The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-01-12

AFTER nOtlCe ana nearing.
Eleven school children were killed, |
four probably fatally hurt and eight |
seriously injured when a cyclone com
pletely wrecked the Vireton (Okla.)
school house.
Permanent organization OF the
sugar planters corporation to finance
the producing and selling of Cuban
and South American sugar has been
effected at New York City.
Wilson c. Ashbridge. 22 years old, OF
| Camden, n. j., was electrocuted at the
state prison for the murder of Mrs.
| Elizabeth Dunbar in Camden. Janu-
airy % last.
WASHINGTON.
Postal clerks and carriers, both ur-
ban and rural, would receive increases
of from to 10 per cent in their sal
| aries by a bill agreed upon by the
house postal committee.
Exclusive manufacture by the gov
eminent of arms and munitions for
the army was disapproved in the re-
port of special board of officers and
civilians sent to the senate by Secre-
tary Baker.
Food prices, advancing throughout
the year, took a per cent jump from
October Is to November 15 as shown
in tables prepared by the bureau OF
labor statistics.
Railroad legislation desired by Pres
ident Wilson to supplement the Adam
son law is to be pressed in the house
| e NV tba
ate.
Japan, through the embassy at Wash
ington, has notified the state depart
ment of her intention to arm her mer-
chant ships defensively and requested
information as to whether any special
rules had been made by this govern
ment for passage of ships so armed
through the Panama canal.
Thomas w. Lawson of Boston ar
rived in Washington on January /,
prepared, he said, to testify before
any congressional or other committee
in relation to any phase of the stock
exchange business.
FOREIGN.
The assassination of NJ Jollos, an
3 influential member of the Russian
duma, is reported by the Overseas
News agency. According to this re-
port. NJ. Jollos disappeared mysteri-
ously a short time ago, and it is be
lieved he was the victim OF a political
murder.
The Austrian government has asked
Switzerland to represent Austro-Hun-
garian interests in the unoccupied por-
ton of Roumania.
A Paris dispatch says General Sir
Douglas Haig today commands the
largest army Great Britain ever levied
on her soil. The number of electives
in the British army in France on Jan
uary ! was nearly 100000 men.
The British transport Ivernia has
been sunk, it was officially announced
I Thursday. One hundred and fifty mil
itary officers and men are missing.
A Central News dispatch from Ans
terdam says that twenty-five women
| and children were drowned through
the sinking of ferryboat in a COLI
sion on the Moselle near Beilstein.
Despite demands upon British mu-
nation plants because of the war. Had
. fields. limited, an English concern
! outbid American companies in pro.
= posals opened for 16-inch and l4-inch
a armor piercing projectiles for the
United States navy.
The increase in the national debt, OF
Great Britain. France, Russia, Ger
many and Austro- Hungary is estimated
at $40, 455, OOO, 600 from the beginning
{ of the war to the later part OF 1916.
= Hawaii produced 53,237 tons less
sugar in 1916 than in the previous
. year, despite an increased area plant
: ed to cane sugar.
, Berlin newspapers announce the
death of Prince Friedrich zu Fuersten
, berg, who was killed on the battle
front in Roumania.
A dispatch to the Zurich Post from
. Milan reports that the French battle
ship Verite has been torpedoed by Z
= German submarine near Malta.
Gratitude for American assistance Il
D. the Belgians was conveyed to Presi
:, dent Wilson in a New Years message
- from King Albert OF Belgium.
r. Gregory Rasputin, the Russian monl
n. who succeeded Illiodor as the con'es
o sor of the car and czarina, has beer
assassinated. according to Petrograt
,, dispatch.
n. During the last year. according e
n authoritative figures, 1880 Germani
n were captured on the French front BY
i. the French and 10000 by the British
IN while in Serbia and Macedonia the en-
IL tente allied armies took lib Bull
n garian and Turkish prisoners.
Of Following a sweeping victory at tbs
Of polls of the Citizens league al Kitch
ener. Ont. formed when the name o
u the city was changed from Berlin L
ID Kitchener. with a view 10 reveTtinl
m 20 the original name. a riot va
W started by the men OF the IlSth hatts
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