The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-08-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. 10.


Rev. C.. Lindell, pastor of the
Swedish Lutheran church at Vasa,
Mimi, fell dead in a drug store.
Scared by escaping steam on boat
on river in Alaska, six Indians
jumped overheard and were drowned.
The police at GranmicheIe, Sicily,
fired on strikers who were stoning them,
killing seven and wounding a number
of others.
The apple outlook continues I'M
changed, a poor crop being indicated
in nearly all the principal apple pro-
ducing states.
F. " Rockafellow, pioneer banker and
the first city treasurer of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, died from complication of dis
eases, aged II years.
W. W. Taylor, active in lumber bus
mess of northern Wisconsin and in the
coal, lumber and land business in La
Crosse, died suddenly.
John Jebeles, in jealous fit, fatally
shot Miss Leila Mcbride, aged %, at Aus
ton, Ala, and then fired bullet into his
own brain, dying instantly.
Henry D. Davis, of Cleveland, O., was
Fraternal Order of Eagles by the grand
aerie at its session In Denver, Col
Confirmatioii OF the report that the
Marshall islands were visited by hur-
ricane and tidal wave on June 80 has
been received. One hundred lives
were lost
An appeal to congress for protection
of postmasters in the conduct of post
offices has been resolved upon by the
Wisconsin Postmasters' associations
convention.
Mrs. Media Wells, widow, shot
and killed William Burch, to whom
she was engaged to be married, at her
home in Hutchinson, Kan, and then
killed herself.
An official account of the disturbances
at Bielostok, Russian Poland, confirms
the report that 40 persons were killed.
Jews opened fire on the troops, who re-
piled with volleys.
A score of persons were more or less
seriously injured in st. Louis and East
st. Louis as the result of a violent wind
and rainstorm which followed ten min
utes of sudden darkness.
A telegram received from Batavia,
Dutch East Indies, reports an ugly
outbreak of Achinese rebels, who at
tackled the Dutch post at Rambong,
killing two officers and % men.
The navy department has been adj
vised that James E. Smith, seaman
gunner under instruction at the tor
pedo station, was drowned while
diving without diving suit for a tor
pedo.
The Chicago men, who went to Ply
mouth, Mass, TO see George l.. Marsh,
failed to identify him as the man want
ed in Chicago in connection with tina
murder of William Bate in November
last.
The Madrid newspapers declare that
| 10000 laborers in Andalusia are with
out the necessities of life. Several dis
| tricts are at the mercy of the rioters
and many landlords are seeking safety
in flight.
Frank Ward, foreman of yard gang
at the Pueblo, Col, steel works, caused
the death of his daughter Frances, aged
Is, by forcing her to swallow quantity
Of poison, and then committed suicide
by the same drug.
Mrs. Anne Woodall, who has just died
at Newport, KY, aged 95 years, was ma
tive of England, where, soon after her
marriage, she and her husband rode on
the frat steam railroad and witnessed
the coronation of Qeuen Victoria.
Walter Simpson, a well-known ath-
letic authority and expert on rowing
matters, died at Cambridge, Mass,
after long illness. For IA years Ire
| was president of the New England
Association of Amateur Oarsmen.
A passenger train on the Rome, Wa
tertown & Ogdensburg railroad at Phil
adelphia, Jefferson county, N. Y.
struck and killed Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
H. Cross, of that village, and their
daughter, Mrs. Chaurcey Welch, OF
Chicago.
Leon Jacerwitz, formerly a noted
Russian musician, died in the Dayton,
O., state hospital, aged &C years. While
touring the United States with an
opera company 30 years ago, Jacerwitz
lost his mind, and with it went all
knowledge of music