The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-10-28

Snow and hail fell in western Kansas.
A terrific storm swept over Dickinson
county and at Industry and near Niles,
in central Kansas, hail smashed win
dows and ruined orchards and alfalfa.
Cashier D. c. Kenyon, of the defunct
bank at Rushsylvania, o., issued a
statement saying the assets would be
SGT 900 and the liabilities $4,000.
A. G. Case, president of the First
national bank of Charles City, Ia, died
of pneumonia, aged 76. He was the
most prominent banker of northern
Iowa.
Fire destroyed the new freight sheds
of the Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis railway and their contents at
Nashville, Tenn, entailing loss esti-
mated at 100000, with not a cent of in
surance.
The American Birth Insurance COM
pany has been organized by prominent
Boston women to encourage parent
hood
The report of the Republic Iron and
Steel company showed loss in opera
lions of $254,1SS for the year.
Secretary of War Taft is going as a
special envoy to the republic of Pana-
ma to assure the government that the
United States does not intend to in
terfere with the rights of Panama.
Israel Zangwill arrived in New York
on a mission to arouse new world in
terest in the proposed colonization OF
Hebrews in British East Africa.
Episcopalian bishops, in convention
in Boston, declared the Christian
church in this country has deep re-
sponsibility in influencing capital and
labor toward a reign Of peace.
Matthew Cunningham, county re-
corder, committed suicide at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, by shooting himself in the
head A representative of bonding
company arrived to investigate an al
legged shortage of $48S.65 in the ac-
counts with the county.
Fire destroyed the National bank
building and three other houses at
Wills Point, Tex, entailing a loss of
$4,000
Clarence ard Edward Schinner, aged
respectively four and two and one-half
years, were suffocated by smoke in
clothes closet in the garnet of their
home, in Milwaukee, Wis.
William Schwarting, president of
the Farmers bank at Walcott, Ia,
committed suicide by hanging. He is
said to have been respondent over the
loss of money in connection with the
failure of bank at New Liberty, Ia.
After taking a drink of icewater
Isaiah E. Aultman, 50 years old, of
Bryan, O., dropped dead in the United
States government building at the
worlds fair grounds.
Charles Parsons, who had been at
the head of many railroads, and one of
the most prominent financiers of the
country, is dead at his home in New
York. from heart disease.
Suffering from acute nervous disor-
ders, DR.. George H. Purviance, of
Washington, d. c., assistant surgeon
general of the marine hospital service.
jumped from the fourth story window
of the Orthopaedic hospital in Phila-
delphia and was instantly killed.
Capt. Henry M. Seeley, of Boston,
has been appointed inspector of hulls,
and Theodore T. Mersereau inspector
of boilers, in the steamboat inspection
service at New York.
A national society was organized at
the worlds fair for the protection of
women travellers.
Mont Tennes, Chicago boOkmaker,
was attacked by three masked high
waymen, who robbed him of 500 in
money and diamonds valued at 81, 400.
A veteran of the Franco-Prussian
war, discovering that he had uninten-
tionally caused the death of his ia
vorite son, committed suicide in New