The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending May %.

For the Week Ending May %.
Fire practically wiped out the min.
ing town of Thornwood, w. Va.
The business portion of Dunkirk, O..
was practically wiped out by fire.
Great damage was done in Ohio at
Delhi, Home City and Fernbank by a
cloudburst.
The Masonic temple at Bay City,
Mich, was burned. Loss, 100000; in.
surance, $4,000.
One section of Montana is eaten up
by locusts, while another is under
three feet of snow.
At the confederate reunions in New
Orleans Gen. Gordon was reelected
commander in chief.
Maxim Cork, the Russian novelist
blames Russian society for the fright.
full massacre at Kishineff.
In fit of jealousy Joseph Gutsch
killed his wife near Milwaukee, Wis.
and then fatally shot himself.
Two hundred and twenty acres are
to be added to the United States mill
tary reservation at West Point.
The Seaboard Air Line railway
shops at Portsmouth, Va, were
burned, the loss being $75O,OOO.
The Great Northern Express com
pany has voluntarily increased the
wages of its messengers 1919 per cent
John Dixon (colored) was driven
from Fremont, o., by mob because he
refused to quit work when strikers
did.
Thomas A. Edison has been ap
pointed honorary chief consulting en-
gineer at the worlds fair at ST
Louis.
Frequent strikes in Chicago have
caused the abandonment of many pro
posed improvements in industrial
plants.
Albert Palmer shot and killed Moll;e
Beck at Bairdstown. Pa, because she
refused to marry him, and then killed
himself.
Kennedy and Bremner bakeries in
Chicago have been closed because OF
strikes, throwing 1000 employees out
of work.
Tom Sharkey defeated John Pien
ing, the Graeco-Roman champion, in
catch-as-catch-can wrestling mattel
in New York.
j. w. Bailey, for the last 40 year.
editor of the Bureau County Repub
lican, died at his home in Princeton
ILL.,, aged 70 years.
The Louisville (Ky.) Baptist or
phanage has been given 100000 by
the will of Capt. w. F. Norton, an &c
centric millionaire.
William Hopkins, negro, charged
with outraging his nine-year-old step
daughter, was shot to death by a mol
at Whites Mill, Ga.
The national bank of Southport
Conn.,, closed it's doors as a result O.
the cashiers defalcation, which is re
ported to be about $3.50, 900.
Hugh j. Murdoch, editor of tn,
United Presbyterian and prominent il
church circles, died at his home il
Sewickley, Pa, aged 20 years.
Rev. Henry Storey, a Baptist minis
ter, was burned to death and his wifi,
fatally burned in fire that destroyed
their home in Richmond, Mich.
Judge Walter Evans, in the United
States court at Bowling Green, KY.
said that postmasters were response
BILE for thefts from their offices.
Eleven New Orleans street railwa,
employees have been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for interrupt
ing mail cars during the REGENTS trike
Moses Hart, negro desperate OF
trial at Corinth, Miss, fired at tn,
chief of police in the courtroom, fec
to the street and was shot to death by
a mob.
Count Leo Tolstoi declared thai
the Jewish massacres at Kishinef
were due to "fanatical priesthood,
"robber officials" and preaching of vic
lence by the government.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Los Angeles, CAL, has been notified
that creed amendments have beer
adopted in the entire by the presby
teries. The vote was nearly unani
nous.
B. w. Shows weekly crop review
shows weather favorable for growth
with needed rain everywhere except in
southern Missouri and Illinois and
northern Indiana and Ohio. Corn plant.
ing is ten days late.