The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-14
NEW s SUMMARY

be improving daily.
Former Senator Camden of Mary
land Is dead at the age OF 80, after an
illness of several months.
The Republicans of Maryland have
declared in favor of Secretary Tart s
candidacy for the presidency.
Fire at Various, N. NJ, which Tor
d time threatened to destroy the en-
tire town, did damage to the amount
Of $4,000.
Two men were drowned while at
tempting to run the rapids In the Pls-
catiouis river, near Mile Junction,
Me-, in canoe,
BY a vote of 1877 to AZ. the house
refused to accept the senate amend
ments to the naval appropriation bill,
and sent it to conference;
The explosion of a boiler tube on
the British battleship Britannia, dur
ing a full speed trial, injured five
men, four of whom may not recover.
The report from Tangier that the
bandit Raisuli had been assassinated
proves to be untrue. He was am
pushed by the Elkmes tribesmen, but
escaped.
Three men, suspected of being the
Stephen, Mimi, bank dynamiters. have
been arrested at Emerson. Manitoba,
and taken across to st. Vincent, Mimi,
and placed in Jail
One hundred and forty-eight big To-
comotives are being hurried to the
Hartman lines as fast as the Brooks
Locomotive Works of Dunkirk, N. Y,
can turn them out.
serious conflict occurred Sunday
at Lola, capital of the province of
Lola, in the southwest of Ecuador,
between soldiers and police. Several
were wounded on each side.
All southerners residing in New
York will be invited soon to attend
meeting, the avowed object of which
will be to place a southerner upon
the Democratic national ticket.
Although probably more actively en-
gagged in business than any other
woman in the country, Mrs. Hetty
Green has never used a telephone.
She says she has an attendant trans
init messages for her.
The presidents suggestion looking
to legislation authorizing the govern
ment to make a charge for the use Of
the water of streams for power pur-
poses was turned down by the senate
committee on commerce.
Miss Minnie Cox, prominent So
ciety girl of Martins Ferry. o., died
last week from spider bite she re-
ceived three days previous. The
girls body became terribly swollen
and she died in horrible agony.
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trim
ity Protestant parish since 1862, and
one of New York City's most promi-
nent clergymen, is dead at the age
of 81 Death was due to heart fail
ure, and followed brief illness.
The monthly statement of the pub
10 debt shows that at the close of
business April &c. 1908. the debt, less
lash in the treasury, amounted to
1925. 167 ,236. which is an increase as
compared with March 80, 1908, of $751;
IA5,899
A general strike of motormen and
employed by the Municipal |
fraction company, the new. holding
company, which took over all of the |
Cleveland, o., street railway lines I'M
Ter the recent peace agreement, ap- |
Years to be imminent
Sophie Suderman, years Of age,
vas run over and killed at New Hav-
n, Conn, by an automobile owned by |
huntington Smith, a Yale student.
those home is In st. Louis. The car
1as occupied by Smith, two other Yale
and chauffeur.
William r. Wheeler Of California
las notified the president OF his ac-
eptaDce of the assistant secretary
hip OF the department Of commerce
md LABOR, in succession to Lawrence
}. Murray recently appointed comp
roller of the currency.
The town Of Antipolo in the prov
nee of Morong, p. l., with a popula-
ion of $500, has been practically de-
troyed by fire. Four hundred houses
we're burned and hundreds of people
re homeless. The famous shrine
'as saved. The fire was caused by
ghtning.
-Four armed men held up the guards
Tho were conveying $4,000 from
Velch to Dairy, w. Va. to pay of
Employees of the United States Coal &
'oke company. There is no clue to
ne robbers. but sheriffs posse is
couring the country in the hope OF
.pturing them.
DR." w. w. Goelet, graduate of
olumbia college and traveller who
as married to a young society wo-
an OF Oakland four months ago. is
the Berkeley, Cal, city prison
larged with the burglary of eight res
ences and apartment houses in Oak.
nd and Berkeley.
Secretary Straus of the department
commerce and labor has been rean- ,
'inted for another term of six years =
one OF the American members of :
le permanent court of arbitration AT q
ne Hague. Secretary Straus was .
opointed after the death of the Iate !,
'esident Harrison.
The chairman of the ways and
cans committee of the house of rem.
sentauves has introduced a resom.
on that the committee sit during s
e recess of congress and gather I
ZEN information as il sees fit toward /
e pfeDaratinn of n h,u -. :. !,