The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Otto T. Barnard, president of the
New York Trust Company has re-
ceived the Republican nomination
for Mayor of New York City.
The late Governor Johnson, Of
Minnesota, left a will bequeathing
all his estate, which probably will
aggregate $4,000, to his widow.
At least 100 persons lost their
lives in the tropical hurricane that
swept the gulf coast last week, ac-
cording to conservative estimates
The Sacramento, California, Board
of Health has decided that states are
breeding places for germs, so in the
future none will be allowed in the
schools of that city.
While passing over the national
road which leads from Paris to An
tibee and when at a height of be-
tween 500 and 900 feet, the French
dirigible military balloon Republique
exploded and fell to the ground The
four men on board were killed.
Reports received from travellers
returning from the Far East, taken
in connection with data presented
by Consular officials, indicate that
the United States Steel Corporation
is preparing to control coal and iron
mines and the steel business of
China
Before adjournment the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, I. o. o. F., which met
in Seattle last week, decided to es-
tablish a tuberculosis sanitarium for
the whole order, committee being
appointed to report on location and
ways and means at the meeting at
Atlanta next September.
AS a result of his observations re-
Gently into conditions among the ag-
ricultural classes in the West. Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson said
that Federal control of railroad cap
italization would lead to large in
vestments in railroad securities by
American farmers.
By stalking a fortune on the future
prosperity of the United States at
time when business conditions were
panicky Frank A Munsey, publish
err, is said to have cleaned up more
than 100000 profits through
stock investments made during and
Immediately after the financial de-
preston of 1907.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, known
throughout the country as founder
of Denver's Juvenile Court, has been
asked to participate in the political
campaign in San Francisco this Fall
as a supporter of Francis ]. Heney,
graft prosecutor and candidate for
District Attorney.
Fire broke out at the White
House late last Saturday afternoon
and for a short while was threaten
ing. The blaze originated in the
furnace room of the executive Of
fees, which are being reconstructed
in the Presidents absence. Firemen
quickly had the blaze under control.
The entire country, from the At
lantic Coast to the Pacific, was
gripped last Saturday by an electric
storm, silent and invisible, but car
rying earth currents so powerful
that every telegraph wire was Grip
pied and even the submarine cable
service badly tangled. For a time
telegraph communication was sus-
pended. Weather Bureau officials
and telegraph experts attributed the
electrical disturbance to the aurora
borealis.
Theodore P. Shonts, president of
the 1925 100000 Ryan-Belmont In
terborough Metropolitan Company,
of New York, president of the Chi
cago & Alton Railroad. Toledo ST.
Louis & Western Railroad, and di-
rector of many other important
companies, has been sued for $780,
600 damages by the husband Of a
woman whose affections he is al
legged to have alienated Through
his lawyer, Delaney Nicoll, Mr..
Shonts declares he is the victim OF
one of the strangest cases OF mis-