The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-01-04

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vent their bpmbaTtment BY d hostile
fleet the locks and dams oA ,he Pan
anna canal are to BE- constructed four
miles inland
What Is said to be the worst ep!-
deuic Of sickness since 1883 is being
experienced in Pittsburg. Pa. ana ply
sic!aus estimate that thousands OF
persons are prost-ated by typhoid
fever, pneumonia and the grip.
hcers and elect delegates to the na-
tlunal convention at Chicago.
Gov Sparks OF Nevada has issued a
call for a special session OF the legis-
lature to consider the situation at
Goldtield and President Roosevelt has
countermandcd the order removing
the federal troops until the legislature
can act
Three persons were killed and II
others injured in u rear-end collision
on the elevated tracks OF the Pennsyl-
yania railroad at Camden, y. j.. re
Gently
A Worchester Mass. boy. who sent
a Christmas present to the president
received a ten dollar bill and person
al letter in acknoW lcdgement.
The first saloon keeper placed on
trial in Chicago for violation OF the
sunday closing Law was acquitted by
a jury.
The enrolment OF teachers at the
annual state association was smaller
this year than usual, less than 1000
being present,
Forty-two damage suits against the
Central Illinois Traction company on
account OF a wreck on the road last
September have been settled for sal
OGp
The situation between the line and
stan officers in the navy has become
so acute since the resignation Of Ad-
miral Brownson that congress will
probably be called upon to settle the
controversy
At Havana on Christmas day the
| niversity OF Louisiana football team
defeated the University of Havana
team by a score of 5G to Q.
Senator Dillingham;. chairman of the
Immigration commission. says no rec
concentrations for important lesisla-
llpll ~ III w il4tA'lf w ''iAt1 100 i|' - !
least year.
\ Cleveland, o. philatcNst recently
paid S 1000 for a STAINS issued at
Alexandria, Va. in lSiI.
An internal machine was accident
ally discovered among the Christmas
mail at Erie, Pa. by a clerk. II was
addressed TO citizen OF the city.
The police are investigating.
Sister Theresa. a Catholic nurse at
Milwaukee hospital, was recently
shot and killed BY an insane patient.
c. L. Lovely, postmaster at Ocean
Park. Cal, has been arrested charged
with embezzlement of government
funds.
The American ship Atlas has
reached San Francisco from Balti-
more after voyage lasting 275 days.
One hundred and twenty thousand
people were fed in New York on
Christmas by the Salvation army.
L 5. Griffin, of jefferson county,
, Kansas, has been appointed inspector
Of denatured alcohol in the trans
Missouri district. He will have head,
quarters at Kansas City.
The Prairie Oil and Gas company,
OF Kansas. has doubled its capital
| stock and is now 100000 600 cor.
poration.
| The only Chinese woman in Pitts
| burg Pa. fell dead Christmas day
from smoking too much opium.
! A phonograph with a number OF
] records of the voices of all the great
| singers Of the present day has been
deposited In a specially prepared
vault in Paris which is not to be
| opened for 100 years,
President Roosevelt has received
and accepted the resignation of Rear
Admiral SroWnsen as chief Of bureau
| Of navigation. Capt Wins,ow has
been appointed to succeed the ad
miral
. Five men alleged to have robbed
the bank at Aldrich. Mo. on Decem
I hrr - have been arrested at Carlo
/ ILL.,
The Missouri supreme court has is
| sued a temporary rule prohibiting
! Judge J. l.. Fort from trying the
| Kansas City theatrical cases until tbs
| court decides on the constitutionality
| of the law creating the second divis
ion OF the jackson county crimina
court.
Admiral Evans has reported the
arrival of the battleship fleet at Por
OF Spain. Trinidad. to the navy de
| partment. Secretary Mctcalf sen
| Christmas greetings to officers anC
! men.
The postmaster general has issued
a fraud order against A. w. Griffin
son, of Oklahoma. who claimed to bt
| government land lccators for veter
ans their widows and orphans.
Clarence Young. a Topeka druggist
! has heen scntencel to nav a fine O