The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-04-07
.D0|NGS OF THE week
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.


king and queen of Italy.
President Taft gave dinner at the
White House to conservationists.
1t is reported that Roosevelt still
has confidence in Taft and his policies.
Premier Asquith's policy in the
house Of commons won by a vote of
357 to Isl.
Two hundred taxicab drivers in Chi
eago are on strike, and the remaining
300 are expected to join them
An aviator at Alameda, fell 80 feet
with his biplane into San Francisco
bay, but was rescued by a skiff.
The incident between Colonel Roose-
welt and the vatican at Rome grows in
Importance and promises to become
worldwide.
George H. Williams, ex-mayor of
Portland, member of the constitutional
convention of Oregon, and eminent
pioneer lawyer of the coast, is dead.
Unemployed in Tacoma to the num-
Der of so refused to do longshore work
for less than 40 cents an hour, and
were chased off the dock by policemen
DIR. D. X. Pearsons, Chicago phil
anthropist. aged 80 years, says he has
aided AT struggling colleges, which are
now all thriving, and will now give his
pocketbook rest.
In case of Nebraska and Arkansas
against the railroads, the Supreme
court of the United States has decided
that the roads have some rights that
must be recognized.
]. ]. Hill called to pay his respects
to President Taft. He says farmers in
the Northwest are month ahead of
time with their spring work on ac-
count of the fine weather.
A Berkeley, CAL, man offered to con-
tribute 800 toward paying off a
church debt if the women of the church
would remove their hats during ser
vices. The women refused.
The political situation in England is
extremely tense.
Roosevelt will be as closely guarded
as any king during his visit in Rome
Secretary Ballinger viii bring suit
against Golfers Weekly for attacks
upon him.
At least six bankers will be indicted
: as result of the Pittsburg graft scan
r dial and investigations.
A guide who helped Cunningham To-
|, cate illegally on Alaska coal claims,
: being chagrined at the small fee paid
!. him, has told all he knew about the
matter.
Eight cases of smallpox have devel-
oped in the town of Charleston, Wash
near the Puget Sound navy yard, and
all schools, saloons and billiard halls
have been closed.
Decollette dresses will be barred
n from the Eucharist congress in Mont
real next September, which will be at
g tended by Cardinal Vanutelli, papa
e delegate from Rome.
: Donald Graves, IA years old, wa.
shot through the right eye at his hons
at Long Beach, Cal, by Jesse Franzen
aged IL years, and died two hour
. later. The two lads were playing In
dian with 22-calibre rifle.
A plan is being formulated by the
: heirs to the millions of Russell Sage
to make a systematic war on LOAF
sharks by establishing loan agencies
! where people in stringent circumstan
ces can borrow at reasonable rates o.
interest
Maintaining utmost secrecy until tn
hour of attack, government secret ser
vice agents made raids simultaneously
on bucket shops in New York, Phila
delphia, Jersey City, Baltimore, Gin
| cinnati and St Louis. In all l6 arrest
were made. Five millionaires are sal
D to have been caught in the dragnet, ex
tending from the Missouri river to tn
Atlantic
Admiral Fourier of France predict
I war between the United States an
j Japan
A Seattle woman is believed to hav
j poisoned nearly so valuable dogs
that city.
r Pinchot refuses to say whether {
not he was summoned to meet Rooss
welt in Eruope-
\ Nat Goodwin, the noted actor, hs
purchased ranch of 500 acres net
| San Jacinto-, CAL, for $50, 600.
Il More than 5000 white and neg1
II men, women and children, employe
Il in the American Tobacco company
stemmeries in Louisville, KY, hay
struck for higher wages
ii President Taft says the policy of N
turning men TO congress for successiy
u terms makes the East more powerf,
& in that body.
N The French government is conducf
ing extensive experiments in aviatio
and is considering the appropriate
II of at least 81, 900, 900 for seronautics.
III Three hundred thousand coal miner
Ii in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Hill
/ ois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Okslohon
and Arkansas have quit work, pendin
settlement of new wage scale
III Coal miners Of the East demand a
III immediate increase in wages or
III strike will follow.
III The department of agriculture hs
forbidden the feeding, or floating,
II of oysters in brackish water, previoV
| to sending them to market, believin
" il a fruitful source of typhoid infe,