The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-11-24

department through the chief commits.
AIRY officer OF the southern depart.
ment TOR the Thanksgiving dinner Of
the soldiers along the border and
| General Pershing's column In Mexico.
The next congress will be besieged
! by the largest equal suffrage lobby In
! history, according TO speakers at a
| pOst-clection luncheon OF the Ma.
! tional Woman's party at San Francis
co. Victory was predicted for ma
tional suffrage before congress ad
| journs.
Howard Turner, age Is, and Mrs. H.
| NJ. Bushong were arrested in Denver
and are being held in connection with
the murder near Wilson, Kansas. Oc
tober q. OF tho husband OF the woman
WASHINGTON.
The people of Washington and OF
nearby sections OF Maryland and Vir-
ginia gave President Wilson an en-
thusiastlc homecoming celebration
Thursday night in honor of his re-
election. More than 10000 strong
they marched from the capitol to the
White House to the music OF many
bands.
Edwin +. Sweet, who resigned as
assistant secretary of commerce to
run for governor of Michigan and
was defeated, has been given a recess
appointment to his former position
by President Wilson.
Early decision by the supreme court
OF one OF the railroad suits attack.
ing constitutionality OF the elght-hour
law will be sought by the department
of justice.
As a result OF the recent election,
the west will be recognized as never
before In the distribution of patron.
age. This Is learned from admins
tration sources of the highest and
most unimpeachable authority.
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house
appropriations committee, after dis
cussing with administration leaders
plans for the program of the winter
session, said efforts would be made
to do away with the usual Christmas
recess 30 that more business could
be transacted.
The preliminary hearing OF Karl
Armgaard Graves, selfstyled interna
tional spy, charged with attempting
to extort $4,000 from Countess Won
Bernstorff, wife of the German ambas-
sador, has been postponed until De-
Cember q.
FOREIGN.
MOnastir. the main Bulgarian base
In Macedonia and pivotal point for the
entire Bulgaro-Teuton line guarding
the Orient railway from the south, is
In the steel clasp of the Franco-Ser-
blan Balkan army and is expected to
fall at any moment.
Theodore Hoemuller. merchant of
Parral, Chihuahua, together with his
wife and baby, were killed by villa
bandits when villa occupied Parral,
Il report received from Parral states.
Hoemuller is said to b0 q German
subject.
Luis Munoz Rivera, for six years
Porto Rican resident commissioner at
and founder and leader of
the unlonist party In Porto Rico, died
Thursday at San Juan, Porto Rico.
The Stockholm newspaper Alton
rldningen says that some days ago
m explosion occurred on board the
Russian ammunition steamer Baron
Breconi at the Russian seaport of
Archangel. causing the death of 1850
persons and the wounding of $50 9th
ers.
Russla's intention to create a Po-
and which shall embrace all Polish
territory and to maintain 1t on the
basis OF autonomy under Russian SOY
ereignty remains unaltered, says an
official announcement from Petro- |
grad.
or the total British tonnage of |
steam merchant shipping OF 1000 tons |
and over at the beginning of the war,
the net loss to September 30. 1916, |
VAS slightly over 2la per cent, &C |
,ording to Thomas j. MacNamara
secretary of the British ad.
niralty.
n ulHpalNh u tue tidNAS agency |
rom Padua, Italy. says the total mum,
Der OF persons killed and wounded by |
l single bomb dropped by an Austrian
aviator Saturday night aggregated |
iinety, OF whom thirty-two were
Silled.
A communication from the Russian
var office, as forwarded by Reuters |
hetrograd correspondent, states that
measures OF reprisal are to be en-.
orccd against captured German Off.
'ers
Motor women on the Paris street
soon will be reality. Pre-
ect OF Police Laurent has issued an
rider authorizing the employment OF
women.
A dispatch from The Hague says
~ unanimous vote parliament has
,assed "A resolution providing for the
OF article so OF the constt
ution. so that hencetorth there will
,e universal manhood suffrage and no
'lural votes or compulsory voting
The Ongning Df Dpaea nRRntiatipns |