The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

Fire destroyed the convent of St.
Anne OF st. Genevieve, Que. One nun,
nine children, ranging in age from 10
TO Is years, and four old women per-
ished in the flames.
United States Senator Orville Hitch
cock Plat, of Connecticut, died at his
summer home in Washington, Conn.,,
his native town, from pneumonia. He
was first elected TO the senate in 1879
to succeed Senator w. H. Barnum, a
democrat, who had been elected to fill
Senator Orris S. Ferris, republican. His
last reelection was in 1903.
Maj. William w. Armstrong, prom
inent in the democratic party through
out Ohio, died in Cleveland after one
days illness of pneumonia, aged u
years. He is said to have been the
man who suggested the rooster as the
emblem for the democratic party.
Right Rev. Alfred Augustin Watson,
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church for the east Carolina diocese,
died at his home in Wilmington, N. c.,
after an illness of nearly two years,
following stroke of paralysis.
Jacob Stoffer, aged 60, farmer liv-
ing two miles west of Athens, O., killed
himself by blowing off the top of his
head. He secured a shotgun and,
placing the muzzle of the weapon in
his mouth, pulled the trigger with his
foot.
P. ]. Potter's Sons, private bankers,
with a capital of $4,000 and $3.50, 900
deposits, filed deed of assignment at
Bowling Green, Ky. 1t was one of old
est banks in southern Kentucky. 1t is
announced that they will pay dollar
for dollar.
James ]. Carroll, better known as
Virginia" Carroll, and for many years
American turf, is dead in New Orleans
of cancer at the age of AZ.
Four transatlantic steamers which
arrived at New York brought 9.675
steerage passengers, the largest num-
Der ever passed in quarantine in one
day.
Fourteen thoroughbred horses,
among them Visalia, entered in the
Lexington (Ky.) Futurity, persisted in
flames which destroyed the barns of
the Frankfort tKy.) Driving associa-
ton. The loss is fixed at $4,000.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is
increasing, and frequent explosions are
down the mountain, and the crater is
emitting smoke, ashes and red hot
stone.
A dispatch from New York an
nounces the death of William H. Rog-
ers, business manager of the Boston
baseball club of the National league.
He was As years of age.
Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton,
when he retires from his present posi-
ton, will become an official of a great
financial institution in the city of New
York.
M. Paul Lessar, Russian minister to
China, whose foot was recently am
putated, died in Picking.
M. Delcasse announced his determine
ton to resign the French foreign port
folio because of attacks on Moroccan
and neutrality policies, but other gov
eminent leaders induced him to delay
action.
Missouri's attorney general complains
of the oil trust and asks the federal gov
eminent to help him crush the sensa-
tional sitting Of competition.
Kaleieff was tried before the supreme
court in st. Petersburg for the assassina-
ton of Grand Duke Sergius. He was SEN
fenced to death.
The Wisconsin State Federation OF
Women's clubs will hold It's annual con-
vention in Kenosha October rs, &c and q.
A new wage scale that is to go into
effect on the Iowa Central railroad May
1, affecting telegraph operators and all
agents doing telegrapher's duty, in.
creases salaries five per cent.