The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-07
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

Pror. .. u. FoSS, or the Chicago uni.
versity, has been called to the presi-
dency of tho Antioch college
Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant
postmaster general, sailed for Europe
on the American line steamer st.
Louis.
DR.. j. d. Payne's sanitarium at Will
liams Bay. Wis, was struck by light
ming and burned to the ground. Loss,
$4,000.
The Fort Wayne, Ind, Republican
county central committee nominated
John Morris for circuit judge in place
of Col. Robert Robertson, who died
last week.
An interurban car, speeding toward
Milwaukee, crashed into heavy farm
wagon, killing Joseph WEIGH, pros
porous farmer of Muskego, fatally in
juring both the horses and smashing
the wagon and the front of the car.
J. Henry Reinstedler, of SELF &
Schwab, wholesale shoe dealers, and
Miss LIME M. Nickel, daughter of j.
d. Nickel, secretary of the Nashville,
H., Trust Building and Loan associa-
ton, were married at Nashville.
Unable to solve the mystery attend
ing the death of Mrs John M. Davis
of Marion, Ill, who was shot to death
in daylight on the street, the coroner's
jury has adjourned for a week No
one saw or heard the shot fired
To- IN
and killed Alonzo Farmer when the
latter, saying he wanted to kill some
body, and that Hubbs would do as
well as anyone else, attempted to
shoot Hubs.
Asserting in his sermon that GER
tain members of his congregation had
slandered him, Rev. Dr. John W. Fritz
zell, pastor of the First Congregation
al church of Sioux City, Ia, resigned
his charge.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana accepted the
resignation of Representative Newton
w. G. Gilbert of the Twelfth Indiana
district, who has been appointed a
federal judge in the Philippine ISL
ands.
Paxton P Hibben, formerly third
secretary Of the American embassy in
st. Petersburg, who recently was ap-
pointed second secretary of the en-
bassy at City of Mexico, left for the
United States, whence he will go to
assume his new post.
H. Percival Dodge, ex-secretary of
the American embassy at Berlin, and
Mrs. Dodge have left Berlin for Toxic.
travelling by way of Genoa. Mr..
Dodge will assume the post of first
secretary of the embassy at the JAP
anese capital.
John w. Langley, disbursing and
appointment clerk of the census Of
fee, has resigned his position to ac-
cept the Republican nomination for
congress in the Tenth Kentucky dis
trict. Louis S. Merrill, now chief of
the disbursing division, has been Sc
lected as his successor.
Rev. Thomas Walsh, D. D., %
years old and professor of mathemat-
les and history in the Cathedral col
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parents in Joliet, after an illness of
four days. He was appointed a mem
Der of the faculty of Cathedral college
when it was organized year ago. He
was educated in Baltimore and in
Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe Giacosa, the poet and
writer, died at Rome, Italy, Of heart
disease. He was the first European
dramatist to go to the United States
for a premier performance of his
work. This was when he visited New
York in 1894 to witness the first per-
Torrance by Sarah Bernhard OF
Dame de Challant," which was pro-
duced at the Standard theater.
A meeting of about $50 public
school teachers was held in San Fran
cisco to protest against the reduction
in salaries. A committee was ap-
pointed to wait on the board of edu-
cation to demand the reasons for the
reductions and to inquire into the dis
position of $4,000 in the relief fund
sent from the east for the benefit OF
teachers who were fire sufferers.