The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-01-15

Human life is safer in Kentucky
than it is at night in the streets of
New FORK or Chicago, declares Gov.
Beckham in his message to the legis-
lature.
Seventeen dead and SO injured is the
result of wreck on the Rock Island
railroad near Willard, Kan.
Van Dine, Niedermeier and Marx, the
car barn bandits, were placed on trial
in Chicago.
The coroner's inquest over victims of
the theater fire began in the city coun-
Gil chamber in Chicago. The death list
has been reduced to 565 because of shift
ing bodies between morgues.
Nine persons were injured, some seri-
ously, in a wreck of a Burlington pas
senger train at Rockford, S. D.
Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bu-
reau of navigation, urges naval sta
ton for Lake Michigan and Lake Bluff
and Racine are the location favored.
Nine. Lillian Nordica changed all
! of her plans for another concert tour
through the United States and will re-
turn to Europe, actuated by fear that
threats against her life will be executed.
The Coliseum in Chicago, where the
republican national convention will be
held, has been closed for alleged VIOLA
ton of law and churches come next.
Statesmen in Washington are veXed
at the delay of China in ratifying the
treaty opening two Manchuria ports to
trade with the United States.
Coroner Traeger says that many of the
Iroquois theater victims in Chicago are
buried in wrong graves because of mis-
takes in Identification.
The school board adopted memorial
for 90 pupils and 3S teachers of the Chi
cago schools killed in the theater fire.
j. E. MARCEL, cashier of the Highland
(Kan.) bank, was arrested on a charge
of forgeries aggregating 100000.
Former Congressman Edmund H
briggs was found guilty in New York
of accepting money for contract while
member of the house of representa-
tives.
The legislature of New York met in
annual session at Albany.
A negro was lynched at Buena Vista
Ark, for attempted assault on young
white girl
F'ifty-siX strikers have been expelled
from San Miguel county, Col, by the
military authorities.
E. H. Hartman has been elected
president of the Union Pacific railroad
Gov. John l.. Bates, of Massachusetts
was inaugurated at Boston for his Sec
ond term.
James Garfield killed his wife and
himself at Minneapolis, Mimi.
II. Frazee, an electrical worker, was
found responsible for the $250,OOO fire
at the Iowa state capitol, he having
dropped lighted candle near the To-
| cality where the blaze was first discov.
cred.
The ceroner's jury begins it's inquiry
| into the Iroquois theater horror in Chi
| cago and many witnesses told of thu
death struggle, saying that exits were
! locked, that the so-called asbestos cur
! tain burned, that there was little or M
| fire fighting apparatus on the stage
and that the employees of the theatel
| were undisciplined.
| Russell Sage, who is 81 years old
has given up his daily visits to Wal
street in New York, and retired from
! active participation in affairs.
Gus Gregory (colored) was hanged a
New Madrid, Mo-, for the murder Of
George Marshall July 10, 1902
Gen. Rafael Reyes, the Colombian
/ special envoy, has been informed BY
Secretary Hay that the Panama ques
j ton will not be reopeneu.