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

Runners Of the Illness Of the pope
are unfounded
At Louisville. KY, recently Clarence
Sturgeon. IS years old, was executed
recently.
The old cruiser Marion was burned
to the waters edge at Frisco bay re-
Gently
A severe earthquake visited Cape
Prince OF Wales Sunday, lasting two
minutes
John H. Croxton, well known law
yer, who for many years practiced in
Denver is dead.
Horace Boies, twice governor of
Iowa, is critically Ill at Providence hos
pl,a., Ell Paso, Texas.
Francis b. Peabody, the senior men-
Der of the banking firm of Peabody,
Houghtaling & Co., Chicago. is dead.
Major Joseph T. Crabbs of the quar-
termaster's department has been
placed on the retired list of the army
Mrs. Van Ness Roberts. well known
in New York society, is dying of an
overdose Of strychnine, self admins
tered
The Rev. Father Dennis Stafford, d
D., pastor Of st. Patrick's Roman Cath
Ole church, In Washington, D. c., is
dead.
In the Elko. New, railroad yards
recently two men we're killed, three
injured and IL cars smashed to spin
ters.
The striking boilermakers in the
northwest shops are said to have bee1
notified that the strike has been calle.l
off.
Charles G. Brockett and Mrs. RUBY
Pishsak. wife of state bank exam
iner committed suicide in Chicago re-
Gently.
William ]. Daley, who with William
N. Byres founded the Rocky Mountain
News in 1859, died recently at his res
idence in Denver
General Erwin L. Price, son of the
late confederate general, Sterling
Price. and who served under his father
in the civil war, died recently in st.
Louis
Labor conditions in the Panama
canal zone will be investigated by Sec
Rotary T. ]. Dolan of the International
Association of Steam Shovelers and
Dredgemen.
A. G. P. r. freight train was wrecked
recently one mile west of Fernie
Light cars in the middle of the train
wore derailed and piled across the
track. No one was hurt
The engagement of Miss Katherine
Noble OF Baltimore, the heroine of the
Mohegan disaster, In the English chan
mel. Is announced. She will wed Err
nesto Trovi-Simondetti of Mexico.
Judge Garland of the federal court
in South Dakota, has issued tenn
porary Injunction restraining tho
South Dakota railroad commission
from reducing passenger rates from
8 to ~ cents a mile.
Policeman Anderson of Portland has
taken into custody man who gives
the name Of Howard, but who the DO
lice believe to be Joe Sullivan, wanted
In Salt Lake for the murder of Polic4-
man Charles F. Ford In that city on
December IA last
The Grand Trunk railway has given
up hope. apparently, of securing Jap
labor for construction work on its
lines next summer. Advertisements
are appearing In Amsterdam. Holland,
asking for 10000 Hollanders to work
on the Grand Trunk next summer.
Seven companies of United States
trOODa under command of Colonel
Reynolds have left Goldfeld. The
troops remaining in camp, about 1876
men, have been divided into two fill
companies Captain William H. Wash
all and Lieutenant Goodwill will be in
command.