Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-29
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-National'
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Congress concludes RooseVelt ls
wrong in his recommendations as to
citizenship for Porto Ricans. They are
not ready for it, as grave matters OF
public policy are involved which make
the matter impossible.
The lower house of The Netner-
lands parliament approve the Alge-
ciras convention.
Secretary Root and Sir Mortimer
Durand have signed supplementary
article to the extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain, including bribery in the list OF
extradition crimes.
John McDermott, wealthy farmer
of Yonkers, N. Y, is in st. Josephs
hospital, New York, recovering from
a broken neck and an injured spine.
Curtis Jet has been found guilty
of the assassination of James COCK
rill at Jackson, KY, four years ago,
and sentenced to life Imprisonment.
| Jet confessed.
William G. Anderson, the embez-
cling teller of the First National bank
of Kansas City has been returned
home from Austin, Texas.
The Norwegian whaling steamer
Frithiof was lost in the Antarctic on
November 8. Nine men of the crew
were lost.
The newest American peerless is
Hermonie, daughter of the late E. w.
H. Schenly of Pittsburg, who was mar
ried in London recently to Lord Ellen
borough, a retired commodore of the
royal navy.
The steamer w. T. Scoville, plying
in the Vicksburg, Miss, and Davis
Bend trade, was destroyed recently by
an explosion, and between 10 and 16
persons killed and a like number in
jured.
Bishop Charles c. McCabe of the
Methodist Episcopal church, is dead
He was buried in Evanston, ILL.,, last
Monday.
John Annoy Knox, at one time wide
ly known as the editor and proprietor
of the Texas Siftings, is dead.
| A test case has been instituted in
the United States court by Montgom-
cry Ward & Company of Chicago, who
seek an Injunction against the South
!; Dakota Merchants & Hardware Deal
ers' association for boycotting their
wares.
There will be no holiday strike OF
5 railroad men in New York.
On December %, 1865, John M. Har
Ian, now associated justice of the SUI
preme court, was married in Evans
v,-f y NJ
> Mrs. Harlan celebrated their COLDER
wedding by giving a reception at theil
. residence in Washington, D. G.
In accordance with the annual Gus
p tom, the married employees of the
White House were presented with tur
. keys, with the compliments of the
+ president.
> Judge John F. Phillips, in the fed
eral district court, granted writ o
habeas corpus in the case of Mrs. Ag
mes Meyers, in jail at Liberty, Mo-, I'm
der sentence to be executed on Jan
uary 10 for the murder of her hus
- band
Mrs. Kate Gilman, mother of Don;
= Gilman, who was murdered on Novem
Der 20 at Dayton, Ohio, and Collin
n Gilman, brother of the dead girl, hav
been released. The bonds of each wa
fixed at $4,000.
>. William E. Smith, president of tn
81 United Mineworkers of Illinois,
g dead.
I'll Albert NJ Sheldon and other Minnes
e polls capitalists have purchased on
IL billion feet of timber on Queen Cha
T. lotte island, on the Pacific coast.
S.