The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-02-13
news OfTHE WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Phillip Hobbs, young Englishman,
was drowned in the Kettle river at
Cascade, B. G..
The delay in reaching final settle
ment of the emigration question be-
tween Japan and the United States is
due to differences between the two
governemnts concerning statistics and
minor details.
Andrew Carnegie, at banquet re-
Gently, expressed his disapproval of
International marriages.
Major Alanson w. Edwards, founder
of the Fargo On. d. Daily Argus in
1879, and later of the Fargo Forum
in 1891, died Saturday.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy against Heath & Milligan, one
of the oldest and largest paint manu-
featuring firms in Illinois, was fled
in Chicago recently.
At Jackson, KY, Beach Hargis, who
killed his father, Judge James Hargis,
states that his father attempted to as
sault him when he went into the store
before the shooting. He expressed no
regret over the tragedy.
With the purpose of seeking an asy-
lum more congenial to Harry K. Thaw
than Matteawan, in which he is now
confined under observation, Mrs. Eve
Ign Nesbit Thaw and Mr.. O'Reilly, one
of Thaw's counsel, inspected the in
sane asylum at Poughkeepsie.
United States troops will be re-
tanned in Goldfield until March Z.
Raising of a false alarm of fire in
the Blackwells Island (N.Y.) pen1ten-
tiary recently caused panic, in which
500 women prisoners fed wildly to the
courts, where they continued to shout
Historically and run about for half an
hour.
When William S. Rossiter, appoint
ed as acting public printer in place OF
Public Printer Stillings, went to the
treasury department to have his bond
approved the department refused to
consiaer the matter, on the ground
that the president had exceeded his
authority in appointing Mr.. Rossiter,
that under the law the associate pub
lie printer, Captain T. H. Brain, sue
ceeds to the vacancy.
Charles Frohman. has engaged a
company of Irish players formerly be-
longing to the National Theatrical So
ciety of Dublin to produce Irish peas
ant plays in New York. -
| ToIi ninn
who was a member of the electoral
college which named Lincoln for his
second term as president, died re-
Gently. =
/ Siegmun Friedburg, a private bank
er and owner of the financial news
paper the Investors Adviser, at Ber-
lin, Germany, has disappeared. It is
said he has liabilities amounting to
100000.
| This week will solve the real prob
lem in relation to the Alaska ukon-
Pacific fair bill in the house of con-
gress. ~ a
| The fourteenth district republican
convention of Missouri has Endorsed
Secretary Taft for the presidential
nomination and two delegates were in
structed for him.
| Ex-Premier Franco of Portugal and
his family are now living in Paris.
1t has developed that a fourishing
business has been developed in New
York in the way Of financing foreign
mobiles in marrying rich American
girls. 3:
Engineers have brought to fruition
plans .or a s2o,000,0OOt union trans
portation terminal to be located in the
strategic heart of San Francisco, the
intersection of an Ness avenue and
market street.
San Francisco wedding of
Mayor Edward R. Taylor and Miss
Eunice Jeffers of San Francisco was
celebrated Saturday afternoon at the
home of the city's chief executive, on
California street.