The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-06-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


brought SIS in New York In aid of San
Francisco sufferers.
Several amendments were made to
the constitution of the American Min
ing Congress in Denver.
Col. w. F. Switzler, aged 81, recog-
nized as the Oldest editor in the United
States, died at Columbia, Mo.
The fire at Fairbanks, Alaska, de-
stroyed the courthouse and placed II
federal prisoners in jeopardy.
Frank Brane, of Chicago, died in
Minneapolis of injuries received in an
early morning fight in resort
The foreign commerce of the United
States for April was $1O7 100000 in i'm
ports and $144,000,000 in exports.
Connecticut cotton mills have post
ed notices of voluntary advance in
wages to employees of ten per cent.
The walled city of Uniankai, in Mon
golia, was almost destroyed by an
earthquake. Heavy loss of life is re-
ported.
Gustav Englin, whose wife had sued
him for divorce, shot and killed her
and then committed suicide at Rock
Island, Ill.
Samuel Lunderman, ''puller-in" for
a Park row New York; dealer, was
fined $1,000 for buying an army uni
T form from soldier.
Hunghutza brigands have fomented
serious rebellion in Peng Tien prov
ince, Manchuria. Troops have been de-
feated in several fights.
The Home Fire and Marine Insur-
ance company of California assessed
all stockholders 200 per cent to pay
Frisco loss and continue business.
A fashionably gowred young woman,
believed to be an actress, was found
unconscious in New York. In lucid
interval she said she mad been robbed.
F. A. Heiner, aged SO, of Indianapo-
lis, Ind, committed suicide at Shreve-
port, La, by shooting himself through
the head. He had been in bad health.
The New York board of education
will send 80 lantern slides of recrea-
ton grounds and schools to China, in
response to request for photographs.
Secretary Root is making study Of
all claims of the United States against
Britain, and Britain against the United
States, with view 10 a mutual adjust
ment.
Countess Bon Martini, who was con-
victed of the murder of her husband
in Italy in 1902 and sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment, has been re-
leased.
Ten states so far have declined the
war departments invitations to the ma
tional guard to go into camp this sum-
mer with regulars. Various reasons are
assigned.
A 100000 coal trust is said to
be in process of formation in anticipa-
tion of the effects of the railroad rate
bill. ]. P. Morgan is one of the princi-
pals named.
The Springfield MOI grand jury
found that the story of Mrs. Nina Ed
wards that led to the lynching of three
negroes was false. The woman was
not attacked.
Miss henrietta S. Leavitt has dis
covered % variable stars in Carina, in
the last two years, according to bull
letin from the Harvard astronomical
observatory.
Representatives of Sperry & Hutch
ison, the Yellow and the Crown Trad
ing Stamp companies in Philadelphia,
were arrested charged with defrauding
merchants.
Thousands of Chinese are reported
to have been drowned in the disastrous
floods of the Haihanghao in China At
Hsiantau the inundated buildings took
fire and burned.
Thomas Mccormick, Brooklyn
teamster, saved the life of a motor
man who had just killed his son, tell
ing mob of a similar act by himself,
which was unavoidable.
Following rigid examination on the
Bible, freshmen of the Maryville
(Tenn.) Presbyterian college distribute
ed handful attacking Prof. Bassett,
who conducted the examination.
William Duryea, of Nyack, ~ Y,
was awarded $4,000 and the stock in
suit for $4,000 against Eugene Zim-
norman, of Cincinnati, and others,
charging Misrepresentation in stock