The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-11-18
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.

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Cornell Preston, negro lad poisoned
a week ago by eating part of plum pud-
ding left by an unknown messenger at
theatrical boarding house in New
York, is dead.
James Mari, who made the original de-
sign of the first harvesting machine, is
dead in Lincoln, Neb., at the age of "a
years.
Two lionesses, two monkeys, two os-
triches and zebra, which were presented
by King Menelik of Abyssinia to the
president of the United States, arrived
in New York on the Atlantic transport
line steamship Minneapolis.
Charles Hackensen, a window washer
in the Rookery building, Chicago, slipped
beneath a guard rail on the ninth floor
of the building, fell and was instantly
killed.
James H. Foote and Alfred Gaines,
electricians, were drowned while duck
hunting at the St Clair Flats, near De-
troit, Mich.
Secret service officials have arrested
three counterfeiters in Cleveland, o.,
who, it is said, have made and circulated
large sums of bogus Hungarian money
during the past year.
E. H. Thayer, for many years editor OF
the Clinton Qa.) Age and widely known
IS democratic politician, is dead.
State Representative Thomas F. Cur
ley and Alderman James M. Curley were
sentenced in the United States circuit
court at Boston to serve two months in
Jail for having impersonated others at
a civil service examination.
Nine. Rejane, the famous French
actress, was given a warm welcome in
New York on her first visit to this
country in ten years.
The hosting engineers in Illinois
coal mines lost their strike and will
60 back to work at reduced scale OF
51s per cent.
Eldridge NJ. Fowler, aged 70, a mil
lionaire Minnesota lumberman, worth
S35,000,000, died in California.
Having lost 1900 officers in battle,
Russia will send all her reserve officers
to the front.
One person was killed and num-
Der injured in an explosion of gas
which wrecked building on the South
side in Chicago.
BY the explosion of boiler at Leav-
enworth, Kan, Green Nichols was
killed and the Kemp furniture factory
was practically destroyed.
After two former unsuccessful at
tempts to take her life, Mrs. Rose
Lentze, wife of DR.. Nathan Lentze,
swallowed carbolic acid at the family
residence in st. Louis and died shortly
after. Her act is attributed to i'll
health.
In Raleigh county, Va, Eddie Mes
sick and John Hillard quarreled after
a political argument when Messick
pulled revolver and shot Hillard
dead A brother of the latter, who
appeared about the same time, was
also shot and killed by Messick.
The secretary of state has received
word from the Mexican government of
its willingness and readiness to enter
into a treaty of arbitration with this
government.
The Silver Queen hotel, in the Sour
Lake oil field, in Texas, was destroyed by
FIRE and four people burned to death.
Three workmen were Instantly killed
at Steubenville, O., in a buggy used to
wrap wire cable on the new Steuben-
vile suspension bridge. The rope sup
porting the buggy broke, throwing it
against pier and hurting the men to
death on the ground below.
The cotton manufacturers Of Fall
River, Mass. whose mills have been idle
since July on account of strike of their
employees over reduction in wages,
voted to open their plants to such opera
tives as desired to resume work under
the reduction.
Mrs. Rachael Van Fossen, aged 65, and
her two grandsons Harry and Earl Wy
ant, aged five and three years, were
found dead at the Wyant home in Milo
o. Death is supposed to have been
caused by ptomaine poisoning.
According to the annual report just
made public, 12,05S,04S pounds of mai
was dispatched by sea to foreign coun.
tries by the United States, an increase Oh
ten per cent Statistics collected by the
Universal Postal Union were also given
showing that the United States ranks
first among all nations in nearly every
phase of the postal service.
Roosevelt received thousands of mes
sages of congratulations, among which
was one from Emperor William.
George Guy tried starting his balky
horse in Chicago by smuggling its hide
A woman caused his arrest and he wa!
fined s25.
Advices received by New York steam
ship agents indicate that an armistice
pending settlement, has been reacnet
in the ocean rate war.
Bound and gagged, County Treasure
James b. Storm was found locked in tn,
steel vault of his Office in Prescott, Ariz.
while $4,000 was missing from the casl
in the treasury. Mr.. Storm had been ii
the vault 16 hours when found by hi
daughter. He says he was attacked b,
robbers.