The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1907-11-16
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.

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Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
The Woods National bank has sus-
pended at San Antonio, Texas.
Silas Reid has been appointed Judge
Of the district court Of Alaska.
Engineer Thomas Hancock and Fire
man Claude R. Mcdonald were as
phyxiated by gas from their engine in
the Busk tunnel, nine miles west Of
Leadville. Col
The directors of the Bank of Eng
land have put up the minimum dis
count rate from to Z per cent.
AT Los Angeles, Cal, Judge Olin
Wellborn, in the United States court,
recently fined the Atkinson, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad company $4,000
for rebating.
Amsterdam-M Minister of State Jonk-
heer Van Panhuys, his son, mayor of
De Leek, and wives, were drowned re-
Gently while out driving, their carriage
falling into the canal Hoogvhork, dur
ing dense fog.
Four persons are said to have been
burned to death and six others are mis-
sing and may have lost their lives !,
"a fire in Chicago Saturday.
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change was sold Monday for 100000,
the lowest price recorded since 1904.
when seat was disposed of for $57,
0O0.
Rear Admiral Henry W. Lyon wa
retired from the navy Monday on az
count Of reaching the age limit.
In pistol duel at Reno, New, Police
man Charles Brown was shot and pro
ably fatally wounded by trio of thugs.
Before he was shot Brown killed one
of his assailants, and Archie Burrie,
an employe of the Southern Pacific,
was shot in the side.
Mr. and Mrs William K Vanderbilt
Jr., have an heir. The baby is boy.
He will inherit fully $2O.0OO,OO0 from
his fathers side of the house, and per-
haps twice as much from his mother,
who was Miss Virginia Fair.
More than 500 men are now engaged
in construction work on the Rexfor
!,
B. c..
Emperor William will see Secretary
Taft at Osborne house, Isle of Wight,
during the formers visit to England.
AT Baltimore. Md, recently Mrs.
Cornelia McKelvie twisted a United
States flag into rope and with il
committed suicide by hanging herself
to door.
At Muncie, Ind, the four-story build
ing occupied by the Joseph Goddard
wholesale grocery store and covering
a quarter of a block, burned recently.
Loss 100000.
The Roman Catholic church at Lon-
que Point, probably the Oldest church
in the province of Quebec, was des-
troyed by fire recently. The loss was
200, with $4,000 insurance.
Lumber is the only industry of east
ern British Columbia whose condition
is not satisfactory. The mines are
working greater number of men and,
with the rise in the price of copper
and the expected rise in the price OF.
lead and silver, more properties are
yet opening.
Advices from Rome say that Pope
Plus is suffering from an attack OF
heart trouble.
A hurricane swept over Marseilles
recently, causing immense damage to
docks and waterfront property.
A self-propelling steam passenger
United States, is to be put in service
this week on a branch of the Rock
Island railroad. The car has made a
trial trip from Chicago to Joliet and
return A speed Of from 40 to SO miles
an hour was maintained over greater
part of the route.
Professor Joseph H. Drake of the
law department or the university ol
Michigan startled his class recently by
declaring that he would favor electing
Roosevelt king of his country. The
students at first took the statement as
joke, but it was reiterated. and Pro-
fessor Drake asserted that it was CIV
en- with all seriousness and sincerity.
At monster open air demonstra-
ton in New York General Booth,
founder of the Salvation Army, who
has since sailed for Europe, babe his
soldiers in this country and the Amer
lean people generally farewell Satur-
day.
BY the arrest of Haynes Wimberly
and Otis Mayes detectives have frus-
trated plan to flood Ell Paso, Texas,
with forged clearing house certificates.
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