The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-12-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Dec. 90.

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Fire at Sedalia, Mo-, destroyed the
katy" building, causing total loss
of $4,000.
Apostle Dowie's last message in
spires fear that he will never be able
to return to Zion City.
The members of the three principal
denominations in Canada will vote for
united church in 1906.
A Philadelphia woman committed
suicide by drinking acid after having
trimmed Christmas tree.
The Iowa legislature, which con-
venes January 8, will take up flood
of suggestions for new insurance laws.
Admiral Dewey sent Christmas greet
ings to the officers and men of the
American navy in all parts of the
world.
No legislation providing for federal
control of life insurance companies is
likely during this session of congress,
members say.
Six days of strenuous liquidation
closed for the Chicago National bank
with aggregate Withdrawals of $4,000
900 in deposits.
The international livestock exposi-
ton in Chicago closed with a record
attendance for the week, 557,743 per-
sons attending.
Will Carter, negro, was hanged at
Kenansville, N. c., for criminal as
sault upon six-year-old white girl at
Wallace, N. c., November last.
While skating in a small park in st.
Louis Bert Fuller, IL years old; Mel
low Fuller, Is, and Charles Holfeld, Is,
broke through the ice and drowned.
A horse attached to buggy ran into
a Pennsylvania special train at Del
phos, O., and Henry Honhorst and
daughter Rose Honhorst, were instant
ly killed.
Secretary Taft has granted the appli-
cation of Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
U. s. A., retired, for relief from fur
Their duty with the organized militia
of Massachusetts,.
George H. Turner was hanged at
San Antonio, Tex, for the murder of
Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch March 9, 1905.
He left a note wishing everybody a
Merry Christmas.
Mrs. Sarah Whitmire, a widow, aged
So years, was murdered in her home
near the village of Muncy Valley, Sui
Ivan county, Pa. Robbery is believed
to have been the motive.
Former United States Senator Bard
was seriously injured in a runaway
near Oxnard, Cal. He was thrown from
his buggy into a ditch, sustaining
dislocation and a fracture of his left
hip.
Frank Willard, an insane man, shot
and killed Sheriff Henry Smith at
Ukiah, Cal, in Judge Whites cham
bers. He then fired once at Judge
White, but missed him. Willard was
arrested.
Mrs. Almira Pierce Johnson, one of
the Oldest members of the Woman's
Relief corps in the country and Of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, died at Milford, Mass, at the age
of 101 years.
A heavy rain and wiEdstorm, which
practically reached the dimensions OF
hurricane, swept the Wyoming val
ley in Pennsylvania. One man was
killed and property worth thousands
Of dollars was destroyed.
William Clark and H. McKirihan,
members of the construction crew on
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad, were killed by passenger
train while walking on the railroad
tracks at East Moline, Ill.
An eyewitness of the extent of the
famine in the northeast provinces of
Japan reports the condition of the
people to be really deplorable. The
advent of winter has found thousands
on the verge of starvation.
Chris Anderson, his son Morton, and
his mother-in-law, Mrs. l.. j. Wood
ward, of Altavista, Kan, were killed
at Alma, Kan, while crossing the
railroad tracks, their carriage being
struck and demolished by an engine.
Herbert H. d. PIERCE, third assistant
secretary of state, has been selected
by the president as the first American
minister to Norway. Charles DENLY,
chief clerk of the department, has
been determined upon as successor to
Mr. PIERCE in the state department.