The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-04-02
NEWS SUM NJ AIRY

| National Mothers congress
In an amateur boxing tournament
in Philadelphia. Willie Robinson, ~
years, was killed while boxing with
Charles Wolf, same age.
The senate has accepted the
amendment OF the legislative bill in
creasing the salaries Of surveyors
general from $4,000 to $4,000.
The steamer Pomona, which phys
between San Francisco and Eureka,
| was wrecked near Fort Ross on
March IT, All her passengers were
saved.
Three men were killed and four In
| jured, two fatally, by the blowing up
! of one of ten wheel houses OF the
| United States Powder company at
Coalmont, Ind
An unknown negro shot and NOR
| tally wounded Baxter and Rufus
| Burns at Burns, Miss. Both are rela-
tiyes of United States Senator Nc
Laurin of Mississippi.
| Senator B. r. Tillman of South Car
olina, is dangerously i'll at his home
! at Trenton, s. c.. suffering with re-
turn of the disease which affected his
health three years ago
| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
| J. p. Edwards, whose resignation was
accepted last week, has accepted the
receiversEip of the New Amsterdam
| National bank of New York, which
recently suspended.
Mrs. Mabel Woodham Medley, Of
Kalamazoo, Mich, whose two-year-old
son Walter died last December from
pneumonia while under treatment by
two mental healers, was last week re-
arrested and charged with man
slaughter.
Walter r. Day, secretary of state OF
| Kentucky under the Republican re-
gime of Governor Taylor in 1900, has
been sentenced to serve one year in
the penitentiary for forging the name
of his uncle, Floyd Day, to check
for $4,000.
The bubonic plague in Ecuador is
increasing and the sanitary condition
of Guayaquil and other towns is caus-
| ing great alarm. There are fifty one
cases of the plague in the Lazaretto,
besides several cases of smallpox and
| yellow fever.
AS the result of an unsuccessful at
| tempt to assassinate Federal Judge
Lira, of the northern district of Chi
| huahua by firing two shots at him
| through a door, four alleged plotters
are held in Jail in Juarez on charge
of conspiracy to murder.
Frank Kito, Japanese cook, fired
five bullets into the body of Mrs. Liz
zie Hulse of New York City, who
had spurned his love. Kito then
drank carbolic acid and died Mrs.
Hulse will recover Both had been
employed in restaurant.
The Notifications bill, carrying a to-
tai appropriation of $S,210,611 instead
war department, has been reported to
the house committee on appropria-
tons by Chairman Smith of the sub
committee on Notifications.
Under pressure exerted by the
rransvaal government. which is en-
titled to 60 per cent of the company's
output, the Premier Diamond Mining
company has refinitely refused to re-
new it's agreement with the diamond
syndicate, and will market it's own
output
Two men were killed and five per-
int,
sion train on the International &
Great Northern railway bearing
party of homeseekers from Kansas
and Oklahoma en- route to Las Pal
tenas, Mexico, was wrecked at Pear.
sail. Texas.
In the arrest OF Fanny Richie and
Harry McCuen at De.l Sun Texas, thu
mystery of wholesale murder in
Oklahoma City last August, involving
the death of FIVE persons, is cleared
up. The woman declares McCuen
committed the murders, robbery be-
ing the motive
The government of the little
African republic of Liberia has ap
pealed to America to protect her ter.
ritorial industry against France. The
state department has been informed
that a delegation is now on its way
from Monrovia to Washington to
make a personal appeal.
The suggestion has been made in
the Australian senate, and greeted
with enthusiasm. that the federal gov
eminent invite President Roosevelt to
come to Australia as the guest of the
commonwealth during the visit next
winter in Australian waters of the
American battleship fleet.
So badly do the farmers of Lancas-
ter county, Pennsylvania, require help
on the farms that the Farmers
league has issued an appeal to the
unemployed of the cities and towns |
to so to the country for work, and an
appeal has been sent to the bureau
OF labor and immigration.
The supreme court of Missouri has
decided that city ordinances prohibit. |
ing persons from lounging or loafing
on street corners are unconstitutional |
The case came Iron 81 Louis. whore |
Jacob Gloner was fined for standing
on a street corner doing picket duty |
during strike in 1905
The claim of the Countess of Buena
vista against Major General Brooke
Tor S25a,o00 damages on account of