The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-05-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Rev. Wilbur +. Thlrklel mas
been elected president of Howard uni
versity.
Samuel Wallace and Matthew Aurell
fought a pistol duel at Randall, o.
Wallace in dead.
F. Augustus Heinze is said to be
slated to succeed w. A. Clark as Unit
ed States senator from Montana
The battleship Rhode Island, which
went ashore on York Spit, Chesapeake
bay, was fioated Sunday night, undam-
aged.
Fifteen persons were injured, some
fatally, in a head-end collision be-
tween two trolley cars near Plainfield.
N. j.
George Smith was sentenced to
Jackson prison for life at Hillsdale,
Mich, for the murder of Joe Cawsey
three years ago.
New York state cared for SAT more
insane persons in 1905 than in any
previous year, there being 27,40S in
various institutions.
Edwin w. Clark, ga years old, a
member of the New York cotton ex-
change, killed himself. He was a suf-
ferer from indigestion.
John G. A. Leishman, the American
minister to Turkey, has arrived al
New York on the steamer Philadel
phia from Southampton.
Mrs. Anna Depew, of Upper San
dusky, o., distant relative of Sena
tor Depew, celebrated her one hundred
and first birthday May 5.
Maj. Gen. ]. G. Parkhurst, a civil
war veteran and minister to Belgium
under President Cleveland, died sud
denly at Coldwater, Mich.
Driven insane by worry, Mrs. Mary
Waters, New York woman, shot and
killed her favorite daughter, Agatha,
and then committed suicide.
About 800 members of the Colonial
Danes, who have been holding their
annual congress in Washington, were
received by President Roosevelt.
Fourteen persons were hurt by the
upsetting of coach on the Cape May
express ON the Coast Jersey & Sea-
shore railroad near Camden, N. J.
Daniel E. Murphy, we'll known in
life insurance circles, died in Milwau-
kee, after several months illness of
liver trouble. He was 63 years of age.
Andrew Carnegie called on Secretary
Root at the state department to dis
cuss the plans of the Carnegie insti
tute, of which the secretary is mem
Der.
The Rev. C. C. Stuart Bain,' pastor
OF the First Baptist church of Water
loo, N. Y, which burned March 6, is
degree.
Sir Ernst Mason British minister al
Peking, has started for home. There
was an imposing gathering to bid him
farewell and all the papers are en-
thusiastic in his praise.
A landslide caused by the earth
quake has damned Cache creek, and
people of Capay, Rumsey and Guida.
CAL, have fled to the hills. The water
in Capay valley is 100 feet deep.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, accom-
panied by DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler
president of Columbia university, and
his daughter, visited Mount Vernon
the former home of Washington.
The Portuguese warship Baptista
Andrado, missing since December,
with the new governor to Mozam-
bique, was driven ashore on a desert
isle off Africa. Those on board are all
WELL
Imprisonment in the state peniten.
tiary for seven years was the sentence
given to Thomas ]. Wainwright at
Minneapolis for robbing DR.. Pinault's
residence of wagon load of valuable
household goods.
A cablegram has been received from
Wassili Safonoff accepting for the
next three years the offices of con-
ductor Of the New York Philharmonic
society and director of the National
Conservatory of Music of America.