The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-09-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Sept. /.


colt movement dying out in China.
Assistant Secretary LOOMS will soon
resign his state department position.
James McMenamin, the first chief of
the Kansas City fire department, is
dead, aged rs years.
Women and children die by the hun
bred in Spain as result of the famine
which is sweeping over the land.
Sweden and Norway appointed COM
missioners who shall evolve plan for
the peaceable ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
union.
The Southern Lumber Manufacture
ers' association has announced gen
eral advance of Ione dollar per thou
sand feet on pine.
The Massachusetts socialist party
state convention nominated former
Representative James F. Carey, of
Haverhill, for governor.
Two men were fatally, and three Sc
riously burned by the bursting of
16-inch steam pipe at the Danville,
ILL.,, electric light plant.
Eighteen hundred Hungarian miners
have been imported from Virginia to
Beattyville, Lee county, to take the
places of striking miners.
Plus x. has decided to prohibit wom-
! en- from living in the vatican palace,
| and will erect an apartment building in
| which employees with families may
dwell.
An unknown man robbed the First
National bank of Collinsville at Col
| of Bartletsville, I. T., and escaped
with 1900.
All records of prices of New York
stock exchange seats were broken by
the sale of a seat for $4,000, which,
with the initiation fee, makes the
price $4,000.
Gus Bobbs, who is alleged to have
stolen SIC, 900 in cash and checks from
| Charles A. Stevens & Bros, of Chica-
go, on August II, was arrested in
Seattle, Wash.
NJ. R. Lefebre, aged 20, of Beaver
Falls, N. Y, prominent paper man
| ufacturer and retired merchant, drop
ped dead at his summer home in
| Moresand Island park.
The new 16,000-ton battleship Ver-
mont, built for the United States gov
eminent by the Fore River Shipbuild-
| ing company, was successfully
| launched at Quincy, Mass.
Beals c. Wright, of Boston, defeated
Hoicombe Ward, of Orange, N. j.,
holder of the national lawn tennis
! singles championship, in three straight
sets, the score being 81, 6-2, 11-9.
M. Cronier, manager of the Say re-
finery, one of the largest enterprises
of the kind in France, is suicide.
His business affairs were badly in
volved, and he leaves many large
! debts.
| Christine Tennefsen, IS years of
age, killed herself by jumping from
second-story window at Devils Lake,
S. d. She was probably the oldest
woman in the state. She had been
blind for 25 years.
Rufus H. Pitcher, supposed to be
| one of the last surviving veterans of
the Black Hawk war, is dead at the
home of his son in Suster, S. D. Had
he lived until the 18th of September
he would have been 101 years old.
Fire at the White Pine Lumber COM
pany, at Priest river, Idaho, destroyed
the entire plant with 100000 feet OF
| lumber, together with about 20 resi-
dences. comprising half of the town.
The loss will approximate $275,0O0.
Escaping from her niece, who was
taking her back to her home in Texas
after an illness, Mrs. Laura Oxford,
aged 80, jumped from a Burlington
train that had stopped on the Eads
bridge at st. Louis and was drowned.
| An international bank, with capt.
tai of $1,000,O0O, is being formed in
New York for the purpose of carrying
on banking operations between the
United States and Hungary, and to
/ handle the accounts of emigrants to
| this country.
| The bodies of Mrs. E. B. Haver, wife
of real estate dealer and her FIVE
year-old son, securely tied together
with stout cord, were recovered
from the Bessemer ditch at Pueblo,
Col. The woman evidently had DELHI
| erateiy drowned herself and child.
|