The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Feb. II


was entirely destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
Charles Jean Jacques Mazeau, the dis
tinguished French statesman and judge,
is dead.
Fire destroyed half of the business
houses on the west side of Main street in
Burr Oak, Mich, causing a loss of $780,
600.
Adolf Won Mcneil, the artist, died in
Berlin. He was about 80 years old and
had been identified with the best in Ger
man art.
Fire which originated in furnace,
wrecked five of the principal business
blocks at Oskaloosa, Ia, entailing loss
of $15O,O0O.
Two men were killed and third Sc
riously injured in an explosion of hid
den dynamite on the drainage canal at
Lockport, Ill.
Mrs. Mary Borwhk, of the town of
Westford, near Beaver Dam, Wis, is
dead at the age of ia years. She was
born in Poland.
WEIGH Bros, of Waterloo, Ia, dry
goods merchants, have filed a petition in
bankruptcy. Their liabilities are $4,000
and assets $4,000.
At Batoum, Russia, a party of high
school boys publicly destroyed a por-
trait of the emperor. Troops dispersed
them with a volley.
The residence Of Carl Hoffman, two
miles from Unity, Wis, was destroyed
by fire Thursday. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoff-
man were cremated.
John B. Guyton, of Missouri, has con-
tracted with the japanese government
to furnish them 1000 horses to be used
in the mikado's army.
The Oregon state senate, with one dis
senting vote, adopted concurrent res
olution expressing confidence in United
States Senator John H. Mitchell.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
| filed against Sullivan, Drew & Co.,
wholesale dealers in millinery, one of the
largest concerns in this line in New York
city.
Rev. w. H. Strout, for nearly half
century in the ministry and one of the
best known pastors in northern Illinois,
died suddenly at his home in Joliet, aged
70 years.
James Burton Reynolds, of Massachu-
sets, has been appointed as the sue
cessor to Robert e. Armstrong, assistant
secretary of the treasury, in charge Of
| customs.
Blatter and Zimmerman, Swiss citi-
zens, have been swept over mountain
precipice and killed. They were climb
ing mountain near Thum, and were
caught in an avalanche.
Thomas Adams, inventor and manu-
facturer of chewing gum, died at his
home in Brooklyn, of pneumonia and
old age. He retired from business after
accommodating fortune.
In railway wreck at Stevens Point,
Wis, William 1. Schell, of Fond du Lac,
was instantly killed and Benjamin Hin
dermann, of North Fond du Lac, was
probably fatally injured
Dispatches from Lockhart, Tex, tell
| Of an earthquake shock felt there last
ing for several seconds. Buildings trem-
bled, dishes ratified and live stock were
frightened. but no damage done.
August w. Machen, convicted of postal
frauds, was put to work in the clerks
Office in the Moundeville prison. The
Groffs are in the prison hospital and
have not been assigned to any particular
work.
| AS the result of quarrel, John Flick
enschild, of Chicago, shot his wife and
then turned the weapon on himself and
| shot himself through the heart. He died
instantly. The wife is in a dangerous
condition.
In the Wisconsin senate bill was in
troduced to change the seat of govern
ment to the. city of Milwaukee, and set
ting apart the present capitol grounds
and buildings for purposes of the state
university.
The announcement that the senate
had passed the statehood bill providing
| for joint admission of Oklahoma and In
dian Territory created great enthusiasm
| in both territories. Public demonstra-
tons of rejoicings took place.
Conductor W. H. Marsh was killed, 25
people were injured. eight passenger
cars and an engine piled in the ditch and
200-foot bridge wrecked as the result
| of broken rail on the Chicago. Milwau-
| kee & st. Paul railroad near Melbourne,
la. i