The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-12-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tn. Week Ending Nov. 2e

Many Italian towns are menaced by
a flood, the River Tiber having risen
to an unusual height.
Millers of Mexico are speaking of
the necessity of beginning to import
American wheat in large quantities.
: King Haakon, Norway's new ruler,
entered Christiania, accompanied by
his family and was given royal well
come.
Burglars broke into the Pratt instl-
tute, Brooklyn, N. Y, and carried on
$4,000 worth of jewelry and other artl-
cles.
Casualties of the football season are
the greatest on record, 10 boys being
killed, including two Saturday and III
injured
One man was burned to death and
six persons were injured in fire that
destroyed the interior of the South
End hotel at East st. Louis, Ill.
Carl Winter, prominent contrac-
tor of La Crosse, Wis, choked on
piece of apple in the business section
of that city. He died four hours later.
Secretary Wilson has appointed DR..
A. D. Melvin, of Illinois, as chief of
the bureau of animal industry to sue
coed DR.. Salmon, who resigned some
time ago.
Mary Shaylor, aged 80 years, and
Henry Whitmiller, babe of eight
months, were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed the house of William
Ackley in Towanda, Pa.
Stafford, Ariz., is entirely cut off by
high water. The Globe ella Valley
railroad is washed out on both sides
of the town. Heavy rains have fallen
all over southern Arizona.
Dr. Walter W. Webb, president Of
the Nashotah college, has been unani-
mously elected bishop coadjutor to
Bishop Isaac Lea Nicholson, of the
Milwaukee Episcopal diocese.
Great aggregate damage was done to
the coast towns of Great Britain by
storm Many small vessels were driven
ashore, but thus far only few lives
are reported to have been lost.
Henry White, American ambassador
to Rome, has been selected to represent
this country, in conjunction with Min
lister Gummere, of Tangier, at the ap-
preaching Moroccan conference.
While defending himself and his
mother from an attack by his step
father at St. Louis. Fred Rogers, II
| years old, fired bullet into his STEP
| fathers heart, causing instant death
President Roosevelt removed from
Office William S. Lieb, assistant United
States treasurer at Philadelphia, ror
constant and persistent violation of
the civil service law while in Office. "
A board of regents of the University
of California has just concluded the
purchase of the Bancroft library. The
purchase price was $3.50, 1000 Of this
amount H. H. Bancroft donated $780,
600.
Two masked men, armed with revolt
vers, forced Cashier Gabriel Jones of
the South Denver, Col, bank, a small
concern, to deliver to them $4,000, all
the cash in the safe, and fled in a
buggy.
A north-bound freight train on the
Cairo division of the Big Four was
wrecked at Swango hill, five miles
south of Paris, ILL., An unknown man
was instantly killed and two seriously
injured.
One person was killed, and IL were
| injured, none seriously, as the result
| of blasting rock in the center of the
business district of Kansas City, Mo-,
where an excavation is being made for
an Office building.
Robbers entered the bank at Pleas
ant Plains, near Springfield, ILL.,, and
secured $500 in money and property.
| They failed to blow the safe, but Sc
cured stamps and government money
| and silverware from the vault.
An ammonia pipe at the plant OF
the Houston Packing company, near
Houston, Tex. exploded. Steve
Johnson (colored). was instantly
killed and several other workmen
were injured, some of them fatally.
Mrs Kidder, the hymn writer, died
at Chelsea, Mass, aged sc years. us
My Name Written There?" I'VE Shall
Sleep, but Not Forever" and "The
| Golden Side" were among some of her
best compositions. 1t is estimated
that she wrote more than 1000 hymns
during her life.