The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-02-03
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS


The name of Francis j. Heney will
be presented for the Republican nom
nation for Governor Of California in
the next primary campaign.
In the Sixth congressional district
of Missouri a special election was
held Tuesday to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Represents
tive De Almond.
Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy's In
itial efforts to obtain legal possession
of her daughter, Natalie, through
habeas corpus proceedings have
failed.
An official telegram to the State
Department from Managua says that
/ it is rumored q battle has been fought
between the Madrix and Estrada
forces near La Libertad, with heavy
| losses
The Blackstone Hotel, an exclusive
hosiery for millionaires, now near
ing completion in Chicago will have
the twentieth floor fitted up as an
aeroplane garage.
A panic was created in San Fran
cisco vaudeville theater during a per-
[ Torrance when four performing lions
! in their cage behind the scenes
caught a scenic painter. and began
| to tear him to pieces
The recommendation OF directors of
the International Harvester Company
| for an increase in the common stock
| OF the company from $60,000,000 to
| $80,0O0,0O0 was ratified at special
meeting of the stockholders in Ho-
| boken.
An error of $4,000, 900 is charged
| by the Association @ American Mag
azine Publishers against the Post Of
| flee Department in the latter's figures
on the deficit in carry second-class
matter.
Automobiles of Los Angeles will
carry to the Safe Supreme Court
the ordinance which provides a
straight Jail sentence for speeders
The Senate passed Senator Cham
| berlain's bill authorizing the crea ton
Of an additional land district in Ore
gon, and designating Vale, Malheur
County, as the site for the new land
office.
The Indictment against the Press
Publishing Company, publishers OF
the New York World, charging 10
seph Pulitzer and others with Grimm
al libel against Theodore Roosevelt.
President Taft and others, was quash-
ed in the Unred States District
Court
Saturday was observed In Canton,
Ohio, as Carnation day and by thou
sands all oyer the United states. 1t
was the anniversary of the birth OF
President William Mckinley Many
floral pieces were placed beside the
Mckinley tomb
Representatives OF the United Mine
Workers and the operators of Penn
sylvania. West Virginia, Ohio, In
diana and other states. assembled in
conference at Toledo Tuesday to
formulate a wage agreement for the
year beginning April L.
Frederick Cohen, the waiter who
LETT Philadelphia with Roberta de
Janon, the young heiress, and who
was arrested In Chicago on a charge
OF abduction was given hear
ing and again committed to prison
without bail to await trial on
charge Of kidnapping.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation OF Labor, pre-.
sided in New York ut a conference
Of women. called to discuss how to
secure the best possible cooperation
OF the women Of unorganized indus
tries for the cause of organized labor.
The matter OF the organization of
new women's trade unions was taken
up.
Advices have been received by
those interested in the sealing indus
try at Victoria, b. c., that negotia-
tons begun recently between the Uni
ted States, Great Britain Japan and
Russia for treaty to protect fur
seals of the North Pacific are being
delayed by Canadas claim for COM
pensation for Canadian pelagic seal.