Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
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FROM WORLD over
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DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both Eastern
and Western Hemispheres During Past
Week-National, Historical, Political
and Personal Events Told in Short
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Alfred j. Barr, former publisher of
the Pittsburg Post and also of the Sun,
is dead.
w. B. Nash, formerly bookkeeper of
the defunct Market street bank, San
Francisco, died Sunday.
One hundred and sixty eight persons
are known to have frozen to death in
a snowstotm in the Omsk (Asiatic Rus
sia) district February "a
President Taft denies emphatically
that in a speech in New York on Lin
coin IS birthday he said "that the peo-
pie are not fitted for self government.
Mrs. Charlotte Price, rs years old, an
invalid and able to move about only
in a wheel-chair, persisted in flames that
destroyed her home near Joplin, Mo-,
Saturday.
Stringent measures for suppression
OF disorder in the south of China are
being taken by the new government
and the general situation is more quiet
than heretofore.
Boston station was packed with a
Theodore Roosevelt stepped from the
train from New York for his four days
stay in Boston.
Judge Braley of the supreme judi
cial court, Boston, has ordered the state
treasurer to turn over to the Royal Ar
canum $500, 100 in securities deposited
by the society.
William j. Bryan, in a speech at Den
Yer at public meeting, definitely set
at rest reports that he might be in
duced again to make the race for the
presidency, stating he would not.
A hotilla of Italian warships bonn
barded Beirut, Syria, Saturday, killed
90 inhabitants and wounded many
others. They also sank several small
Turkish gunboats anchored in the port.
The foreign commerce of Switzer-
land reached a record figure in 1910,
the aggregate being 1851, S,O47, as
compared with $515,916,1s1 during the
previous year, an increase of $45,661,-
SOC.
A man believed to be Samuel Miller,
under sentence of death for the MUIR
der of his wife in Memphis nine years
ago, will be returned to Memphis from
Oakland, Cal, where he was arrested
Monday.
The name of Governor Robert p.
Bass of New Hampshire was presented
to Mr.. Roosevelt as a candidate for
the nomination of vice president on a
ticket to be headed by Roosevelt for
president.
Edward Hines, the wealthy lumber
dealer, whose membership in the Union
League club, Chicago, was Cancelled,
has filed suit for SANDER in the circuit
court against Clarence S. Funk for
100000.
Sinai temple, Chicago, after 81 years
of development, has just been completed
and was thrown open to the public Sun
day for inspection. 1t cost, together
with buildings to be used as a social
center, $5o0,OoO.
A collection of German art works
that will include not only paintings and
sculpture, but the various industrial
arts, has been organized by the museum
at Hagen, Westphalia, Germany, to be
sent on a tour of the principal cities
of the United States.
Another crisis in Cuban affairs appar-
emily is at hand. Reports from the
island indicate that unrest has broken
out anew as a result of the Cuban SUI
preme court decision invalidating the
law ousting oficeholders who were
Spanish sympathizers during the revo-
luton.