The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-10-07
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


Three are dead, nine are seriously
injured and some 20 or more persons are
cut and bruised as the result OF the
wrecking of a train on the Maine Cen
trail railroad, near Lewiston, Me.
August Johnson and boy Miller were
suffocated by fire which destroyed the
head house of the Almaden tunnel In
Tarryall district, Colorado.
Samuel Egly, prominent farmer,
was shot and instantly killed at coun-
try school meeting near Mt. Ayr, a.
by William Killing. The shooting was
the result of quarrel.
The annual report of President Rip
ley, of the Santa Fe, states that the
strike of the Colorado coal miners cost
the railroad $1,500000.
President Roosevelt plans to issue his
call for the reassembling of The Hague
peace conference within six weeks and
will not await the conclusion Of peace
between Russia and Japan.
Judge Gray agrees with Commissioner
Wright and decides the Pennsylvania
check weighman controversy in favor OF
the coal miners.
The American Bar association began
its annual conference at st. Louis.
A military court recommended the
cashiering of company F, of Huntsville,
Ala. for permitting the lynching of a
negro.
j. ]. Marty, cashier of the Longford
tKan.) bank, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat. Dependency over long
continued i'll health is supposed to have
caused the deed.
Col James A. Brown, former treas
urer of the Peoples savings bank at
Stonington, Conn, pleaded guilty to four
counts of making four false entries in
the bank books, covering up an alleged
shortage of $4,000. Sentence was de-
ferred.
Col d. G. Cotton. former congressman
from the Eighteenth Kentucky district
and colonel of the Fourth Kentucky
regiment during the Spanish-American
war, is dead.
The Indiana yearly meeting OF
Friends, the largest and most influential
body of Quakers in the world, opened in
Richmond, Ind.
The three children of Charles N. Bird,
Ruth, Edith and Ernest, were burned to
death in fire which destroyed their
home, which is located near Robinson
la.
William Smith and Charles Jennings
confessed to the theft of $4,000 worth OF
diamonds from o. Cohen last June, and
were sentenced at Des Moines, Ia, to IL
years each in the state penitentiary.
Spreading rails caused wreck on the
St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
railroad near Vulcan, Mo-, in which 81
persons weer injured six seriously.
Lightning struck the Collins HealsliI
wholesale carpet building at Keokuk
Ia, and the structure was completely de-
at $250,000.
Mrs. Kate Winner has been indicted BY
the grand jury at Little Falls Mimi, fo1
murder in the first degree. She il
charged with having killed her husband
on June % last by beating him with ;
club while he slept.
The monthly statement of the collec
lions of internal revenue shows that TO
the month of August. 1904, the total re
ceipts were 9,132. 439, an increase. a.
compared with August. 1903. of s347 1926
The grand jury in Chicago indicted
Engineer Hoxie, Conductor Casper ant
Brakeman Wright, of the Chicago 4
Eastern Illinois road, for manslaughte
in connection with the Doremus Sunda.
school excursion wreck at Glenwood
ILL.,, on July Is, in which Is persons wer
killed and over 100 injured
The secretary of war has notified Chi
cago and traction companies that tun
nels under the Chicago river must be low
cred by April Is, 1906.
The Massachusetts, judge who fine
the secretary of the British embassy ha
been summoned to Boston. He says
will apologize if he did wrong.
The name of President Roosevelt to
letter addressed to Michael Donnelly an
published in the Miners Magazine @
Denver, official organ of the Wester
Federation of Miners is declared fors
cry by the president The authorize
are seeking the guilty persons.
Miss Estelle Mortimer, an actress
the Bird Center" company, playing i
Kansas City, Mo-, died suddenly Of
computation OF diseases. She was ;
years of age and had supported man
prominent actors during her stage CO
reer
Reports made to the National Fratel
nal congress, in session in st. Loui
show net increase in membership in th
various orders for the past year of 283
1893; number of deaths. $3.50; amour
paid in death benefits $53 gHF,S96.
Judge c. D. Woodward of the munit
ipal court Of Montpelier, VT, hange
himself on wall peg in his Office. H
left letter stating that his action We
taken because his enemies were seekin
the downfall of himself and his family
Unknown persons destroyed sewers
valuable paintings of the czar on exhib
ton in the Russian section Of the Varie
Industries building at the worlds fair