The Ketchikan miner., 1909-04-17

banQueteu by tie BfltlSn ofncla!S ana made characteristic speech.
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 Washington. April 10-The tariff bill passed the house last night, two hundred and seventeen voting for it and one hundred sixty-ope against. It was sent to the Senate today and re- ferred to the financial committee.
 Bellingham, April 10-The steam ship Northwestern ran ashore at Birch Point last night but was soon floated and it is believed she is not seriously damaged, and will proceed on her way this afternoon.
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 Chicago. April 10-It is rumored that the Government will drop all pros ecutiou against the packing concerns
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 Hartford, Conn.,, April 10-Gover- nor Lilly cant survive the day. He is slowly sinking and the physicians have summoned his family who are now at his bedside awaiting the end.
 
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 Washington, April l0-President Taft yesterday afternoon withdrew the nomination of T. E. Powell of Nome for United States Marshal on objection of Senator Bourne. This is something of a surprise as Powell was from Portland and was sup posed to have the support of Oregon mem bers.
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 Washington. April 10-Attorney General Wickersham today wired Attorney Crossley of Fairbanks to se- cure affidavits from those who had preferred new charges against Jud ge Ried, and forward them quickly to the department.
 The order also requires that Mir. Reid be furnished with copies of all affidavits made against him.
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 Tulsa, Okla, April l0-Tne motion to quash the indictments in the land frauds cases against Governor Haskell and others, was sustained here today. The men charged with illegal action in the matter of securing lands have all been set free.
 Thus ends another .of the false charges engendered hy partisan zeal, as it is generally acknowledge here taht the governor was brought into the courts to embarass him by his political enemies.
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 London, April 10-Algernon Charles Swinburne, England's famous poet died this afterL con of pneumonia.
 Swinburne was born in London in 1S37 and was educated in Oxford but left without taking a degree. His memory for verse was extraordinary. In style he was a master of melodious alliteration. Nobody has ever found more music in the phonetics of the language than he. Ills command o metre was extraordinary, and often the sense of his writings was obscuret in rhythmic and metaphorical Huency
 He is known by his drama "Atalan ta in Calydon'' and such poetical works as, "a Song of Italy" Songs Before Sunrise, "Marion Faliero," ant many poems and ballads. Among his prose writings may b' mentioned his Life of Victor Hugo, , Studies in prose and poetry" "A Study of Shakespeare" and many crit ical essays.
 He will receive place among tht immortals in Westminster.
 He would doubtless have been mad' poet laureate of England upon thu death of Tennyson had it not been fol his revolutionary opinions, whici brought him into disfavor at court. United Press special Middletown, N. Y. April 10-Art ist Earle who is being sued for di vorce by his affinity, has disappeared. It is probable that he has sailed fol Europe to escape the obnoxious notori ety the suit has occurred.