Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-01-09
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
a Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

arrest of Will j. Davis and Harry Pow "
ers, proprietors and managers of the r
%lroquois theater at Chicago, and Geo. +
Williams, city building inspector, on n
the charge of manslaughter. +
The entire Samily of Frederick S. =
Pond, for 33 years cashier of the Deer Z
ing Reaper works, was terminated ,
by the Iroquois theater fire at Chica- ,
go. In the disaster Mr.. Pond lost his
wife and two children, all of whom ,
he identified.
George B.. Mcclellan has become
mayor of New York city.
John Alexander Dowie, accompanied
by four of the leaders of Zion City,
have started on his trip around the
world. Every resident of Zion City
turned out to see Dowie off. Dowie
| will go first to New Orleans, where
he will remain for a week. Then he
will proceed to San Francisco, en-
barking for Australia January Fl.
A special meeting of the American
hierarchy of the Catholic church has
been called for January 81 at Washing
ton.
Empress Eugene is seriously i'll at
the Hotel Continental, says a Paris
dispatch. The cause is a deep, acct
dental puncture in her cheek from a
hat pin. Her face has swollen, and 1t
is feared blood poisoning will set In.
Captain Frederick Pabst, president
of the Pabst Brewing company, is dead
Eof pulmonary edema, aged CT years.
Death was unexpected, although his
: health has been failing for more than
four years.
} The total number of corpses recov-
; cred from the Chicago Iroquois theater
l fire stands at oS7. OF these 10 remain
2 unidentified.
4 The national convention of the So
: cialistic party will be held in Chi
e cago May l, 1904, at which time can
1 didates for national offices will be
put in nomination.
A. l.. Mohler, president Of the o. K.
& N, may be promoted to the presi-
dency of the Union Pacific, in place
of President Horace G. Burt, who re-
signed.
The first presidency of the Mormon
church recently sent a telegram to
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, denying the
:, charge that the church had taken a
stand against organized labor.
is Three persons were killed INT four
s. others injured recently in a fire that
destroyed the Louvre hotel, 3611-362S
N Lake avenue. Chicago.
IT All of the supply departments OF
10 the army have made arrangements fol
n the supplying of all necessary food
lie and ornaments for shipment of the
is isthmus in case they are TO be needed
Id Treasury department experts have
lie instituted an investigation into the ac
" counts of the interstate commerce
Re, commission. The action is taken a
re the instance of Acting Chairman Glenn
as ents of the commission as a result o
persistent limo of irregularities il
the drawing of vouchers, etc.
At the eleventh hour the $12, 500 nee
essary to secure the endowment o
500, 900, without which Palmer uni
W. versity, at Muncie, Indiana, could no
remain in existence, has been secul
IN. ed. The name of the donor is III
ed. known.
ial Although notice of a new steamshi
cir line between Odessa and New Yor
lis has been posted on the maritime e.
he change, advices from st. Petersbur
state that the beginning of the pre-
-as posed Russian volunteer fleet servic
Tas between Black Sea ports and Ne
Tas York via Italy has been indeinitel
lid postponed.
EN- The reported sinking OF the Colon
bian gunboat General Pinzon by a
American warship is still unconfirr
ed and is discredited at Colon.
:, a The New Year reception given
in Acting Governor Wright, at Manil
!, a was a brilliant social affair. Abo1
lis. 5000 persons were present, includir
cen the representatives of foreign nation
Ind officers of the army and navy, civ
) a officials n prominent citizens.
md Although the fact is not yet oficis
l.. ly announced, it is believed that &c
eral Pittagauli of the Italian army W
be appointed to command the gen
vas armes in Macedonia, in accordan
ury with the Russo-Austrian reform pla
lrly The British ship Falls Of Dee al
the French bark Vendee arrived
San Francisco too late to escape t
,art duty on foreign coal. The law lev
pre- ing rs cents on foreign coal is nc
sea- in effect.
The last statement of the conditi
of the treasury shows: Availab
was cash balance. $229,974,S95; gold, $11
oar XII OH