The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-08-19
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS D0lNGS
Aan4fal Review Of important Hap
penlngs Presented In Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for 4uay
Readers Political, His
toricai and Commercial.


Corn In suffering In Nebraska from
intense heat and lack OF moiatura-
Tae British house Of conmons has
passed the South African confederation
bill.
San Diego. CAL. police will arrest
women appearing on the stress wear
ing kimonos.
Mexican officials deny the report
that porfirso DiAx. son OF the president,
has been xssassinated.
Seven men and three women were
rnsngied by an explosion OF natur |
gas VII Cleveland. Ohio.
The reports that Abdul Hamid. sx-
sultan of Turkey, Ia dangerously III.
arc denied ut Constantinople-
Hartman has secured control Of the
Vanderbilt system, thereby adding
about IL, 900 miles 10 his lines.
Kiefer. Oklahoma, bank robbers sur
prised At their work, killed the city
marshal and fatally wounded the cash
Ter.
Prince Albert Leopold, heir to the
Belgian throne, has just returned from
the Congo and says conditions are sat
isfactory.
An earthquake has been recorded by
the instruments In the weather bureau
1t Washington. The origin was esti-
mated ut about 2, 600 miles distant In
California sr Maxiro
All records for attendance are being
broken 1t the Seattle fair;
Moorish tribssmen make almost con-
ssant attacks ON the Spanish forts.
The uncertainty OF the wheat market
will cause storage of much of the Cali
fornia crop.
There In serious difference between
Great Britain and her colonies on the
naval policy.
The Rock Island railroad has placed
an order for 1000 freight cars and 80
locomotives.
The powers will send fleet to Crete
TO force the removal of the Greek flag
and prevent Turkish attack.
A storm in Chicago caused three
deaths by drowning and number of
injuries. The property loss is heavy.
An explosion ON Russian submarine
boat caused injury to IA men, one fla
tally. The vessel was American built.
Millionaire Bradbury, of San Rafael,
CAL. sentenced to serve a term in the
penitentiary for perjury, has received
reprieve. bput will have to serve 80
days In the county Jail.
The shah OF Persia 10 married. He
II ii years old.
There ARE rumblings of revolution
In Northern Mexico.
A hot wave In London has been the
cause of many deaths.
Wholesale executions and fighing
have been renewed at Barcelona.
Thaw has been given few days'
respite before returning to the insane
asylum.
Almost the entire town of Milton,
Dell, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss viii reach 500. 900.
Johnson Porter says there Ii room
along the Desehntes for two railroads,
each having double tracks.
Greece will ask the advice of the
powers before answering the last note
of Turkey on the Crete affair.
Mrs. Parkhurst, the English suffrag-
cite leader, will soon visit the United
States and deliver a sreies of lectures
Rioting has occurred az Stockholm,
Sweden, in connection with the strike.
Dynamite has been used TO blow up
street cars.
William X. Payne, son of the house
leader. has been appointed deputy assis-
tant attorney general at salary of
$4,000 year.
Minister WI. of China. has been re-
called.
The earnings Of the Northern Pacific
show an increase Of $3.50, 900 over last
year.
An Evanston, ILL.,, tailor has had
diamond set in the nail of his little
finger.
China has sent a note to Japan Ia
which the mikado's policy regarding
the railroad rights is called unjustified
aggression.
Richard Carlin, who confesses to
having been a burglar for seven years.
has told the New York police that there
is no profit in the business.
A New York girl Is the first Ameri-
can woman TO own her own balloon for
use as pleasure.
Porter Brothers are further causing
Hartman contractors trouble in the
Deschutss by hiring their men.
In q battle between dock laborers
and police at Fort William, Ont, "a
men were injured, three fatally.
The court has decided that Thaw is
stili insane and must be returned ~
the asylum An appeal win be- taken.
Fifteen people were more or less SER
io1aly injured by an electric car run
ming off bridge at Vancouver, b. C.
Colonel Albert A. Pope, the auuomo-
bile manufacturers is dead.
The town of Monticello, N. Y, has
been almost completely destroyed by
fire.
Taft has cut Madison, Via, from his
itinerary in order fo avoid rneafinny m