Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
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Senator Bailey has rendered his
resignation as member of the senate.
A big gang of ghouls desecrated the
cemetery of Clichy-Levellos, just out
side the gates Of Paris recently.
Roswell Miller, chairman of the
board of directors of the Chicago, Mil
waukee G. st. Paul railway, is dead.
Many senators differ on Panama ar
bitration with England. Senators Jones
and Borah are opposed to granting re-
quest of Britain.
Three Southern Pacific section hands
at Avila, Cal, were killed Saturday by
an explosion of dynamite. The bodies
were turn to shreds.
The president of Portugal has &C
cepted the resignation of the cabinet
and entrusted Antonio Jose Almeida,
leader of the conservatives, with the
formation of a new ministry.
A larger appropriation for the eradi-
ern states than the $4,000 appropri-
ated last year, is urged upon the SEN
ate committee on agriculture.
Chairman Clapp of the committee
investigating campaign funds has
asked the senate to enlarge the investi-
cation of his committee to include the
presidential campaign of 1912.
The Harrison line steamer Work
man, previously reported ashore south
Of Rio de Janeiro, is likely to be al
most total loss. In that case the loss
on hull and cargo will reach nearly
s1.500o,0OO.
At Christiania, Norway, Captain
Hjalmar Johansen, an explorer who
had achieved much success in polar re-
search, committed suicide Saturday
He was a member of Captain Roald
Amundsen's recent antarctic expedi-
Jon.
DR.. Peter Donnelly, prominent at
Toledo, Ohio, as a physician and a
irother of Judge Michael Donnelly of
Napoleon, was drowned when his auto
mobile plunged through the guard
chains of dock into the Maumee
river.
Mrs. Caroline Walsh Clinton, sis
ter of the Countess De Felice of Abruz-
I'll, Italy, was adjudged insane at Chi
cago Saturday. She is a daughter of
Frederick Walsh of Syracure, N. Y,
who left her fortune of 100000 when
ne died 10 years ago.
At Los Angeles, Cal, prosecution
and defense have agreed to ask for a
further postponement of the trial of
Clarence Darrow, former chief counsel
for the Mcnamara brothers, who is
charged with having bribed jurors in
the famous dynamite case.
Ortie E. McManigle, the confessed
dynamiter and principal witness
against the 38 union labor officials re-
Gently convicted at Indianapolis of hav-
ing engaged in nationwide con-
spiracy to transport explosives illegal
ly, has returned to Los Angeles.
After struggling desperately for sew
en- hours to free himself boy named
Suys, aged 10, was drowned in the sea
by the incoming tide at Sastindue, Bel
GUM, through getting caught in a
quicksand. His 11-year-old brother wit
messed his struggles, but was unable
to help him.
Sixteen laborers who have worked
from two to 20 years for the Henry
Cowell Lime and Cement company at
San Francisco have received sums
varying from $500 to $1,000 from the
estate of the late E. v. Cowell. Cowell
died in Europe in 1911. leaving an es-
tate valued at S972.922.
The Rt. Rev. DR.. Peter Joseph
Hurth, titular bishop of Milopotamus,
has been nominated to be bishop of
Nueva Sagovia, in the Philippine
islands, in succession to the Rt. Rev.
James G. Carroll, who resigned in No
vember last to become rector of st.
Edwards Roman Catholic church.
Philadelphia.
Russian Heir Improves.