Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-01-18

Admiral Davis and American squad
ron sent away from Kingston, Jamaica,
by Gov Swettenham.
20-Death of Josiah Flynt Willard,
tramp and author . England apologies
for Swettenham incident.
23-Twenty miners killed by explosion
near Primero, Colo. Thaw trial begins
in New York
24-Death of Senator R. A. Alger of
Michigan.
2S-Explosions in mine near Saar-
brueck, Prussia, kill 800 persons. 100
lives lost by typhoon in Hongkong har-
bor
20 Ninety miners killed by mine explo-
sion near Thurmond w. Va.
FEBRUARY.
John d. Rockefeller makes $32, Co.,
600 gift to educational work.
12-2OO lives lost by sinking Of Joy
line steamer Larchmont off Block Island,
r L.. Death of ex-Gov. Frank w. Hig-
gins of New York.
1876 persons killed and 100 injured
| in train wreck on New York Central in
New York City.
2O-S173,OOO stolen from u S. sub
treasury in Chicago
21-Engish steamer Berlin goes down
Off coast of Holland; 1870 lives lost ...
Cornelius J. Shea and associates acquit-
ted of conspiracy in Chicago. E. Mrs
Dora Mcdonald shoots and kills Webster
S. Guerin in Chicago.
22-Pennsylvania railroads 1S-hour
flyer wrecked near Johnstown, Pa.
Missouri Legislature adjourned by small
pox scare.
MARCH.
4-Fifty-ninth Congress adjourns sine
die. Three changes in Presidents cab
met take effect.
7-Strother brothers in Culpepper, Va,
acquitted of murder under "unwritten
law"
9-Death of John Alexander Dowie. +.
viii j. Davis freed of responsibility for
Iroquois theater disaster by Judge KIM
brough of Dnnville, Ill.
12-Death of NJ. Casimir Perier. for
mer president of France. Magazines on
French batteship Jena explode at Toulon,
killing 80 and injuring 800 persons.
14-Death of Maurice Grau, impress
sario.
16-Burning of IIelicon Hall, Upton
Sinclairs colony, near Englewood \. j
1S-Greater Louisville exposition open
ed
19-Death Of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
22-Many persons killed in riots il
Moldavia.
/ 25-Death of Alexander Beaubien, frs
white male born in Chicago.
J 31-Death of Galusha A. Grow, forme
, Congressman from Pennsylvania.
) APRIL
: Chicago elects Fred A. Busse
Republican. Mayor and approves new
, traction ordinance by majority of 33, 126
4-Hotel fire in San Francisco kills L
persons. .Lunacy commission declare
: Harry X. Thaw sane.
9-Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
: pold convicted of murder of Mrs. Mar
garet Leslie in Chicago.
11-Lord Cromer, British ruler il
, Egypt, resigns.
:. 13-Standard Oil Company convicte
/, in Illinois court of rebating.
; 14-Death of James II. Eckels of CHI
9 cago. Earthquakes Mt Chilapa an
!. Chilpancingo, Mexico.
: 15-Great Northerns Oriental Limite
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett, n. ID.
16-19-Vocanic cruptions in Chile.
!. 2O-Great fire in native quarter {
). Manila
+ 26-Opening of jamestown (va-) e,
0 position.
\ 3O--Hurricane in Caroline ISLANDS Kill
a 200 people.
Great loss of life from explosion
Canton, China.
3-Sir Alexander Swettenham retire
l. as Governor of Jamaica.
6-Dr John Watson Ian Maclaren
d dies in Mt Pleasant, Iowa. Tornat
# wipes out towns of Birthright and Ridg
d way Texas.
). l0-Son born to King Alfonso
, Spain.
= 11-Mystic Shriner special wrecked
: Honda, Cal. and 81 lives lost
12-Mine fire at Velardena, Mexic
n kills 80 men. Earthquake in CHR
1t kills 1000 persons.
is 17-Isaac Stephenson elected Unit,
n States Senator from Wisconsin.
25-Death of Theodore 1ilton in Pari
&c 26-Death of Mrs. William McKinle
G. Oscar III. resumes reign as King
ct Sweden.
10 6-Sudden death of Mrs. Helen
u Cougar.
: Fatal and destructive tornado
Kentucky and southern Illinois and
diana.
rs 9-Death of Julia Magruder, novel;.
n 10-Great strike against government
D. wine growing regions of France. 81
lives lost in burning of Chinese theat
70 in Hongkong