The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-11-04
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.

commerce commission on the charges
brought by William Randolph Hearst,
alleging collision on the part of the
coal-carrying railroad companies in
fixing and maintaining the price at
tidewater, has been resumed in New
York
Following the death of Irving
Schultz, IA years old, from the effects
of a blow struck during a fist fight in
st. Louis between the two boys, JOS
eph Stein, 13 years old, was arrested
on a charge of murder.
Fred c. Mathews, a general prisoner
at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, Mich,
serving a sentence for desertion, was
shot and killed by Private Frank j
Hilla while trying to escape.
Spontaneous combustion is believed
to have caused a fire which did $780,
600 damage at the Orange (Mass.)
plant of the New Home Sewing Ma
chine company. Ten thousand new
machines were ruined.
The powder house of Abbott & Son,
in the suburbs of Marshalltown, Ia,
containing tons of powder and dyna-
tire city and blowing out windows
and doors for blocks.
S. F. Shaw, cashier of the bank at
Pleasanton, Ia, which made an assign
ment recently, has been held to the
grand jury for responsibility for the
banks failure.
Mrs. Fannie E. Sternberger, who
shot and killed Milton ]. Sternberger,
her husband, several weeks ago, and
who was convicted in Memphis, Tenn,
of involuntary manslaughter and SEN
fenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary, died at the hospital.
John c. Haddock, an Independent coal
mine owner and operator, testifying in
New York before the interstate COM
merce commission in the case of Hearst
against the coal carrying roads, said
that as result of discrimination, his
company suffered a loss of more than
100000 in less than eight years.
The triennial general convention of
the Episcopal church, which has been
in session in Boston since October 5, was
ended with a public service in Trinity
held in Richmond, Va, in 1907
In fight with three tramps, Frank
Sells, station agent for the Burlington
road at Nebraska City Junction, Ia,
killed one of his assailants, and was
himself slain.
During the absence from home of the
parents, three small children of Jesse
IN do fo Twin
Coralea, Okla, were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the house.
The long drought in Texas has been
broken by heavy rains.
Henry Ehlert, farmer, was killed,
and John Tundeen, an engineer, had
both legs broken by the explosion of a
threshing engine on the farm of ]. H.
HANGER near McHenry, N D.
The Occidental & Oriental steamship
Doric has arrived in San Francisco
from the orient, bringing 2,747 tons of
cargo, the principal items being silks
and teas, the value of the first being
$1,900,000. The vessel also carried
specie to the value of 100000.
President Roosevelt directed the ap-
pointment of Mrs. James Longstreet to
be postmistress at Gainesville, Ga. Mrs
Longstreet is the widow Of Gen. James
Longstreet.
An airship, the invention of Capt
Baldwin, of San Francisco, made an I'M
announced flight over ST. Louis and the
worlds fair, maneuvering under COM
plete control above the cheering crowds
for an hour, crossed the Mississippi river
and alighted successfully ten miles from
the starting point
I. j. Chase, treasurer of Meiggs
county, O., who said he was robbed oil
$l4,5OO on September 9 last, has beer
indicted for embezzling that amount.
Peter Casteel, aged %, and his
brother, aged 81, committed suicide
hear Athens, Tenn, by lying down or
the track in front of a train, claspet
in each others embrace.
The Pennsylvania Railroad com.
pany has placed an order for 500
cars, 5000 of which are to replace
damaged and WORKOUT cars on tn.
lines east and west of Pittsburg.
Henry Schwabacher, prominent fol
many years as dlStlller, and one o.
the wealthiest men in central Illinois
Gied in Peoria, ILL.,, aged Is.
Frank j. Marshall, of New York
won the championship of the United
States in the chess tournament at st
Louis.
]. Francisco, a cigarmaker O
Bloomington, ILL.,, and four tramp
were killed in the wreck of a Wabasl
freight train at Sadorus, ILL.,, afte
having been put off the train thre
times.
Ed Geers, the veteran driver an,
trainer, was thrown from a sulky a
Billings park, Memphis, Tenn. On
leg was broken
John Severius, a barber of Lewis
ton, ILL.,, died at Carthage, Ia, afte
drinking q quart of bay rum.