The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-08-19

Newport house, found the gems IN ner
safe in New York.
Rev. Glenn Gillian was accidentally
and fatally shot at Pomeroy, O., by Rev.
Newsome. The tragedy occurred while
they were shooting at a target.
The steamer Sierra, which sailed from
Sydney. N. S. W., August s for San Fran
cisco, has on board 5 1,750,0OO in gold.
During a storm in the northern SUI
burbs of Chicago hundreds of English
sparrows, huddled together to escape
the terror of the storm, were electrocuted
by the lightning, which struck the trees
in which they were roosting.
Mrs. Victor Moore and her sister-in-
law. Miss Cora A. Moore, both of Bells
Station, La, were killed at st. Louis by
being struck by a street car.
The government report for August
suggests a wheat crop of 5S6,OOO,O0O
bushels, corn 2,4OO, 600, 900, oats 7S9, O00,-
900. compared with 639. 000. 900 wheat, q
244, 900, 900 corr and 784, 0O0, 900 oats in
1903.
Miss Grace Gregory, of Chicago, was
killed by a fall from a frightened horse
in Lake Forest, Ill.
Justice Walter G. Kraft, Of RiverF For
est, Ill.,, was drowned in two feet of water
in the Desplaines river. He had been i'll
and d%elirious.
Fire at South Lima, N. Y, destroyed
the great cold storage plant for which
that place is celebrated, the general store
and four residences and barns. The loss
is $50, 1000.
Charged with murder in the first de-
gree Constables D. o. Stanfl, B. e.
Sherry and M. M. Ransom wereremand-
ed to Jail at Selma, Ala, without bail to
await the action of the grand jury, be-
cause Edmund Bell, a negro, who was
given into their charge, was taken from
them by a mob and lynched.
BY the boiling over of a~tank of var
nish in the varnish works of the Travers
Bailey company in Brooklyn, James w.
Travers, of the firm; his sister Annie.
who was his bookkeeper, and William
Slowey, the varnish maker, were fatally
burned.
Careful revision of the lists of dead and
missing confirms the original estimate
that not less than 100 lives were lost in
the flood which wrecked the Missouri
Pacific fast train on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, near Eden, Col.
Eugene N. V. Bissell, a former captain
of the United States army, committed
suicide in his room in the Grand hotel,
| San Francisco, by inhaling Illuminating
gas.
Abram r. Colburn, head Of the whole
| sale lumber firm bearing his name, died
at Michigan City, Ind, from paralysis.
He had many retail establishments
throughout the state. He leaves an es-
| tate valued at several millions.
]. E. Reinger, formerly president and
treasurer of the Reinger Lumber COM
pany, of Kansas City. Mo-, was arrested
at South Haven, Mich, Thursday on a
warrant charging him with embezzle-
ment of $43, 200.
The Barringer gold mine, located near
Gold Hill, N. c., was suddenly flooded
with water, causing the instant death
of eight men employed in the mine.
Fire in the grain elevator of the Sheets
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ton of Cleveland, O.. caused damage to
the extent of from SIS 900 to 500, 900.
The elevator contained almost 10000
bushels of grain.
All the municipal offices were closed
for two hours in st. Louis and the flags
on city institutions were placed at hall
mast during the funeral of former Sen
ator George Graham Vest, whose remains
were laid to rest in Bellefontaine GENE
terry, st. Louis.
A company Of Chinese militia Is
being organized in Chicago to form
part of an army to be offered to the
Chinese government in case of war.
Secretary Of Val William H. Taft
told the assembly at Chautauqua, N
Y, that the only hope of self-govern
ment for the Filipinos lies in the car
rying out of the policy of education.
Sicilians of the BLACK Hand" so
ciety terrorized New York by stealing
a boy and demanding $4,000 ranson
on pain of torture to the child ant
murder of his parents. Dozens of SINH
lar crimes are charged to the society
Isaac Gravelle, a Montana desperate
after shooting a deputy sheriff, escaped
from Jail, was chased into the home O.
Gov. O'Toole, and after a duel with hi.
pursuers blew out his brains.