Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-04-06
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

| Events.
! Harry Thaw's lawyers believe him
sane.
H. Clay Ewing, who was attorney
general of Missouri from 1872 to 1874
is dead
"a. L. Lawshe has been appointed
third assistant postmaster general to
succeed Edwin G. Madden, resigned.
The Chicago Orchestral association
has been given $4,000 by Mrs. Flor
ence Lathrop Page of Washington,
D. G.
Edward A. Slack, receiver of the
land Office, well known newspaper
man and pioneer of Wyoming, is
dead.
The navy department has ordered
the equipment of the United States
ship San Francisco as a mine laying
vessel.
George J. Woodruff of the forestry
service has been appointed assistant
attorney general to succeed Frank L.
Campbell.
Mrs. John Comeau and three chill
dren were frozen to death in a snow
drift at st. Simon, N. B., during the
recent blizzard.
The 18th annual meeting of the
Trans-Mississippi Commercial con-
gress will be held at Muskegee, l. T.,
November 10 to %.
Ward M Synder, son of Pittsburg
millionaire, has been indicted at Sap
ulpa, |. T., by the grand jury on, the
charge of bigamy.
Officials of the Pennsylvania rail
road are satisfied that robbery was the
motive for wreclSing the Chicago linn
tied near Stewart, Pa.
A statement of the business of tn,
general land Office shows a material
Increase in the number of entries,
filings and selections made.
Fire at Ironton, O., caused $1,000
loss in two hours. The entire plant
Of the Ironton Lumber company and
nine residences were destroyed.
The government will enter on a
thorough prosecution of all men i'll
.lcted for fraudulent dealings in coal
and agricultural lands in Nebraska.
The French committee on hygiene
has reported favorably on the prohi-
Dition of the manufacture and sale
If absinthe, after one and two years
James w. Van Cleave of ST. Louis |
s in Boston agitating the formation |
If a gigantic employers organization
IN the plan of the American Fedora
ion of Labor.
Secretary Taft has reconsidered his |
decision of an earlier date in regard |
o the eight hour law, saying it does
lot apply to cooks, captains, deck
hands and pilots.
The steamship Northwest. formerly
he Orizaba of the Ward line on the
lies a wreck on the south |
end OF La Touche island on the south
western coast of Alaska.
At North Baltimore, Ohio, Arthur
Bean killed his wife with an ak and |
hen committed suicide by shooting
himself. Bean had forbidden his wife
her family.
A fire which started in the boiler
room of the Bluff City Lumber COM
pany at Pine Bluff, Ark, destroyed |
several residences and the plant. The |
css will exceed 100000.
President Roosevelt has expressed
his disepproval of the verdict of ac-
initial Of Captain Lewis M. Koehler,
of the Fourth cavalry, U. S. A., COM
nander at Jolo, Philippine islands.
According to the weather bureau
Friday was the hottest March day
ever experienced in Washington. d.
g., the Thermometer registering 80 de-
grees at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
The rehearsal Of the closing ex-
arcises at country school house west
Of Carmi, ILL.,, ended in a tragedy and
the arrest of a farmer for the MUIR
der of a man who had been his friend
and neighbor for years.
Major c. w. Penrose of the Twenty
fifth infantry has been acquitted of the
charge OF neglect of duty preferred
against him at the instance of Presi-
dent Roosevelt for alleged misconduct
in connection with the shooting up"
Of Brownsville. Texas, by negro sol
d;ers of the Twenty-ffth infantry, last
August.
Sacramento, Cal-Because his lit
tie granddaughter, Ellen Gum, re-
fused to sing a second song to him,
Monico Echeyerria shot her in the
left side and then fired at his daught-
er, Mrs Cato and Miss McKenna be-
fore sending a bullet into his own
brain. The granddaughter is not ex-
pected to live
Secretary of War Taft has recon-
mended mitigation of sentence of Cap
tain VIII Cochran TWenty-f0urth