The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
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-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Arthur Martin, whose beautiful
young wife secured decree Of sepa-
ration against him in New York, shot
and probably fatally wounded the
woman in a Brooklyn hotel, then end
ed his own life with the same revolver.
Loss totaling $4,000 was incurred
by fire which started in five story
building of the Pratt Paper company
in Minneapolis.
Justice Gold of the supreme court
of the District of Columbia has over
ruled motion made by the American
Federation of Labor to amend the
courts order in the case of the Buck
Stove & Range company of St.
| Louis, in which the court recently
temporarily enjoined the federation
| from placing the products of that conf
pany on the unfair list because they
employed only non-union laborers.
James w. Harper and Wiley T..
Smith, who are alleged to have stolen
more than half a million dollars from
the First National bank of Hatties-
| burg, Miss, were arrested recently in
| Vancouver.
Five persons were killed and Two
seriously injured in recent wreck
on the Alabama & Mississippi railroad
between a passenger train and log
ging train.
There will be no rivers and harbors
bill at this session of congress.
| Five f1remen were injured at a fire
that caused 100000 damages in the
Forester and Cheney knitting mills at
Detroit recently.
| A new Roman Catholic diocese was
created in the state of Illinois re-
Gently.
The savings Bank of New Britain,
Conn, has been advised that a firm
of Bridgeport lawyers has been eIl-
gagged to assist William F. Walker,
the absconding treasurer in his fight
against extradition from Ensenada,
Mexico.
United States District Attorney Earl
Cranston of Colorado has sent his
resignation to Attorney General Bona
parte> at Washington.
San Luis Obispo, Cal-Emma Ell.
rich, waitress, undoubtedly perisned
in the flames that destroyed the
French hotel recently.
Postmaster Fiske of San Francisco
will soon be called upon to face
charges of incompetence.
| Advices from Ottawa indicate that
measures are to be taken to restrict
the immigration of japanese from Ha-
wall to Canada. This will not affect
.Japs coming directly from Japan.
The treasury must have $10,OO0,O0O
at once and another call on the banks
is likely within few days.
After a battle for conviction lasting
over five years in the courts of San
Francisco the prosecution in the cases
Of Jacob Eppinger, Joshua and Her
man Eppinger and A. James Deming,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses in connection with a
big wheat deal, has quit, as all evil
dence had been destroyed by the
great fire of April, 1906.
Mulai Hafid was on January pro-
claimed sultan at Fee, one of the cap
itals Of Morocco, and holy war has
been declared.
| AS a result of the refusal of the
Puget Sound Steamboat Owners as
ISOLATION to continue the present scale
of wages for engineers, masters, mates
and pilots, the owners are at outs
with both the Masters, Mates and Pr
lots association and the Marine En-
gineers' Beneficiary association.
| The Portland chamber Of commerce
has forwarded a draft for $500 to the
secretary of the national rivers and
harbors congress at Washington, for
the support OF the congress in it's
work of securing an annual appropri-
alton from the government of $50,000,-
900 for Improvement of the rivers and
| harbors.
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