The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-09-17

= with the murder of Robert Franz
. sentenced the boys to life imprisol
ment.
A monument at Mere point, nea
. Brunswick, to commemorate the firt
landing in home waters of the Amer
can round-the world fliers was pre-
posed at Portland, Maine by Senate
Frederick Hale. He said that q
n the next session of congress his OF
fetal act would be to introduce
bill calling for the erection Of sue
monument.
Maine Republicans rolled up
plurality of $4,000 votes in the Unit
ed States senatorial contest and
r plurality of $4,000 in electing Re
publican governor, tabulation of un
official returns indicate.
4 President Coolidge has reappointet
David j. Lewis, Democrat of Mary
land, as a member of the tariff com
mission.
Having confessed, according to the
police, that she killed sweetheart
four years ago, after she had helped
him hide the body of her eighth hus-
band, whom he Shad slain, Mrs
Euphemia Modich of Detroit was be-
ing questioned by the authorities in
an effort to determine where her
| other husbands are
The steamship South America, one
of the finest passenger boats on the
Great Lakes, virtually was destroyed
by fire which broke out at Holland,
Michigan while the boat was in dry
lock for the winter here. The crew
which has been cleaning the boat
escaped.
The capitol building of the United
States, which houses both branches
of congress and the supreme court,
has been valued at S25,000,000. This
figure represents actual cost. Were
current local real estate values taken,
it would be much higher.
Representatives of the Ell Paso &
Southwestern Railroad company and
the Southern Pacific company will
appear before the interstate CONNER
ce commission at Washington to urge
the acceptance of their petition for
a merger. The hearings will be con-
Quoted by Charles D. Mahaffie, direc-
tor Of finance of the commission.
Ferdinand Bittner is in hospital
at Chicago undergoing a successful
operation for the removal of his
stomach. Doctors say that he will
recover and eventually will be able
10 eat liquid and juicy foods just the
same as if he had a stomach. At
present he is being fed through a
tube. Doctors who operated on Bit
ner for stomach ulcers found that
10 also had concer of the stomach
md decided to romove the stomach,
the esophagus to the up
yer end of the small intestine.
Flying fish, believed by anglers to
lave been driven inland by heavy
forms at sea, invaded Ocean City,
l. j., and Cape May, breaking down
telegraph wires in their flight and
ripping service. 1t is believed there
,ere several hundred of them.
FOREIGN
Money circulation in Italy now
mounts to about 500 lire per capita,
s compared with n lire in 1914. In
Their words circulation has increased
yer $50 per cent, while the bold
alue of the lire has deprecated a
tile over 400 per cent.
After a clash near Tibircia, Brazil,
column of more than 1000 we'll
1uipped rebels was obliged to re-
eat, leaving some war material and
risoners in the hands of the Bra
lians federal troops says Santos
spatch to La Nacion. The fed
.als lost four killed.
Belgium has notified the league of
atoms that it has ratified the in
irrational labor conventions fixing !
e age of children for employment
industries, and limitations of I
ght work for women and children. {
Assertion that the late Hugo Stin-
IS used his influence in German pol
cs for personal gain is made by !
e Socialist party, which recently
troduced the draft of an amend !
emit to the taxation law Of 1922.
lie act, sometimes called the Stin- I
S law, prohibited the state from u
yying inheritance taxes in cases S
,ere the entire estate is bequeathed &
the widow.
Official tests of new method by !,
itch crewless ships and pilotless h
planes can be Unanswered by i
cans of wireless waves have been d
FRIED out at Spezia under the aus ii
,es of the Italian navy. The apara- e
} was perfected by Signor Erman- b
Fiamma an engineer ~ vears of G.