The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-01-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tho Week Ending Jan. 2.


Pickering college, at Pickering, Ont,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is $751;
000
Louis Erb, in a fit of jealousy, shot
and killed his wife and himself at Lake
Geneva, Wis.
The treasury department has expend-
ed $60,000,0 900 in the last ten years for
public buildings.
Queen mother Margherita, of Italy,
is planning a tour of America in an
automobile next spring.
A tournament for the worlds bill
lard championship will be played at
New York beginning April 8.
William Harvey, wealthy Mexican
mine owner, fell from an 18-foot roof
at GAINESVILLE, Wis. He was instantly
killed.
A Chinese commission is coming TO
the United States to study political,
commercial, financial and educational
methods.
Fast mail train, No. 81, on the Big
Four railroad was wrecked at Wal
dron, ILL.,, by broken rail. Five per-
sons were injured.
The big sawmill of the Long-Bell
Lumber company, of Kansas City, Mo-,
located at Lufkin, Tex, has been
burned, the loss being approximately
$4,000.
Gen. Bogdanovitch. vice governor
general of Tamboff, central Russia,
who was wounded three times with re-
volver shots December %, has died of
his wounds.
Thousands of negroes paraded at
Savannah, Ca. in honor of the sign
ing of the emancipation proclamation.
The parade was marked by the great
est disorder.
A new isthmus line by way of the
Tehuantepec railway, with fleets OF
steamers on the Atlantic and Pacific,
is expected to be an active rival of the
Panama route.
Joy Morton, of Chicago, who, with
his family, is spending the holidays at
the Morton homestead near Nebraska
City, Neb, was thrown from horse he
was riding and badly hurt.
In attempting to quell a New Years
riotous celebration in his saloon at
Belleville, ILL.,, William Tannehill shot
and killed William Borden and danger
ously wounded Fred Hopwood.
Two persons were killed and one ia
tally injured by collision between
Lehigh Valley freight train and
Schulkill Railway company trolley car
on grade crossing at Girard, Pa.
James Kittredge, who was a patient
in the private sanitarium of DR.. VIII
liam Pickett at Philadelphia, jumped
from a second-story winoow of the in
stitution and was instantly killed.
In a pitched battle between posse
of white men and three negro despera-
does near Williams Cross Roads, Choc-
taw county, Alabama, two negroes
were killed and the third captured.
Paul Sovdell, aged 40, familiar
character of the red light district in
Cleveland, o., for the past several
years, shot and killed Jessie Smith,
aged %, in resort and then commit
ted suicide.
Guilty of murder in the second de-
gree was the verdict returned in the
trial at Minneapolis, Mimi, of Mrs.
Stella Brennan for the murder of her
little stepdaughter. The penalty is life
Imprisonment.
Postmaster Will Smith was shot and
instantly killed at Bolivar, Tenn, by
Ran Marsh The murder, it is under
stood was the result of Marsh's atten-
tions to Miss Hillhouse, the postmas-
ter's step-daughter.
The official count OF votes cast in
New York county for mayor at the
last election issued by the county
board of canvSssers,. shows that Nc
Clellan received 140,264; Hearst, 1885,
292, and WINS, 64,2S9.
District Attorney Jerome's plurality
was increased by nearly 5000 over the
police returns made on election night
in New York by the official returns
made public by the board of elections.
His plurality is 1904, instead of 11.450.
The seventy-seventh general assem-
bly, of Ohio convened in Columbus, the
house being organized by the repub-
licans, who have 62 votes against SO
for the democrats, and the senate be-
ing organized by the democrats, who
have 10 votes.