Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-12-08
NEWSOF THE WORLD
SHORT items FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week--National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.

Chicago is in the throes of a diph-
liberia epidemic.
The silk hat's supremacy in England
is threatened by the automobile.
The city of Bangkok is the only
place in Siam lighted by electricity.
John Bull has more daughters than
sons in England and Wales by 1896
055.
A Seattle firm has had orders from
China for 100000 creosoted railway
ties within two years.
President Taft has not fully made
up his mind with regard to the tariff
features of his forthcoming measure.
M. Rachkovslxi, former head of the
secret police in Russia and agent of
the Russian police in Paris, died re-
Gently.
Several of the surgeons in Berlin
have experimental much with bloodless
surgery and reports have it with much
success.
The will of Sir Claude Campbell was
recently probated in London and his
estate goes to his mother, Lady Esther
Campbell.
Nine. Ali Kuli Kahn, wife of the
charge of affairs of Persia, will be the
official chatelaine of the shah IS legation
in Washington, D. G.
Vienna.-The feeble condition of the
emperor is giving the men responsible
for the government more concern just
now than any other question.
Telephones will in all probability
shortly be installed at Jerusalem, as a
system is being installed in all cities
by the Turkish telegraph department.
Herr Won jagged, the chief of police
of Berlin, has returned from London
quite unconvinced of the reputed SUI
periority of British police methods over
those which obtain in Germany.
1t is proposed to let the one-acre
space of cellars in the heart of London
remain. They are the historic cellars
Or vaults under the churchyard of st.
Observation-Disclosures Trafalgar square.
The French cabinet has decided
against the temporary abolition of inn
port duties on foreign wheat and other |
cereals which had been proposed be-
cause of the shortage of the French |
crops.
People in London, England, not to |
speak of many thousands living in |
places remote from it, are alarmed at
he increase of rats which, it is believed.
have caused many cases of sickness in
he interior.
More than 100000 index record
cards showing the individual service |
'ecords who fought in the various wars
n which this country has been engaged. |
Ire now on file in the Office of the adiu-
ant general of the army.
Rain, the first in three months, be-
san at Bartlesville, Okla, Saturday.
Many towns in northern Oklahoma and
outhern Kansas are facing a water
anime. If the fall continues the situa-
ion will be relieved in many places.
Since the death of former limited
states Senator David B. Hill of New
York many estimates of the aggregate
'alue of his estate have been made. The
resent estimate is that the entire es-
ate, personal and real, will not yield
more than $4,000.
The Navy in hard and clean game
# football at Philadelphia Saturday
fternoon, before large and enthusi-
site crowd, defeated their old rivals.
he Army, by 3 to O. Games won since
$50: Navy z, Army z. Total points:
Navy 1913, Army 1874.
A French blacksmith named Puvion
ecently won the first prize, 5000, 900,
n French lottery. A neighbor named
gave Puvion 10 francs for a
alf share in a second ticket, which was
ever bought. Nevertheless the black
NTH has insisted on sharing his good
ortune equally with his neighbor. 4