The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
news OF THE WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

In the family lot in Spring Grove
cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, the body
of Mrs. Louisa Taft, widow of Judge
Alphonso Taft, former United States
attorney general, was placed recently
After January beer will cost 81 a
barrel more in New York than it does
now.
At Victoria, B. c., Alfred Francis.
clerk of the st. Francis hotel. com
mitted suicide recently by shooting
himself with a revolver.
A man reported to be William w.
Walker, the absconding treasurer of
the New Britain Comm Savings bank
has been arrested in the mountains in
Mexico He stole 100000.
Two highwaymen entered the Bank
of Aldrich, at Aldrich, Mo-, recently,
and at the point of rifles forced Cash
Ter James Vaughn and Vice President
2. E. Toalson to hand them $4,000 in
cash from the safe.
The Olson Mahoney Lumber COM
pany of San Francisco was the lowest
bidder, at $124,372, for furnishing the
Isthmian canal commission with ap-
proximately 100000 feet of lumber.
An effort will be made to get the
delegation from Iowa for Cummins for
president.
Liethon Coleman, Episcopal bishop
of Delaware, is dead.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Otto Seidel,
wealthy member of the city council,
fatally shot himself recently.
Patrolman Charles Ford of Salt
Lake was shot, probably fatally, re-
Gently, by holdups.
1t is officially stated that the rumor
to the effect that James Bryce, the
British ambassador to the United
States, is to leave the Washington en-
bassy is absolutely untrue.
Herman Hense, who made silver dol
liars so well that only experts could
distinguish his product from that of
the mint, was sentenced in New York
to six years at Sing Sing prison and
to pay the government $3.50 in real
money.
C. M. Colby, a janitor in the Ok
ford fiat building, Minneapolis. recent
ly killed his wife,
William H. S. Wood, president of
the Bowery Savings bank, New York,
is dead.
Chihuahua, Mexico.-Acting Gov
death sentence of DR.. C. H. Harle,
William Mitchell and C. T. Richardson
to 20 years Imprisonment.
1t is announced that between the
list and the 18th of January one of
the railroads in the southwest will lay
off II 900 men for an indefinite period.
James Smith, brakeman in the
employ Of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road, was accidentlly killed by falling
between cars near Cranbrook.
Five directors of the defunct Mil
waukee Avenue State bank were freed
recently, when Judge Windes held that
the statute under which they had been
indicted is unconstitutional.
The engagement of Miss Cornelia
Hartman, second daughter Of Mfr. and
Mrs. e. H. Hartman, to Robert Liv-
ingston Gerry, elder son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eldridge T. Gerry, is announced.
Bordeaux, France. is in utter. dark.
thn Of fril ~
men and employees Of the electric
light company.
The reichstag has adjourned for the
Christmas recess. 1t will reopen Jan
uary 8.
Viscount Aoki, the Japanese am
bassador, who has been summoned
home, is preparing to get away from
Washington by the last of the month.
An extra appropriation of s150,oOO
for the trial of Harry K. Thaw has
been made by the New York board of
estimates.
Rutt and Stol, the German team,
won the six-day bicycle race in New
York. This is the first time in the
history Of the sport that German
team has captured first honors of the
struggle. The two leading teams had
rode 1912 miles and five laps when the
race was stepped and the teams with
drawn for the final mile sprint of the
leaders. The final score: Rutt and
Stol, 1912 miles 5 laps; Fogler and
Moran, 1912 miles 5 laps; Georget and
Dupre, 2312 miles laps; Downing and
Downey, 1912 miles laps; Calvin and
Wiley, 1872 miles laps The record
is .2733 miles 4 laps, made by Miller.
and Waller in 1899. Last years mark
was 1892 miles 2 laps. Urban Nc
Donald of this city, who was injured
in the race on Friday. died tonight in
the New York hospital, where he was
taken
The French press is interested in
President Roosevelt's decision that he
would not stand for a renominati0n