The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-01-23
NEWS SUMMARY

StdobH AZ JdIIdi%as L. IL W"o Ah1a nv
by the drowning OF two boys and a
man who tried to save them.
Citizens OF Georgetown, KY, IRE
spectiye Of party. are preparing an
address to the people OF Kentucky,
calling on them to petition Governor
Wilson to pardon Caleb Powers.
Five persons we're killed and two
seriously injured In a wreck near
Vinegar Bend, Ala, between a pas
senger train and logging train.
AS result OF the overturning OF
skiff. containing nine men, near
kickapoo. Kansas, seven men were
drowned; the other two were rescued.
w. b. Thomas, who, since the death
OF IL. o. Havemeyer. has been acting
president of the American Sugar Re
filming company. has been elected pres
ident of the corporation.
Operations we're resumed last week
at the plant OF the National Rubber
company at Bristol X. J., after a shut
down OF one month. More than 500
operatives were given work.
Mrs A. p. Boyd of Portland, Ore,
and her little son we're killed in a
wreck OF the Sunset express on the
Southern Pacific at Rucker, Cal. Eigh-
teen passengers were injured.
The plants of the Republic Iron and
Steel company and the Youngstown
Steel and Tube company at Youngs-
town, O., have resumed operations.
giving employment to 5000 men.
Senator Gore OF Oklahoma has in
troduced joint resolution providing
that no person shall be eligible to be
elected president OF the United States
for more than two terms in success
sion.
Senator Clay has introduced a bill
authorizing the secretary OF the treas.
ury to Issue $500 900 900 of non-inter
est bearing United States notes in
circulation, In such form as he IDsy
deem expedient.
II Is persistently declared by min
ers at Jacobs Creek, Pa, that there
are 100 bodies yet in the Darr mine
One OF the miners organizations, it
Is claimed, has seventy members
missing Or unaccounted for.
The hard times in the industrial
world that have driven into the ma
rine corps and the navy nearly all OF
the men needed to fill the authorized
quotas, have not helped the army so
far In the matter of recruiting.
About 5000 men were put back on
the pay rolls of various manufacture
ing establishments in Detroit. Mich,
last week A number of other plants
announce that they will increase
their working forces within the pres
ent week.
Mr.. Miya Okla, in charge OF the Jap
anese embassy at Washington, has
authorized formal denial OF a report
from Vancouver, b. c., that the Jap
anese government Is recalling to ia
pan the army reserve men now in the
United States.
The house committee on immigra-
ton has voted to report favorably
the bill introduced by Representative
Hepburn Of Iowa suspending for six
years the law prohibiting the impor-
tation by the Hawaiian government
of European contract laborers.
The short career OF the woman aut-
omobile cab drivers In Berlin has
come to an end. Last week
the only woman who was licensed to
drive an automobile retired because
she did not possess enough endurance
to withstand such arduous duties.
Secretary Taft is a strong advocate
Of increased pay for the army. and
his annual report to congress com
pletely dispels any doubt that may
exist as to his disposition. The re-
port shows rapid decrease in the
strength of the regular army in re-
cent years.
Governor Harris of Ohio recon-
mends the enactment of bill pro
yiding for general primary elections
with the Australian ballot system. and
the placing of telephone companies
under supervision of the state rail.
way commission, with power to regu
late rates.
Vernon ID. Nettleton. hardware
iealer of Coldwater, Mich. while suf !
'ering from acute melancholia. due to |
business troubles, rose from his bed |
md gashed his sisters throat He |
hen nearly severed his head from |
his body with carving knife, dying !
almost instantly.
With the head nearly severed from |
he trunk by three slashes OF razor. /
he corpse of welldressed Italian |
vas found at One Hundred and Nine. +.
y'sixth street and Briggs avenue,
New York City. No clue to the muir.
ierer or the identity of the victim
rave been discovered.
The joint resolution extending 10
January "a. 1910. the time allowed mi
itla companies In which to conform
heir organization armament and dis,
ipline to that prescribed for the reg
liar force OF the United States has
'assed the house The measure now
,oes to the president.
II is believed that with the arrest
4 George Tennyson at Minneapolis.
\ans,. and Horace Trosper at Marys
lille. kans. the mystery which has
the murder OF Davis Ten.
yson, a wealthy farmer near Frank.
ort. kans,. since February -, 1906.
win be cleared up.