The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-24
Bishop spalding, of Peoria, is improv.


Hur," former minister to Turkey and q
veteran OF the Mexican and civil wars
died at Charlottesville, Ind.
C. C. McKibben, travelling salesman
for a typewriter company of Derby
Conn, was killed by falling from win
| dow of a hotel at Providence, R. l.
A drunken Indian went on the war
path 30 miles south of Tonopah, New
He killed three squaws and fellow In
dian and then fled to the mountains.
| Mrs. Elizabeth budding, aged 60 years
was burned to death at Springfield, Ill
She poked in a fireplace and her gown
caught fire.
Pitcher Jack Taylor, of the ST. Louis
National league baseball club, was ex-
onerated by the board of directors OF the
association of a charge of throwing
the game between ST. Louis and Pitts
urg in the latter city July 80 last.
The republican candidate for mayor OF
Chicago is John M. Harlan.
The Third Russian Pacific squadron
sailed from Libau for the far east.
Francis c. Lowell, now United States
district judge of Massachusetts,, has been
appointed United States circuit judge
| for the first circuit, just created by act
of congress.
William Cullen Bryant, the publisher
of the Brooklyn Times and secretary OF
| the American Newspaper Publishers
association, died at sanitarium in
| Plainfeld, N. ].
Charles BIGGER. aged 81 years, fatally
| stabbed his invalid wife, Emma BIGGER,
| aged AZ years, in Kansas City, Mo, after
| which he severed his own jugular vein,
dying instantly.
The Missouri supreme court rendered
an opinion that while osteopaths are not
of the state, they are liable for damages
resulting from injuries sustained by
persons whom they treat.
Two men met death from falling rock
in the Lake Superior copper mines at
Calumet. Mich.
Four negro children were burned to
death in Kansas City, Kan. The moth
ers of the children locked them in the
house and went shopping.
The National Friends Educational
conference will be held in Richmond,
Ind, from July 81 to August inclusive.
The conference will bring together
many prominent educators of the United
States.
Judge w. William Douglass, of Prov
idence, was elected chief justice of the
supreme court of Rhode Island by the
general assembly to succeed Chief JUS
tice E. E. Tillinghast. deceased.
Gov. Warner, of Michigan, has ordered
the removal from office of Sheriff elect
John T. Hoffman,, of Wayne county.
Hoffman, is at present confined in the
Wayne county Jail in Detroit. He was
convicted of collecting fraudulent fees
from the state while filling the office of
coroner.
Four persons were found dead in a
small house in Cleveland, o. The deaths
had been caused by escaping natural
gas.
The Hartman lines~will spend be-
tween $4,000, 900 and SS,00OO0O for new
equipment and new rails during 1905.
Ex-Congressman Feely died suddenly
of nephretis in Chicago.
ment at Lexington, Ky. for II desper-
ate crimes committed January 20, was
convicted of criminal assault and given
a death sentence.
The house of representatives has Or
dered a thorough examination of the
m of IF hn vi
voting Immediately on a resolution pre-
sented by Campbell of Kansas
On the recommendation of the board
of pardons, Gov. Pennypacker, of Penn
silvania, granted a reprieve of one
month to Mrs. Kate Edwards and Samuel
Greason, sentenced to be hanged for the
murder OF the woman's husband.
F. A. Falkenburg, of Denver, Col.
head consul of the Woodmen of the
World, died in Los Angeles of compli-
cation of nervous and kidney troubles.
aged As years. He was elected president
of the National Fraternal congress last
summer in st. Louis.
Judge Austin H. Young, aged "a years.
one of the pioneer judges of Hennepin
county, Mimi, is dead at his home in Min
neapolis, after long illness.
The bill giving women the right to vote
for presidential electors was killed by
the Kansas senate by vote of 60 to29.
Garth Thompkins, colored, was SEN
fenced to be hanged at Madisonville,
KY, for the murder of James Bream
three years ago.
The sixth session of the first parlia-
ment of his reign was opened in London
by King Edward with all the historic
pageantry which has marked the cere-
mony since his accession. The sovereign
himself read the speech from the throne.
There was nothing of unusual interest in
the document
The administration building at the
Letter coal mining town of Zeigler, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, about $780,
900.
Mrs. Lucy Jackson Myrick. native
of Vermont, died at Vaudeville, Mich,
aged 101 years and IL months.
George Gary Soule, wealthy retired
banker, died suddenly at Plainwell,
Mich, from congestion of the brain,
brought on by receiving news of the death
of his son, Ellis Soule, who was city at
torney of Spokane, Wash.