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


Because she was disappointed in love,
Miss Ethel Deveraux, a ~well-known
young woman who had been a guest at
Esmeralda Inn. Asheville, N. c., jumped
to her death from a mountain clif 200
feet high.
George Fourcloud, a fullblooded
Winnebago Indian, aged 25, has been
held at Fender, Neb., for the murder
of Cora Elk, also a Winnebago. the
fourth girl he has killed in two years.
He has apparently a mania for killing
girls.
The advisory board Of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workers Union of North America de-
cided to order a strike in New York
and vicinity. Between 5000 and 1000
men are called out.
Fire destroyed the main building of
the Colonial distillery and the large
dry houses at Trebeins, O., entailing a
loss estimated at $240,000.
After a shutdown of two weeks the
China, Pembroke & Webster cotton
mills, at Suncock, N. H., opened in
part, the 1900 operatives returning
under a reduction of 1914 per cent. in
G
Fire in the five-story building at
251-257 Main street, Buffalo, N. T.,
caused a loss estimated at $40O,0OO
Constable Daniel O'Brien was killed
and his father, John O'Brien, was prob
ably MORALLY wounded near Hillside
station, a suburb of Philadelphia, by
two chicken thieves.
Mark H. bunnell. former republican
congressman from the Eighth Mime
sofa district, and who was the first
superintendent of public instruction in
Minnesota, died at Owatonna, Mimi,
of heart disease.
Sangford Wolf, a farmer living near
Moweauqua, ILL.,, was arrested at his
home charged with the murder OF
Thomas Stringer. The men had been
enemies for some time.
The death list in the wreck of a Mis-
souri, Pacific train which plunged
through a washed-out trestle into a
mountain torrent near Pueblo, Col, is
placed at 100. Seventy-six bodies have
been recovered, of which So are identi-
fed.
Strikers in Chicago were given new
hope by the sanction of the teamsters
walkout at the international convention
by the spreading of the contest to New
York and by the voting Of financial aid
by local street railway mems unions.
Mamie Gilroy, an actress and singer
who had appeared in many musical
productions on the American stage
died in New York.
The New York Building Trades ALI.
ance, stung by the lockout, %abrogated its
arbitration agreement with employers
The injunction against the Illinois
anti-convict labor bill has been dissolved
and the prisoners will now be put tt
work.
Secretary of State Hay has protested
against the action of the Russian govern
ment in declaring on articles recognized
by it as c~ontraband of war. The circular
was issued in June, but has been made
public because of seizures of American
goods.
The repair shops of the American Re
frigerating Transit company, including
65 refrigerator cars, were totally burned
in st. Louis, entailing a loss estimated
at $500, 900, fully covered by insurance
After lingering for weeks between lf'
and death, Former Senator Vest passet
peacefully away at Sweet Springs, Mo
He was "A years of age. He served IL
the United States senate for "a years..
William Coates, a negro aged %, lef
tho cripnipoI nnurf rnnno of CT InSQnh
Mo-, a free man after having been trie'
five times for the murder of his mothe
two years ago, and having been twic
sentenced to be banged.
John Casey, aged 80 years, stabbed
G. Mccoy, aged 35, at Paolo, Kan. McCo,
died Immediately. When arrested Case,
said he killed Mccoy through mistake
thinking he was one of the bosses of tn
Standard Oil pipe line, where both mel
were employed.
Unfavorable crop conditions are re
fected in the weekly government report
which says that in the central valley
and parts of the upper lake region tn
drought is serious.
The Wisconsin supreme court granite
the anti-La Toilette faction a temporar
Injunction and the party fight will com
up for hearing on it's merits In Septem
Der.
A mother and three children wer
killed in a train wreck at Thirty-eight
and Western avenue, Chicago, a numbe
of persons were injured and eight rail
way employees were placed under arres
Justice White, of the New York su
preme court decided that the eight-hou
law is unconstitutional.
The United Button company, a Della
ware corporation, with a capital of So
O00, 900, was declared an involuntar
bankrupt in the United States court
Wilmington.
A contract has been awarded to Robel
Cauer, a New York sculptor, for a life
size bronze equestrian statue of Ger
Franz Sigel, to be erected in st. Loui
by the Sigel Monument association.