The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-23
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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.

Almost every business block in Idaho
Falls, Idaho, was wiped out by fire
that started in the Butte cafe and
which burned seven hours. The loss
will reach 100000 with small insur-
ance.
Fred Strube, who killed his sweet
heart, Alice Henninger, at Havana, H.,
last winter because she refused to mar
~ him, waived trial by jury and
was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Gus A. Henkleman, alias Sid Hall,
aged about 25, was shot and killed in
Detroit, Mich, while trying to escape
from Detective John Buhr, OF the city
detective bureau.
Five masked men blew open the safe
in the Toledo & Ohio Central depot
at Wapakoneta, O., with nitroglycerin,
securing only 500.
The first session of the interparlia-
mentary union, which convened in Fes-
tival hall, at the worlds fair grounds,
st. Louis, was devoted to speeches of
felicitation and greeting by delegates
from the IA nations represented
Two men were killed and several
passengers were injured by collision
between Southern Pacific passenger
trains at Lawton, New.
New coal fields in Illinois are to be
opened by the st. Paul road through the
medium of railway company just in
corporated in Springfield.
Nearly 10000 of the former strikers at
the Chicago stock yards have been re-
employed by the packers.
The increase in savings accounts of
Chicago banks is the smallest in several
years, as the result of strikes and shut
downs in many lines of business.
Henry Peterson, a Chicago cigar
dealer, was killed by four bandits, who
raided his store and also shot the porter,
William Portee, stealing $500.
Four persons were killed and six in
jured in an early morning tenement
house fire in New York.
John D. Rockefeller has made an adj
ditional gift of $4,000 to the Young
Women's Christian association of
Cleveland, O., to be added to the fund
for the erection of a new building. Mr.
Rockefeller subscribed $4,000 to the
fund.
Fire has destroyed the Manasquan,
N. j., block ice and cold storage plant,
entailing a loss of $150,OO0. Fish to
the amount of 100000 pounds, stored
against the winter demand, was de-
stroyed.
President Francis has signed a war;
rant for the sum of 100000, the regu-
lar semi-monthly payment on the gov
eminent loan of 100000
James NJ Wilson, one of the oldest
conductors connected with the st. Paul
road, died at Hartford, Wis, aged 70
years. He was we'll known in rail-
way circles throughout the northwest.
Rev. H. w. Halter, a merchant and
postmaster of Poplar Hill, KY, was
shot and instantly killed by Johnson
Elliott, a neighboring farmer. The two
men quarreled over road site.
j. P. Fenton, travelling man from
Philadelphia, while intoxicated, leaped
from second-story window of the But
Ter hotel, Boone, Ia, striking on his
head. The force of the fall drove his
head completely through a cellar door
He died later
President Roosevelt has put the case
of the Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena
in the hands of the state and navy de-
partments. The belief is that the yes
sci will repair and disarm, fearing to
fisk capture by the Japanese.
The government weekly weather re-
port says little harm was done by the
light frost in the northwest September
II AMI IL. favorable conditions con
timing in nearly all the most produc
tive part of the corn belt.
The third anniversary of the death OF
President Mckinley was noted with deep
sorrow in his home city, Canton, o.
Many floral tributes were placed on his
tomb
The greater portion of the business
section of st. Helen, county seat of Co.
1umbia county, Ore, was destroyed by
Ase. Loss, $4,000.
A severe windstorm prevailed along
the Atlantic coast, doing considerable
damage in Wilmington, N. c., near Nor
folk, Va, and in Newark, N. j. The
damage in Wilmington is $4,000 and
two fishermen are reported drowned
Seymour Clark, farmer, and his sor
were found cremated in their residence
five miles north of Youngstown, o.
At Hoquiam, Wash, James Miles shot
and killed the woman with whom he
lived and then fatally wounded Ole
Sand, logger, and ended by shooting
and killing himself. Jealousy led to
the shooting.
Mrs. Henry Hoft, bride of one day
was shot to death near Mead, Wash
by rejected lover, Fred Hoffman, who
then committed suicide.
The Russian cruiser Lena, which took
refuge in the harbor at San Francisco
has been ordered by President Roosevelt
to disarm and remain until the end OF
the present war. The commander of the
Lena has signified his willingness to
meet the dem ands.