The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-01-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. IA


During a blizzard a man was frozen
to death in st. Louis.
Heavy rains have broken the long
drought Ia Indian territory.
Alva Adams, democrat, of Pueblo, has
been inaugurated governor of Colorado.
Three men and woman were killed
in wreck on the Cotton Belt railroad
at Piggott, Ark.
Fire of supposed incendiary origin de-
stroyed the business section of Arispe,
Ia. Loss, $4,000
Count Puechler, Germany's greatest
Jew batter. has been sentenced to jail
for melting class hatred.
Fire destroyed the new theater and
several other buildings at Neepawa,
Mimi, causing loss Of $4,000.
ExGov. Silas CARRIER, the first COVER
nor of Nebraska under the new constitu-
ton, died at his home in Red Cloud, Neb.
d. G. Macarthur and Archibald Car
michael were struck by Michigan Gen.
trail train and instantly killed at Dutton,
Ont.
= H. E. Buckley, who had escaped during
the night from his home while delirious,
was found frozen to death in Oklahoma
City, Okla.
Customs officers in Cleveland are said
to have found jewels worth $125,000
brought into the country by Mrs. Cassie
L. Chadwick.
A train on the Norfolk & Western,
east of here, ran into landslide at Ports
mouth, o. The engine was overturned.
One man was killed.
Secretary Morton, in a magazine arti-
Gle, outlines his plan for railroad reform
based on legalized pooling of earnings
and federal regulation.
Russia has formally protested to the
powers against China's alleged violation
of neutrality and gave notice that she
would act in her own interests.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued call for reports of the condi-
ton OF national banks at the close of
business on Wednesday, January IL.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, has de-
clded to accept the position on the inter-
state commerce commission offered him
some time ago by President Roosevelt.
Henry Phipps, the former Pittsburg
steel manufacturer, will give $1,000,00O
for the erection in New York city OF
model tenement houses for the working
classes.
Gov. La Toilette in his message to the
Wisconsin legislature calls for state
supervision of rates, tax on life irsur-
ance and action against the trusts and
the lobby.
Alexander c. Wilson, a Chicago bank
clerk, administered dose OF poison by
mistake to Miss Emma ny Schuele,
causing her death. He was exnnerated
by coroner's jury
George Betz was instantly Niiled, ami
George Koran and John Ffniayson were
burned and shocked in St. lJ.ouis at
telephone, the wire of which haG become
crossed with an electric ligAt wire
Instructions have been issued to Tie
Chinese inspectors in the Northern Ufi3
district to arrest and deportl III CBsRa-
men unlawfully living in the district,
which includes Buffalo, Cleveland and
Toledo.
Two men were blown to atoms, a small
building was completely demolished and
windows within radius OF more shan
mile were shattered by an explosion in
the Latin & Rand powder works, at
Wayne, N. ].
Chief Wilkie, of the United States
secret service, announces the appear
ance of a new and very, deceptive coun-
terfeit two-dollar certificate. The note
is of the series of 1899, Lyons, register,
Roberts, treasurer.
Nine. Emily De Laszowski-Gerar
novelist and literary critic, is dead in
Vienna, aged Sc years. Her husband,
Chevalier Miecislas De Laszowski, who
was lieutenant general in the Austrian
army, died five weeks ago.
John Matthews, an actor who for a
time was held as suspect in connection
with the assassination of President Lin
coin, died in New York, aged So years.
He was Wilkes Booths room mate and
one of his closest friends.
sMar-, Sarah E. Gallagher, once ac-
quilted of the charge OF numbering her
husband, then convicted of perjuIing
herself in the trial of Charles Halada,
who is serving a life sentence for the
Gallagher murder, has been acquitted
on retrial ordered by the Iowa SUI