The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-07
NEWS SUM MARY

declared that the new local option
law passed last year is constitutional
The forty-sixth annual convention
of the National Educational associa
ton will be held in Cleveland, Ohio
June 20.
The churches of Burlington, N. j.,
have proposed a bar on the Merry
Widow" hats in the congregation dur
ing the service.
| BY the discovery of two more bod
| les last week, the number OF lives
lost In the fire at Chelsea, Mass, is
brought up to fifteen.
The Russian government has order
ed five new warships, each one to be
larger than the Dreadnaught, from a
| firm OF Clyde ship-builders.
A federal grand jury is about to
begin an investigation OF several OF
the largest manufacturers OF manila
! wrapping paper in the state of New
| York.
A serious fire which for a time
threatened to wipe out all the prop
erty at Cape May Point, ~ j.. de-
stroyed a dozen buildings before it
was gotten under control.
William N. Cleveland nephew Of
ex-President Grover Cleveland, has
been sentenced, as a bridge trust
agent, to pay fine of $500 and serve
five days in the Toledo, Ohio, jail
Ex-President Cleveland is i'll at
Lakewood, N. j., but the latest bulle-
tins issued would indicate that there
is no cause for alarm, and that his
recovery is only matter of time.
Count Szechenyi and the countess
formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, had
narrow escape from drowning at
Vienna when their boat capsized,
they being forced to swim to the
shore.
Two prominent business men of
Milan. Mich, were instnaly killed
when their automobile was struck by
3 passenger train while they were at
tempting to cross the track near
Dearborn.
Frank Schneck, on trial at Ottawa,
Kans., for the murder of his wife and
two children, at their home at Cen
tropolis on February 3, 1907, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree by the jury.
The town of Cairo, H., at the cleo
ton last week, decided against clos
ing the saloons. At Thebes, where
the prohibitionists were victorious, !
there are six saloons which will be |
compelled to close their doors.
David Wetherbee, aged rs, his wife,
aged 65, and their daughter were Gre
mated, and Albert Lemm, the daugh-
ter's husband, was probably fatally
burned in fire that destroyed the
Wetherbee home at Centerville, Pa.
1t has been definitely decided that
the American fleet of battleships will
not call at any European port on its
way home, with the exception of GERS
tain points in the Mediterranean,
where it will be necessary to stop for
COAL
Harry Thaw is to have chance to
prove his sanity, and will be taken
into court In the near future and ex-
amined by experts. II the court de-
cides that he is sane, the chances of
his release in the near future are
very bright.
A dispatch from Winnipeg an
nounces that while on their way to
the Peach river country. Emil Cardi.
nal. wife and child. were drowned in
he Athabasca river. They were trav.
cling on the ice with a dog train and
ell through
A baseball tossed by boy struck
Mrs. Catherine Murray of New York
over the heart, death resulting few
hours later. An autopsy disclosed
he fact that Mrs. Murray's heart had
swollen to an abnormal size as a re-
suit of the blow.
The Northern Pacific Railway com
'any has posted bulletin offering
'eward of $500 for the arrest and
of the bandits who at
empted to hold up the North Coast
limited near Homestake, fifteen
niles east of Butte.
Bernard, the 2-year-old son OF
Bailey b. Nagal. president of the
boiler works, and grand {
on Of T. NJ. Nagal, multi-million- I
ire, died at Erie. Pa, on April "a, I
IS the result of taking medicine pre-
cribed for his mother, believing it
o be candy. q
Four men were killed. three seri. '
usly injured and 100 others had a q
ARROW escape from death when an q
occurred in Mine No. of
he Ellsworth Golfers company at o
Ellsworth, Pa, The dead are foreign. 4
RS, Their bodies were mangled and b
ably burned @
Flores Ontaneda, noted Ecuado-
can chemist. is dead a Guayuuil
from bubonic plague, which
o contracted at the municipal labor. '
tory while preparing Haffkine's pro. r
hylactic. Twenty new cases and nine '
eaths have occurred at Guayouil in
he past week ,
Experts OF the water pollution COM 4
littee of the New York Merchants
ssociation declare that 1850 deaths +
nnually from typhoid fever and kin. v
red diseases are directly attribut-
bic to the common house fiy. and 4,
ar upon the house fly is to be waged
= the association. II
Louis Abrahams, president of tho II
amond syndicate which controls OK u
or cent of the diamond o,,n,,. :, G