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

Ii--A SSdSSlQdLlOU OIL ITeSlueul III
Heres attempted in Paris.
10 Powder explosion on battleship
Georgia kills s seamen and Injuries 10.
Emperor of Korea abdicates.
300 killed in Pere Marquette wreck
near Salem, Mich.
21-Steamer and freight boat collide
off California coast and $50 lives are lost.
23-Death of Col. Will S. Hays, ballad
writer.
27-Death of Senator e. w. Pettus of
Alabama.
2S-Jury in Boise. Idaho, acquits Will
liam d. Haywood of murder of Gov.
Steunenburg. =. Big fire at Coney Island,
N Y.
AUGUST.
1-Standard Oil Co. fined S29,OOO,00O
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
K NJ. Lands of Chicago.
S-Beginning of telegraphers' general
strike.
12-Death Of Robert A. Pinkerton.
15-Joseph Joachim. violinist, dies in
Berlin.
19-Prince Wilhelm of Sweden at
jamestown, exposition.
26-Great fire in Hakodate, Japan.
27-Nelson Morris, Chicago packer,
dies
29-Great bridge over st. Lawrence
river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying ~
workmen to death.
3O-Death of Richard Mansfield
SEPTEMBER.
death of Edward Grieg, Norwegian
composer.
7-Anti-Japanese outbreak in vancou-
yer, B. c.
9-Japanese battleship Kashima blows
VI at Kure with loss of 40 lives.
1875 lives lost in wreck of excursion
train near Canaan, n. ii.
| 17-First election in Oklahoma. Chi
cago defeats new charter.
21-Frank j. Constantine convicted of
murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago
-. Grandstand blown down in Higgins,
Pa, and 80 people hurt.
25-Flood in Japan browns 900 per
sons.
2S-Eight lives lost in B. & o. wreck
at Bellaire, Ohio.
30--McKinley mausoeum dedicated IL
Canton, Ohio.
OCTOBER.
6+Death of Mrs. Mary ]. Holmes
authoress.
1O-Steamship Lusitania crosses At
lantic ocean in four days twenty hours.
Death of Mrs Cassie Chadwick in Co
lumbus (Ohio) penitentiary.
12-Steamship Cypress wrecked OF
Lake Superior and % lives lost.
14=Town of San Jose del Cabo, Lowe
California, destroyed by cloudburst
15-Du Point powder works near Fon
tanet, Ind. explodes, killing so people
16-Wal street furry causes grea
slump in copper stocks.
22-23-Panic in New York and tn
East marked by suspension Of Knicker
booker Trust Company and of variou
financial concerns, appointment of recei,
ers for Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company, and wild scenes o
Stock Exchange.
23-Germans win balloon race from s
Louis with France second.
27-New S2O,OOO,OOO Union static
opened in Washington.
30-Earthquake and mountain slide d.
stroys town of Karatagh. Russian Tul
kestan, and causes $4,000 deaths.
NOVEMBER.
Great railway strike in Great Bri
ain called.
5-End of telegraphers' strike. Ele
tons in many States.
11--Death of Dexter NJ. Ferry, seed
man. of Detroit.
15-Death of Moncure d. Conwa
American author. Fire destroys tow
of Cleary, Alaska.
16-Oklahoma admitted to statehood.
o1-Jurv in Steve Adams case in Rat
drum, Idaho, disagrees.
25-Thirteen lives lost in New Yol
tenement house fire.
26-Death of Gen. d. d. Pritchard
Allegan, Mich, whose regiment capture
6 Jefferson Davis.
DECEMBER.
= Explosion in mine at Fayette Cit
Pa, kills 40 miners.
2@Sixtieth Congress opens
. 4-King Oscar of Sweden resigns go
eminent into hands of Crown Prince
4 regent.
0-Explosion entombs 400 miners
Monongah, w. Va.
S-Death of King Oscar II. of Swed
and accession of his son as Gustaf V.
11-President Roosevelt reiterates
I declaration that he will not again be
candidate for chief executive.
|. 16-Dust explosion kills 20 men
mine at Yolande, Ala. Great war de
n sails from Hampton Roads for Pacific.
/ 17-Death Of Lord Kelvin, Engli
scientist.
New Principle in Structural Wor
A new principle in engineering pra