The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-11-17
OF THE week
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

Senator Clay, Of Georgia, died sud
denly Of heart failure.
Pinchot is endeavoring to delay the
| trial of the Alaska coal land cases.
Montana Republicans claim a ma
jority in the legislature Of that state.
Secretary Wilson says bountiful
grain crops are bound to bring down
the price Of meat.
The vote in the recent election in
Milwaukee shows that confidence in
the Socialist party there Is waning.
Comparatively little attention is ex-
pected by the Northwest at the com
ing session Of congress, as most Of the
session will be taken up by general
supply bills for the government.
A Los Angeles cobbier who has
worked at the bench for so years gave
dinner to cobblers only. Among the
guests were two other cobblers who
had worked at their trade nearly as
long as their host.
An agreement has been reached in
the big strike of New York express
drivers, and they have returned to
work. During the last day Of the
strike van containing $50, 900 worth
Of merchandise was stolen by strike
breakers.
Four women were elected to the
house Of representatives in Colorado.
Alabama and Florida show as good
average increase in population as some
Of the Western states.
August Belmont declares that racing
In New York will continue, despite the
drastic laws against it.
A movement is on foot to have Caleb
Powers ousted from his seat as repre-
sentative from Kentucky.
Vancouver, B. c., authorities refuse
extradition for Washington embezzler
until the state pays its fees in ad-
vance.
A negro murderer in Chicago has
been convicted on the evidence of a
finger-print found on the victims
front porch railing.
Discord between Japs and Chinese in
Manchuria continues and Toxic ma
per declares the situation is alarming
and will lead to open hostilities unless
checked soon.
A steamer on Lake Winnipeg, Man.,
has been missing for ten days, and it
is feared she has been crushed in the
ice. She has 200 passengers on board.
A Seattle thief grabbed canvas
sack containing 1000 nickels from
an express wagon in the heart of the
downtown district and made good his
escape in the crowd.
A conference between the British
Lords and Commons, to consider a con-
stitutional amendment regarding the
veto power, failed, and an election will
be held before Christmas.
Mexican cities are much disturbed
by anti-American riots, and serious
trouble is threatened. A bomb was
thrown at the American consul and one
city is under martial law.
A vaudeville theater at Leayen-
worth, Kan, was the scene of panic
when lions, leopards, jackals, bears
and pumas performing on the stage
engaged In free-for all fight. A ne
gro attendant was badly bitten.
The wholesale district of Peoria.
ILL.,. is swept by disastraous fire.
High school girls of Tacoma have
brown all their false hair into the
furnace.
The census figures show a great in
'rease in the cut of lumber in the
United States.
Theodore Roosevelt said he had cab
'olutely nothing to say" regarding the
election returns.
President Taft lost his smile when
le read OF the reverses of the Repub-
lean party, but made no comment.
oSAS~hiSheo nave pecn secured by |
missionaries from DR.. Cooks Eskimo
in the Arctic to the effect
hat he never reached the Pole.
A Bridgeport, Conn, man commit
ed suicide by turning on the gas, and
his wife and son also inhaled the
tunes and are not expected to live.
When King Albert, of Belgium, rode
through the streets of Brussels on his
way to open parliament he was storm
ID with slips of paper demanding wo-
nan suffrage.
Henry l.. Stimson, defeated Repub
lean candidate for governor of New
York, attributes his defeat to general
Unrest and a movement of the party to
An explosion Of gas in the Victor
American Coal company's mine at
)elagua. Colo, entombed between go
md 80 men, and it is believed most of
hem have persisted.
Secretary of War Dickinson has re-
urned from trip around the world.
After casting his ballot on Tuesday,
resident Taft sails on the cruiser
tennessee for Panama.
The big theatrical managers war is
t an end, Frohman, Klaw, Erlinger
nd Cort having signed an agreement
IL appears that Seattle women were
made the dummy incorporators for an