The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-01-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Ian r

France and Morocco have settled
their recent misunderstanding.
The Forty-fourth general assembly
of Illinois convened at Springfield
Gov.-elect John A Johnson, of Min
nesota, was inaugurated in st. Paul.
William L. Douglas, of Brockton, was
inaugurated governor of Massachusetts.
Eleven Swiss have been frozen to
death while making an ascension of
Mount Saint Bernard.
Fire Quilted the plant of the Union
Meat company at Portland. Ore. The
loss Will run upward of $1O0.OOO
Intense cold has prevailed for the past
lew days in the province of Silesis
Twelve persons We're frozen to death.
Henry V. Poor, widely known for
many years as a railroad authority and
an expert on financial affairs is dead at
MS nome in Brookline, Mass.
John Hathaway, a negro. who wears
ago ranged high as jockey, was hanged
DIT winchester, Ky, for the murder of
Ella thomas, his sweetheart.
fofmer Gov. William Claflin of Mas
sachuSetts, died Thursday evening at his
nome IN Newtonville. Mass He was
governor in 1S72-1S73 and 1874.
QUO Schnurrer, editor of tho Ohio
"alsenfreund and a recognized writo-
on Sathoilc church subjects. was found
oeau IN his room at Columbus. O.
Ane New York legislature assembled
at Albany for its session of 1905. After
" sahlzlng, the first annual message Of
Wv 1lglsns was received and read
Inc body of Neil S. Phelps the cant
tallst, who mysteriousIy disannearad
number OF weeks ago, was found badly
uecomposed, in the river at Battle Creek
Mich o''''
Larry ONeil, alias Henry Milton. was
hanged In the state prison at San Omen
Tin, Cal, for the murder of James Gil
ice, an aged saloonkeeper of San Fran
cisco.
representative Adams, of Perpsyl-
wanna, has introduced a bill providing
Ior the establishment in the District of
Columbia of whipping post for wife
beaters.
n. y. Barber, vice president of the
wrecked Commercial bank. of Cam
bridge, O., was sentenced to three years
and one-half in the penitentiary for ON.
bezZlement.
The refrigerating plant of a brewery
at Colburg. Germany. overweiebtea
with ice collapsed, burying nine work
men. Five of them were killed and four
were wounded
Inc Harroun grain elevator in Har-
em, suburb of Kansas City, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire with 1900 bushes of
wheat. Loss in the building 100000;
insurance. st25,000
j. R. Goo and P, Ungerer, of Fort
vay..e, a.. q lkesl On A. tracks at
da. @, WHILE Ioirg some work. and
ere struck by a passenger train. Both
ere instantly killed.
Gen Eawin Niles. aged II years, died
al as.i uIn at Goshen, Ind During
lie civil war be was hit by cannon
IL. no years his--4gind uss
zen partial. wrecked.
Ar eNpiosioi @. tanl If easD
- Il = IN the lii. bard IAN y
'5~Hiduu. Mich, hIiItH, one NUnfd
nd probably fatally injured another
nd wrecked the building.
Christian Maimdorff, aged so years,
wing at Brighton, Jefferson county. Ia,
as found dead, as the result Of q bio
n the temple, inflicted with an AK.
lis murderer is unknown.
Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Collins Mclean,
-. S. A. retired. whose father. John NC
.ean, was postmaster general under
residents Monroe and Jackson is dead
t his home in Bellport, l.. l.
Detective James Keefe was killed,
Richard Birmingham, a fellow police
man, was wounded, and two men whom
they sought to arrest were struck by
bullets in fierce battle in Chicago.
One man was killed and half dozen
persons were seriously injured in rear-
end collision, in which three trains
crashed together on the Ninth Avenue
Elevated railroad structure in New
York.
Herman H. Knippenberg, said to have
been the oldest postmaster in point OF
service in the United States,
is dead at his home in Femme Usage,
St. Charles county, Mo. He was for
about So years postmaster and general
storekeeper at Femme Usage
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