The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1907-12-26
news Of THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS or THE GLOBE,
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical Political and Personal
Events.

-. r. OIIVcY, recently Sl6StSO pISSA-
ident. declares the California Safe De-
post & Trust company hopelessly in
solvent, and the only thing to do is to
appoint a receiver.
Londons greatest shipping paper
prints statement that England has
decided to establish a new naval
squadron in the Pacific, but is denied.
The business part OF Baltimore was
threatened by fire when blaze wiped
out three big establishments and three
smaller ones, causing loss of $780,
900.
At Springfield, ILL.,, three lives were
lost and property worth $500,o0o de-
stroyed in fire which started in the
Christmas stock of Johnson & Hatch
er's department store.
Property to the value of 5000, 900
was lost in a fire in the furrier estab-
lishment of Edwin S. George at De-
troit Saturday.
Mrs. William o. Boatright and her
grown daughter were fatally shot re-
Gently while asleep by an unknown
assailant on a farm near Merryville,
Mo.
King Edward has signed proc
lamation definitely summoning parlia-
ment to meet January 20.
Those who participated ia the re-
cent conference of the tobacco grow
ers and buyers at Frankfort, KY,
called by Governor Wilson believe
that the tobacco war will be amicably
settled.
The antagonistic attitude of the pub
lie against the Jap walters in the ferry
boats OF San Francisco bay caused the
Southern Pacific to lay them OF.
At Des Moines. Iowa. Mrs. James
Scofield was killed, Miss Louisa
french hurt, and a third woman seri.
ously injured when train backed into
the buggy in which the women were
riding.
Albert Filley, farmer living south
east of Cannon, Mo-, killed his wife
and, daughter and his brother by shoot.
ing them recently Filley is supposed
to be insane. Officers have gone to
arrest Filley.
Owing to the present financial strin.
gency the union boilermakers are said
to have offered to go back to work for
the railway companies against whom
they are striking, under the same con.
| ditions they had before the strike with
the increase offered by the camptny al
the time of the walkout.
c. Haugh, the Norwegian minister to
the United States, died recently in
Norway. while on snowshoeing trip
WI Ting Fang, who has been reap
pointed to the post of minister to the
| United States, has left for Washing
| ton.
Dealing in grain futures is prohibit.
ed by bill introduced recently by
Representative Scott of Kansas, the
new chairman of the committee on
agriculture. u
M Paquin, the famous French dress
maker, is dead.
Painters at work on the dome of the
main building of Oklahoma university
accidentally set fire to the structure
recently. The loss is estimated at
from $125,ooo to $4,000, partially GOV,
cred by insurance.
William Henry Rice, one of the best
known Ministries in the United States
| is dead.
Iron Shield, the Sioux chief, died re
Gently.
Advices from Tutuila, Samoa. state
| that the volcano In the island Savii
in German Samoa. is working with
greater activity.
Edward Price of New York city, frs,
husband of Fanny Davenport, the
actress, died recently in Omaha.