The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-12-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Five masked mon robbed the bank
at Shortsville, N. Y, of $4,000.
The United States armored cruiser
Montana was launched at Newport
News ship yard.
Footpads in Chicago robbed Miss
Margaret Gates, cashier of a candy
company, of s1.400.
Cardinals Gibbons declared King
Leopold was much maligned and de-
Tended his rule in the Congo. >
President Roosevelt presented to
Commander Peary the National Geo
graphical society's gold medal.
Another Intellectual attempt was
made to assassinate Admiral Dubas-
soft, ex-governor general of Morocco.
So. Peter and Paul's Polish Catholic
church at Spring Valley, ILL.,, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire. The loss is
$4,000.
DR.. Kolle, bacteriologist at Bern
university, Switzerland, thinks he has
discovered serum that cures cerebro-
spinal meningitis.
The will of Otto Young, of Chicago,
made requests of 100000 to charity
and left most of the 10000, 900 estate
in trust to his grandchildren.
The steamer Manistique, which was
missing after being in collision with
the steamer Ireland in Lake Superior,
arrived safely at Port Arthur.
Count Lamsdorff, former minister
for foreign affairs of Russia, is seri-
ously i'll with heart disease, accom-
panied by other weaknesses.
The Canadian pelagic sealing catch
of 114,391 skins has been sold in Lon
don for an average of three dollars
skin less than last year. The average
price paid was s21.56
New York jewelry factories which
have been running night and day are
said to be unable to meet the enorm-
GUS demand of the present season for
ornaments of various kinds.
National Bank Examiner John B.
Cunningham has found $95O,000 dis
crepancies in the Farmers and Drov-
ers' National bank of Waynesburg,
Pa, which closed last Wednesday
The tunnel through Lookout noun
tain driven by the Southern railway
is finished. The tunnel is $500 feet
long and in its course penetrates
cave filled with beautiful stalactites.
Nine sailors belonging to the crew
Of the battleship Hindustan were
drowned at Portsmouth, England,
owing to the upsetting. of cutter in
which they were returning to the war
ship.
H. A. Hillman, a young white man,
led successful jail delivery at Bir-
mingham, Ala, and with two negro
prisoners escaped. The men dug
large hole through the outer wall of
the Jail.
George Boote, for many years one
of San Francisco's most prominent
ship owners and ship builders, died
after short illness resulting from a
fall from a street car six weeks ago.
He was 81 years of age.
Admiral Thierry is to command the
French squadron which will take part
in the naval display at the opening
of the jamestown exposition. 1t will
include the armored cruisers Kleiber,
Jules Ferry and Victor Hugo.
The organization of new $50,0OO,-
900 company to be known as the
Greene Cananea Copper company, to
take over the control of the Greene
Consolidated Copper company and the
Cananea Central Copper company has
been announced by William c.
Greene.
According to advices received in
New York the Norwegian storthing
did not bestow the Nobel peace prize
on President Roosevelt without oppo-
sition. There was considerable agi-
tation in favor of awarding the peace
prize to the so-called "Karlstad COM
mission" which arbitrated the differ
ences between Sweden and Norway.