Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-09
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.

New York City has passed London
as the world S largest organized munic
ipality.
Speaker Champ Clark is to have a
private dining room in the capitol
building.
William J. Boomer, former organizer
of the Chicago printers union, has
been indicted for the murder of Rush
V. Demon.
The Mcnamara probe has started in
Indiana and the federal district attor-
ney has asked access to facts for the
grand Jury.
In Paris Augustine Maurice is up
for trial before the Assize Court of the
Seine for the murder of her husband.
Paul Maurice.
Secretary of the Navy George Won
i. Meyer believes the United States
will have the finest navy in the world
in another year.
Cruelty is the charge against Booth
Harrington in the suit filed in Indian
apolis by Mrs. Louise Fletcher Tarking-
ton, asking a divorce.
The minister of war, General Yin
Tchang, reported Saturday to the gov
ernment at Picking a victory over the
rebel forces in the v~inicity of Hankow.
At Denver progressive republicans
at a banquet adopted resolutions in
dorsing Senator La Toilette for the re-
publican presidential nomination in
1919.
DR.. +. A. Cook has arrived in Berlin.
From Berlin he will proceed to Paris
and thence to. Brussels, to deliver a
lecture before the Central Polar com,
mission.
Near Oakland, Cal, an automobile
containing r. J. Jones, a real estate
man, and three others plunged into a
creek bed in West Berkeley, all being
seriously injured.
At Ceiba, Honduras, Allan Gard,
who was relieved as American consul,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. He had been de-
spondent for several weeks.
President Taft will review one hun
dred warships in array ON Hudson river
November 2. 1t will be the most
notable assemblage in the history of
the American navy to be seen by any
president.
FOR some time past a campaign has
been carried on in the Russian press
condemning the boy scout movement
in Finland as a danger to the Russian
empire, which ought to be combatted
without delay.
With the shop employees on the Rock
Island railroad voting overwhelmingly
III favor of a strike and an ultimatum
served on the Texas Pacific, labor con
ditions on the railroads have assumed
n more serious aspect.
Running SO miles an hour, a Union
Pacific passenger train collided headon
with a freight on a siding at Rock
River, Wyo. The. engine and four cars
of the passenger train were ditched
and Engineer Bange and Fireman
Spencer instantly killed. At least 12
persons were injured.
The American boat train, which left
London filed with American and other
passengers for the steamer Lusitania,
sailing from Liverpool for New York,
ran into a train at Colwich, about six
miles south of Stafford, seriously in
juring a few.
Threats of union leaders to call
strikes of workmen on Chicago public
schools if an alleged non-union me-
mortal tablet to Thomas J.. Waters
late chief of the board of education,
was unveiled, resulted in a postpone
ment of the exercises.
That the reign of the Manchus is
ended was the opinion expressed by
David Starr Jordan, lecturer, peace ad-
vocate and president of Leland Stan
ford university in California, upon his
return from a seven weeks tour of
the orient. DR.. Jordan visited Japan
and Korea in the interest of the
4'world peace foundation"
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