The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-01-23
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS Of The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The James Donovan Shoe Manufac-
turing company of Everett, Mass, has
made an assignment.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been ap-
pointed by Governor Stokes mem
Der of the board Of managers Of the
state village Of epileptics at Skill
man, N. j.
George Billups, proprietor of Billups'
hotel, Park Heights and Heywards
avenue, and his wife were instantly
killed recently by being thrown from
an automobile at Baltimore.
Pope Plus is not seriously i'll.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford's new $3s.o00,oo0 loan has been
fully subscribed for.
The Catsburg coal mine, situated 80
miles south of Pittsburg, is reported
to be on fire. The 40 men employed
in the mine escaped safely.
Every electric lighting and power
company in New York city will be
subjected to an investigation by the
public segyice commission.
It is stated that General Alfaro and
his supporters in the Salvadorean
army are now planning a revolt
against the government.
Two small st. Paul banks owned by
A. q. Drew, registrar and professor of
mathematics at Hamlin university,
have suspended payment.
Minister Furniss has notified the
state department that revolution is
in progress in Hayti, and that the
town of ST. Hare may be bombarded
at any time.
Influenza has Chicago by the throat,
figures given out by the health depart
ment showing that there are at pres
ent nearly $4,000 people suffering
from the disease.
Announcement is made in the Lon
don Times that that paper has not
been sold, the rumors published being
only in regard to negotiations for the
sale of the paper.
Public accounts of British Colum-
bia presented to the legislature show
a balance of revenues over expendi-
lures of $1,595,113, an increase of
$S7S,797 over last year.
After having been divorced for SO
years, an accidental meeting brought
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Ackley of Chi
cago together and they are now enjoy
ing their second honeymoon.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada, with
76 branches throughout Ontario, has
gone into liquidation. Deposifors In
the bank will lose nothing, but share
holders are not apt to fare so well.
Suffering from homicidal mania,
Miss Ann Audic of Nantes. France, re-
Gently, at New York, attempted to
strangle the year old son of her
brother, DR.. J. M. Audic of Spokane.
The Atlantic Coast line has agreed
to all the terms of the railroad rate
agreement suggested by Governor
Glenn, conceding the right of the
state to make rates. This was the
last road holding out.
Governor Hughes of New York,
Henry Watterson and Booker T..
Washington addressed meeting held
at Carnegie hall recently for the pur-
pose of raising $4,000 needed by the
Tuskegee institute.
Mrs. Elizabeth Newman of Seattle
has disappeared and foul play is sus-
pected by her parents.
hol II int ~.
same time that he held a handkerchief
saturated with chloroform to her nos
trils to render her unconscious, an un-
known man, thought to be a railroad
switchman, and known to the police
only as 'Dan," robbed Jennie Smith,
an inmate of dive at Spokane, of
five diamond rings and two diamond
earrings, valued at $1,000
Fire on the steamer fremont at Ia
coma, recently, did damage estimated
at $4,000.
Mysterious and battling is the disap-
pearance of Mrs. R. C, Keene, a. prom
inent woman of Bellingham, made pub
lie when A. q. Bloom of Fern hill an
peared at an undertaking establish
nent and tried to identify the body
of Bertha Stastny, who committed sui
eide in her cell in the asylum, as the
missing woman.
It is reported at MERGED, CAL, that
on last Sunday Scotland Yard de-
tective arrested in that city two men
who are accused Of having committed
a 100000 jewelry robbery in London
nearly five years ago.
The bandit, Raisuli, presiding at
gathering of the Ben Iarous, Fahs and
Anjeres tribes, and Marabout MuIai
Abd-es-Salem, governor of Morocco
city, announce that they will refuse to
recognize Mulai Hafid as sultan,
claiming that Add ell Aziz still is the
rightfu1 ruler.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada,
Toronto corporation with a capital of
100000, has gone into liquidation
and the association of United Cana
dian banks have assumed its .Habili-