The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-06
NEWS SUMMARY

, we're killed as the result III a train
: wreck near Rome, Italy.
Fire at Deer River. Mimi, destroyed
ton of the town. causing a loss o,
100000.
John Sharp Williams has been
chosen senator from Mississippi, "a
succeed D. N. Money, whose term ex-
plres March 4, 1911.
The navy department has decided to
send the gunboat Paducah. now at New
Orleans. to Haytien waters during the
revolutionary troubles.
The senate committee on military
affairs has agreed upon favorable
report on Senator Warren's bill In
creasing the pay of the army.
At the annual meeting OF the Aetna
Indemnity company at Hartford, Conn.
last week, the Heinze interests were
voted out of the dictatorship.
A motion offered In the Kansas house
Of representatives declaring William
II. Taft the choice of Kansas for presi-
dent was unanimously carried.
Four firemen we're killed and fifteen
injured, including Chief George Hor-
ton, by the falling OF the wall of
burning building in Baltimore.
! Rev. John f. Mastering, aged rs,
I > retired Lutheran clergyman, was
murdered In Cheltenham, suburb OF
St Louis. robbery being the motive.
| Commissioner Ballnger of the gen.
| eral land Office has asked congress
for special appropriation of $4,000
| for surveying homestead entries with
in forest reservations.
Frank ]. Constantine, who killed
Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago and at
tempted suicide later by throwing him
self from gallery of the prison, is
dead from his injuries.
Former United States Senator Geo.
Peabody Wetmore was elected to the
United States senate on the first ballot
cast in both branches of the general
assembly of Rhode Island.
Leslie NJ. Shaw has resigned the
presidency OF the Carnegie Trust com.
pany, which he assumed early last
treasury portfolio at Washington.
President w. L. Bochemohle of the
suspended Bank Of Ellinwood of Elm
wood, Kan, has been arrested, charged
with having sworn falsely in a report
Of the banks condition last month
The Labor party held conference
at Hull, England, on January 81, at
which an amendment to the constitu- |
ton binding the party to Socialism |
was rejected by large majority.
The project of St. Petersburg has |
suspended the Tovarish and the Seved- |
mia, two newspapers of wide circula.
tion, on the ground that they were fol-
lowing subversive course and
preached revolution
Governor Patterson of Tennessee
has committed the death sentence of
Lee Holder, aged 10, to life imprison-
ment. Holder. year ago, murdered
his father. b. G. Holder, a preacher
OF Cumberland Presbyterian church
David S. Kresky and William A.
McGowan, who pleaded guilty to OBJ
tanning rebates in violation of the
United States laws last December.
were fined $1,000 each by Judge Smith
Mcpherson in the federal court at
Kansas City.
Clarence barrow. of Chicago, who
was operated on at Los Angeles hos
pital for mastoiditis, is improving. The
physicians in attendance regarded his
condition as favorable and believe that
the operation ultimately will prove a
complete success.
The state census of Rhode Island,
completed and presented to the gen
eral assembly last week, shows an in
crease In population of IL per cent
since 1903. The present population of
the state is 4SO.0sO. while five years
ago it was 42S.556.
a bulletin Just issued by the inter-
state commerce commission, covering
ne months OF July, August and Sep
ember 1907, shows that the number
u casualties on railroads during that
quarterly period We're 23,063, including
,,Sd9 killed and ALTA injured.
The return to Italy of emigrants
Wv thiNtu oldtcS is SFdQu1llY
topping. while emigration to thar .
ouhtry is being resumed. Steamers
eaVing Genoa and Naples before the
nd OF the month will take back to
america at least 5000 emigrants.
Nils Nelson, night tender at the
lSathouse on the New Haven break,
'ater, committed suicide by cutting :
is throat He had reputation as Q
Gro. having saved n number of lives /.
~ thought that the lonely life in 4
ne lighthouse unbalanced his mind. I
Charles A, Roberto. describing him 5
ell as president OF the Italian Elk. 4
hauge bank, located in the Italian q
nart yer Of Baltimore. SAYS on Dec. $
. While in the Office of the bank late .
night, three masked men entered =
reed him to open the safe and took
!. goo. '''N "
The Illinois Central Railroad com. v
any has entered suit against the town u
Herrin, MS, for 100000 on the
rouh ds of interfering wish traffic
Herrin police magistrate recently ?.
'seased fine against the railroad ''
Z shipping into the place beer and -
hisky. tn
Representative Kahn of California vi
IS Introduced bin to provide for the
steuse of the Pacific coast norts