The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-08-20
NEWS SUMMARY

| Keuzie. s. D., while en- route 10 Sni'
cago with a shipment of cattle.
The Shevlin- Matklu Lumber com
| uany's sawmill at Beaudette, WIS
caught fire and burned TO the ground
causing loss Of approximately S2oo'-
900.
The Hearst Independence party IS
planning TO put full state ticket IN
! the field in Kansas by means OF
petition containing the names OF 2'ooo
voters.
The new Finnish diet was formally
opened at the palace at Helsingtofs
on August 5, by Governor-Generai
Boeckman, with the customary cere-
1onials.
Formal Publications of the new
trademark and copyright treaty De-
tween the Japanese government ana
the United States were exchanged on
August 6.
In an encounter between the police
and a band of brigands. who nave
long terrorized the suburbs of Tifiis,
five of the latter we're killed and the
others captured.
John Zett, a farmer living on the
Bolton road near Vernon, Conn, killed
mis- wife and granddaughter and tried
10 kill his son. using sedge ham
mer and a knife.
William f. English, a private in
company 115, coast artillery awaiting
trial for desertion, was shot and
killed at the Presidio San Francisco,
while trying to escape.
Three children, aged /, 2 and 4
years, respectively, were burned to
death at Minneapolis. The mother,
Mrs. Frank Lindberg, locked the chill
dren In a room and went shopping.
number OF persons were burned
TO death and 100 houses were de
stroyed by fire at Donauschingen, Ger
many. Fortunately a heavy rain fell
and stopped the progress Of the con-
Gagration.
China has formally accepted the
date, January /, next, and the selec-
ton of the city of Shanghai, as the
time and place for holding the meet
ing of the international opium COM
mission.
The people of Constantine, Algeria
are still in state of terror from the
earthquake shocks of a few days
ago. fearing repetition, and there is.
in consequence, steady exodus to
the country.
The Orthodox Missionary congress,
which is now In session at Kiev, has
taken a backward and unpopular step
in petitloning the government to again
make obligatory in Poland the use of
the Russian calendar.
William F. Downing member OF
the old Stiles Alvord band of outlaws.
who ten years ago operated in south
crn Arizona, was killed in his saloon
at Wilcox, Ariz., by Ranger William
Sreed. while resisting arrest.
The First National bank OF Bell
PLANE. Mimi, has been closed by or
Ger of the comptroller of the cur
rency. The bank was reported insol-
vent. followed by the suicide OF the
president of the bank, j. G.. Lunde.
Ohlclal estimates OF the fire losses
to the insurance companies as the re-
suit of the forest fires In British Co.
lumbia have been prepared by the
special representatives and adiusters.
They place the amount at $2,S50, 900.
Members of the United Brother
hood of Tailors OF New York City are
again threatening a general strike,
which. II called. will involve 10000
coat makers and helpers. Az present
the men are working from ten to
eleven hours.
Bronson Howard, the dean of Amer
lean playwrights, died August 4, at
Avon-by-the-Sea, He was born in De-
troit. in ls42. Like most men of his
profession he began his career In
newspaper Office being a reporter on
the Detroit Free Press.
Miss Elizabeth Barnett, recently
acquitted of the murder of Oscar Pet
erson. bachelor farmer. and rear
rested on charge of forgery. escaped
from Sheriff Hartley to the brush-coy.
cred sand ridges on the shore OF Sagi-
nav bay, ten miles northwest OF BAY
City. Mich.
Scott Pound and Ray C. Baird. two
Seattle youths, about Is years of age
were surprised at work robbing a sa.
luon In San Francisco into which
they had forced an entrance, and In
trying To escape Pounds was shot and
killed by policeman after n chase
cf two blocks.
While clearing away the -uins of
the explosion in the Rikovsky mine,
which resulted IN the death OF about
two hundred men. the authorities
found set OF counterfeitinx tools
ard quantity of spurious money. II
is believed the counterfeiters caused
the explosion.
The record run from Denver to
Cheyenne in an automobile was made
last week by J. w Barker, president
CT the Northern Colorado Power com.
pany. and party. They left Denver
at s;ss p. NJ, and at ESQ D. m. stop-
ped at Cheyenne. MFR. Bankers son
was at the wheel.
Giving OF lands for Fairgrounds is
becoming n very popular form OF ben.
efaction. Gifts by citizens have been
made recently in Auburn, n. Y: New
Britain, Conn. and Springfield Mass
: ne f1Esharg Playground assocla alton
has asked Tor a bond issue of $4,000.
Gee for Fairgrounds.