The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-11-25

The entire business district Of the
town of Dublin, Miss, with the excep-
ton of one building, was wiped out by
fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Miss Clara Conway, one of the best
known educators in the south,
is dead at Memphis, Tenn.
James Cooney, ex-congressman OF the
Seventh Missouri district, died at his
home in Marshall, Mo-, of pneumonia
Special farewell exercises in honor OF
the Liberty bell, which had been on ex-
hibition in the Pennsylvania building
at the worlds fair, were held, at the
conclusion of which the honored relic
was started on its trip back to Phila-
delphia.
Three persons were killed and nine
or more passengers and trainmen were
injured in a rear-end passenger train
collision at Elmdale, Mich, on the Pere
Marquette railroad.
In a row among pupils at the Indian
school at Banning, Cal, Charles Colby
was hit on the head with a pistol and
in return he shot and killed Tom Bucan-
oros and wounded Fred Smith.
George Gould wounded an attendant
in the eye while hunting in North Caro-
lima. The victim vas put in the Gould
private car and hurried to an oculist in
New York.
Charles Shyck, arrested for wife-beat-
ing, failing to make peace with MS
spouse, attempted to kill her, her sister
and his baby in a Chicago police station,
and then killed himself.
Deposits in Chicago banks reach $685.
OOO, 900, the largest in their history, and
an increase of over $40, 000, 900 since the
last report.
Gen. John c. Black, of Chicago, a DEM
ocrat, has been selected for appointment
as commissioner of pensions by hep pres
ident.
Neill Sellers and Dave Brown, negroes,
convicted of the murder of Mrs. George
Parker, were hanged on a double gallows
at Elizabethtown, N. C.
A paper by Commander Booth-Tuck-
er presented before the irrigation con-
gress told OF the success of the Saliva
ton Army's farm colonies.
DR.. Charles w. Dabney, the new presi-
dent of the University of Cincinnati, in
his inaugural address, criticised the ex-
penditure of large sums for wal prepa-
rations and urges that the money might
better be spent on schools.
While feeding a corn shredder Sidney
Carter, of Chandler, Ind, had his left
arm so badly lacerated that amputation
was necessary.
Three hundred men and girls were res
cued from a burning factory building
on the Bowery in New York by the hero.
ic work of firemen and volunteers.
B. D. DELAY, aged 80, committed sui.
eide by hanging at Waco, Tex. He left
a note saying: 81 am tired of living"
The idleness of the convicts at the
Joliet penitentiary, caused by the new
state law, causes an increase Of in
sanity.
Mrs. Mary Gooch, aged 60, died from
heart disease brought on by running tt
catch a train at Greenup, ILL.,, for he
home in Terre Haute, Ind.
The president dismissed John B
Brownlow, disbursing officer of the pos
office department at the worlds fair
for writing an impertinent letter.
President Roosevelt has been indt
rectly exposed to smallpox by comm;
in daily contact with James r. Garfield
in whose bureau a case has developed.
The hulk of the Inflated excursion
steamer, General Slocum, which wa
hurned last cummer at a cost Of NOR
than 1000 lives, was sold in New Yorl
city for $1,000.
John Morley, M. p, before the New
York chamber of commerce, prophesie'
a defensive and offensive alliance be
tween the English-speaking nations.