The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-08-12
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

ateQ Dy the IduuOCh I1OuSc SoihPohJ'
was totally destroyed by fire at To-
ledo, O., at loss of 100000.
The Pullman company's car works,
at Pullman, ILL.,, will close in short
time, and 5000 workers will be thrown
out of employment, to remain idle for
an indefinite period.
A head-on collision between electric
cars on the Boston & Worcester Street
railway. near Westboro, Mass, re-
suited in serious injury to IA persons.
one of whom has since died.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness July 81, 1904, the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to $780, 49,
Alb, which is an increase for the month
of s13,549, $50.
Robert Christensen, district attor-
ney of Trempealeau county, Wisconsin,
and prominent as a republican politi-
clan, was found dead in his bed at La
Crosse, Wis He was professor in
Gale college.
Mrs. Nelson A. Miles died at West
Point, N Y, of heart disease. She and
Gen. Miles had been visiting their son,
Sherman, who is student at the mill
tary academy. Gen. Miles was not pres
ent at the time of his wife's death.
Mrs. Arthur Paget, wife of Maj. Gen.
Paget, Scots Guards, daughter of the
late Mrs. Paran Stevens, of New York,
was seriously injured as result of fall
ing down the elevator shaft of her Lon
don residence. Her thigh was fractured
and her knee injured.
Jack Carr, who killed Chris Hartman
and wounded four persons in his attempt
to avoid capture, died at Nebraska City,
Neb., as a result of the wounds he re-
ceived in the fight. Fifteen bullet holes
were found in different parts of his body.
Jacob H. Studer, an author and au-
thority on ornithology, was found dead
in his Office in Fifth avenue, New York.
Death was evidently due to heart failure.
Whitefish have returned to the Lake
Michigan grounds off Grand Haven.
after an absence of ten years. This will
mean the revival of an important in
custry. twenty-five years ago Grand
Haven was the center of whitefish in
dustry. Improvident fishing and in
creased navigation and sewage drove the
fish away gradually.
Peter Henkel shot and killed Rudolph
Wieland in barron at Lancaster, Wis.
and then killed himself when overtaker
by citizens. Henkel charged that Vie
land had alienatsd the affections of his
wife.
The government crop report show:
general conditions slightly improved
by reason of recent rains
An army of detectives secured the
country for four men who robbed pas
sengers on the Illinois Central traiI
near Matteson. III. The railway offer
ed $4,000 reward. No valuable clev
has been found.
c. E. Perkins, chairman of the board
Of directors of the Chicago, Burlington
e Quincy railroad, and ]. D. Robinson
a New York capitalist, with thei
wives, are badly hurt in collision be
tween their auto and an electric ca
near Omaha.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed tn
building and stock of drugs owned b,
a. %. huphd, anu clSul Juliet Shall DuSl
ness houses at Albion, Ia, causing los
of $4,000.
John M. Jones, the oldest printing
press manufacturer in the United States
died in Palmyra, N. Y. He is credited wit
having made and patented the first type
writer in this country, receiving his pat
ents on his machine in 1855. He was
years old.
Assistant Chief of Police Schuttler, @
Chicago, has four men under arrest VIII
are suspected of being implicated in tn
recent Illinois Central train robbery
Three of the men have been identifie
as having been connected with othe
robberies.
The Rock Island Railroad compan
and the United States Express compan
have offered reward of $4,000 for tn
capture of robbers who held up the Roc
Island train near Tucumcari, Mex
Harry Payne Whitney began a figh
against the New York inheritance ia
law which forced him to pay 1922 ,222 o.
his fathers estate
Mrs. William Krauss was arrested !
Hartford City, Ind, on the charge of poi
soning her stepdaughter.