The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-05-04
NEWS OF The WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of tSs
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
late Small Space for the
DeneAt Of Oar Reaaers.
Personal.

United Mine Workers, has submitted
10 an operation which is declared TO
have t2en successful and no danger
is anticipated.
secretary Taft in speech at a BAN
ouet in Cincinnati expressed the belief
rha. the Panama canal would be COM
yleted in eight years.
John Noble of Oklahoma City was
found guilty of murder and his punish
nent fixed at life Imprisonment in tie
the Kansas penitentiary.
A. E. Stilwell and party OF 81
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico,
have returned.
Rumors are in circulation in Wash
iugton that Secretary Loeb is to leave
the president and take the presi-
dency of the Washington Railway and
HElectric company.
u Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
was recent caller at the white
house. This is his first visit to the
president since the publication OF the
alleged conspiracy against Mr. Roose-
welt.
Rev. John Fulton. editor of the
Church Standard. an Episcopalian
publication, is dead in Philadelphia.
His early work was done in st.
Louis.
John Mitchell. president OF the
United Mine Workers, is i'll at the
home of friend in Chicago. His
illness is not regarded as serious ct
present.
James Bartlett Hammond. inventor
Of the typewriter bearing his name,
has lost his mind and is confined to
Bellevue hospital at New York for
observation.
Wolfman c. Fuchs, an expert in the
use of the X-ray, is dead in Chicago
OF cancer contracted from coming in
to contact with the X-ray apparatus.
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator." who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco in the
early seventies, is dead at his home
In Alameda, Cal
Harry s. New, acting chairman of
the republican national committee.
was in conference with President
Roosevelt at the White house re-
Gently.
Mrs Lawson Sheldon, mother Of
Gov. George L. Sheldon, of Nebraska,
y dead at her home in Nehawka.
She was 70 years old.
Prof. Ritter Won Mosetis- -Moorhof,
the famous Austrian surgeon and in
troducer Of iodoform, was recently
drowned in the Danube river.
Victor II. Olmsted, an employe OF
the agricultural department. has gone
to Cuba to supervise the taking Of a
census of the island.
Brig. Gen. John W. Buff has been
placed on the army retired list. He
was in command OF the Department
OF the Dakotas with headquarters in
ST. Paul.
Frederick l. Allen, commissioner OF
patents, has rendered his resignation
June /.
Alan r. Hawley made a balloon as
cention at st. Louis and landed safely
at Carrollton, ILL.,, CT miles away.
Miscellaneous.
In an explosion in a mine at Black
Diamond, Wash, four men were
killed, five fatally and IA seriously
injured.
A reunion Of all the descendants of
the signers Of the declaration of indie
pendence is planed for the James
town exposition on July next.
A treaty OF peace has been signed
between Nicaragua and Salvador at
Amapala, Honduras.
The Illinois legislature has passed a
Aill forbidding the sale of Intoxicating
ruors within II miles of military
q naval reservation.
The Wisconsin freight depot at
Minneapolis was recently totally de-
stroyed by fire causing a loss of
100000.
For the first time in many Years
the president and his entire cabinet
were recently absent from the natl on-
al capital.
Commander Robert E. Peary, who
penetrated to within LA miles of the
north pole on his last trip, may be
obliged to abandon his second dash
which he planned this summer, for
lack Of 100000 to finance the expe-
dition.
This country consumes over 6,ooo,-
oooooO pounds of sugar per annum or
10 pounds for each person, but one
Nth Of which is produced at home.
A treaty of arbitration has been
signed between Portugal and Denmark
and their differences will be hereafter
submitted to The Hague tribunal.
The 100000 Masonic temple at South
NcAlester. l. T., was recently dedi-
Gated with elaborate ceremony.