Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-01-18
Natural Phenomena and DirefuI
Accident Furnish Long Lists
of Dead.
EPlT0ME OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
Recent Financial Disturbance-Okla-
homa State-Fine and Gift
of Millions.

destruction and disaster that he had
not fully appreciated before. Since the
opening day Of the year the great ca
tastrophes that have been accompan-
led by large loss Of life have numbered
%, an average Of slightly more than
two for each month. Several Of these
have been great convulsions Of nature.
There was the earthquake that destroy
ed Kingston, Jamaica, out of which
came the disagreeable Swettenham in
cident; subsequently occurred other
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions In
Mexico Chile and China An earth
quake and mountain slide that de-
stroyed the town of Karatagh, Russian
Tllrkestan, snuffed out $4,000 lives, and
a frightful typhoon at Hongkong,
China killed unknown hundreds Of the
inhabitants. A hurricane in the Caro-
line Islands wiped out 200 lives;
great flood in Japan caused 600 deaths.
Among the catastrophes originating in
the operations and enterprises Of hui
mainly there have been explosions
several of them in mines. others in
blast furnaces and on shipboard-col-
llsions Of ships and Of railway trains,
the collapse of the great uncompleted
bridge over the St Lawrence river
near Quebec. and the blowing up of
the Du Pont powder works in Fonta-
net, Ind. All these produced long cas-
ualty lists
The roll Of eminent dead Is also an
extensive one. Sweden has lately been
called upon to mourn the decease of its
beloved king, Oscar H.. and his son
and successor has assumed the reins
Of government. In Persia. also, the
old Shah has died and new one rules.
Not death, but abdication has also
changed the governmental head In
Korea. Politics, art. science, letters.
and the platform have each paid its
toll to death in the loss Of some fore
most representatives. Among the names
may be recorded those Of former Pres
ident M. Caslmir Perier Of France,
Senators Morgan, Pettus and Alger,
Galusha A. Grow, James II. Eckels,
Maurice Grau, Richard Mansfield. Jo-
seph Joachim, Edward Grieg, James
McGranahan, Col. Will S. Hayes, Prof
Alexander S. Herschel, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, DIR. John Watson Clan Mac
laren), Theodore Tilton. Mrs. Mary j
Holmes. Francis Murphy and Mrs
Helen NJ Cougar. Mrs. VIM. McKin
ley and John Alexander Dowie are also
in the list Of the well-known dead.
A financial disturbance of widespread
influence has made itself felt during
the last three months of 1907.
The number Of States in the Unior
has been increased to As by the ad
mission of Oklahoma.
That modern minds are not appalled,
by large amounts is shown by two o.
the years transactions. The STANDARD
OIL Company has been fined $4,000,
600 by Chicago judge, and John d
Rockefeller has made donations Of $50,
100000 to educational projects.
Two great expositlons have beef
held. That at jamestown, Va. did no
receive the patronage expected and Il
L
was in Greater Louisville, KY.
A public work of vast MAGNITUDE wa
begun when Mayor Mcclellan Of New
York broke ground for the construc
ton Of the great Catskill aqueduc
which In few years is to convey t
the metropolis an inexhaustible suppl,
Of pure water.
The Harry Thaw trial in New Yorl
and the general strike Of telegrapher
the country over were subjects Of nue.
interest to the public while they cor
tinued.
The principal happenings of 1907 ar
briefly given below:
JANUARY.
2-Wreck on Rock Island near Vo
iand, Kansas, kills 35 persons. -. Cha,
M. Floyd, Republican, elected Governo
of New Hampshire by Legislature.
6-Bomb thrown in Fourth Street N,
.ional bank, Philadelphia.
S-Death Of Shah Of Persia
9-James Cullen lynched in Charlie
City, Iowa. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff al
sassinated in st. Petersburg. 80 miner
killed by explosion in Pittsburg blast fu,
mace.
1O-Typhoon in Philippines kills 10
persons.
11-Fire near Strassburg, German,
causes 20 deaths. 81 100000 fire
Lancaster, Pa.
14-Earthquake destroys Kingston, ],
maica.