The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-01-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. 16.

For the Week Ending Jan. 16.
Col. Robs.t G. Lowe, owner aai
publisher of the Galveston, Tex, News
is dead
President Roosevelt is preparing to
send to congress message which VII!
favor lock canal.
Because OF recent murders women
are afraid to go on the street in Chi
cago after nightfall
Richard &. McCurdy. former presi-
dent of the Mutual Life, will be sued
for recovery of insurance graft.
The plant of the Virginia Carolina
Chemical company, near Charlotte. N.
c., was damaged $125,0OO by fire.
A section of the Windsor hotel was
destroyed by fire at Montreal, Que,
causing loss estimated at $150,000.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans will be
held in New Orleans April 2G and q.
While fleeing from detectives,
trio of alleged robbers, was killed in
Chicago.
News has reached Washington Of
the death at Barmen, Germany, OF
American Consul Theodore T. Blu
thedt, of Illinois.
The pope has expressed his approval
for Italy to undertake the cause of the
Jews and of religious liberty at the
ALGERIAN conference
Seven theological students out of
party of II were overwhelmed by an
avalanche while on an excursion in
the Hall valley in Austria.
Secretaries Root and Shaw admit de-
feat in their efforts to avert tariff
war with Germany, and say American
trade will suffer dire results.
The Korean government has decided
to retain the services of Durham
White Stephens, the American diplo-
matte adviser to the emperor.
Franklin Moore, employed in the
pension Office, died in Washington.
Mr.. Moore was SS years of age and
had served AZ years in the pension Of
flee.
According to the police the lid"
was down tight in Omaha Sunday for
the first time in many years. Not one
of the 245 saloons in the city was
open.
The Weaver car barns of the United
railways, which company controls all
the street railways of Baltimore, Md,
were almost entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000
Commodore William P. McMann, u.
S. N, retired, died at his rome in New
Rochelle, N. Y, of a complication of
diseases, after an illness of several
months, at the age of Is.
Project Iuanatsevich was assassin
ated at Novominsk, Russia, while he
was driving in sleigh from the rail-
road station His little daughter, who
was sitting by his side, was wounded.
Herman Neidner, thing contractor,
charged with bribery by the last grand
jury in Milwaukee, Wis, pleaded gull
ty to the Indictment in the municipal
court and was fined 5000 and costs.
Statues Of William Goebel and Hen
ry Clay are proposed for Kentuckys
representation in the Hall of Fame at
the capitol in Washington in bill in
PRODUCED in the Kentucky legislature.
Three Belgian children, the Oldest Of
whom was six years, were burned to
death five miles northeast of Pittsburs,
Kan, in a fire which destroyed the
home of their mother, Mrs. A. Guerin.
Irving L. Bragdon, former civil serv-
ice commissioner of Brooklyn, was de-
clared sane and freed, after being
locked up fer nine years in an asylum
where he vas sent at the instigation
of his wife.
Directors of the Empire Life Insur-
ance company, through their attorneys,
have filed a request in the New York
supreme court that receiver for the
company be appointed in proceedings
for its voluntary dissolution.
Mr. Hepburn announces that
strong effort will be made to pass
pure food bill at the present session of
congress. The old bill will be rein
PRODUCED. Makers of impure food
twice have killed it in the senate.
The Dunlop Milling company's plant
at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, was damaged by
fire to the extent of $250,000, with i'll
surance of $175,000 A warehouse con-
tanning 1900 bushels of wheat and
$500 barrels of flour was destroyed.