The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-09
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.

President James, of Northwestern
university, formally accepted the offer
of the presidency of the University of
Illinois.
Judge Julian Bennett, of Watertown,
S. D., is dead of heart failure. He
weighed 440 pounds, and was known
as the largest judge in America.
Three persons were drowned in the
capsizing of their boat near Edinburg.
in the Adirondacks.
DR.. Charles F. H. Wilgohs, aged 100
years and eight months, is dead at
Akron, o. He was of remarkable men
tai and physical vitality until week
ago and was able to walk for miles.
Herbert D. Hill and James c. Pat
terson were drowned in the river at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Their boat
was capsized by wind.
Frank and Fred Eberhardt of Salina,
Kan, won the tennis championship of
the middle west in doubles by defeating
H. NJ Holland and F. R. Sanderson, of
Galesburg, ILL.,, at Omaha.
Fire has destroyed the Benjamin
Schenck homestead, one of the oldest
houses on Long Island 1t was built
mile from Sycamore Hill 1872 years
ago and contained highly priced col
lection of furniture and heirlooms.
DR.. William A. Pryor, son of former
State Supreme Court Justice Roger
A Pryor, of New York, is dead. DR..
Pryor was one of the most noted sur
geons on obstetrics and gynecology in
America.
Lawrence Lentch, of Chicago, killed
himself after shooting his STEP
daughter, Augusta Gulp, of whom he
was jealous, and her fiance, Edward
Moeller
Four miners who were imprisoned
in the Pine Hill Colliery at Pottsville
Pa, died from suffocation.
Blinded by dust, Barney Oldfield ran
his automobile off the track in race
at St. Louis. Two spectators were
killed and Oldfeld was injured pain
fully.
Mormons are planning to build
large tabernacle in New York, and no
longer will try to take converts to
Utah.
A Cincinnati woman was found dead
in her fiat, having been slain with a
Ratchet, and man who lived there
shot himself. Love for a girl only IA
years old rs believed to be the solution
of the crime.
Rt Hon. and Most Rev. Randall
Thomas Davidson, D. D., X. G. V. o.,
lord archbishop of Canterbury and pri-
mate of all England, has arrived in
America
An explosion of gas in an iron fur
mace of the LaFollette Coal & Iron
company, at LaFollette, Tenn, resulted
injury of one other.
A Northwestern university professor
shows that higher education lessons
the probability of a young woman mar
rying.
An elevator carrying four men and
nearly a ton of acid fell at Rabbits
soap factory in New York city. Two
persons were killed and two fatally
hurt.
Maj. T. E. Merritt, u S. A., retired.
who entered the army during the civil
war as private in the Thirteenth New
York volunteer infantry and served in
the regular army until 1879, is dead in
New York city. He succumbed to an
attack of heart failure.
Jed Newkirk, of Chicago, in the
three-mile auto race at Aurora, ILL.,,
broke the worlds record for a mfle on
the half-mile track, making the mile
in ZIP 3-5
An agreement which will end the
lockout and strike of 1900 plumbers in
Brooklyn has been reached.
Four joints, or illicit saloons, were
wrecked at Cuba, Kan, by Mrs. E. o.
Elites and Mrs. William Mcdonald
wives of prominent business men,
armed with hatchets, and much liquor
destroyed.
Miss Everett, of Exmoor, defeated
Miss Carpenter, Of Westward Ho, for
the women's western golf champion
ship.
The battleship Louisiana, sister ship
to the Connecticut, being built at the
Brooklyn navy yard, was successfully
launched at Newport News, Va.
sumed operations after months of idle
ness, giving employment to several
thousands.
President Weinseimer, indicted lead
er of the New York building unionists,
resigned under fire.
Mrs. Anne NJ Walker, of Philadelphia,
is left the entire estate, valued at $780,
100000, by her father, William Weight
man.
Lack of provisions forced Aeronaut
Tomlinson to end his proposed flight
from st. Louis to Washington.
The industrial dividends for Septem-
Der this year will be $9,500 900, as COM
pared with s17,27S,4O for last Septem-
Der.
A mob at Laramie, Wyo., lynched a
negro ''trusty" who had attacked white
girl il the prison kitchen.