The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-07-15
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

A sailboat containing seven pleas
ure seekers was capsized in Muskegon
lake, Micn., and four of the occu-
pants were drowned.
By the premature explosion of a can
non at Colfax, ILL.,, Leo Chapman, Roy
Harris, Fred Grending and Ralph Hes
ter, of that place, were dangerously
and perhaps in one or two cases fatal
ly injured.
Twenty-Five dead, 1854 injured is the
harvest of the Fourth of July celebra-
ton in the country. The fire loss was
$17S,S00.
Survivors of the steamship Norge
disaster now are known to number 12S,
102 having been picked up by English
and German vessels from lifeboats in
which they were adrift on the ocean.
Among those saved is Capt. Gundel, of
the Norge, who was carried down when
the ship sank He rose and swan far
to a lifeboat filled with other sur
vivors
Walter Stead and Frank Rule, of
Princeton, and young man named
Rulong, of Philadelphia, were drowned
in Milestone river, at Princeton, N j.,
by the capsizing of their boat.
Full details of the wreck on the
Wabash railroad at Litchfield, ILL.,,
show that 10 were killed and 40 in
jured. Arrests may be ordered as
result of the inquiry which is now go
ing on.
John S. Lord, first deputy collector of
internal revenue, for the Springfield GIL
district. has been designated to act as
collector pending the permanent ap-
pointment of successor to Isaac R.
Mills, who was killed in the railroad ac-
cident at Litchfield, Ill.
Three daughters of John Young, OF
Saltwater, Mimi, who were aged re-
spectively Is, IL and 10 years, have beer
drowned in the st. Croix river. The
girls were bathing and got into sink.
hole
Gen. Piet Cronje, of Boer war fame
was married at st. Louis to Mrs. Stertzel
the widow of Boer soldier. The cere
mony was performed in the Boer camp
on the worlds fair grounds, and wa!
private.
John Ratliff, ten years old, was killet
and Hixon Ratliff, aged 10, a brother
and Russell Ratliff, aged II, cousin
were probably fatally injured by the ex
plosion of box of dynamite at tn
country home of Levi Ratliff, 81 mile
south of Marion, Ind.
A loss of nearly 100000 resulted from
a fire which destroyed the Electrical We
hicle Equipment company's factory il
Brooklyn.
James Wilson's houseboat, moored Of
the Ohio river near Lawrenceburg, Ind
was blown up with dynamite. Wilson
wife and infant child are believed to hav
persisted. Wilson has disappeared an
no traces of the bodies of the woma
and child have been found.
Seventeen survivors of the ill7fate
Danish steamer Norge were landed a
Aberdeen, Scotland, by a trawler tina
found them af1oat, without water @
food, in an open boat, in which they ha
suffered for six days. A search is bein
made for three other boats.
Fire in Boston destroyed the Bosto
& Maine piers and elevator, causin
$1,250,000 loss, and damaged the ALE
liner Austrian The crew of the steam
er jumped overheard and three are mis-!
ing.
Mrs. Katherine DAM, convicted |
Philadelphia of murder in the first d,
gree for poisoning her husband, Wi
liam G. DAM, was sentenced to |
hanged.
In fire which has destroyed the Can
mack cottage at Tuxedo Park, NY, Il
jewels of Mrs. Bernard P. Steinman,
New Orleans, worth several hundrt
thousand dollars, were probably so dan
aged that they will be worthless her
after.
The school board of Louisville, K,
has instructed the high school commi
tee to inform four Filipino students, wi
applied for admission to the Dupo
manual training high school, that the
color debars them from the privileges
the public schools.
Milwaukee has population OF b
tween 100000 and 325 900, according
estimates based on the latest school ce
sus, which gives the total number
children of school age as los 1853. TIL
is an increase of 5000 children over t
previous census.