The Ketchikan miner., 1907-05-11

Grant $ disappearance. when 1t was discovered that she had not been pay ing the bills of the concern for supplies.
 Chicago. May All building is at a standstill in this city, 1000 brick layers having laid down their tools this morning and walked out. The cause of the strike is the refusal of the contractors to make Saturday the weekly pay day. The men are now paid on Monday for the week preced- ing and have been wanting change for some time.
 New York, May S-By the terms of the will of the late Silent Smith. a cousin now employed as dry goods clerk at SS per week. receives S4o,- GOO, 900, the major portion of Smiths property.
 yaplaraiso, Chili, May s-Bubonic plague is epidemic. hundreds of persons are dead. and the malady is spreading like wild fire. Grave fear is entertained that the disease will spread all over the country and proh- ably to Europe and North America. The weather here is bad. the heat being intense and every thing seems to unite in making the spread of the epidemic easy.
 London. England. May S-A new bill remedying some of the most flag rant abuses now existing in Ireland's government was introduced into Parliament last night. The govern ment in the text of the bill did not give the relief it has been promising the Irish members. The result was that they arose enmasse and register ed their disapproyal in language there was no doubting the meaning of. They declared that nothing short of home rule wouldsatisfy them.
 San Diego. May s-The steamship Maru King arrived in port from Northern China last night. She brings news of an uprising in that district in which about nine hundred Chinese attacked about three hundred Russians and almost annihilated them. A few of the Russians escap- ed to the steamer. The victorious 1 Chinese then attacked the steamer but were driven off leaving several dead on the field.
 Holly, Colorado, May S-The Sante t'e train number 6 was wrecked last night for the third time in ten days. This time broken rail was the cause of the accident. Twenty passen- gers were injured in the wreck. fortunately none seriously.
 New York. May 6-The leading in- dependent Democatic paper of this city in a long editorial this morning stated that the monied interests of the east were clamoring for Grover Cleveland to re-enter the political arena to oppose Bryan and Hearst | for the Democratic nomination. They believe that Mr. Cleveland is the strongest man in the Democratic party today. and are insistent in their claims that they can elect him even though Roosevelt himself be the can didate on the other side. Thus far Cleveland attitude in the matter has [ not baeD diScoy-1rad
 Washington, May 6-The treasury ! department has just issued state- ment of finances thus far for the present year. It shows that the in come of the national government from customs and taxes is seventy-iive million dollars in excess of the gov ernment expenditures for the same time. This is the greatest surplus for the same duration of time in the history of the United States.
 San Francisco, May G-Eyery car of San Francisco's immense street railway system was tied up last night, and today walking is quite the style. Over six thousand men are out, and the probabilities are that the fight will be a long, hard one. Strike breaker Farley arrived during the night with four hundred strike breakers and will try to resume operations today, when trouble is feared. The company has asked the governor for military protection, and ] it will be forthcoming in case violence is offered. Farley broke the last strike of the street car men here and they are vsry bitter against him. yowing vengeance. He has special guard of detectives and is taking no chances on the strikers doing him bodily harm The Federated Unions meet tonight and will probably take action to help the car men.
 San Franisco, May S-One man kill ed outright, 13 wounded, some of them dangerously, is the score for the first day of the attempt to break the street car mems strike in this city. Boss Farley made good his promise to start cars out of the barns, but he did not succeed in running them far Just as the first car got nicely under