The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-03-17


instantly killed by James Oliver. Oil
yer lost $4,000 in the failure of the
| Casey & Garst Mercantile company a
| few months ago, and the misfortune
preyed on his mind.
A west-bound passenger train on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad collided
| with an east-bound freight train at
Mark Center, Ind. Harry Cummins,
fireman of the passenger engine, was
instantly killed
The strike on the subway and ele-
waited railway systems in New York
has passed the acute stage, and trains
are running with little delay.
Robbers set fire to warehouse at
Muncy, Pa, and the structure, together
with the stores of Jacob Per and Lewis
Smith & Sons and two dwellings, was
destroyed. The total loss is placed at
$4,000.
AS the result of a furnace explosion
at the Cambria Steel company's works
at Johnstown, Pa, three men, foreign
ers, were killed.
Judge Tayler, at Cleveland, freed
Mrs. Chadwick on two of the 16 counts
in the indictment. These two counts
were based on check that was made
payable not at the time it was drawn,
but on a date in the future.
Mrs. Nancy Kelly, the oldest white
woman in Maryland, is dead in Balti-
more, at the age of LOT years. Her
oldest living son is 72 and her young
est daughter 63.
National mothers congress opens in
Washington with a large attendance.
Programme for the week includes ad-
dresses by President Roosevelt, Car
Chicago.
National officers of the Brotherhood
of Engineers expel the New York SUBJ
way and elevated strikers for violation
of their contract with their employers.
Vice President Fairbanks has appoint
ed as his private secretary his SCH,
Fred c. Fairbanks. He was graduated
from Princeton in the class of 1903.
Weekly trade reviews show an in
creased volume of business, due to i'm
proved transportation and the lessen
ing of the weather handicap.
The government estimates of grain
still held in farmers hands of the crop
of 1904 show: Wheat, III, 100000 bush
els; corn, 954, OO0, 900 bushels, and oats,
347,000,OO0.
The government must pay $5,000,000
to the sugar trust, according to the
decree of the federal court, that
amount representing excess in duties
charged in 1903
The defense in the Chadwick case
at Cleveland made a desperate effort
to have the case taken from the jury,
and verdict of acquittal rendered by
the court. After arguments lasting
through the greater part of the day,
Judge Taylor overruled the motion.
Andrew Carnegie is now definitely
out of the present trial of Mrs. Chad
wick. If she should be acquitted this
time, Mr.. Carnegie might appear at a
subsequent trial.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perish and Thomas
Danick were killed by train at cross
ing in Foley, Mimi. The heads of both
men were severed from their bodies
and the body of Mrs. Perish was cut
in two by the wheels of the engine
While seven men were being hoisted
in the carriage in the Clear Spring col
liery at West Prison, Pa, the rope
broke and the men were hurled to the
bottom, distance of $50 feet All
were killed.
A fire which started in the general
store of A. 5. Leyman C Co. burned
out over half a dozen of the principal
business buildings of Stanford, Ill.
Loss, $4,000.
Ex-senator Quarles took the oath of
office as circuit judge for the eastern
district of Wisconsin.
United States Senator William Brim-
age Bate, of Tennessee, twice govern
or of his state, a veteran of both the
Mexican and civil wars, and for 10
years conspicuous member of the up
per house of congress, died in Wash
ington, aged IS years. Death was due
to pneumonia and defective heart.
John Cavins, one of the best known
men in Indiana, died in Indianapolis,
He was five times elected mayor of
Indianapolis, and was pioneer in the
development of the coal mining indus
try of western Indiana. He was 81
years old and unmarried.
Count Benckendorff, the Russian
ambassador to Great Britain, paid
$325,000 to Foreign Secretary Lans-
downe in settlement of the North sea
claims, and the incident was thus
closed.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations agreed to report favorably the
Santo Domingo treaty as amended
The vote was on party lines, every re-
publican voting for the treaty and ev-
cry democrat voting against it.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
with the clerk of the United States
district court in Springfield, ILL.,, by
Tere A. Clark, a mining promoter of
Quincy. Ill. He scheduled his liabili-
ties at 1854 800, and assets at $50.
Deaths in India from the bubonic
plague last week numbered $4,000.
Statistics show that the deaths from
bubonic plague in India within a few
years reach nearly 100000 II 1903
the mortality in India from the plague
alone was $4,000.