as serious. The building was badly
wrecked by the explosion.
Tom Lougboat, the Indian long-dist-
ance runner, who is to represent Cana
da at the Olympic games in London
next summer, won the ten-mile relay
race at the Park Square coliseum,
Boston, defeating three men. His time
was 80 minutes SO 3-5 seconds.
George Washington, negro,
charged with a brutal assault on his
wife. was taken from the Jail at Ellis.
worth, Kan, by mob of one hundred
masked men and threatened with
hanging. He was released after
horse-whipping was administered to
him
1t is stated that losses on some east.
ern transfers now being booked are
severe. Prices fer about all kinds OF
wool are considerably lower than last
TALL. and on some kinds the shrink.
age In values is pronounced Strictly
clothing territory woods suffer the
most.
In the criminal division of the cir.
cult court in st. Louis, Judge Muench
sentenced Chauffeur Jesse Watson to
one year in jail and imposed a fine Oh
$1,000 in addition for the killing of
little Christine Musick, who was
struck by Watson's automobile last
October.
Preliminary orders have been is
sued to carry out the plan for a for.
midahle military demonstration by
Russia on the Turko-Persian frontier.
involving the organization of com.
pact expedition of 10000 men. AS
TAR as Is known no troops have yet
been moved.
Indictments alleging perjury were
last week against a former
SoVernor OF New Jersey, Foster NJ.
voorhees,, and Frank II. Coombs, fol
lowing a grand jury inquiry into the
acts OF these men while they were
OF the Bankers Life Insur, |
ance company.