The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-01-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For Che Week Endine Jan. =

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 100000.
Intense cold has prevailed for the past
lew days in the province of Silesia.
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, negro, who Is years
ago ranged high as jockey, was hanged
at winchester, KY, for the murder ot
Ella Thomas, his sweetheart.
FORMER Gov. William CIafiin, of Mas
sachusetts, died Thursday evening at his
none III NeWtonville, Mass. He was
governor in 1S72-1S73 and 1874.
otto Sehnurrer, editor of the Ohio
"alsentreund and a recognized writer
On catholic church subjects, was found
ueau IN his room at Columbus, O.
Inc New York legislature assembled
AZ albany for its session of 1905. After
ORGANIZING, the first annual message of
Wv Hlglgns was received and read.
Inc body of Neil S. Phelps, the CANT
uallst, who mysteriously disappeared :
numDer OF weeks ago, was found badly
uecomposed, in the river at Battle Creek
Mich. ~ eeN'
Larry O'Neil, alias Henry Milton, was
hanged in the state prison at San Omen
Tin, Cal, for the murder of James Gil
lice, an aged saloonkeeper of San Fran
cisco.
Representative Adams, of Pennsyl-
wanna, has introduced bill providing
1or the establishment in the District of
Columbia of a whipping post for wife
beaters.
H. o. Barber, vice president of the
wrecked Commercial bank. of Cam
bridge, O., was sentenced to three wears
and one-half in the penitentiary for em.
bezzlement.
The refrigerating plant of a brewery
at Colburg, Germany. oyerweipbte5
with ice collapsed, burying nine work
men. Five of them were killed and four
we're wounded.
Inc Harroun grain elevator in Har-
EN-, suburb of Kansas City, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire with 1900 bushels OF
1heat. Loss in the building $4,000;
Insurance $4,000.
J. r. Coco and P..f. Ungerer. of Fort
1ay.e,' MS. n lkeG On AZ tracks at !
da, g., whiley loir9 some work. and
ere struck by apassenger train Both
ere instantly killed 4
Gen Eawin Niles, aged ~ years, died
ali asylum at Goshen, Ind During.
e civil war. he was hit by canren
u. 'r'ol Ayears s~Gind eusss
en partialss wrecked.
An explosion q tapl % case
~ 4 r., IN the Hut bard lGiu,g5
aeniand. nilcn., killed. one moftfa
i'd probably fatally injured another
Id wrecked the building.
Christian Mafmdorff, aged 80 years,
wing at Brighton, Jefferson county. Ia,
as found dead, as the result of a bic,
n the temple, inflicted with an AK.
is murderer is unknown.
Brig Gen. Nathaniel Collins Mclean,
s. A., retired, whose father, John Nc
can, was postmaster general under
residents Monroe and Jackson, is dead
t his home in Bellport, L. l.
Detective James Keefe was killed,
Richard Birmingham, fellow police
nan, was wounded, and two men whom
hey 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
continuous service in the United States,
s dead at his home in Femme Usage,
st. Charles county, Mo. He was for
bout So years postmaster and general
;torekeeper at Femme Usage.
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