The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-23

James Connors, the murderer of De-
putty Sheriff Sweet, of Blackfoot, was
executed at Boise Idaho.
The body of former President aul
Kruger was inferred with impressive
ceremonies at Pretoria.
Will Jones, colored, was hanged at
| Helena. Ark, for the murder Of A. w.
Robertson.
Mr.. Davis, the American consul at
Alexandretta. who recently got into
trouble with the Turkish authorities be-
cause he lowered the flag from the con-
sulate during celebration in honor oil
the sultan's birthday, will resign.
Augustus Macon, an attorney, died at
| Denver, Col, of acute stomach trouble
aged IS years. He was native OF Ken
lucky and studied law in Abraham Lin
coins office
One girl was killed, two fatally in
jured, and score of others hurt by jump
ing from windows during an explosion
which wrecked Lloyd Adams & Simp-
sons toy pistol factory at Ports
mouth, o.
Plans are forming for the establish
ment of an exhibition of American
manufactures in Paris, France.
A Minneapolis man shot his fiancee
dead and killed himself Illness is sup
posed to have unbalanced his mind.
Weekly trade reviews show that hol-
iday sales have reached an unusually
large volume. Railroad traffic in
creases and collections are good. The
number of unemployed men is grow
ing less and fewer labor disputes ex-
list.
great meeting was held at Carnegie
hall, New York, in the interests of in
ternational arbitration. Archbishop
Ireland and Oscar S. Straus were the
principal speakers.
Mail Clerk George Burr, of New AL
bany, and Fireman Harry Hardin, of
Jeffersonville, were fatally injured in
collision between passenger train
and switch engine at Jeffersonville,
Ind
Robert H. Patton, newly elected ma
tional chairman of the prohibition par
ty, refuses the place. o. w. Stewart,
the deposed leader, declines to call an
other meeting.
owen Kelly, wealthy Philadelphia,
prominent in Irish societies and once
Clan-na-Gael leader, has been miss
ing since October 25. Violence is sug-
gested as a clue to the mystery.
Henry Wellington Wack, who says
he suffered in the recent slump OF
Amalgamated copper, asks the district
attorney of New York to indict Thomas
w. Lawson.
w. w. Kimball, pioneer of the piano
and organmaking business, died at his
Chicago residence at the age of 7t
years.
A fast mail train on the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy railway was
wrecked near Bristol, Ill. One person
was killed outright, two fatally in
jured and a number of mail clerks
bruised. The wreck was caused by q
spreading of the rails.
The contract for the sale of the prop
erty offered by the worlds fair com
for $450,000, has been signed in st
Louis aud the first payment of 100000
made
August Belmont has been elected
> president of the National Civic FEEDER
! alton to succeed the late Senator Mar
Gus A. Hanna.
: Fire in Goshen, Ind. destroyed
J. Hawks hardware store, Hawks Elec
trio company, Collins saloon and the
Globe Milling company. The loss Il
about 100000.
Wireless telegraph messages were
725 miles, without relaying This is
said to be the longest distance over
land ever covered.
Three men lost their lives and foul
others were terribly scalded by rush
of steam and boiling water in the fire
room of the battleship Massachusetts,
lying at the League Island navy yard
Philadelphia.
! Philip Weinseimer, former presiden
of the New York Building Trades al
, lance, who has been in the Tomb
since October Is last under sentence t
Sing Sing for eXtortion, was released
in $4,000 cash bail.
Horace Wolcott Robbins, lawyer ant
well-known landscape artist, is dead a
+, his home in New York. He was ma
tive of Mobile, Ala, where he was borl
in 1912.
A loss of between $4,000 and 5000,
900 was caused in Cincinnati by fir
/, which destroyed the Ohio Seat com
pany's plant and the Rudolph SURF
g Anchor tannery.
Disease of the spine, attributed to al
injury received in football game, ha
:. caused the death at Lakewood, N. j
of Augustus F. Holly, Jr., a forme
member of the Princeton team.
! Acting presumably for the bondhold
ers, Henry Jayne purchased the Musca
tine North & South railroad at receiV
er's sale in Muscatine, la. The pric
d paid was 100000.
Three persons are known to hav
i been killed and four others seriousl
= injured by the collapse of the suspen
). sion bridge across the Elk river, whic
q connects East and West Charleston
e w. Va.
: Berlin has passed the 100000 mar
in the population of the city proper.
=, Mice Eya RoOth tho new cOmman de