Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-06-15
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING THE 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

New York.-The Rev. Arthur Taper
Pierson, the eminent Presbyterial
clergyman and scholar, died Saturday
Washington.-Th wool tariff revi
sion bill was reported favorably to tn,
house Tuesday by the ways and means
committee.
The body of Mrs. Herman Roestel
who was killed by her husband at Spo
kane, who is now in Jail, was buried
there Sunday.
w. J. Hall of Wallace, for years
chief accountant for the Federal Mining
and Smelling company, has been pro
NOTED to the position of assistant gen
eral manager.
Mobile, Ala.-The anniversary of the
birth of Jefferson Davis was observed
Saturday with the closing of banks
cotton exchange, public buildings and
other institutions.
Washington.-Senator William Lori.
mer has requested that he be permitted
to appear before the new investigating
committee to testify in his own behalf.
He will be accommodated
G. B. Kegley of Palouse, Wash, mas
ter of the Washington State Grange, or
master of husbandry, says he has no
designs upon the lieutenant governor
ship of the state of Washington.
Charleroi, Belgium.-An earthquake
was felt at Gosselies, four miles north
of this city Saturday. Many houses
were damaged. The streets are Uttered
with debris. There were no casualties.
Moscow, Idaho.-The one and one
half-year-old grandchild of Albert
Neighbors accidentally fell out of the
baby carriage in such a manner as to
hang itself and was dead when discov-
cred.
Tokio.-Baron Takahashi has re-
signed the presidency of the Yokohama
Specie bank and has been appointed
governor of the Bank of Japan. Count
Mishima has been elected president of
the Yokohama Specie bank.
Under orders issued by the war de-
partment General Marion P. Maus will
continue in command of the depart
ment of the Columbia, though there
will be change in the command of
most other departments July 1.
New York.-The Hotel Victoria,
named in honor of Queen Victoria and
for many years after it's erection the
most elaborate of New York hostelries,
is to be torn down to make way for
business building.
ngton.-President Taft Satur-
day cabled his congratulations to King
George V. of Great Britain and King
Frederick VIII. of Denmark. The
English monarch was 46 years old and
the ruler of Denmark So.
London.-The British government s
invitation to Morocco to send a special
ambassador to the coronation Of King
George has been withdrawn, and the
foreign office has notified Ell Mokri,
who had been designated to represent
the sultan, that he will not be received
Havana.-Cipriano Castro, the for
mer president of Venezuela, could not
be found on board the steamer Legazpi,
which has arrived from Las Palmas,
Canary Islands. 1t has been reported
that Castro was about to return to
Venezuela, from which country he is
an exile.
Vergas, Minn.-Mrs. L. s. Berg, wife
Of the president of the New Orleans,
Mobile s. Chicago railroad, was killed
and Mr. Berg was seriously injured
when a Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault
Ste. Marie passenger train was derailed
by washout in a cut a mile south of
here. Several other passengers sus-
tanned minor injuries.