Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-28
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-Nationa1, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs for the Busy.
Harvard college has 1884 students.

Harvard college has 1884 students.
A rain and snowstorm settled ovei
the Chicago and the Ohio valley Sun
day.
This week will be, perhaps, the most
notable in the history of the revolu
ton in China.
Thomas Noble Miller, aged 76, mer-
chant, manufacturer, inventor and pic
neer steel man, died recently in Pitts
burg.
Turkish troops and Arab irregulars
attacked the Italian outposts in the
outskirts of Benghazi and succeeded in
routing them.
At the recent session of the annual
convention of the International Sea-
men IS union Seattle was chosen as the
meeting place in December, 1912.
AT Los Angeles, Cal, Samuel P.
Ayers of Boston shot and probably
fatally wounded his son at hotel Sat
urday and then committed suicide
The New York Sun announces that
the controlling interest in that paper
has been purchased from the estate of
William Laffan by William c. Reick
The third killing during the strike
of Hartman line shopmen at Houston,
Texas, occurred when Thomas c. Lyons,
a carpenter, was shot dead. Lyon was
from Kansas City.
After sensational preliminary ex-
animation DIR. Robert A. MacGregor of
Ubly, Mich, charged with the murder
of Cyril Startling of Ubly, was bound
over to a higher court.
Washington.-Man lawyers from va
rious parts of the country came to the
supreme court chambers Saturday to
attend memorial meeting in honor of
the late Associate Justice John NJ.
Harlan.
John Norton Griffiths, conservative
member of parliament for Wednsbury,
says that within the next six years
England and Germany will be at war
and all of Europe will feel the effects
of the conflict.
At Sydney, Australia, The Amer
lean middleweight boxer, "Cyclone
Johnny Thompson, was defeated re-
Gently on points in a contest of 20
rounds by middleweight boxer named
Rice.
William j. Cummins, convicted of the
theft of $4,000 in connection with
the affairs of the defunct Carnegie
Trust company, was granted a certif-
cate of reasonable doubt by Supreme
Court Justice Cohallon, on the ground
that he was examined before the trial.
Mrs. E. II. Hartman has received
5000 letters asking help since the death
of her husband two years ago. A tabu
lation shows that the amount asked by
the writers reaches total of $120 0OO-
900. The fortune left Mrs. Hartman
by her husband amounted to $40,
600, 900.
Investigation of the proposed ad-
vances in freight rates on packing
house products and fresh meats from
points in the southwest to northern and
western destinations instituted by the
interstate commerce commission can
not be concluded this winter. The com
mission has suspended the increases
until June 16, 1912.
San Francisco.-Former Mayor Eu-
gene f. Schmitz will go to trial some
time in January either on the charge
of extorting brides in connection with
the granting of the United Railroads
trolley franchise or with the fixing of
the gas rate Immediately after the
great disaster of 1906. The principal
witness against Schmitz will be Abra-
ham Ruef.