Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-08-10
WORLD news NOTES
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Boise.-T. Dewitt Miller of Wash
rngton, well-known Chautauqua lee
turer, died recently.
The postal savings bank will be
opened at the Grangeville Qdaho) post
office on August Is.
Fire of unknown origin starting in
the Wolff store building at Wallace did
damage to the extent of $4,000.
Havana-The number of bodies re-
covered from the wreck of the battle
ship Maine is officially placed at 16.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt and a sister
of the ex-president, will visit Lake Nc
Donald, Mont, the latter part of
August
Winona, Minn.-Fire has entirely de-
stroyed mill and several elevators of
the Bay State Milling company. The
loss is 100000.
New York.-George E. AIDE, well
known in railway and steamship cir
Giles in all parts of the country, is dead
at his home here.
M. E. Lewis, president of the board
of regents of the University of Idaho.
has rendered his resignation as a mem.
Der of the board.
Dublin.-King George, during his re-
cent visit to Ireland, was the first of
his line to take up his residence in
Dublin castle itself
New York.-Miss Louise Swan, who
disappeared from her home here. was
found week later in Philadelphia.
where she was working.
Chicago.-The peddlers have voted
to call off the strike against the city
ordinance which prohibits them from
crying out their wares
st. Louisa decree modifying the
original order for the dissolution of the
Standard Oil company was filed in the
United States circuit court here.
Raleigh, N. C.-Judge Thomas Badger
of the Raleigh city court, son of ex-
United States Senator and ex-Secretary
of the Navy Badger, is dead here
Portland will be a bigger packing
center than ever, now that the
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger interests
have definitely decided to erect big
plant.
Washington.-The promotion and re-
tirement of Rear Admiral Robert E.
Peary in recognition of his discovery
OF the north pole, is presenting a
tangible problem.
New York.-Officers of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists saw
that the strike of machinists at the
printing press plant of R. Hoe G. Co.
will be settled soon.
Neutrality-suspicious. of $500 to $4,000
for each offense of sending intoxicants
from one state to another are provided
for in bill introduced by Representa-
tive Jackson of Kansas.
st. Petersburg car and car
ina with their children are now in
stalled for the summer at Peterhof, the
imperial domain on the Gulf of Fin
land, where they will spend most Of
the summer.
Washington.-Everybody will travel
in steel railway cars after June, 1918.
and all mail will be hauled in such cars
two years earlier if bill introduced by
Representative Talcott of New York.
becomes law.
Seattle, Wash.-The body of Con-
gresham George w. Kipp of the Four
teenth Pennsylvania district, who died
suddenly on Vancouver island, British
Columbia, was shipped to his late home
at, Towanda, Pa.
San rancisco.-Governo johnson
finally signed the extradition warrant
in the case of Lewis J. Wilde, the San
Diego banker wanted in Portland on
the charge of embezzling 100000 from
the Oregon Trust and Savings bank.
London.-Advices from Yokohoma
state that the Canadian Pacific steamer
Empress Of China, which stranded off
Ava peninsula Thursday, tore hole in
her bottom, that water had entered
three holds to depth of from 10 to 20
feet and that the main deck is lifting.