The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-03
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

two banks closed last week, committed
suicide in order, it is said, that his
life insurance could be used TO pay MS
debts, amounting to SSO0,O0o.
Terrell Thomas, local manager OF
lumber company in Pasadena, CAL
killed his eight-year-old son, para
lytic, by stabbing him in the back win
a hunting knife. He then shot himself
to death. Thomas is supposed 10 nave
become suddenly demented.
The California Fruit agency, the big
merger in control of the packing and
shipping of large part Of the orange
crop of southern California, Will go out
of business next September.
The battleship Kentucky, under Rear
Admiral Evans, made record-break-
ing run from Hongkong to New York,
going 1888 miles in So days.
While the nuns of st. Elizabeth's
hospital in Chicago were in prayer,
thief broke into the office safe and got
$500.
Only two lives were lost in the HOOD
which swept through west and south
Cheyenne.
Willis Hall pleaded guilty at st.
Louis to the murder Of Victor Daus-
son, and was sentenced to SO years in
the penitentiary.
Estimates have been received from
county clerks to the effect that Kan
sas will need 10000 helpers from 9TH
err states to save the wheat crop. Last
year the farmers asked for $4,000 men.
Prosecution of the anthracite coal
trust railroads by the government is
promised. Just when and where the
proceedings will be instituted officials
of the department of justice refuse TO
disclose.
AS a result of an explosion in the
two drying rooms of the Lake Shore
Novelty company's plant at F1ndlay,
O., seven persons are known to be
dead, five are so seriously hurt that re-
covery is believed to be impossible.
and II or Is are injured badly.
George I. Wilkes, secretary OF the
Packers Baseball league, was killed by
a batted ball in Chicago.
The closing of the poolrooms in New
York city means the loss of 10000 daily
patrons anu OIL SlO,OOO,OoO ohhuoiAy -
receipts to the bookmakers.
The Standard Oil company is the rea
defendant in a suit for $4,000, 900 FOL
royalty brought by the widow of the
inventor of a process for refining OIL
Sherman Bell, adjutant general o
Colorado, has resigned because he say
military is used to awe laboring mel
and protect corporations. The COVER
nor and the mayor of Denver are &C
clsed.
Ormonde, the world famous horse
is dead. He was killed at the Menl'
Park stock farm of w. o. D. MacDon
ough, near San Francisco, to reliev
great suffering from paralysis.
David Rothschild, former presiden
Of the defunct Federal bank, OF NeI
York, who was convicted of grand lal
ceny, was sentenced to serve min
years in the state prison.
Hester Jackson, a negro woma
who claimed to be 10S years old,
dead in Washington, D. G.
Lieut-Col. John M. Matheny, q.
A., retired, is dead, at Berkeley, Cal
aged 60 years. He was a native
Indiana and served as captain durin
the civil war.
Three persons were killed and tie
others injured, two of them probabl
fatally, by an explosion in the factor
of the Independent Fire Works con
pany at Camden, N. j.
Daniel Graves, aged 90, was struc
by lightning at North Branch, Mich
and killed.
Nancy Hanks, the mare which II
nearly three years neld the trottir
championship of the world. when II
record stood at 2:04. has been so
for $4,000 to ]. M. Johnson, mayor
Malais, Me.
The French-Eversole feud in Ike
lucky has been reopened by John E
ersole shooting William Smith viii
he was asleep, causing instant deaf
George Lehrter, of st. Louis, plead
guilty in the United States distri
court to colorlng and selling oleoma
garine without labelling it as such al
was fined $1,000.
Shipbullders told the compression
commission that a subsidy is necessa
to build up merchant marine.
At Berkeley, CAL, Prof. Marcus
Spinello, instructor of French and IT
ian at the University of California, "
thrown under the wheels of movi
train and received injuries from viii
he died soon afterward.
Myer S. Isaacs, president of the Bar
de Hirsch fund, and prominently iden
fed with many other local and nation
organizations, dropped dead in a N
York cafe. He was &c years of age.
c. G. Clark, farmer near Way
Neb., was killed by lightning and
son severely injured. Three horses tt
were driving were killed.
w. ]. Showers, editor of the Onalas
Wis, Record, was killed by lightning
his desk.